[ad_1] BEIJING: China’s tech titans can rely on their huge local market to carry out a Donald Trump-led campaign against them abroad, and long-term their global prospects remain strong, analysts say. China’s tech companies have triumphed in the global marketplace with everything from video sharing apps and mobile games to …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Beginning in December, Singaporeans 18 and older will receive $ 100 in digital coupons to spend on stays, tickets to leisure attractions and local tours. Adult Singaporeans will also be able to purchase up to six subsidized attraction and tour tickets, each $ 10 off, for those …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 27 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Wednesday (September 16), including two in the community and two imported infections. A 59-year-old Singaporean man previously listed as a COVID-19 case was removed from the case count on Wednesday. Case 57107 tested negative twice after an initial …
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[ad_1] BEIJING: Chinese military exercises off the southwest coast of Taiwan last week were a “necessary action” to protect China’s sovereignty, Beijing said on Wednesday (September 16), after Taiwan complained that the air exercises and large-scale navals were a serious provocation. China, which claims that democratic Taiwan is its own, …
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[ad_1] Those eager to be on a plane again may have rejoiced at the opportunity to catch a flight with Singapore Airlines (SIA) again, after reports emerged that the SIA could launch three-hour ‘flights to nowhere’. However, several environmental groups in Singapore have raised concerns that this will lead to …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Minister of Home Affairs and Law, K. Shanmugam, said on Wednesday (September 16) that he would make a ministerial statement in Parliament on the case involving former maid Parti Liyani, who was recently cleared of theft. It would be good for Parliament to discuss the matter, …
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[ad_1] HONG KONG: A brazen Hong Kong thief stole a collection of stamps and calligraphy worth US $ 500 million in a daytime robbery, a police source said on Wednesday (September 16). The thief struck an apartment of Chinese collector Fu Chunxiao in the bustling Kowloon district and took just …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday (September 16) to taking explicit upskirt and up-shirt videos almost daily for a period of more than five months in 2018, when he was a psychology student at the University. Nanyang Technological. (NTU). In total, 334 unknown women were victims …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA – Former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has used YouTube as a platform to criticize bad bureaucracy, rent seeking and systematic inefficiency in Indonesian state-owned companies. Speaking on the YouTube channel “Poin”, which has more than one million subscribers, Basuki, popularly known by his Chinese nickname Ahok, expressed …
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[ad_1] Nasi lemak, Southeast Asia’s ever-contested breakfast fare, is causing a stir on social media once again over how people are transforming the humble dish into bizarre culinary chimeras. The San Remo Macaroni Company is not, as you might suppose, an Italian brand. It’s a food company straight out of …
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