SINGAPORE – Some 1,155 users of national contact tracing programme TraceTogether have requested to opt out of the programme and for their data to be removed from its server, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative Vivian Balakrishnan has revealed. In a written answer to Workers’ Party MP He Ting Ru (Sengkang GRC) on Monday (May […]
(Removes duplicate paragraph)FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, makes his way at a local shopping street in Tokyo, Japan, May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonTOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s household spending posted its biggest monthly gain in 18 months in March, data showed on Tuesday, as consumer demand […]
SINGAPORE – As Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) prepares to restructure itself and transfer its media business to a company limited by guarantee (CLG), several MPs raised concerns in Parliament on Monday (May 10) about the future of Singapore’s vernacular newspapers published by SPH like Lianhe Zaobao, Berita Harian and Tamil Murasu. They were speaking after […]
SINGAPORE – Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai on Monday (May 10) asserted the Government had put out an inaccurate narrative on why there was a need to borrow to finance significant infrastructure. The Progress Singapore Party member charged during the debate on the Significant Infrastructure Government Loan Act (Singa) Bill that this would not be […]
SINGAPORE – As Singapore embarks on a “generational upgrade” in its infrastructure over the next 15 years, Parliament on Monday (April 10) passed a new law that allows the Government to borrow to smooth out the hump expected in development spending. Singapore has not borrowed to pay for such expenditure since the 1990s, and in […]
SINGAPORE – Two of the three new Covid-19 cases in the community announced on Monday (May 10) are people who work at Changi Airport Terminal 3. They are linked to an 88-year-old cleaner who was confirmed to have Covid-19 infection on May 5. There are now 10 people in the cluster. The remaining community case […]
SINGAPORE – Many hospitals in Singapore have begun swabbing all staff to detect Covid-19 cases, if any, as early as possible. At the same time, patient-facing staff, particularly those who work in emergency departments and wards, will continue to be tested regularly as part of a nationwide initiative for all hospitals. This follows the emergence […]
MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – Every night around 8pm, the residents of Mumbai huddle around their phones and laptops. They are trying to book coveted vaccine appointments as doses run dry. The daily drama has led to jokes and memes in the locked-down city, which seems to have controlled a devastating wave of the coronavirus and is […]
SINGAPORE – There are no attritions intended in Singapore Press Holdings’ latest restructuring exercise, Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran said on Monday (May 10). “The terms of the proposal, as I understand it as of now, is (that) you have the entire team move over… and therefore no attritions are intended,” he said […]
SHENZHEN (REUTERS) – From her four-bedroom flat in an affluent Shenzhen neighbourhood Sharpay Huang, 28-years-old and four months pregnant, is already weighing up how long to wait before having a second child. After graduating from a US college, starting a banking career and getting married, her confidence is typical of many young professionals in the […]