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    US stocks end with records as Fed’s Powell signals no rush to end stimulus

    27.08.2021 admin news Leave a comment

    NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street ended the week with new records after Fed chairman Jerome Powell signalled the central

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    Covid-19 persistence makes domestic reopening critical for Singapore’s economic growth outlook

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    Taiwan accuses China of wanting to ’emulate’ the Taleban

    21.08.2021 admin news Leave a comment

    TAIPEI • Taiwan’s foreign minister accused China yesterday of wanting to “emulate” the Taleban, saying the island that Beijing claims

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    Biden picks career foreign service official to be US ambassador to China

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    WASHINGTON • US President Joe Biden has nominated Mr Nicholas Burns, a veteran foreign service officer and a former envoy

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    Lee Jae-yong loses 13kg after illness in prison

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    SEOUL • Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong walked out of prison visibly thinner and with more white hair. He had reportedly

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    Samsung scion back in the saddle but facing public whip

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    Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong has re-emerged in public a week after his release on parole, only to attend a trial

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    Blindsided abroad: Vaccinated but catching Covid-19 while on holiday

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    ATHENS • Ms April DeMuth and her partner, Mr Warren Watson, had just finished what they described as the perfect

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    India gives approval to world’s first DNA Covid-19 shot

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    BENGALURU • India’s drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Zydus Cadila’s vaccine, the world’s first DNA shot against

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    Panic buying ahead of tighter lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City

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    HANOI • Vietnam’s plan to prohibit residents of Ho Chi Minh City from leaving their homes starting tomorrow has triggered

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    Hundreds in quarantine after infections at Shanghai airport

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    SHANGHAI • The authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak

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    New Zealand reports 21 cases as Ardern warns of increase

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    WELLINGTON • New Zealand recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warning that the number

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    Australia arrests hundreds of protesters as daily infections hit record

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    MELBOURNE • Australian police arrested yesterday hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney, with seven officers hospitalised as a

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    Aussie bid to veto state deals with foreign govts may hurt China ties

    29.08.2020 admin news Leave a comment

    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to enable the federal government to cancel state and university deals with foreign governments

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    World Briefs

    29.08.2020 admin news Leave a comment

    Kremlin critic’s condition improves BERLIN • The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said there was some

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    NBA arenas to serve as polling spots as part of deal to resume play-offs

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    NEW YORK • The National Basketball Association announced a plan to convert some of its arenas into polling places for

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    US officials provide more details on shooting of black man

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    KENOSHA (Wisconsin) • Days after a Kenosha police officer shot Mr Jacob Blake, a black man, outside an apartment building,

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    Anti-racism protesters are thugs, says Trump

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    LONDONDERRY (New Hampshire) • Fresh from accepting the Republican nomination, US President Donald Trump had harsh words for anti-racism protesters

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    Protests led by frustrated, defiant youth gain momentum in Thailand

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    Activist lawyer Arnon Nampa sang a medley of folk songs at a Bangkok police station on Friday. Holding a cordless

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    Trump pays ‘highest respect’ to Abe

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    TOKYO • United States President Donald Trump has paid his “highest respect” to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned

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    Race hots up

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    The race to succeed outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is intensifying, with a flurry of brokering and manoeuvring in

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    Muhyiddin calls off launch of Perikatan Nasional alliance in Sabah

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    KUALA LUMPUR • Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin called off last night’s highly anticipated launch of his Perikatan Nasional (PN) in

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    Umno trounces Mahathir’s new party to capture Perak ward

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    Malaysia’s largest ruling party Umno scored a thumping victory with 85 per cent of the votes in yesterday’s by-election in

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    US factory activity contracts in March; orders tumble to 11-year low

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    WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Manufacturing activity in the United States contracted less than expected in March, but disruptions caused by the

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    SPH Reit to extend relief scheme for tenants affected by Covid-19, posts 23% rise in net property income for Q2

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    SINGAPORE – SPH Reit (real estate investment trust) will be extending its relief scheme for tenants affected by the Covid-19

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    Dyson appoints new chief executive officer

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    SINGAPORE – British technology giant Dyson has appointed a new chief executive officer, it announced on Wednesday (April 1). Mr

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