A fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold a week after the shot is administered, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday (Jan 4), citing preliminary findings of an Israeli study. “A week into the fourth dose we know to a higher degree of certainty that the fourth dose is safe,” Bennett said at...
Tourists visit Maya bay after Thailand reopened its world-famous beach after closing it for more than three years to allow its ecosystem to recover from the impact of overtourism at Krabi province, Thailand on Jan 3, 2022.Reuters Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...
Charlene Ashby Clay took around $150,000 in total.The Straits Times/ Kelvin Chng She was given a second chance to continue working as a dental assistant after her employer caught her embezzling money, but she continued to steal from the clinic's earnings. Charlene Ashby Clay, 24, took around $150,000 in total and used the money for her personal...
A health worker administers a Covid-19 test in a free public testing site at Farragut Square in Washington, US on Dec 23, 2021.Reuters The following is a summary of some recent studies on Covid-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Drugstore Covid-19...
Cambodian mangoes were once labelled ‘Made in Vietnam’ before being exported to China.South China Morning Post Mangoes are a matter of national pride for Cambodian farmer Chum Chamm. For years, Chamm, who grows mangoes in the well-known Kampong Speu province, witnessed Vietnamese traders come to Cambodian farms to cut deals for entire harvests of the fruit. They often...
Wind turbines stand behind a snow gun operating at Genting Snow Park during a government-organised media tour to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics venues in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China on Dec 21, 2021.Reuters China is using the Winter Olympic Games to drive its efforts to improve the environment, but smog-prone capital Beijing is still preparing for the...
China's local symptomatic coronavirus cases crept up again, with most new infections reported in the northwestern city of Xian as it entered a fifth day of a lockdown. Xian's case load — 150 local symptomatic cases on Sunday (Dec 26) versus 155 a day earlier — remains tiny compared with many clusters overseas, but it has...
As the highly transmissible Omicron variant is set to become the dominant Covid-19 variant globally, some experts have called for the public to wear well fitted face respirators such as N95 masks amid concerns that the commonly used cloth and surgical masks might not offer enough protection. N95 masks are usually used by health care workers...
Japanese and US armed forces have drawn up a draft plan for a joint operation for a possible Taiwan emergency, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Thursday (Dec 23), citing unnamed Japanese government sources, amid increased tensions between the island and China. China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own "sacred" territory and in the past...
The Straits Times file Students who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in 2021 received their Secondary 1 school posting results on Wednesday (Dec 22). This batch of students is the first to take the PSLE under the new scoring system that replaced the T-score system. This year, students were given an Achievement Level (AL) score ranging from 1 to...
