FILE PHOTO: A board displaying stock prices is adorned with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) logo in central Sydney, Australia, February 13, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray(Reuters) – Australia’s bourse operator ASX Ltd ASX.AX on Monday paused trading in its equity market citing “data issues”. “The ASX equity market is currently paused and there is no trading […]
FILE PHOTO: A board displaying stock prices is adorned with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) logo in central Sydney, Australia, February 13, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray(Reuters) – Australia’s bourse operator ASX Ltd ASX.AX on Monday paused trading in its equity market citing “data issues”. “The ASX equity market is currently paused and there is no trading […]
SINGAPORE – Contact tracing app TraceTogether will be upgraded by next month to allow tourists to do SafeEntry check-ins at shopping malls and dining venues as Singapore gets ready to move to phase three of its reopening. The app, which is mandatory for overseas visitors, will come with a new feature to record and validate their […]
SINGAPORE – The Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK) has donated $1.8 million to the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to support the university’s new campus in the upcoming Punggol Digital District. The clan association’s president Tan Cheng Gay presented a cheque on Sunday (Nov 15) to the SIT president, Professor Tan Thiam Soon, during an event […]
SINGAPORE – Last December, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded a warning bell on young people’s ability to read with discernment and access the right information online. The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) 2018 underlined the pressing need for young people to relearn how to read, because reading […]
HANOI (AFP) – Storm Vamco barrelled into Vietnam on Sunday (Nov 15), damaging buildings and injuring at least five people after wreaking devastation in the Philippines. The storm made landfall on Sunday morning with winds of up to 90kmh, according to media reports, uprooting trees and blowing the roofs off houses and schools. Vamco is […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – The death toll from the deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year has climbed to 67, with 12 people still missing, the national disaster management agency said on Sunday (Nov 15). President Rodrigo Duterte was scheduled to fly to the northern Tuguegarao province later in the day to assess the situation […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan hopes to continue its close cooperation with the United States, the island’s de facto US ambassador told Antony Blinken, a longtime confidant of President-elect Joe Biden, as Taiwan moves to shore up ties with the new administration. Claimed by China but democratically ruled, Taiwan enjoyed unprecedented support from President Donald Trump’s […]
SINGAPORE – The need for countries across the Asia-Pacific to cooperate in tackling the coronavirus pandemic and the current economic crisis was underlined by leaders at the East Asia Summit (EAS) on Saturday night (Nov 15). The virtual meeting chaired by Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc also saw several leaders highlight the need to […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – The Hong Kong government will tighten social-distancing restrictions and introduce mandatory testing for some groups after locally transmitted Covid-19 cases rose in the past week. The new measures will be in place from Monday (Nov 16) until Nov 26, the city’s Food and Health Secretary, Sophia Chan, said at a press […]