[ad_1] TOKYO: A major Japanese cosmetics firm faced online boycott calls on Wednesday (December 16) after its CEO used a racial slur on Koreans and bragged that his firm was “purely Japanese.” DHC’s Yoshiaki Yoshida made the comments in a message on the company’s website in which he attacked rival …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has volunteered to be the first person in the country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. He also said that vaccines will be available to citizens “at no cost” in a video uploaded to the State Palace YouTube channel on Wednesday (December 16). Ad Ad …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Taxi drivers and private rental cars will receive more subsidies to offset their car rental fees starting next year, the Land Transportation Authority (LTA) said on Wednesday (December 16). This is intended to help cushion the impact of a self-employed relief plan that is coming to an …
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[ad_1] Assistance is being provided to an elderly resident who has been accumulating items in his unit and along the common corridor in Block 3 Telok Blangah Crescent, the city council said. A Stomper shared photos of the disorder along the block’s third-floor corridor that were taken in September. The …
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[ad_1] A customer has refuted the claims of a prohibited stall owner who said that the cockroach he found on his noodles could have been a dried squid. Stomper Tan She previously shared how she had found a roach in her Foodpanda order from Taste Beyond Taste Ban Mian & …
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[ad_1] You may have thought you came to the aid of a damsel in distress, but a man’s attempt to defend a woman who was being arrested has earned him fights online instead. The 43-year-old woman was arrested at 53 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 on December 14 under the …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – 12 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Wednesday (December 16), all of which were imported. The new cases were placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. There were no new community cases and none of the …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: After encountering a Nerf toy gun at a mall, a man was curious to see how it worked and embarked on a quest to make his own air pistol that could fire steel ball bearings. After studying airgun-making tutorials on YouTube and conducting various test firing from his …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE NEW DOCUMENT) – Most of the people in Singapore have been disciplined in the fight against Covid-19 by observing safe distancing measures and adapting to changes amid the new normal. But a clandestine scene seems to have taken root in some places where safe distancing is ignored …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – US tech giant Zoom Video Communications is opening a research and development center in Singapore, where it will hire hundreds of key engineers, the firm said in a press release on Wednesday (December 16). Zoom, which has had a presence in Singapore for two …
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