SINGAPORE – A lawyer, who made the rare move of opposing a trainee’s bid to be called to the Bar, is being investigated by the police for giving false evidence, the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) said on Thursday (May 6). The investigations include a possible offence by Mr Tan Jeh Yaw for falsely declaring to the […]
SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The two-and-a-half year prison sentence given to Lee Jae-yong, leader of the Samsung business group convicted of bribery, is to end in July next year. Speculations are rising over whether President Moon Jae-in will keep the richest man in South Korea in jail as long as he remains […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – The good news is that the vaccines work against a new coronavirus strain circulating in India that’s spread to several other countries. The bad news is it won’t be only the new version of the pathogen to emerge from an outbreak of this scale, underscoring the urgency of mapping other possible […]
SINGAPORE – Given the rapidly evolving Covid-19 situation, the Government will continually assess and adapt its strategies so as to organise large-scale meetings here safely. Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing described this dynamic approach when asked if key events lined up in Singapore this year are at risk of being postponed or cancelled because of […]
FILE PHOTO: European Stability Mechanism Managing Director Klaus Regling attends the eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium November 07, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna GeronBRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should seek a stronger international role for its euro to avoid being squeezed out of the top world currencies by the rising importance of the Chinese renminbi, […]
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has engaged Raffles Hospital to offer free Covid-19 swab tests to members of the public with possible exposure to a Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) cluster. The tests will be available until May 16. In a statement issued on Wednesday (May 5), MOH and the Health Promotion Board […]
SINGAPORE – Some firms are asking all employees who are able to do so to work from home as a precautionary measure amid a spike in Covid-19 community cases here. On Tuesday (May 4), the multi-ministry task force tackling Covid-19 reduced the cap on employees in the workplace to 50 per cent of those able […]
SINGAPORE – Some students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) have received SMS text messages from the Ministry of Health (MOH) offering them Covid-19 vaccination shots. MOH informed the students on Wednesday (May 5) that they have been nominated by their university to receive the vaccination. In messages seen by […]
NEW DELHI – When Serum Institute of India (SII) head Adar Poonawalla fled India for London after claiming he had received threats from people desperate to source for Covid-19 vaccines, it brought into sharp relief India’s vaccine procurement policy. The Indian national is chief executive officer of the world’s largest vaccine maker by the number […]
PARIS (Reuters) -The chances of a global deal on how multinational companies are taxed have never been higher, although it might take until October to finalise an agreement, the OECD’s head of tax said on Wednesday.FILE PHOTO: Outside view of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD) headquarters in Paris September 3, 2009. REUTERS/Charles […]