SINGAPORE – Cycling or even walking from East Coast Park to Changi Beach Park could soon be a more comfortable and enriching experience, with plans afoot for a 15km-long green corridor that will connect both parks. The new central green corridor will run along New Upper Changi Road and Loyang Way, Deputy Prime Minister Heng […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The actual Covid-19 death toll in Indonesia could be three times the reported figure, which reached 10,218 on Friday (Sept 25). Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Griffith University Australia, said that Indonesia had the highest number of Covid-19 deaths of any Asean country and that that the nation […]
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan teenager who narrowly avoided a deadly attack on her tutoring center in 2018 has received the highest score this year on the national university entrance exam, in a sign of the progress of girls’ education in the country even as the government enters peace talks with a Taliban insurgency long […]
A China yuan note is seen in this illustration photo May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/IllustrationSHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China moved to further ease foreign access to its capital markets on Friday, officially combining two major inbound investment schemes and broadening foreign institutions’ investment scope. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published finalised rules that would combine […]
HANOI, Vietnam — The police in Vietnam have seized more than 300,000 used condoms that had been boiled, dried and put up for sale in a southern province, shutting down a business that posed a health hazard to consumers. Officers who raided a warehouse in the province of Binh Duong on Saturday found the recycled […]
SINGAPORE – Measures to protect public transport workers from abuse, such as a shield around a bus driver’s seat, are being explored, said Senior Minister of State for Transport Chee Hong Tat on Friday (Sept 25). However, he stressed that commuters must also behave themselves and not resort to such abuse. “No amount of physical […]
SINGAPORE – There is no need to worry about robots and machines replacing humans or if people can learn to beat computers. Instead, the way forward for tomorrow’s workers is to double down on human strengths, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong. For instance, robots and computers will never be able to think creatively, have face-to-face […]
SINGAPORE – There is no need to worry about robots and machines replacing humans or if people can learn to beat computers. Instead, the way forward for tomorrow’s workers is to double down on human strengths, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong. For instance, robots and computers will never be able to think creatively, have face-to-face […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore and Japan have launched a “residence track” for business executives and professionals who are work pass holders, in addition to an earlier reciprocal green lane catering mainly for short-term business travellers. However, this will be done with the necessary public health safeguards in place, said Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore and Japan have launched a “residence track” for business executives and professionals who are work pass holders, in addition to an earlier reciprocal green lane catering mainly for short-term business travellers. However, this will be done with the necessary public health safeguards in place, said Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in […]