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JAKARTA • Indonesia’s capital Jakarta has announced a two-week extension of its state of emergency following a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases. Mr Anies Baswedan told reporters during a video conference yesterday that the state of emergency, imposed on March 20 to try to slow the spread of the virus in South-east Asia’s largest city, […]
Japan’s megacities of Tokyo and Osaka came to a virtual standstill yesterday as millions of residents heeded their leaders’ call to stay home this weekend to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The governors of at least eight prefectures in Japan – Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Yamanashi, which comprise the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area, […]
Enterprise Singapore has denied claims circulating on social media and text-messaging apps that one of its safe distancing ambassadors had fined a member of the public. It addressed the claims in a Facebook post on Friday. One of the claims on social media was put up by a user who said she witnessed a customer […]
Between social distancing measures and the mandatory closure of entertainment outlets, the usual crowds were nowhere to be seen yesterday. Business had all but halted at sites usually popular with both Singaporeans and tourists. In Haji Lane, local shops were largely devoid of shoppers, although a number of passers-by were taking pictures of the iconic […]
Crowds in Orchard Road were visibly thinner yesterday after stricter safe distancing measures were put in place, and the Government reminded the public to stay home and go out only for essential needs. Shoppers dutifully queued to enter shopping centres to limit numbers inside, some for nearly an hour, while maintaining a 1m distance from […]
Singapore has further tightened restrictions on the entry of foreigners, announcing yesterday that all long-term visit pass (LTVP) holders and student pass holders have to obtain approval from the authorities first, starting from 11.59pm tonight. This comes as the number of coronavirus cases here passed the 800 mark to hit 802, after the Health Ministry […]
As the coronavirus rampages across the planet, governments and hospitals are desperate for personal protective equipment (PPE) to deal with a rising flood of ill people putting healthcare staff at risk. “The chronic global shortage of personal protective gear is now one of the most urgent threats to our collective ability to save lives,” World […]
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Jay-Z and the NFL have been teaming up to release PSAs as part of a social justice initiative announced last summer. A new video featuring Pendleton’s mom is calling for unity.
“I got hit from behind by a car going 190 miles per hour,” Newman said on “TODAY.” “You look at the car afterward and you think what happened right for me to be sitting here.”
Six states were voting in a key night in the battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
There was little for the senator from Vermont to cheer about in his nomination battle against Biden.
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“We have been able to learn from some of Facebook’s mistakes,” Mosseri said in an interview on NBC News’ Byers Market podcast.
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The president’s preferred timeline would ensure that the tax cut lasts through the entirety of his re-election campaign.
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History shows that a united show of force from the globe’s leading governments could have stopped the panic. But no such demonstration has come.
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If coronavirus gets really dangerous, “I might as well be somewhere having fun,” one California college student said.
For nearly six decades, Bonnie Polin was rarely apart from her husband. But with nursing homes working to stop the spread of the coronavirus, she’s stuck on the outside.
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Huawei nova 7i SMARTPHONE $388, available this Saturday Huawei’s latest nova 7i (available on Lazada and Shopee) shows that you do not have to pay much for a good camera system in a smartphone. Priced at only $388, this Android 10 smartphone has a rear quad-camera system that includes a 48-megapixel (MP) wide-angle camera, an […]