BEIJING (THINK CHINA) – E-commerce titan, Internet technology mogul, business magnate – these are all labels that have been used on Alibaba founder Jack Ma. But in the past few months, these labels seem to be gradually fading as Mr Ma appears to be switching focus from the virtual online world to farming. After Mr […]
SINGAPORE – Noticing that her teenage daughter had withdrawn from the family, staying in her room and refusing to join the usual family activities, 46-year-old Madam R (as she wanted to be known) suspected that the girl had depression. Maria (not her real name), a 17-year-old first-year polytechnic student, also lost her appetite and often […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Sunday, Nov 7. 4-year-old boy in ICU among 4 children diagnosed with inflammatory syndrome linked to Covid-19 Two boys, aged three and eight, have been discharged, while a two-month-old girl is in a general ward. READ MORE HERE S’pore reports 3,035 new Covid-19 cases as weekly […]
SINGAPORE – Madam Hemalatha Maramuthu, 40, a nurse manager from Mount Elizabeth Hospital, was on her rounds in August when she received a call from the Kuala Lumpur hospital her father was a patient in, informing her that he was in the intensive care unit. He had had kidney failure since 2014, and his condition […]
MANILA – Jenny, a Filipino nurse at a Singapore hospital, used to work in a ward that had only four or five patients at a time prior to the pandemic. “Now, we have 14 (in our Covid-19 ward), and we are opening another one,” said the 34-year-old nurse, who requested anonymity for reasons of privacy. […]
SINGAPORE – A four-year-old boy whose breathing is being supported by mechanical ventilation in the children’s intensive care unit is one of four children in Singapore who developed a rare form of inflammatory syndrome linked to Covid-19. These four cases were among the 8,000 paediatric Covid-19 cases in Singapore since the start of the pandemic, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) […]
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – An Indonesian parliamentary commission gave its nod for President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s nominee to lead the armed forces as the country seeks increased security to reopen its economy following the pandemic, and as maritime territorial disputes heighten. General Andika Perkasa, 56, will oversee the army, air force and navy, including the marines. […]
TAIPEI – Mr Tseng Ying-chi has not gone to work in nearly two years. Before the pandemic, the 37-year-old was a tour guide who led groups of Taiwanese tourists through Europe, and was overseas for more than 200 days a year. Now, he is waiting for the government to relax border and travel restrictions so […]
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – More than 1,000 people demonstrated on Saturday (Nov 6) in Australia’s biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne to protest against the government’s climate policies and the strategies it offered at a United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. Sydney’s first legal protest after a months-long Covid-19 lockdown saw about 1,000 people march in […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to appoint former Education Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi as new foreign minister, Jiji news agency reported on Saturday (Nov 6). The appointment will be part of a new Cabinet Mr Kishida is expected to craft on Wednesday, after his ruling party won a lower house election […]