[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Republic will contribute US $ 5 million (S $ 6.6 million) to a global initiative to ensure sufficient Covid-19 vaccine production and access for the poorest nations. The Advanced Market Engagement (AMC) is a mechanism under the Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (Covax). Its aim is …
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[ad_1] LONDON: Britain’s drug regulator insisted on Friday (December 4) that its first global approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine met all safety standards, after officials from Europe and the United States raised questions about the quick process. Britain announced on Wednesday that it had given emergency approval for the …
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[ad_1] The full digital bank created by the Grab-Singtel consortium will hire around 200 employees in Singapore by the end of next year to build a strong banking infrastructure. To date, between 10 and 15 percent of the positions in the digital bank have been filled. Banking veteran Charles Wong, …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: For more than two years, an insurance agent took his client’s monthly premiums totaling S $ 117,500, while the company canceled the victim’s policy. AIA Singapore stopped receiving the victim’s premiums in August 2016 and canceled his life insurance policy a few months later, while the victim continued …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (The Straits Times / ANN): Income for Singaporeans and permanent residents suffered an impact not felt since 2004 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to advance estimates released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Thursday (December 3). The nominal median income of residents, ie Singaporeans and PRs, …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Dr. Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, was admitted to his local hospital in East Java on Tuesday afternoon (December 1). In just over 24 hours, while his fellow doctors called hospital after hospital looking for a ventilator in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and within a …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing guidance for the use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies in government decision-making. The White House said Trump was establishing nine principles for the design, development, acquisition and use of AI in government in an effort to …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Three new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of noon on Friday (December 4), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,242. All were imported cases that had been listed on stay-at-home or isolated notices upon arrival in Singapore. On Friday, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) did not announce any …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: On Friday (December 4) the Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC) reported two more workplace deaths, bringing the death toll to five in the past two weeks. In the first incident on Tuesday, two workers were packing goods in a warehouse when one worker heard a thud and …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore reported three new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Friday (December 4), the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said in its daily preliminary update. All the cases were imported infections that had already been placed on a stay-at-home notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. Ad Ad There …
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