BEIJING – Office manager Wang Bing is hoping that China’s latest experiment with property taxes will drive down red-hot home prices in Beijing, where he has been living and working for the past five years. He and his wife, whom he met in Beijing, have no children but want to raise them in the future in […]
SINGAPORE – More travellers from the United States could soon be passing through Changi Airport to other parts of the region following a landmark agreement between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and US carrier United Airlines. The move could also lead to an additional option for Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) flights to Singapore, and in the long […]
SINGAPORE – The Geylang Serai Market will be closed for three days from Monday (Nov 1) till Wednesday, after Covid-19 cases were detected there over the past seven days. Fliers posted at the market by the National Environment Agency (NEA) said the venue would be closed to facilitate deep cleaning and disinfection of the premises. […]
One moment, South Korean actor Kim Seon-ho was raving over a certain pizza brand in a hot-trending drama serial. The next, his face had been removed from the brand’s social media channels after he was caught in an abortion scandal. Hundreds of thousands of fans “unfollowed” him on Instagram within days. He was also pulled […]
SINGAPORE – In a move to get more residents to pick up the habit of keeping public spaces litter-free, storage sheds with cleaning equipment will be set up at housing estates islandwide. This was announced by the Public Hygiene Council (PHC) on Sunday (Oct 31) as it expanded the SG Clean Day initiative – which […]
ROME (XINHUA) – China is ready to work with Russia to uphold multilateralism and oppose “small circles”, “false democracy” and “new Cold War”, Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday while meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Mr Wang recalled the intensive contacts between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his […]
MANILA (AFP) – A Philippine news reporter has died after being shot multiple times in his home, police said on Sunday (Oct 31), becoming the latest in a long line of journalists slain in the country. The archipelago nation is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and most of their […]
PHNOM PENH (XINHUA) – Cambodia will begin to inoculate five-year-old children across the country with China’s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine starting from Monday (Nov 1), the Ministry of Health said late on Saturday. “Five-year-old children in all 25 cities and provinces will receive two doses of Sinovac vaccine from Nov 1, 2021, onwards and an interval […]
SINGAPORE – A group of fledgling doctors are worried that in the future, hospital emergency departments and clinics will be flooded with patients agonised by heat exhaustion and mosquito-borne diseases – victims of climate change. “We medical students are concerned about this because, with the escalation of climate-change impacts or heat-related disasters, the first responders […]
SINGAPORE – New measures will be rolled out to support retention of work permit holders and alleviate the manpower crunch that firms in the construction, marine shipyard and process (CMP) sectors are currently facing. In a statement on Saturday (Oct 30), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said that the worker retention scheme in the construction […]