[ad_1] NEW YORK: The coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented number of votes cast early, the lack of consistency on how these votes will be counted, as well as ongoing legal battles, have made the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election one one of the most difficult to predict. As Americans …
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[ad_1] SHANGHAI: China suspended Ant Group’s stock listing worth $ 37 billion on Tuesday (Nov. 3), thwarting the world’s largest IPO with just a few days to go, in a dramatic move that left investors and bankers struggling to find answers. The Shanghai Stock Exchange first announced that it had …
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[ad_1] When class ends at 3pm, Nat rushes from her school in eastern Singapore to her workplace 40 minutes away, where she will stand for seven hours as a waitress at a bar. It will be around midnight before your exhausting day is over. This relentless schedule repeats itself four …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 46-year-old man who experienced a psychotic episode while assaulting his father was acquitted of murdering the older man on Tuesday (November 3), but the High Court ordered that he be kept in indefinite custody. In rendering her judgment on Tan Kok Meng, Judge Valerie Thean noted …
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[ad_1] VIENNA: Austrian police arrested 14 people in raids related to the deadly attack on Monday (November 2) in Vienna and have found no evidence that a second shooter was involved, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday. “There have been 18 raids in Vienna and Lower Austria and 14 people …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AFP, REUTERS) – The president of the United States is not elected by a majority of the popular vote. According to the Constitution, the candidate who obtains the majority of 538 voters, known as the Electoral College, becomes the next president. Here is the information about the voting …
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[ad_1] Indonesian President Joko Widodo has backed a controversial new blanket law that has sparked mass protests across the country by those who see it as an erosion of labor rights and a weakening of environmental protection. The Employment Creation Law, which spans 1,187 pages, was passed in Parliament on …
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[ad_1] Tue, November 03, 2020 – 6:30 pm Stories that you may have missed Re-Align Framework addresses the power imbalance faced by small microenterprises As Singapore moves towards recovery, companies should be able to reallocate resources to more productive uses, “instead of being caught in a protracted, painful and unproductive …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK / FRANKFURT: Deutsche Bank AG is seeking ways to end its relationship with President Donald Trump after the US election as it tires of the negative publicity stemming from the ties, according to three senior bank officials with direct knowledge of the affair. Deutsche Bank has about …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Rail operator SMRT made the right calls when handling the evacuation of stranded passengers on stopped trains during the massive MRT disruption on October 14, Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said. He told the House on Tuesday (Nov. 3) that rail guidelines call for a decision to …
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