[ad_1] BANGKOK: Bangkok has been dominated by a rubber duck frenzy since protesters used giant inflatables to ward off the water cannon last month. When police cracked down on a November rally, deploying tear gas and water cannons in front of parliament, images of protesters hiding behind giant ducks went …
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[ad_1] SEOUL: South Koreans were urged to cancel the Christmas and New Years holidays on Friday (December 4) as daily cases of coronavirus hit a nine-month high and the government will impose stricter social distancing rules in Seoul to stop a third wave of infections. Health authorities reported 629 new …
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[ad_1] TAIPEI: A bilateral trade agreement between Taiwan and the United States would strengthen US support for the democratic island in the face of “relentless intimidation” from China, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday (December 4). Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has long sought a trade …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: When Gabriel Michael Wong, 17, was summoned to the principal’s office earlier this year, he thought he was in trouble. The College East student from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) did not expect to be invited to join the REACH oversight panel, which helps shape the direction …
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[ad_1] Samuel DevarajThe new roleDecember 4, 2020 I was on my way home after buying dinner at Jurong Point on Tuesday night. As he prepared to make a U-turn along 63 Jurong West Street at around 6 p.m., he heard a knock from the back. The driver, who wanted to …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Police have warned the public about a new variant of phishing scams that involve fake bank advertisements in mobile phone promotions. The fake ads claim that banks are working with telecommunications companies to offer mobile phone promotions, police said in a statement on Friday (December 4). These …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA: Dr. Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian physician, was admitted to his local hospital in East Java on Tuesday (December 1) afternoon. In just over 24 hours, as his fellow doctors called hospital after hospital looking for a respirator in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and within a few hours’ …
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[ad_1] Friday, December 04, 2020 – 2:35 pm YANGZIJIANG Shipbuilding (YZJ) is a “buy out of conviction,” DBS Group Research said on Friday, noting that the company’s stock has underperformed, with emerging value. In a research note, DBS analyst Ho Pei Hwa said that YZJ is trading at an “unjustifiably …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A driver who sped up in a right-turning taxi in a collision that killed a National University of Singapore (NUS) student and injured three others, was fined S $ 5,000 and banned from driving for two years. Ng Li Ning, 24, was sentenced in district court last Friday …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE NEW DOCUMENT) – In a media interview last year, the owner of the e-scooter shop claimed that he had rejected a request from a teenager to modify his e-scooter so that it could exceed the legal speed limit 25 km / h. Samuel Tan Woon Yeow recalled …
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