BEIJING (AFP) - As the coronavirus pandemic that originated in a central Chinese city has gone global, thousands of factories in China have nimbly turned to a new and very profitable market - face masks for export.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
Mr Alan Tham had said he thought the 14-day notice started the day after he returned from a three-day holiday to Myanmar.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
STRASBOURG (AFP) - France on Thursday (March 26) carried out its first train evacuation of coronavirus patients from the hard-hit east of the country, which has registered over 1,300 hospital deaths in the fast-spiralling epidemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - In a move to help the international community combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Government will be making the software for its contact-tracing application TraceTogether, which has already been installed by more than 620,000 people, freely available to developers ar … | Continue reading
Professor Jackie Ying, who heads the NanoBio Lab at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), and her team have come up with a rapid test that can tell if a person has Covid-19 in as little as five minutes. When approved, this would be about the fastest test out t … | Continue reading
Most of these patients aged between 20 and 29 caught the bug overseas, primarily in Britain.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
ATHENS (REUTERS, AFP) - Japan will hold the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games by the summer of 2021 at latest, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday (March 24).. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
Travel restrictions for leaving Wuhan will be lifted on April 8.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SEOUL (NYTIMES) - No matter how you look at the numbers, one country stands out from the rest: South Korea.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
TORONTO/TOKYO (REUTERS) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC member Dick Pound said on Monday (March 23), as a window slowly began to open that would allow the showcase to be stage … | Continue reading
The app is able to identify people who have been in close proximity to coronavirus patients using wireless Bluetooth technology.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - The fear and suspicion directed at China in the devastating early days of the coronavirus outbreak have made a 180-degree turn: It is the West that now frightens Asia and the rest of the world.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
BEIJING (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - The hospital where coronavirus whistle-blower Li Wenliang worked and died has been hit harder than any other by Covid-19 due in part to throttling of information by officials, a Caixin investigation has found.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - Two Covid-19 patients in Singapore who tested positive for dengue were found later to not have the mosquito-borne disease.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
(CAIXIN GLOBAL) - The new coronavirus that has claimed nearly 3,000 lives and spread to more than 50 countries was sequenced in Chinese labs - and found to be similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) - weeks before officials publicly identified it as the cause of a … | Continue reading
WUHAN (REUTERS) - A 20-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, travelled 675km north to Anyang where she infected five relatives, without ever showing signs of infection, Chinese scientists reported on Friday (Feb 21), offering new evidence t … | Continue reading
WUHAN (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - New research based on data gathered from more than 1,000 coronavirus patients in China found that the incubation period for the virus was as long as 24 days rather than the previously believed 14 days, and fewer than half of the patients showed fever sympt … | Continue reading
In the past week, local transmissions started appearing and now exceed imported ones.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - Several of the locally infected patients with no known links had seen a doctor two or three times before they were sent to hospital.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
WUHAN (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation. Peng Zhiyong, director of acute medicine at the Wuhan University South Central Hospital, is one of those doctors.. Read more at straitstime … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - A number of search engines and social media platforms - including Google, Baidu, Facebook and Twitter - must now comply with general correction directions under the fake news law.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
The surge in deaths and infections highlights the challenges for health authorities around the world working to prevent a global pandemic. . Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - Alphabet hit a milestone on Thursday (Jan 16), as a rally in the stock took it above a US$1 trillion (S$1.3 trillion) valuation for the first time, solidifying the dominance of technology and internet stocks as the biggest titans of Wall Street.. Read more … | Continue reading
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - Big tech companies like Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google, long seen as some of the world's most desirable workplaces offering countless perks and employee benefits, are losing some of their shine.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
Singaproe - Each year, more than 100 patients at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) are able to go home 7.5 days earlier, saving about $11,000 in treatment costs - all because their use of a strong antibiotic was stopped after just one day.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
PARIS (BLOOMBERG) - LVMH, owner of the Louis Vuitton brand, has agreed to buy Tiffany & Co for US$16.2 billion (S$22.1 billion) in the largest deal ever for the luxury sector.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
DUBAI/RIYADH (REUTERS) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday (Nov 1) agreed that the initial public offering of state oil giant Aramco will be announced on Sunday, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - China won the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) permission to impose US$3.6 billion (S$4.9 billion) in sanctions against the US in a case that predates the tariff war between the world's two largest economies but may add a layer of tension to ongoing talks.. R … | Continue reading
BERLIN (DPA) - When a right-wing extremist in combat gear tried to break into a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle earlier this week to massacre Jewish worshippers, his weapons repeatedly failed him.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong joined calls for Starbucks to cancel its franchise with one of the city's biggest restaurant companies after a member of the founder's family likened anti-Beijing protests to riots and voiced support for local autho … | Continue reading
Chinese technology giant Huawei unveiled its own open-source software ecosystem yesterday with the goal of attracting global developers and players to use its system.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - Telco StarHub is investigating issues with its Internet services that were down for at least 15 minutes on Tuesday evening (Sept 17).. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
KYOTO • A 400-year-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest that it believes will change the face of the religion despite critics comparing the android to "Frankenstein's monster".. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Johnson & Johnson's experimental Ebola vaccine sits idle in a Dutch warehouse, ready to help counter the international crisis erupting in Africa - if authorities decide to use it.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
After a blatant snub at last week's Group of 20 summit with no leaders' meeting and just a forced eight-second handshake, Japan has slapped restrictions on chemical exports to South Korea on national security grounds as diplomatic ties lie in permafrost.. Read more at straitstime … | Continue reading
PARIS (XINHUA) - The United States uses its so-called long-arm jurisdiction as a weapon to stymie competition and other countries need to join hands to counter such unilateralist practice, said a former executive of French company Alstom.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
GENEVA (AFP) - The World Health Organisation has for the first time recognised "burn-out" in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 40 per cent of lawmakers in India's new Parliament face criminal charges - some as serious as murder and rape - and the list is growing, an electoral reform group said on Saturday (May 25).. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
Some Singaporeans and expatriates here are so desperate to get their children into top US universities that they break rules or behave unethically to game the system.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Huawei Technologies' chip arm HiSilicon said on Friday (May 17) that it has long been prepared for the "extreme scenario" that it could be banned from purchasing US chips and technology, and is able to ensure steady supply of most products.. Read more at str … | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (DPA) - The mother of a former Stanford student acknowledged that she paid US$6.5 million to the man at the heart of the college admissions scandal, but said she was tricked into believing the seven-figure sum would go toward scholarships, university salaries and prog … | Continue reading
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc on Monday (April 22) said it had sent a team to investigate a video on Chinese social media which showed a parked Tesla Model S car exploding.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
LONDON - A British comedian died on stage minutes after joking with the audience about dying.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
The air taxis from German aviation start-up Volocopter will be conducting private flight tests here in the third quarter of this year, which will be followed by public flight trials.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
Online petitions can be easily rigged. In 2016, an online petition in Britain for a second Brexit referendum was reportedly hacked. Some 77,000 fake signatures were later removed.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
TAIWAN (ASIAONE) - A woman was living out her worst nightmare when it turned out her eye infection was caused by bees living inside of her eye.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
HONG KONG (AFP) - Across much of Britain's former Asian colonies, many are greeting the UK's impending departure from the European Union with a mixture of bafflement, apathy, amusement - and a touch of schadenfreude.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE - Just a little over a year after it announced its exit from Singapore and the South-east Asian market, Uber now says it is in the Republic to stay.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | Continue reading