SINGAPORE: The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations, said Minister of State for Home Affairs ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The Government has accepted in full the recommendations of the Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination on the overall vaccination ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The long-awaited Phase 3 of Singapore’s reopening will start on Dec 28, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday (Dec 14). ... | Continue reading
JAKARTA: Every month, Indonesian Hamisah drives her 78-year-old mother to Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) clinic in West Kalimantan province so her ... | Continue reading
China's President Xi Jinping personally decided to pull the plug on Ant Group's US$37-billion initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal ... | Continue reading
A US judge on Monday ordered Cisco Systems to pay US$1.9 billion after a Virginia company accused it of infringing patents related to complex ... | Continue reading
TELUK INTAN, Perak: The living room of the Wong family was like a whimsical zoo of small fanciful animals. Rabbits, fishes and mice crowded the ... | Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump said he supports a deal that will allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States, after threatening to ban ... | Continue reading
Hurricane Laura strengthened on Wednesday Hurricane Laura strengthened on Wednesday (Aug 26) as it churned over evacuated oil-production ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Zoom Video Communications has opened a new data centre in Singapore, its first in Southeast Asia, it said on Tuesday (Aug 18). Use of ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Army is trialling a titanium-made exoskeleton designed to reduce the stress on soldiers carrying heavy loads. A section ... | Continue reading
SHANGHAI: China will build six to eight nuclear reactors a year between 2020 and 2025 and raise total capacity to 70 gigawatts (GW), up 43.5 per ... | Continue reading
SAO PAULO: Over a thousand food deliverymen on motorcycles gathered in Sao Paulo on Wednesday (Jul 1) to protest their work conditions, set by ... | Continue reading
Before he left the UK for Singapore more than six months ago, doctors told Oscar Saxelby-Lee’s family he had no treatment options left. Now in ... | Continue reading
It's the end of an era: Japan's Olympus said Wednesday it is selling its struggling camera division to focus on medical equipment -- now the major ... | Continue reading
But it comes as no surprise that Alibaba is betting big on the cloud to maintain competitiveness at home and make a play for overseas markets, ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Some foreign workers who have recovered from COVID-19 in Singapore will be temporarily housed on two SuperStar cruise ships, Genting ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: It is now mandatory to wear a mask when stepping out of the house, with some exceptions, announced Minister for National Development ... | Continue reading
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (Apr 7) declared a state of emergency to fight new COVID-19 infections in major population ... | Continue reading
Italy's world-topping coronavirus death toll shot past 10,000 on Saturday and showed few sign of slowing down. | Continue reading
The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumped by 260 in one day to pass 1,000, official data showed Saturday, the day after Prime Minister ... | Continue reading
WASHINGTON: Deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States surged past 2,000 on Saturday (Mar 28), doubling in just three days, according to ... | Continue reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has announced an economic stimulus package worth RM250 billion (US$58 billion) on Friday (Mar 27) to weather the impact of ... | Continue reading
A British charity has teamed up with scientists to see whether dogs could help detect COVID-19 through their keen sense of smell, they said on Friday. | Continue reading
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out a new tracking app aimed at students who are preparing to return to school, the latest tool in ... | Continue reading
Tokyo 2020 organisers have started drafting possible alternatives to holding the Olympics this summer, two sources familiar with the talks said, ... | Continue reading
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Sunday (Mar 1) urged all countries to prepare for caring for patients severely sickened by the deadly new ... | Continue reading
The first death from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, in Washington state, health officials said Saturday, after a handful of ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: In a world-first, a research team at Duke-NUS Medical School established a link between two COVID-19 clusters in Singapore ... | Continue reading
Wix.com, which helps small businesses build and operate websites, reported a smaller than expected decline in profit in the fourth quarter and ... | Continue reading
JAKARTA: An Indonesian minister on Wednesday (Feb 19) proposed for the rich to marry the poor as a means to reduce the country’s poverty rate. ... | Continue reading
Critical differences between the epidemiology of the novel coronavirus and SARS make containment less effective as a strategy and mitigation more ... | Continue reading
BRUSSELS: The European Union has scrapped the possibility of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces, according to the latest ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Temperature screening at Changi Airport will be extended to all travellers arriving from China, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on ... | Continue reading
SAO PAULO: Denise Vicentin looks in the mirror and bursts into tears. After losing her right eye and part of her jaw to cancer, the Brazilian ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Government said on Monday (Dec 16) that US publication The Washington Post's refusal to publish its response in full ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Facebook has issued a correction notice for a States Times Review Facebook post in a first for the platform, after it was instructed to ... | Continue reading
Charles Schwab Corp said on Monday it would buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in an all-stock deal valued at about US$26 billion. | Continue reading
SETIU, Terengganu: On the east coast state of Terengganu in Peninsular Malaysia, the weather at this time of the year can be a little chancy. A ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The entire western part of Singapore will become a testing ground for autonomous vehicles (AVs), under plans unveiled by the Land ... | Continue reading
In the second of a two part series looking at the illegal trade in human organs in the Philippines, CNA's Pichayada Promchertchoo investigated how ... | Continue reading
US personal computer maker HP Inc said on Thursday it will cut up to 16 per cent of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan aimed at cutting ... | Continue reading
PRAGUE: China was behind a major cyber attack at a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year, the EU member's intelligence agency ... | Continue reading
MELBOURNE: Atlassian Corp co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has pledged to help fund an ambitious A$20 billion ($14 billion) project to supply solar ... | Continue reading
Drawn by a slower pace of life, family-friendly environment and lower cost of living, a growing number of start-ups are choosing to set up shop in ... | Continue reading
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam announced on Tuesday (Jul 9) that a widely-loathed proposal to allow extraditions to the Chinese ... | Continue reading
He was unable to complete high school, but Joy Sudip Bhadro’s eye-opening experience here led to a ‘crazy’ dream come true in his hometown. His ... | Continue reading