JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Indonesia’s capital is stepping up movement restrictions in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus as more people are set to travel to and from the city over the year-end holiday. Jakarta, already a hotbed of Covid-19 cases in the country, is limiting activities at various public places from Friday until […]
SINGAPORE – Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong will be undergoing four weeks of radiotherapy following the removal of a lump in his larynx. This is to ensure that all cancerous cells are killed off. “Just like the weather these days, it never rains but pours for me medically,” the former prime minister wrote in […]
Japan rewrote its one-day Covid-19 tally yesterday with at least 3,211 new cases, led by a record-busting 822 infections in Tokyo, prompting Governor Yuriko Koike to issue a “special year-end Covid-19 warning”. The worsening situation comes despite Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Nov 24 statement that the following three weeks would be “decisive in defeating the […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is expected to extend on Friday a package of steps aimed at easing corporate funding strains caused by the coronavirus, as a renewed spike in infections cloud prospects of recovery from the health-crisis-induced economic slump.FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of Bank […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – As a pandemic ravaged the world, Asian economies led by Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan topped a ranking of most-efficient health care systems. The Bloomberg Health-Efficiency Index, first conducted in 2013, tracks life expectancy and medical spending to determine which healthcare systems have the best outcomes. This year’s results include the […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Friday, Dec 18. Not getting Covid-19 vaccine puts all at greater risk: Experts A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free but the risk is small, said experts. READ MORE HERE Covid-19 vaccine: Why some groups, including those with severe allergies, should wait Pregnant women, immunocompromised persons and […]
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Britain and the European Union struck a pessimistic tone in trade talks on Thursday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying it was “very likely” there would be no agreement unless the bloc changed its position “substantially”. Just over two weeks before Britain finally leaves the bloc’s orbit, European Commission President Ursula von der […]
FILE PHOTO: A person looks at the adverts in the window of a job agency in London, Britain October 13, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKayLONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak announced on Thursday that he would extend a job support programme by another month until the end of April, and that businesses would be able to […]
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SEOUL, South Korea — A man in South Korea who spent 20 years in prison for the murder of a 13-year-old girl was acquitted in a retrial on Thursday after the country’s most infamous serial killer confessed to the crime last year. The acquitted man, Yoon Sung-yeo, 53, was sentenced to life in prison in […]