[ad_1] Friday, January 8, 2021 – 5:56 pm O39 has appointed Helen Wong as its new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective April 15. Wong replaces Samuel Tsien, who will retire after 14 years at the bank, nine of which were CEO of the group, the lender said in a …
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[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR- More than 48,000 people in six Malaysian states took refuge in 400 aid centers on Friday (January 8) to escape mounting floods as monsoon rain continued to hit parts of the country. The number of evacuees has more than doubled from the 20,575 people reported Wednesday morning. …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore’s unemployment rate in November fell for the first time in 2020, a sign that the worst could have happened for the labor market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall unemployment rate in November was 3.3 percent, falling from 3.6 percent in October. Ad Ad The resident unemployment …
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[ad_1] TOKYO: Japan’s capital Tokyo began its first day under a coronavirus state of emergency on Friday (January 8) with much of life as usual, including morning commuter trains carrying crowds of people wearing masks. in the busy stations. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reiterated his request that restaurants reduce business …
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[ad_1] Deal As American investors abandon shares of Chinese companies blacklisted by outgoing President Donald Trump, bargain hunters in China are taking the opposite side of that trade, betting that a Joe Biden presidency will reverse the ban on investments. FILE PHOTO: A Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) logo is …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Friday (January 8), becoming the first Singaporean cabinet member to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Mr. Lee took the hit along with the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) staff at the official launch of vaccines for …
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[ad_1] South China morning post Hong Kong National Security Act: Police begin to release former lawmakers and activists, including Benny Tai, arrested in crackdown a day earlier without charging them Former lawmakers and opposition activists detained on suspicion of subversion under Hong Kong’s national security law condemned their mass arrest …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday (January 7), joining a list of officials who resigned from President Donald Trump’s administration in protest of the assault on the United States Capitol by his supporters. Chao, the wife of Republican Senate …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON – Calls for the impeachment of President Donald Trump increased on Thursday (January 7), along with criticism of the security breach that allowed a crowd of his supporters to invade the Capitol a day earlier. But on Thursday night, the president appeared to grant the election for the …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK: As events in Washington on Wednesday (January 6) captured the nation’s attention, the raging COVID-19 pandemic claimed its largest death toll in the United States to date, killing more. than 4,000 people in a single day, according to a Reuters tally. COVID-19 hospitalizations totaled 132,051, marking a …
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