WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s party raced ahead of rivals in the latest opinion poll, putting the charismatic 40-year-old leader on track for a comfortable victory in the elections in September. A Newshub-Reid Research Poll released late on Sunday (July 26) showed the popularity of Ardern’s Labour Party rose to 60.9 […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s thousands of state-owned enterprises, local governments, and public institutions are expanding hiring as a record number of students graduate into a job market left reeling by the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 8.7 million Chinese students are graduating this year, almost half a million more than last year, heading into an uncertain future […]
SINGAPORE – Growing some fruit and veg for the kitchen table is hard enough what with pesky insects and pests but community gardeners have an even more infuriating foe to contend with – thieves snitching produce and digging up entire plants. This has been happening for as long as the community plots were introduced around […]
Yeo Jun Wei, also known as Dickson Yeo, studied at National Junior College from 1998 to 1999 and then went on to secure a Bachelor of Arts in mass communication and media studies from Oklahoma City University. He proceeded to do a Master of Arts in South-east Asian studies at the National University of Singapore […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Indonesian Television Journalists Association (IJTI) has established a special task force to help curb the spread of the coronavirus infection among media workers after at least 96 journalists and electronic media workers contracted the disease. IJTI chairman Yadi Hendriana said the task force’s main duty was to […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose 15% in June from a year ago, as refiners ordered record volumes of the fuel in March and April when oil prices tumbled, cementing the kingdom’s position as the top oil supplier to China. Imports from Saudi Arabia rose to 8.88 million tonnes in […]
Human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine could begin in Singapore as early as this week. The trial will involve 108 healthy volunteers of various ages in Singapore who will be injected with the vaccine developed by Duke-NUS Medical School and United States pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. Called Lunar-Cov19, the vaccine is one of 25 vaccine […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government reaffirmed on Saturday that it would not budge from its latest proposal to restructure around the $65 billion in debt, but signaled it would be willing to negotiate on the fine print around the deal. The South American country is facing a standoff with bondholders after creditor groups joined […]
Amid the economic doom and gloom, businesses in Indonesia’s Batam Island have something to cheer about after a top investment council gave the nod to the development of two special economic zones (SEZs) worth 2.2 trillion rupiah (S$2.1 billion). The first site is at Nongsa Digital Park, in the island’s upscale north-eastern Nongsa area, which […]
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) – Malaysia said on Saturday (July 25) a November summit of leaders from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) nations might still go ahead in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, despite the coronavirus pandemic. New Zealand, which is hosting next year’s Apec summit, has said already that it will use virtual platforms to conduct the […]