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[ad_1] WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s ruling party leader Jacinda Ardern said she tried cannabis “a long time ago” when asked during a heated live debate on Wednesday (September 30) before the October 17 general election. . Ardern, 40, is seen winning a second term in office thanks to her success in …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Secretlab CEO and Co-Founder Ian Ang was named EY Singapore Entrepreneur of the Year for Consumer Products on Wednesday (September 30). The 28-year-old is the youngest winner in the history of the awards since they began 18 years ago. Ad Ad Ang co-founded Secretlab, a gaming chair company, …

[ad_1] LONDON: Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to be cured of HIV when he underwent a unique type of bone marrow transplant, died in California after a cancer relapse, his partner said. “It is with great sadness to announce that Timothy passed away … this afternoon surrounded by …

[ad_1] On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas, and papayas contrast with the gray skyscrapers of the city-state’s business district. The 10,000-square-foot (930-square-meter) site is among a growing number of rooftop farms in this space-hungry country, as part of a drive to …

[ad_1] HO CHI MINH CITY: Skin whitening, child marriage, a restricted education: Vietnamese model and literacy activist H’Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations placed on her, and is now determined to show the next generation a different way. The winner of Miss Universe Vietnam 2017, who hails from the Ede …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: More than 60 million people in India, 10 times the official figure, may have contracted the new coronavirus, the country’s leading agency against the pandemic said on Tuesday (September 29), citing a national study measuring antibodies. . India, home to 1.3 billion people, is the second most …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Amazon plans to take over Citigroup’s Singapore office space at a time when several of the e-commerce giant’s Chinese tech rivals are expanding here. The online retail giant will lease three floors covering approximately 90,000 square feet in Asia Square Tower 1 in the heart of …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (BLOOMBERG) – The Walt Disney Company is slashing 28,000 workers at its U.S. resort business, marking one of the deepest reductions in the workforce of the Covid-19 era. The belt-tightening measure affects the company’s theme parks, cruise ships and retail businesses, Disney said on Tuesday (September 29). …

[ad_1] MOSCOW: Russia plans to share the preliminary results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial based on the first six weeks of participant follow-up, picking up the pace in an already frantic global race to end the pandemic. Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Institute that produced the Sputnik V vaccine, …

[ad_1] GENEVA / LONDON: Some 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus will be available to low- and middle-income countries at a maximum of US $ 5 each, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (28 de September). The increased availability of rapid, reliable and inexpensive tests will help …