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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Pregnant women with COVID-19 get no more ill than the general population, according to a Singapore study published on Friday, which also found that babies born to infected mothers have antibodies to the new coronavirus. The small study of 16 women also found no evidence of …

[ad_1] Deal The United States is ready to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s top chipmaker SMIC, to a commercial blacklist on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) logo is seen at the China International Semiconductor Expo …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A professor who helped lay the groundwork for infectious disease research in Singapore was honored on Friday (December 18) for his efforts. Professor Ranga Krishnan, 64, received a medal from President Halimah Yacob at the Istana in the framework of the President’s Science and Technology Awards, the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Police are investigating an incident in which a man illegally entered the white rhino enclosure at the Singapore Zoo. A video of the incident, posted on TikTok user ralphwee_’s account, shows a man wearing a mask on what appears to be one of the zoo’s trams. Ad Ad …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will resume flights to Dubai, Tokyo Haneda Airport, Moscow and Munich starting in January, the airline said on Friday (December 18). It will also increase the frequency of its existing flights to various destinations in the United States, Europe and South Africa starting in January. …

[ad_1] WUHAN, China: In late 2019, Wuhan businesswoman Duan Ling and her surgeon husband Fang Yushun began hearing snippets on hospital chat groups about an illness emerging in the city’s respiratory wards. Duan didn’t pay much attention at first. Ad Ad Fang had returned that year from a stint studying …

[ad_1] Five months ago, young local actor Benjamin Tan took to Instagram to share an emotional post about his 51-year-old mother who suddenly fell into a coma. In his post, he said doctors told him that his mother “could come at any time.” After the publication of the AsiaOne article …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: As the coronavirus pandemic reached new record highs in the United States, it ignited a fire in the United States Congress, where Republicans and Democrats battled to pass a new round of aid after months of partisan indictments and inaction. Even as they contemplated passing a third interim …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – Singapore Airlines will resume daily nonstop flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York’s JFK International Airport starting January 18. Mr. Joey Seow, regional vice president of SIA – Americas, said in a statement that there are “promising signs of recovery in international air travel, particularly …

[ad_1] ELM GROVE, Wisconsin: Eight nuns who lived in a suburban Milwaukee sisters’ retirement home died of complications from COVID-19 in the past week, including four who died the same day, a sad reminder of how quickly the Viruses can spread in life in congregational situations, even when precautions are …