[ad_1] HONG KONG: China removed 105 apps, including that of the American travel company TripAdvisor, from the country’s app stores, as part of a new campaign to clean up app stores that it considers to spread content related to pornography, the prostitution, gambling and violence. The China Cyberspace Administration said …
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[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain will begin rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday (December 8), the first Western country to begin vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a watershed milestone. in the defeat of the coronavirus. The mass inoculation will fuel …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – An arrest warrant was issued for a man accused of exposing his private parts and sexually stimulating himself in front of a woman at the National University of Singapore (NUS) science library on April 10 last year. Xiong Jiawei, now 28, was a student at NUS when …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: After his colleague contracted COVID-19, a man was ordered to go home and not report for work, instead traveling through Singapore for eight consecutive days, claiming that he was very bored at home. For repeatedly violating his quarantine order, Soh Poh Tiong, 65, was jailed for 12 weeks …
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[ad_1] Caregiver burnout is, sadly, a very real phenomenon. For one maid, the stress of taking care of her 92-year-old employer and 104-year-old husband was too much to handle. The Ministry of Manpower is investigating the matter after the 25-year-old Myanmar national suffered a nervous breakdown in early November while …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Singapore Competition and Consumers Commission (CCCS) is seeking public comment on a proposed cooperation agreement between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Vistara. Vistara, a joint venture between Tata Sons and SIA, began operating direct flights between Singapore and Delhi, as well as between Singapore and Mumbai in 2019, …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical body is expected to issue a halal certification for the COVID-19 experimental vaccine developed by China-based Sinovac Biotech, officials said on Monday (December 7). Certification would be an important step in immunization efforts in the world’s most populous Muslim country, if the vaccine is …
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[ad_1] Tue, December 08, 2020 – 8:52 am THE following companies saw new developments that may affect their stock trading on Tuesday: DBS, OCBC, UOB: Singapore’s new nationwide financial data sharing initiative may help banks reduce the income inequality gap exacerbated by Covid-19 while creating a billion dollar business opportunity …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump does not plan to impose additional tariffs on Chinese goods before his successor, Joe Biden, takes office next month, the House’s economic adviser said on Monday (December 7). Blanca, Larry Kudlow. “In the trade talks, we remain engaged,” Kudlow said at an event hosted …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will offer free COVID-19 testing to residents of its classroom as part of efforts to keep campus safe, it said in an email to students on Monday (December 7). “To keep all hallway residents and the campus community safe, the University, in consultation with …
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