[ad_1] SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Long before he ran the world’s best-performing hedge fund, Qian Yong Qiang was head of China’s largest online dating service. The Yale graduate would spend hours tracking down attractive users with suspicious profiles, checking accounts, and eliminating thousands of scammers to improve the site’s authenticity and …
Read More »Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble could start in November
[ad_1] A passenger wearing a face mask exits the arrivals hall of the Hong Kong International Airport terminal. Miguel Candela | Images SOPA | LightRocket | fake images SINGAPORE – The travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore could take effect this month, and discussions are ongoing with other countries, …
Read More »Actions to watch: FCT, LMIRT, Wilmar, CapitaLand, ARA Logos, Lendlease Reit, Actions
[ad_1] Tue, Nov 03, 2020 – 9:09 THE following companies saw new developments that may affect their stock trading on Tuesday: Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT): The real estate investment trust (Reit) on Tuesday posted a 26.1 percent drop in its distribution per unit (DPU) to 4,372 Singapore cents for the …
Read More »COVID-19 brakes in Europe trigger setback amid grim countdown to Christmas
[ad_1] LONDON: A wave of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions has sparked resistance across Europe, and the right-wing British politician who helped force an EU referendum capitalized on popular anger over a new lockdown by reformulating his Brexit Party under a new flag. Britain, which has the highest official death toll …
Read More »Indonesian Muslims increase global protest against Macron, the ‘real terrorist’
[ad_1] By Heru Asprihanto and Adi Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of angry Muslims protested in front of the French embassy in the Indonesian capital on Monday with banners calling French President Emmanuel Macron the “real terrorist” and demanding the immediate expulsion of the country’s ambassador. Joining the global protest …
Read More »Parliament: $ 13.8 million spent on SafeEntry, TraceTogether digital contact tracing tools, political news and featured stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A total of $ 13.8 million has been spent developing and acquiring the SafeEntry digital ledger system and the TraceTogether app and tokens, through September. The cost of these digital contact tracing tools includes $ 2.4 million to develop the TraceTogether application, $ 5.2 million to develop …
Read More »Wirathu, the puppet monk from Myanmar, surrenders to the police
[ad_1] YANGON: A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar known for his inflammatory rhetoric surrendered to police on Monday (November 2), who have been seeking his arrest for over a year for insulting remarks he made about the country’s leader, the councilor. of State Aung San Suu Kyi. Monk Wirathu’s surrender …
Read More »UK’s Johnson defends COVID-19 lockdown to avoid ‘medical and moral disaster’
[ad_1] LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday (Nov. 2) defended a second COVID shutdown in England from critics who said it was unnecessary and others who said it was too late, arguing that now was the time to prevent a “medical and moral disaster”. . After rejecting calls …
Read More »Comment: Almost always, will Anwar Ibrahim become Prime Minister of Malaysia?
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: I’ve seen it before. On September 16, 2008, an optimistic Anwar Ibrahim announced that he had had the support of the majority of Malaysian Members of Parliament (MP), six months after he led the opposition to historically crush the parliamentary supermajority of two thirds of the then ruling …
Read More »‘The Role Is Demanding’: How A New Resource Aims To Help Caregivers During The COVID-19 Pandemic
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: In the course of his work, Dr. Lim Wee Shiong has seen not only sick patients, but also stressed out caregivers. “The caregiver will take them (their loved one) to the emergency room (emergency department) and say, ‘Mom is not very well. … The complaints are very vague …
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