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[ad_1] Jean-Sébastien Jacques, Rio Tinto’s CEO, will resign at the end of March after failing to contain the consequences of the destruction of an ancient Aboriginal site in Western Australia. The company said two other top executives, Chris Salisbury, the iron ore chief, and corporate affairs leader Simone Niven, who …

[ad_1] Singapore Battered by the pandemic, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will eliminate 4,300 positions, as a slower-than-expected recovery in travel demand forces the airline group to restructure to face a new normal. Of the 4,300 positions, 2,400 employees in Singapore and abroad could be affected by layoffs, while the remaining 1,900 …

[ad_1] President Donald Trump admits that he tried to downplay the severity of the Covid-19 threat at the start of the pandemic in audio recordings released Wednesday of interviews with veteran American journalist Bob Woodward. “I’ve always wanted to downplay it,” Trump said in an interview with Woodward on March …

[ad_1] MUMBAI – The disappearance of a young movie star has paralyzed India like no other news story in a year of bad headlines. The abrupt death of Sushant Singh Rajput has sparked debate over the stigma of mental health, the rarefied privileged world of Bollywood and, more recently, condemnation …

[ad_1] In the early days of Marina Bay Sands, when people were still in awe of the new luxury hotel that appeared along the Singapore River, there was a luxurious superclub called Avalon. And it closed permanently in 2013 after only two years in operation. These days, something completely new …

[ad_1] Clinical trials on one of the most advanced Covid-19 experimental vaccines, which is being developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, were “paused” on Tuesday after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness. With billions of people around the world still suffering from the consequences of …

[ad_1] The recent suspension of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine trial following an unexplained illness in a trial volunteer is a safety measure and is not an uncommon event, Health Ministry director of medical services Kenneth Mak said yesterday. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company announced the suspension yesterday, adding that the move was …

[ad_1] Photographer: Hollie Adams / Bloomberg Photographer: Hollie Adams / Bloomberg ByteDance Ltd. is increasingly likely to miss a Trump administration deadline for the sale of its US TikTok operations. new Chinese regulations complicated negotiations with bidders Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. ByteDance …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Changi Airport Group (CAG) has appointed Tan Gee Paw as its Acting Chairman, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on Thursday (September 10). This comes after former President Liew Mun Leong resigned from his commercial and public service roles at CAG, Surbana Jurong, the Temasek Foundation, and …

[ad_1] PARIS (AFP) – The coronavirus has disrupted daily life in the six months since the crisis was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). While people’s understanding of the new respiratory disease has steadily increased since it was first detected in China last year, what lies ahead …