[ad_1] Alibaba is spending $ 3.6 billion to buy a controlling stake in one of China’s top supermarket operators, while doubling grocery delivery, a key growth engine for the e-commerce group during the pandemic. The investment in Sun Art Retail Group will raise Alibaba’s 36.2 percent stake to 72 percent. …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Hearse operators will have to follow new guidelines for the transfer of the deceased, which aim to improve standards of funeral service in Singapore, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Monday (October 19) . The regulations, which are developed in partnership with the Singapore Funeral Directors Association …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – In an “exceptional case,” a Malaysian drug trafficker escaped from the gallows for the second time on Monday (October 19), after a Court of Appeal of five judges reversed a 2018 decision to convict him on a capital charge. Instead, 32-year-old Gobi Avedian received 15 years in …
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[ad_1] Date of publication: Monday, 19 October 2020 11:34 Liverpool still have Ben White on their transfer radar, but it seems unlikely that the Brighton defender will move in January, according to a report. The Reds lost Virgil van Dijk to an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the Merseyside derby …
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[ad_1] Police are investigating an incident in which a GrabFood deliveryman was caught on video yelling vulgarities and throwing a phone out of the hand of a man at AMK Hub. Several Stompers alerted Stomp to a video of the dispute that was posted on Facebook on Sunday (October 18). …
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[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Minister of Environment and Water said on Monday (October 19) that he expected the water supply to be restored within 24 hours in Selangor, as 5 million consumers were affected by water cuts, the second major outage in a week. This comes after Air Selangor announced …
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[ad_1] Mon, October 19, 2020 – 6:30 pm Stories that you may have missed Singapore ‘Fires Full Speed’ to Attract Multinationals abilities can be acquired over time: Chan ATTRACTING the global heavyweights remains a key aspect of Singapore’s strategy to create more jobs and keep the labor market tight, even …
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[ad_1] The appearance of agents from the Emergency Response Team (ERT) armed with weapons certainly caused quite a stir in Bedok over the weekend. The reason for its deployment? A lonely man who went crazy and yelled at passersby. The 39-year-old man was arrested on Heartbeat @ Bedok on Saturday …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Six years after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for wrongful death by setting his former lover on fire and killing her, a man tried to have his case reviewed, calling the sentence excessive and alleging errors were made in the trial . However, on Monday …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) temporarily stopped enrolling Covid-19 patients for a monoclonal antibody trial after the US pharmaceutical company that developed the drug had to stop the trial last week due to concerns from security. Singapore is only the third country to participate in …
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