SINGAPORE – Fish and vegetable farming have already gone high-rise in land-scarce Singapore. Now, another type of farming has gone vertical. When the first harvest from Universal Aquaculture’s Tuas South Link facility is ready come June, the sweet, juicy flesh of live vannamei prawns will be much easier to get hold of. Please subscribe or […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Tuesday, March 9. Budget debate at a glance: Transforming Singapore for a post-Covid-19 future From cushioning petrol duty hikes to targeting healthcare subsidies, here are 11 themes that emerged. READ MORE HERE Hin Leong Trading, once one of Asia’s top oil traders, to be wound up […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday urged the Internal Revenue Service to extend this year’s tax filing deadline until July 15. “We want to remind the IRS that many Americans continue to face the same health and economic challenges that necessitated an extension last year,” wrote the chairmen […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia has received about 1.1 million ready-to-use doses of vaccine produced by AstraZeneca under the global vaccine-sharing Covax facility, its foreign minister said on Monday (March 8). The South-east Asian nation has reported one of the worst Covid-19 caseloads in Asia. It launched a vaccination drive in January, aiming to inoculate some […]
SINGAPORE – A new Asus laptop and Philips smart television are among the products shoppers can anticipate when the IT Show Festival 2021 opens on Thursday (March 11). Shoppers can get their hands on the Asus ZenBook Duo 14 laptop and the Philips 55-inch 4K UHD LED Smart TV as well as the LionsForge CraftLaser […]
SINGAPORE – Seven women who are pioneers in social work, public health, sports, aviation and the arts were inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame on International Women’s Day on Monday (March 8). Mrs Santha Bhaskar, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, and representatives of the other six women who were honoured posthumously, received the Hall […]
SINGAPORE – A future where Singapore’s reservoirs have no more water after a prolonged dry spell, and rising sea levels threaten the low-lying coastline, may become a reality if nothing is done to fight climate change. These are scenes from a new PUB television commercial, aired on Monday (March 8) as part of the national […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya said on Monday the central bank must focus on keeping the entire yield curve “stably low” for the time being, as the economy continues to suffer from the coronavirus pandemic.FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya speaks during a Reuters Newsmaker event in […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – New Zealand will buy additional Covid-19 vaccines, developed by Pfizer Inc and Germany’s BioNTech, which will be enough to vaccinate the whole country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday (March 8). The government has signed an agreement to buy an extra 8.5 million doses, enough to vaccinate over 4 million people, […]
SINGAPORE – A doctor has been acquitted of molesting one of his female patients at a Northeast Medical Group clinic in Jalan Tiga, near Old Airport Road in 2017. On Monday (March 8), District Judge Jasvender Kaur acquitted general practitioner Lui Weng Sun, 48, of his molestation charge, stressing that she did not find the […]