BEIJING (REUTERS) – Chinese drugmaker Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group on Wednesday (Dec 16) said it will buy at least 100 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine from Germany’s BioNTech for use in mainland China next year, if the vaccine receives approval. The Chinese government has not announced supply deals with Western drugmakers, which instead have partnered […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday (Dec 16). An interim report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into historic abuse of children in state […]
HONG KONG/BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s unprecedented anti-trust squeeze on its technology giants is only just beginning. Having levied fines and announced a probe on Monday into deals backed by the likes of Alibaba Group and Tencent, China’s market regulator is now gearing up to put more transactions under scrutiny, reversing a once laissez-faire approach towards […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s competition regulator said on Wednesday (Dec 16) it filed a lawsuit against social media company Facebook for allegedly misleading consumers over the use of data collected by a now-discontinued mobile analytic app. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the Onavo Protect mobile app, which Facebook ended in 2019, told […]
SINGAPORE – A blogger, who has been featured riding her motorcycle overseas various times by the media, was awarded $60,000 in damages after winning a defamation suit in the State Courts on Tuesday (Dec 15). After a three-day trial, the court found that social media personality Vaune Phan had been defamed by Mr Mark Yeow […]
SINGAPORE – In the past few weeks, about 50 purpose-built and Quick Build dormitories have applied to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) for their workers to resume certain communal activities such as outdoor sports, board games, cooking and even small group movie screenings. So far, about 30 have received approval to restart over 120 different […]
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth speaks with staff during a visit to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Science Park near Salisbury, Britain October 15, 2020. Ben Stansall/Pool via REUTERSLONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth held a virtual visit to KPMG last week to mark the accounting firm’s 150th anniversary, Buckingham Palace said […]
SINGAPORE – Vietnam and Singapore are planning to launch a green lane for business and official travel by the start of next year. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chee Wee Kiong and Vietnam’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung agreed to conclude ongoing discussions on the green lane arrangement and […]
SINGAPORE – What makes Singapore home, truly? An exhibition that opens on Saturday (Dec 19) at the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) seeks to provide some answers by showcasing over 200 photographs from national archives and contributed by the public, as well as more than 80 artefacts from the national collection. Home, Truly: Growing Up […]
MANILA — The International Criminal Court issued a preliminary report on Tuesday in which it said there was evidence to show crimes against humanity had been committed in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, whose bloody drug war has left thousands dead since 2016. The report was issued by Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of […]