WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and over 40 trade associations on Monday urged top U.S. and Chinese officials to redouble efforts to implement a Phase 1 trade agreement signed by the world’s two largest economies in January. In a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and […]
SINGAPORE – The six Autonomous Universities (AU) have stepped up to offer around 2,000 more places this year because of the disruptions caused by the pandemic. Some of the additional offers went to Singaporeans whose overseas study plans had been disrupted by the pandemic. Another group receiving the offers are polytechnic diploma holders who had […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) on Monday (July 6) reaffirmed Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Anwar Ibrahim as its prime minister candidate, but conceded that it would need to continue talks with other parties, including rival candidate Shafie Apdal, in order to return to power. Datuk Seri Anwar initially did not […]
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SINGAPORE – A 34-year-old woman has been arrested after she was accused of killing a 95-year-old woman in a landed home in Upper Serangoon. The police said that they were alerted to a stabbing case in a residential unit in Recreation Road on Monday (July 6) at about 1.50pm. The 95-year-old woman was found lying motionless […]
SINGAPORE – The MRT network has clocked another record: 1.6 million train-km between delays for the period ended June 2020, up from 1.4 million in the first quarter. Retiring Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced this on Facebook on Monday (July 6), calling it “an amazing MKBF of 1,638,000 train-km”. MKBF stands for mean kilometres […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Consumers in the euro zone returned en masse to shops in May as lockdowns were eased in the bloc, estimates from the EU statistics agency showed on Monday, signalling a sharp recovery of sales after record drops in March and April. Sales in the 19 countries sharing the euro zone rose by […]
SINGAPORE – After a month of staying at their lowest in several years, pump prices have moved up in line with higher wholesale fuel prices as world economies reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. The popular 95-octane petrol is now three cents higher at $2.02 a litre at Caltex, Esso and Shell, and six cents […]
BEIJING (NYTIMES) – A herdsman in Inner Mongolia was confirmed to be infected with bubonic plague, Chinese health officials said, a reminder of how even as the world battles a pandemic caused by a novel virus, old threats remain. The Bayannur city health commission said the plague was diagnosed in the herdsman on Sunday (July […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Orders for German industrial goods rose by 10.4% in May, rebounding from their biggest drop since records began in 1991 the previous month, data showed on Monday, as demand picked up after lockdown measures to fight the coronavirus were lifted. The surge was weaker than a Reuters forecast for an increase of […]