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[ad_1] LONDON: Britain on Monday (January 4) took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, increasing its immunization schedule by administering the world’s first injections of the vaccine created by the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical giant. AstraZeneca. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, was the first to receive …

[ad_1] South China morning post Strong domestic growth should help lift Hong Kong out of recession this year, says CFO Beijing’s grand plan to stimulate domestic growth should help lift Hong Kong out of recession before the end of the year, the chief financial officer predicted. While businesses relying on …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The compensation to be paid by Malaysia to Singapore after the completion of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project cannot be publicly disclosed because there is a confidentiality clause in the agreement between the two countries, the minister said. of Malaysia in the Department of Prime Minister …

[ad_1] LONDON: Ditch the dollar! Buy emerging markets! Stay sustainable! These are among the consensus trades that investment banks and asset managers believe will dominate financial markets in 2021. Hopefully, vaccines will make 2021 the year of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted some sectors and strengthened the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A nationwide effort to vaccinate the Singaporean population will require “considerable resources” to implement and will be one of the government’s key focus areas in 2021, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said in Parliament on Monday (4 of January). Immunization has already started after Singapore received its first …

[ad_1] Singapore’s Changi Airport, routinely voted the best in the world and a key part of the city-state’s psyche, is reinventing itself for the Covid era and beyond. In an attempt to keep people engaged until life returns to normal, it offers glamping for families at Jewel, the nature-themed entertainment …

[ad_1] A sofa bed inside a nano-apartment pilot house in Hong Kong. Photographer: Anthony Kwan / Bloomberg Photographer: Anthony Kwan / Bloomberg In the world’s least affordable housing market, one in eight homes sold is a nano apartment, a term widely used to describe tiny houses in Hong Kong. A …

[ad_1] TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday (January 4) that the government would consider declaring a state of emergency for the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area as coronavirus cases escalate and strain the country’s medical system. The possible declaration of an emergency would mark a reversal, as Suga …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has disrupted learning, Singaporean students who sat for International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma exams last November have once again managed to outshine their global counterparts. The Switzerland-based IB Organization, which conducts the exams, said Singapore produced 55 of the 99 perfect scores, more …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Private property prices in Singapore increased 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020 from the previous quarter, according to preliminary estimates from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday (January 4). This compares with a 0.8 percent increase in the prior quarter, URA said. Ad Ad For …