SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia will return 14 artworks to India, including at least six believed to have been stolen or illegally exported, the National Gallery announced on Thursday (July 29). The Canberra gallery identified the works – which include sculptures, photographs and a scroll – as either stolen, looted or of unknown origin. The collection […]
SINGAPORE – Employers and employees need to step up their workplace safety and health efforts as injuries and fatalities can hinder business recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, said Manpower Minister Tan See Leng on Thursday (July 29). He stressed that companies must continue their workplace safety and health efforts amid the pandemic, on top of […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered his government on Wednesday to open the coronavirus vaccination campaign to anyone who wants a shot as his country scrambles to protect the population from more transmissible variants. With only 6 per cent of the Philippines’ 110 million people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, millions remain vulnerable to […]
HANOI (REUTERS) – US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will on Thursday (July 29) look to nudge forward security ties with Vietnam that have been slowly deepening as both countries watch China’s activities in the South China Sea with increasing alarm. Despite growing military relations, more than four decades after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, […]
SINGAPORE – Two KTV lounges that were meant to reopen on Wednesday (July 28) will remain closed. Checks by The Straits Times on a third outlet revealed that it had not reopened either. The Health Ministry (MOH) said on July 13 that Club Dolce in Balestier Point, Wu Bistro in Golden Mile Complex and Club […]
SINGAPORE – Two KTV lounges that were meant to reopen on Wednesday (July 28) will remain closed. Checks by The Straits Times on a third outlet revealed that it had not reopened either. The Health Ministry (MOH) said on July 13 that Club Dolce in Balestier Point, Wu Bistro in Golden Mile Complex and Club […]
SINGAPORE – Amid a deadly surge in coronavirus cases in Myanmar, Singapore will send 200 10-litre oxygen concentrators to support the country’s battle against Covid-19. The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) will work with the Myanmar Red Cross Society to distribute the oxygen concentrators to affected communities, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Wednesday […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s opposition on Wednesday (July 28) claimed that Covid-19 vaccination centres lacked essential items, as the minister in charge of the immunisation plan Khairy Jamaluddin told Parliament that the country is undertaking one of the fastest vaccination programmes in the world. The clash over whether the government is stumbling or succeeding in […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s opposition on Wednesday (July 28) claimed that Covid-19 vaccination centres lacked essential items, as the minister in charge of the immunisation plan Khairy Jamaluddin told Parliament that the country is undertaking one of the fastest vaccination programmes in the world. The clash over whether the government is stumbling or succeeding in […]
(Reuters) -Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc’s second-quarter profit beat expectations on Wednesday, boosted by its unit which makes raw materials for COVID-19 vaccines as well as growth in its core scientific instruments business. The company, which was one of the major providers of coronavirus tests during the pandemic, is banking on sustained demand for the raw […]