[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (December 12), the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. All the new cases were imported and placed on stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the ministry said in its preliminary daily update. Ad Ad There …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The United States should target Hong Kong’s financial sector with tougher sanctions to deprive China of its “ATM” and force Beijing to come to the negotiating table over its crackdown on the Asian financial hub, a Former Hong Kong legislator. Sixtus “Baggio” Leung said he hopes to meet …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A total of $ 2.2 billion will be channeled into training future researchers and scientists over the next five years under Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan. The plan outlines the country’s research and development strategy from 2021 to 2025. The allocation for the training …
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[ad_1] An 83-year-old passenger who initially tested positive for the coronavirus on a “cruise to nowhere” from Singapore this week, forcing thousands of passengers and crew members to return to port a day earlier, did not have the virus after. of everything, officials. he said Thursday. The passenger, who had …
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[ad_1] TAIPEI – A pro-China cable TV station was taken off the air after Taiwan’s media regulator found it had failed to address the findings of bias and misinformation and refused to renew its license. Chung Tien Television (CTi) was removed from the cable television network in Taiwan on Friday …
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[ad_1] GENEVA: The World Health Organization expects to make decisions on whether to approve the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca in the coming weeks, its chief scientist said on Friday (December 11). Soumya Swaminathan said the world health body could decide on the Pfizer vaccine …
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[ad_1] Seoul: South Korea reported a record 950 daily coronavirus cases on Saturday (December 12), surpassing the peak in late February 909, with the president calling the country’s third wave of COVID-19 an “emergency.” . Of Friday’s cases reported by the Korea Agency for Disease Prevention and Control, 928 were …
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[ad_1] LONDON: Britain voiced alarm on Friday (December 11) after Hong Kong media mogul and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, who has British citizenship, became the most prominent figure yet charged under a law. generalized national security. Lai, 73, is the owner of Hong Kong’s best-selling Apple Daily, a popular tabloid …
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[ad_1] SYDNEY: New Zealand and the Cook Islands will allow people to travel between countries without quarantine, they said on Saturday (December 12), in what would be New Zealand’s first reciprocal “travel bubble” since the coronavirus triggered the shutdown. of borders around the world. Leaders of the South Pacific countries …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK: US officials braced themselves on Friday (December 11) for the most ambitious vaccination campaign in decades, as regulators moved rapidly toward approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine to curb a pandemic that now kills 3,000 Americans per day. Another 2,902 deaths were reported in the United States …
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