SINGAPORE – Shortly after it was announced that households can dine out in groups of up to five at restaurants from Wednesday (Nov 10), Ms Goh Wen Tyng immediately made a booking for a meal at Keria Japanese Restaurant in Cuppage Plaza with her family. The 44-year-old manager will finally dine out with her husband […]
PURBALINGGA, INDONESIA (REUTERS) – A librarian in Indonesia’s Java island is lending books to children in exchange for rubbish they collect, in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the children to read more. Each weekday, Ms Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three-wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children […]
SINGAPORE – Since the start of 2020, pupils at Hougang Primary have had a new face helping them with mathematics and coding. This instructor is a robot teaching assistant named CoDDiE, which stands for coding buddies in education, developed by the school in collaboration with Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP). Please subscribe or log in to […]
SINGAPORE – When financial technology executive Mae Tan, 29, helped set up a community organisation for seniors with her friends Michelle Lau and Denise Tay, she never thought it would flourish into an islandwide operation in just a few months. The experiences of seniors living in isolation and fear of contracting Covid-19 spurred the trio […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar dipped on Monday after hitting 15-month highs on Friday following strong U.S. jobs data while investors digested the report, looked ahead to inflation data and monitored commentary from Federal Reserve officials for rate policy clues.FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows U.S. 100-dollar bank notes taken in Tokyo August 2, […]
(Reuters) -Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker said on Monday that he does not expect interest rates to rise until after the central bank is done tapering its asset purchases, but that the Fed is prepared to act on high inflation if needed. “I don’t expect that the federal funds rate will rise before […]
SINGAPORE – The lawyer acting for convicted drug trafficker Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, who is challenging his impending execution on Wednesday (Nov 10) on the basis of intellectual disability, had objected to his client’s latest psychiatric and medical records that would have revealed his mental state being disclosed in court on Monday. In contradiction to Mr M. […]
SINGAPORE – An expert committee will make a recommendation on whether to extend the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children aged five to 11 in the second half of November, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Monday (Nov 8). His comments come after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorised the use of the Pfizer […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – One of India’s holiest rivers was coated with toxic foam on Monday (Nov 8), adding to the woes of New Delhi residents already enduring a blanket of thick smog over the capital. The Yamuna is already one of the most polluted waterways in the country but parts of the river, which […]
SINGAPORE – People who are unvaccinated by choice and come down with Covid-19 will have to foot their own medical bills from Dec 8, in a move that Health Minister Ong Ye Kung described as an “important signal” to those who are still holding off on getting their jabs. Speaking on Monday (Nov 8) during […]