Singapore says contract tracing data may be used for criminal investigations

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations, said Minister of State for Home Affairs ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Singapore government accepts committee's recommendations on vaccine strategy

SINGAPORE: The Government has accepted in full the recommendations of the Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination on the overall vaccination ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine approved by Singapore

SINGAPORE: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Singapore to start Phase 3 of Covid-19 reopening

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

In this Kalimantan clinic, patients use tree seedlings to pay for medical care

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping Decided to Halt Ant's IPO

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Cisco ordered to pay US$1.9B in US patent lawsuit, has pledged appeal

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

A man's 40-year passion in lantern making for Mid-Autumn in Malaysia

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Trump gives blessing to deal to allow TikTok to continue to operate in US

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Stronger Hurricane Laura aims at heart of US oil refining industry – CNA

Hurricane Laura strengthened on Wednesday  Hurricane Laura strengthened on Wednesday (Aug 26) as it churned over evacuated oil-production ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Zoom opens new data centre in Singapore

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Singapore Army trials titanium exoskeleton designed to reduce load on soldiers

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Army is trialling a titanium-made exoskeleton designed to reduce the stress on soldiers carrying heavy loads. A section ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

China to build 6 to 8 nuclear reactors a year from 2020 to 2025: Report

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Brazilian Uber drivers protest less pay while working more, possible suspension

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

British boy who came to Singapore for treatment for aggressive cancer heads home

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

End of an era as Olympus sells camera division

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 3 years ago

Alibaba makes US$28B bet on its next breakthrough act

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Singapore's recovered foreign workers to be placed in Cruise ships

SINGAPORE: Some foreign workers who have recovered from COVID-19 in Singapore will be temporarily housed on two SuperStar cruise ships, Genting ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Singapore: Compulsory to wear mask when leaving the house

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Japan declares Covid-19 emergency, prepares nearly US$1T stimulus

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Italy's Covid-19 death toll tops 10k despite long lockdown

Italy's world-topping coronavirus death toll shot past 10,000 on Saturday and showed few sign of slowing down. | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

UK Covid-19 deaths surge past 1k

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

US Covid-19 deaths surge past 2k

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Malaysia unveils US$58B economic stimulus package as Covid-19 cases surge

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Dogs being trained in UK to sniff out Covid-19

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Tencent rolls out new health tracking code aimed at China's students

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Tokyo organisers quietly plan for potential Olympic delay, sources say

Tokyo 2020 organisers have started drafting possible alternatives to holding the Olympics this summer, two sources familiar with the talks said, ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

WHO urges stocking up on ventilators to combat coronavirus

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

First US death from Covid-19 confirmed in Washington state

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Duke-NUS used COVID-19 antibody tests to establish link between Singapore cases

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Israel's Wix.com sees 2020 revenue reaching almost US$1B

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Indonesian minister calls on rich to marry poor to cut country's poverty rate

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Looks like containment of novel coronavirus not as effective as we had hoped

Critical differences between the epidemiology of the novel coronavirus and SARS make containment less effective as a strategy and mitigation more ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

EU drops idea of facial recognition ban in public areas – paper

BRUSSELS: The European Union has scrapped the possibility of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces, according to the latest ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

All travellers arriving in Singapore from China to undergo temperature screening

SINGAPORE: Temperature screening at Changi Airport will be extended to all travellers arriving from China, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Low-cost 3D-printed prosthesis gives Brazilian cancer survivor a new face

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Washington Post refuses to publish Singapore Govt reply to article on fake news

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Facebook issues correction notice on States Times Review's post

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Charles Schwab to buy TD Ameritrade in US$26B blockbuster brokerage deal

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Preserving Malaysia’s traditional houses, one pillar at a time

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Western part of Singapore to become testing ground for autonomous vehicles

SINGAPORE: The entire western part of Singapore will become a testing ground for autonomous vehicles (AVs), under plans unveiled by the Land ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Organs can be bought via social media in the Philippines

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

HP to cut up to 9k jobs in restructuring push – CNA

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Czech Intelligence Blames China for Major Cyber Attack

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Australian billionaire to back US$14b solar power supply to Singapore

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

A Silicon Valley of the East: Penang’s Thriving Startup Community

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam says extradition Bill is 'dead'

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Inspired by Singapore’s education system, Bangladeshi worker starts polytechnic

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago