Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Thursday, Dec 31. Covid-19 one year on: Dark clouds and silver linings for Singapore amid pandemic ST looks at how Singapore has adjusted to the dark clouds of the pandemic, and how there have also been silver linings. READ MORE HERE Airline crew to undergo […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Thursday, Dec 31. Covid-19 one year on: Dark clouds and silver linings for Singapore amid pandemic ST looks at how Singapore has adjusted to the dark clouds of the pandemic, and how there have also been silver linings. READ MORE HERE Airline crew to undergo […]
GUWAHATI, India — An Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party on Wednesday passed a law abolishing all Islamic schools, saying they provided substandard education. Opposition politicians criticized the move and said it reflected the government’s anti-Muslim attitude in the Hindu-majority country. More than 700 of the schools, known as madrasas, […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union and China agreed an investment pact on Wednesday, which Brussels believes will help redress what it sees as imbalanced economic ties.European Council President Charles Michel looks on during a video conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and China agreed on Wednesday to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced economic ties.Slideshow ( 4 images )The agreement has been nearly seven years in the making and is likely to take at least […]
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) – The United States has banned imports of palm oil from Malaysian producer Sime Darby Plantation over allegations of forced labour in the production process, the US Customs and Border Protection said on Wednesday (Dec 30). The agency said it has issued a “withhold release order”, which will allow it to detain […]
NEW DELHI – India is seeing a six-month low of daily Covid-19 cases even as multiple Indian states have imposed restrictions to ensure New Year celebrations will not erode these gains. India, the world’s second worst-hit country by the pandemic after the US, with over 10.2 million cases, has seen daily cases hovering at around 20,000, […]
BANGKOK — The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front was outlawed by the Indonesian government on Wednesday and ordered to cease all activities less than two months after its fiery leader, Rizieq Shihab, returned from self-imposed exile and pledged to lead a “moral revolution.” In a statement signed by top officials and the national police chief, the […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Tokyo’s coronavirus outbreak is severe and could explode in the coming days just as Japan begins its New Year’s holiday period, in which millions of people usually move around the country, the city’s governor said on Wednesday (Dec 30). The capital recorded 944 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, just under the record […]
SINGAPORE – The Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) pioneer engineering batch of 1985 on Wednesday (Dec 30) launched an endowment fund in honour of the late Emeritus Professor Chen Charng Ning. Prof Chen, who was founding dean of NTU’s then School of Civil and Structural Engineering, a deputy president of the university, and founding chairman of the […]