[ad_1] The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has conducted inspections at the Elahe family restaurant at 103 Yishun Ring Road after receiving comments that its employees were not wearing their masks correctly. A Stomper was ordering food at the stall on November 8 when he noticed that several employees had their …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Spize food establishment and a related company were fined S $ 32,000 on Thursday (December 3) for a mass food poisoning incident in 2018. Sixty-three people became ill after eating food provided by Spize for a company event, and 45 of them were hospitalized. An auxiliary police officer …
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[ad_1] WUHAN: Secrecy and cronyism at China’s main disease control agency led to a widespread shortage of tests and failures that hampered early response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to an Associated Press investigation. China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) granted test kit designs and distribution rights exclusively …
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[ad_1] HONG KONG: Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was taken into custody on Thursday (December 3) after being charged with fraud, the latest in a series of prosecutions against leading Beijing critics and activists by democracy. Lai, 73, is the owner of Hong Kong’s best-selling Apple Daily, a popular …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A doctor is accused of insulting the modesty of hundreds of women in various places on the island. Chu Ben Wee, who is now on remand, appeared in district court via video link on Thursday (December 3). The 28-year-old Singaporean allegedly used a GoPro camera attached to …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Income levels fell this year for Singapore residents due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while the employment level fell to a six-year low in June before recovering after the blackout period. The nominal median income for residents – that is, Singaporeans and permanent residents – fell 0.6 percent …
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[ad_1] Thursday, December 03, 2020 – 1:00 pm RESIDENT employment levels rebounded to nearly pre-Covid levels in the third quarter after taking a major hit in June, when the ‘circuit breaker’ was at its peak, according to findings from the Labor Force Singapore Advance Release 2020 ( LFAR). “Despite the …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Five unit owners in Lorong 3 Geylang, whose leases expire on December 31, have not found permanent housing, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said on Thursday (December 3). The Housing and Development Board has offered these owners the option of renting an apartment under the interim rental housing …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore said on Thursday (December 3) that it was disappointed with the United Nations decision to remove cannabis from the most strictly controlled category of narcotics. During the annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), member states voted 27 to 25 with one abstention in favor of Recommendation …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Non-professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians (PMETs) experienced a higher unemployment rate compared to PMETs, as industries worst affected by COVID-19 had a higher concentration of non-PMETs, more recent data from the Ministry Manpower (MOM) showed. The resident unemployment rate among non-PMETs increased by 1.7 percentage points from 4.7% …
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