SINGAPORE – An online learning app that provides convenient and bite-sized content for training and upskilling was launched on Wednesday (Nov 17). Developed by NTUC LearningHub, the Learning eXperience Platform app currently has more than 75,000 courses. It was launched during NTUC’s Ordinary Delegates’ Conference, which was held in a hybrid format. The app can […]
SINGAPORE – The world needs to develop its research, manufacturing and distribution capabilities in preparation for the next pandemic, and this will require much deeper collaboration between governments and businesses, said Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Wednesday (Nov 17). He noted that the private sector will not be able […]
BHAGALPUR, INDIA (REUTERS) – At the height of the first Covid-19 wave in India last year, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JLNMCH) in the eastern district of Bhagalpur exemplified the sorry state of healthcare in most of the countryside. Wards and ICUs were so swamped with patients and relatives that armed escorts went […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – A group opposing the candidacy of the son of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos for next year’s presidential race will ask the election commission on Wednesday (Nov 17) to bar him from running because he has been convicted for tax evasion. Called the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial […]
SINGAPORE – A violent slashing at a coffee shop on Sunday (Nov 14) led to an extensive manhunt for two men who had just been released from the Reformative Training Centre. The suspected secret society members, aged 18 and 21, are alleged to have wielded long knives and slashed a 37-year-old man at a coffee […]
SINGAPORE – As a special needs educator, one of Ms Sunaina Suri’s most memorable moments was when a student interrupted her class and asked to go to the toilet. What seemed like a simple request for permission was a huge milestone for the student, who had struggled with basic verbal communication until then. “Saying something […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – China’s recent move to update an official list of internet news providers whose content may be reprinted by other sites is aimed at correcting a “chaotic dissemination” of news, a senior cyberspace regulator official said on Tuesday (Nov 16). Xie Dengke, director of the Cyberspace Administration of China’s network communication bureau, […]
NEW DELHI – Mr Subhash Goyal, chairman of one of the largest travel groups in India, STIC Travel, is booking two tickets for him and his wife on the first available flight to Singapore in anticipation of the launch of a Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme between the two countries from Nov 29. Both his daughters […]
(Reuters) -Several European stock indexes hit record highs on Tuesday, boosted by strong corporate earnings, dovish statements from the European Central Bank chief and signs of easing U.S.-China tensions.The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, November 15, 2021. REUTERS/StaffThe pan-European STOXX 600 rose 0.3%, extending a […]
SINGAPORE – A former lawyer who deceived a businessman into transferring a total of $8 million to his own company has been ordered by the court to repay the sum. Then Feng, a Singaporean who was then working at global law firm Walkers, had told businessman Andrew Ling that the firm would act for him […]