A $1.1 billion support package that includes enhanced wage subsidies under the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS), and rental relief, more support for drivers of taxis and private-hire vehicles and a new relief fund for market and hawker centre stallholders will be rolled out to cushion businesses and workers from the impact of harsher Covid-19 restrictions. JSS support will...
Josh Giegel, co-founder and CEO of Virgin Hyperloop, walks next to a hyperloop tube at the company's hyperloop facility near Las Vegas, Nevada, May 5, 2021.Reuters Think about the future of transportation, and you might envision the old animated show The Jetsons, with everyone flying around in personal spaceships. Not only did that never happen, but we are...
Unsplash It was a sunny spring afternoon last year when Tisiphone, 25, received a phone call from a male friend that turned her life upside down. "He told me that I was on Pornhub. Of course, my first reaction was that it must be a mistake. How could it be me?" said the Chinese woman, who asked...
At a hotel in Wa State, near the Myanmar-China border, Chinese national Li Jiajie is growing increasingly desperate by the day. The 24-year-old has been surviving on his savings since last month when he quit his job as an assistant chef after Chinese security officials instructed all citizens to leave northeast Myanmar . But Li is uncertain...
Hundreds more bodies than usual are being taken for funerals every day in junta-ruled Myanmar as a new wave of Covid-19 sweeps through the country, services transporting the bodies and arranging ceremonies said. The accounts from different parts of Myanmar point to the daily death tolls being higher than those given by the health ministry, which...
People receive doses of the Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a vaccination truck in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 12, 2021.Reuters Malaysia's health ministry on Thursday (July 15) said the country will stop administering the Covid-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac once its supplies end, as it has a sufficient number of other vaccines for...
Two KTV lounges at Parklane Shopping Mall in Selegie will be closed from Friday (July 16) to July 30, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday night. The lounges are Las Vegas KTV and Tuberose KTV at 35 Selegie Road, which is the address of the mall. This to break any potential chain of transmission and...
People line up for nucleic acid testing at a makeshift testing site in a park following the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, on a polluted day in Daxing district of Beijing, China, on Jan 26, 2021.Reuters Here is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and...
Amazon.com has closed 340 online stores operated by one of the platform's largest Chinese retailers in the first half of this year, as the US e-commerce giant intensifies its crackdown against paid reviews and other violations. The action was taken against stores run by Shenzhen Youkeshu Technology Co. for allegedly violating Amazon's rules, without providing any details,...
Taiwan has asked its office in Washington to remind the United States not to cause "unnecessary speculation or misunderstanding" after the White House deleted a social media post on Covid-19 vaccine donations that included Taiwan's flag. The White House Covid-19 Response Team this week posted on Twitter an image giving details of US vaccine donations globally,...
