SINGAPORE – No harmful algae blooms have been detected recently in Singapore’s coastal waters despite the high rainfall this month. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said it monitors indicators of water quality at coastal fish farming areas in the northern and southern waters here, such as occurrences of harmful algal blooms. Please subscribe or log […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s medical regulator has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use under a formal process, one of the first countries to complete a comprehensive approval, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday (Jan 25). The vaccine had been provisionally approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) for Australians aged 16 years and […]
HANOI (REUTERS) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party gathers for its first national congress since 2016 later on Monday (Jan 25) with a mission to select new leaders and shape policy for the next five years. The event, the 13th congress since the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1930, will bring 1,600 delegates […]
SINGAPORE – MPs have been going door to door to talk to residents in Ang Mo Kio and Tanjong Pagar, which will have the first seniors to be offered vaccination against Covid-19, though interviews indicate that some are still on the fence about it. Covid-19 vaccinations for seniors aged 70 and above will kick off […]
SYDNEY – When the head of Twitter, Mr Jack Dorsey, recently made his fateful decision to ban Mr Donald Trump from the social media platform, he did so from an island in French Polynesia, thousands of kilometres from Washington or Silicon Valley. Mr Dorsey, who was reportedly holidaying on an island, is not the only […]
JAKARTA – Nurse Sustina Syofianti felt relieved and upbeat after getting the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Jan 16. She had been vaccinated before for other diseases but was still nervous about being among the first to receive the China-made Sinovac vaccine. But the 33-year old, who is single, overcame her jitters with […]
SINGAPORE – There were 48 new Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday (Jan 24), all of whom were imported and had been placed on stay-home notice or isolation upon their arrival in Singapore. In its daily update, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said that of the new cases, four are Singapore permanent residents and 10 are foreign domestic […]
SINGAPORE – There were 48 new Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday (Jan 24), all of whom were imported and had been placed on stay-home notice or isolation upon their arrival in Singapore. In its daily update, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said that of the new cases, four are Singapore permanent residents and 10 are foreign domestic […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – Australia recorded no new local coronavirus cases on Sunday (Jan 24), maintaining a recent run of success in keeping the virus at bay, but nevertheless is keen to press on with its vaccination campaign from next month, government officials said. Australia’s first batch of the Pfizer vaccine is due to arrive in […]
BEIJING (AFP) – Rescue workers on Sunday (Jan 24) lifted out the first of 22 miners trapped for two weeks hundreds of metres underground in an east China mine, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The man, discovered on Sunday in a separate section of the mine to 10 workers who had already established contact with rescuers, […]