TAIPEI – While much of the world has adapted to working from home after almost 1½ years of the Covid-19 pandemic, workers in Taiwan are taking this as yet another unfamiliar challenge brought about by the outbreak. Even as major technology companies like Google quickly directed employees to work from home early this month, the […]
WASHINGTON – Nine out of the 10 members of Asean want a draft UN resolution to drop a call for an embargo on arms supplies to the Myanmar military in the wake of its Feb 1 coup d’etat and the ensuing brutal crackdown. A key reason for this is Asean’s need to keep open channels […]
SHENZHEN (REUTERS) – China on Saturday (May 29) successfully launched an automated cargo resupply spacecraft to rendezvous with an orbiting module, in the second of a series of missions needed to complete its first permanent space station. The Tianzhou-2, or “Heavenly Vessel” in Chinese, blasted off via a Long March-7 Y3 rocket from the Wenchang […]
NEW DELHI – Raju Sarker once had dreams. Work hard and save enough to open his own business and give his wife and son a comfortable life. “Everyone has dreams. Is there a man without dreams?” said the man better known to Singaporeans as Case 42. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the […]
SINGAPORE – Government healthcare spending is set to almost treble by 2030, but rising healthcare costs cannot “cripple our future”, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Tuesday (May 25). Singapore should thus continue to shift healthcare emphasis away from acute hospitals and towards the community, with an emphasis on a patient-centric approach, he added. […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong senior executives of financial companies and their overseas affiliates who are fully vaccinated can now apply for an exemption from the three-week compulsory quarantine, the city’s markets watchdog said. A maximum of two senior executives per each financial company licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and two […]
BEIJING – For all the scepticism and sarcasm about President Xi Jinping’s pledge to advance rule by law and ensure social justice and fairness, Chinese private lender Dong Xueyong is still a true believer. Since 2016, Mr Dong has made more than 30 court appearances in seven cities, including Beijing where he now lives, after […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Scientists are revisiting a central mystery of Covid-19: Where, when and how did the virus that causes the disease originate? The two prevailing competing theories are that the virus jumped from animals, possibly originating with bats, to humans, or that it escaped from a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China. The following is […]
CHAMARAJANAGAR – An elderly woman threw herself on the ground outside the Chamarajanagar district government hospital in India’s Karnataka state on May 20, crying till the ground beneath her was wet with her tears. A doctor had just announced that her son had died of Covid-19. Mr Nanjundasamy M., 36, had been admitted to the […]
SEOUL – North Korea has yet to respond to last week’s summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and United States President Joe Biden, despite clear signs that Washington will aim to deepen engagement with the regime through a newly appointed nuclear envoy, and build on previously signed agreements. Analysts said this could mean that […]