BEIJING (NYTIMES) – Graduation was fast approaching, but Ms Yang Xiaomin, a 21-year-old college student in north-eastern China, skipped her university’s job fair. Nor did she look for positions on her own. She did not think she had a chance of landing one. “Some jobs won’t even take resumes from people with bachelor’s degrees,” said […]
SINGAPORE – A woman who allegedly provided illegal transfers involving money from victims of online scams was hauled to court on Tuesday (Jan 19). Maslenie Mohamed Ramli, 38, was slapped with two charges under the Moneylenders Act and one charge under the Payment Services Act. According to court documents for the charge under the Payment […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand said on Tuesday (Jan 19) that it was looking to secure a small batch of Covid-19 vaccines early to protect its high-risk workers, as pressure mounts on the government to vaccinate its population. A tough lockdown and the geographic advantage of being at the bottom of the world helped New […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is ramping up industry training for some of its courses as part of a rethink of how students learn best. The institute piloted an Industry Now Curriculum pathway last year (2020) involving a small group of students from two diploma programmes – 10 from information technology and 23 from perfumery […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – The US government has asked Australia to scrap proposed laws that will make it the first country in the world to force Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay for news sourced from local media outlets. In a submission asking the government to “suspend” the plans, assistant US trade representatives Daniel […]
ISLAMABAD (REUTERS) – Pakistan on Monday (Jan 18) approved the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, a government statement said, two days after AstraZeneca’s vaccine developed with Oxford University received a similar authorisation. The Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP) said the vaccine, manufactured by China National Pharmaceutical Group (SinoPharm), had been given emergency use […]
SINGAPORE – A GrabFood delivery rider has been arrested over a bicycle collision that left an eight-year-old girl in hospital with an eye injury. The man is believed to have accidentally knocked the child over on a footpath, leaving her covered in blood and shards of glass from her smashed spectacles. Her mother, Mrs Sathiya, […]
SINGAPORE – There will be fewer dancing animals to welcome the Year of the Ox. Dragon dances are cancelled and lion dancers cannot perform at many public spaces this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions. These are among stricter infection control measures for lion dance troupes this Chinese New Year announced by the Singapore Wushu Dragon […]
SINGAPORE – Blood plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients is reserved for those who are not responding well to initial treatments for the coronavirus, the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has said. In convalescent plasma therapy, the blood plasma, which may contain antibodies against Covid-19, is given to infected patients to help them recover faster. […]
SINGAPORE – Blood plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients is reserved for those who are not responding well to initial treatments for the coronavirus, the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has said. In convalescent plasma therapy, the blood plasma, which may contain antibodies against Covid-19, is given to infected patients to help them recover faster. […]