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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (December 22) rejected a bipartisan Covid stimulus package of $ 900 billion (S $ 1.2 trillion), calling it “a disgrace” and demanded that lawmakers triple aid payments to Americans. While he did not explicitly say that he would not sign …

[ad_1] Photographer: Qilai Shen / Bloomberg Photographer: Qilai Shen / Bloomberg Donald Trump’s latest headline-grabbing action against China is aimed at denying the Asian power’s push toward self-sufficiency in the semiconductor industry of $ 400 billion. But its effectiveness is being questioned almost before the ink dries, according to a …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: On Monday (December 21), 31 boxes of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Singapore. The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived from Belgium and landed at Changi Airport on Monday night. Ad Ad The valuable vials were then headed to SATS Coolport’s refrigerated warehouse before being loaded onto a …

[ad_1] LONDON: France will reopen its borders to passengers from England on Wednesday (December 23), ending a blockade meant to halt the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, but which has delayed thousands of trucks before Christmas. Much of the world closed its borders to Britain after a …

[ad_1] Hang Seng Indexes Co. is considering far-reaching changes to Hong Kong’s benchmark stock index that would dilute the influence of its largest companies. The five proposals include maintaining “a certain number of components classified as Hong Kong companies,” according to a 16-page report. consultation paper released Tuesday. Hang Seng …

[ad_1] Deal The future of the automotive industry is likely to be electric. And if that’s the case, China appears to be a big part of the picture. Money Mind reports. A staff member connects a charging cable to an electric vehicle (EV) at a charging station in Liuzhou, Guangxi …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries, such as the United Kingdom, followed a strategy of “natural herd immunity.” Under this strategy, transmission would be slowed, but not prevented, until enough people had been infected so that those who had not yet been infected were protected …

[ad_1] South China morning post Coronavirus: China’s companies ‘ready to export 400 million doses of vaccines’ China’s drug makers have arrangements to supply nearly 400 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to other countries, as deployments begin around the world and governments scramble to access the jabs. Three leading Chinese …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Many things about the coronavirus were still unknown in the first half of the year, but Singapore knew that it had to act quickly to secure the Covid-19 vaccine doses for its people. This was despite the fact that some solutions were as novel as the pathogen …

[ad_1] South China morning post Coronavirus: China’s companies ‘ready to export 400 million doses of vaccines’ China’s drug makers have arrangements to supply nearly 400 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to other countries, as deployments begin around the world and governments scramble to access the jabs. Three leading Chinese …