SINGAPORE – There are 322 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Monday noon (July 13), taking Singapore’s total to 46,283. They include 11 community cases, comprising two Singaporeans or permanent residents and nine work pass holders, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday. The ministry said that the higher number of cases on Monday […]
SINGAPORE – Dr Tan Joong Piang has been suspended for 22 months for not providing six patients with appropriate care, including not referring them to a specialist in a timely manner. He had prescribed thousands of sleeping pills, or hypnotics, to them for more than a decade. The general practitioner, who worked at United Medical […]
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its regional arm SilkAir will not be flying to new locations next month but will slightly increase the frequency of flights on existing routes as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the aviation sector drags on. SIA said in an online notice on Friday that this means that the SIA […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s most populous state reported 14 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday (July 13), with a growing cluster at a pub used by freight drivers travelling the country adding to fears of a second national wave of the virus. The new cases in New South Wales come after neighbouring Victoria state last […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore has developed a blockchain-based payments network that could enable faster and cheaper international settlements, authorities said on Monday, adding that the next step was a commercial rollout. The final phase of the years-long ‘Project Ubin’ saw the Monetary Authority of Singapore team up with state investor Temasek and J.P. Morgan (JPM.N) […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will show “zero tolerance” towards securities and accounting fraud and will step up a crackdown on major capital-markets crimes, financial regulators said after a meeting of the Financial Stability Development Committee. The meeting on Sunday was chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, the cabinet-equivalent State Council said in a statement. The […]
Nearly five months of uncertainty over whether Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin commands a legitimate majority will likely end today when his government attempts to replace the Speaker of Parliament. Topping the list of business when the House reconvenes are motions to replace Speaker Mohamad Ariff Yusof and his deputy Nga Kor Ming, both of […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Troubled hospital operator NMC Health’s entity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), NMC Healthcare LLC, is considering applying for restructuring and insolvency proceedings locally, two sources familiar with the matter said. The move comes three months after NMC Health Plc (NMMCF.PK), the London-listed holding company for the hospital group, went into administration […]
SINGAPORE – Students who missed parts of the O- and A-level mother tongue language examinations in June because of the Covid-19 pandemic will be fairly assessed and not disadvantaged, the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) has said. Some students missed the mid-year written examination because they had tested positive for Covid-19; or were placed […]
MANILA (BLOOMBERG) – Three out of four Philippine citizens want ABS-CBN back on the air, according to a survey. Seventy-five per cent of Filipino adults agreed Congress should renew ABS-CBN’s franchise, according to a Social Weather Stations poll released a day after lawmakers rejected the nation’s largest TV and radio network’s bid for a permit […]