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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Sales of new private homes in Singapore increased 18.9 percent in November, reversing a decline seen in October, thanks to the launch of new projects by developers. Private developers sold 767 units, excluding executive condos (EC), in November, data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Tuesday …

[ad_1] SUAO, Taiwan: Taiwan may become an arms supplier to Western democracies, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (December 15), praising the island’s enhanced weapons design capabilities by launching an advanced warship. loaded with missiles and commission a new miner. Tsai has made the push to defend Taiwan a priority …

[ad_1] BEIJING: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority workers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are forced to pick cotton by hand through a coercive state labor scheme, according to a report. Rights activists have said that the northwest region of Xinjiang is home to a vast network of extrajudicial internment …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Nearly $ 4 million (S $ 5.3 million) in illicit funds linked to a group that provided encrypted telecommunications devices and network services used by transnational organized criminal syndicates were seized in Singapore. The Singapore Police Department of Commercial Affairs (CAD) and U.S. authorities seized a total …

[ad_1] South China morning post Foreign Cathay Pacific pilots scramble for work permits in Hong Kong after hundreds of locals lost their jobs in restructuring After cutting 5,300 jobs in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways said that the employment of foreign pilots was under “increased scrutiny” by immigration authorities and …

[ad_1] SAO PAULO: Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa said on Monday (December 14) that China’s health authorities are not transparent in their authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, a statement that may still inflame. plus the political tension in the South American country. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a constant critic …

[ad_1] It has been such a bad year for everyone so far that there is even a journal that allows you to complain like a true Singaporean. But before the close of 2020, he seems determined to deliver just one more bad news: Former actor Joshua Ang will be divorcing …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore is the fourteenth most expensive city in the world for expats, down two places from last year’s ranking due to the weakening of the Singapore dollar. The Republic has been overtaken by Copenhagen in Denmark and Bern in Switzerland, according to a poll released by human …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A former Shell employee who was part of a union that routinely embezzled millions of dollars’ worth of diesel from the Pulau Bukom manufacturing site to sell to other vessels pleaded guilty to his involvement on Tuesday (December 12). Indian national Sadagopan Premnath, 40, is the first …

[ad_1] SAO PAULO: Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa said on Monday (December 14) that China’s health authorities are not transparent when it comes to authorizing the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines, a statement that may further inflame political tension in the South American country. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a constant critic …