[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] Singapore – Singapore extends the Job Support Scheme (JSS) by seven months to increase hiring activity in sectors which are still growing. This extension of the Job Suppo...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] According to a new survey, Indonesia’s stimulus is not enough for households to survive the coronavirus pandemic. As such, economists have called on the Indonesian govern...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] Singaporeans are encouraged to support local businesses and tourism in a $45 million campaign organised by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and other agencies in the cou...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] ‘Nothing is permanent’ says the wise. We cannot expect business to resume as usual. When the coronavirus pandemic hit the global economy, governments across the world hav...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] Singapore – As Singapore officially slips into a technical recession, one of Singapore’s largest employers has opted to furlough workers in a bid to survive the coronavir...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] Hong Kong – As Hong Kong experiences another wave of coronavirus infections, the city’s officials have acted quickly to restrict all public gatherings of more than four p...
[Newsphopick=Atalia Chua] Seoul’s mayor Park Won-soon’s funeral went ahead as planned on Monday (13 July). However, the highly-publicised event was shrouded in protests and probes into sexual haras...
[Newsphopick=Atalia Chua] Members of the European Parliament wrote a letter to President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, to voice their concern over the cyber libel guilty verdict of two Phili...
[Newsphopick=Kingsley Lim] The World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a conference and gave updates on the global COVID-19 situation on July 7. It acknowledges that there is new evidence that the c...
[Newsphopick=Atalia Chua] Nearly a month of pandemic-delay, 11 million stressed-out Chinese students began taking the country's strenuous annual college entrance exam on Tuesday. Known in Chinese a...
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