SAN FRANCISCO/DENVER (Reuters) – The United States is having a Thanksgiving holiday like no other.People line up in their cars in the parking lot of St. James Presbyterian Church in Littleton, Colorado to receive food donations from Food Bank of the Rockies ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S., November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin MohattMore than 20 […]
SAN FRANCISCO/DENVER (Reuters) – The United States is having a Thanksgiving holiday like no other.People line up in their cars in the parking lot of St. James Presbyterian Church in Littleton, Colorado to receive food donations from Food Bank of the Rockies ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S., November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin MohattMore than 20 […]
HONG KONG – Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s 30,000-word annual policy address on Wednesday (Nov 25) lasted more than two hours which was her longest thus far, rivalling that of her predecessor Leung Chun Ying. The epic speech appeared to have made it tough for the pro-Beijing lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly – the only ones […]
SINGAPORE – Confidence in overseas travel is growing among Singapore’s traditional top sources of visitors, with three in four leisure travellers and nine in 10 business travellers indicating they are likely to go abroad in the year ahead, a recent survey has found. The online survey of 14 key markets, commissioned by the Singapore Tourism […]
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SINGAPORE – Financial institutions aim to have created 1,800 new jobs and 2,000 traineeships by June next year, a survey has noted. Around 880 of these posts will be in technology, including top roles such as application developers, application architects and business analysts. The survey, which polled about 30 firms accounting for 40 per cent […]
SINGAPORE – The annual Chingay Parade will be back again next year but will go fully digital for the first time. And Singapore residents will get a chance to take part in the parade as part of a community engagement campaign called Jalan Jalan Chingay, said the People’s Association (PA) in a statement on Thursday […]
SINGAPORE – The first civil contract for the construction of the Johor Baru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, a rail shuttle service between the two countries, was awarded on Thursday (Nov 26). Under the $932.8 million contract, Penta-Ocean Construction, a company currently working on the Bright Hill and Orchard stations on the Thomson-East Coast Line, […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is quietly walking back its unpopular negative interest rates policy with a controversial scheme designed to drive mergers among weaker, smaller lenders, a move some insiders see as a risky deviation into industrial reform.FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of the Bank […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government is to declare a climate emergency in a symbolic step to increase pressure for action to combat global warming. The government will put forward a motion to declare the emergency next Wednesday (Dec 2), the government said as Parliament reconvened after a general election won […]