HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban President Raul Castro will step down in April 2018 straight after elections that same month to choose his successor, according to a vote on Thursday (Dec 21) in the island state's National Assembly. The vote pushed back the date of the general elections, which wer...
(CNN) — Singapore's illustrious hotel history may have started with Raffles , but it took many decades for another new hotel -- the Marina Bay Sands in 2010 -- to capture travelers' popular imagination in the same way. Since then, the hotel scene in Singapore has only grown more excit...
Singapore is embracing technology and focusing more on personal health, as an expected doubling of seniors over the next two decades forces the nation to confront politically sensitive decisions on financing and immigration. While Singapore’s aging population is something to celebrate...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Just a street away from Singapore’s central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which launched on Thursday, sells “h...
The ability to enter homes and workplaces without a warrant in order to pursue unlicensed film screenings is among the new powers sought by Singapore ’s Infocomm Media Development Authority . The measure is one of several revisions being proposed to the country’s Films Act. The IMDA s...
AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Available in 4 New Regions: Beijing, Frankfurt, Singapore and Mumbai Posted On: Dec 20, 2017 The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available in four new regions: China (Beijing) operated by Sinnet, EU Central (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacif...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Just a street away from Singapore’s central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which launched on Thursday, sells “h...
SINGAPORE — Just a street away from Singapore's central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which launched on Thursday, sells "hand brew" ...
CORPORATE social responsibility (CSR) has become quite the catchphrase, so often bandied about by companies that it seems at times to be devoid of meaning. At its core, the laudable goal of CSR is that companies must not merely be profit-driven, but should see themselves as corporate ...
The Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) provide provide machine learning practitioners with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep to quickly start experimenting with deep learning models. The AMIs come with pre-built packages of popular deep learning frameworks including Apache MXN...
The fintech ecosystem in Singapore has grown significantly this year, with now more than 400 fintech ventures based in the city-state and over 30 fintech innovation labs or research centers set up by multinational corporations. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the nation’s c...
MELBOURNE - Up to 16 people have been injured after a car drove into a crowd in Melbourne's central business district on Thursday (Dec 21). The white SUV "collided with a number of pedestrians" on the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets, Sydney Morning Herald reported. It said up...
NEW YORK: If Petra Nemcova's life were a movie plot, nobody would believe it. Girl grows up under Communism in the former Czechoslovakia, climbs to the top of the fashion world as one of the most famous models on the planet, and nearly has it all taken away as a victim of the 2004 tsu...
BANGKOK: Wearing her trademark ski goggles for protection from flying sparks, Thai cook Jay Fai hunches over two sizzling woks as tourists from around the world line up in three-hour-long queues at her modest streetside eatery. The 72-year-old's crab-stuffed omelettes have always been...
Facebook has revealed that it shared the data of 263 users with the Singapore government between January and June 2017 in a transparency report it released on Wednesday (20 December). According to the report, the Singapore government requested 204 times for these data from Facebook, W...
WASHINGTON • As comic book writers go, Akira Yoshida boasts an impressive resume. In two years, he went from complete obscurity to working on popular titles such as Thor: Son Of Asgard and X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse. The latter was made into a major movie last year that grossed more tha...
Inside Fintech Conference & Expo explores Fintech 3.0, including Blockchain technology and other decentralized solutions for financial processes, and its impact on the global financial ecosystem. Hear from the finance industry’s most forward thinking individuals as they seek to levera...
SEOUL (AFP) – At least 29 people were killed and 26 injured on Thursday (Dec 21) in a major blaze at a fitness centre building in the South Korean city of Jecheon, officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest fire disasters. The fire broke out around 4pm local time (5pm Singapore...
SINGAPORE - With a name like that, one would expect Christmas Island to bear many gifts. It has not disappointed. Among its treasures is the red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis ) - a unique crustacean found only on Christmas Island (it is in the Indian ocean) and nowhere else in the world. ...
China alone accounts for 58 per cent of the bitcoin mines. But the "dirty secret" is that many of these mines run on electricity from coal, which is a most environmentally unfriendly source of energy (in total, China gets 60 per cent of its electricity from coal). As an illustration, ...
SINGAPORE: For more than 10 years, 56-year-old Mandy* endured insults and vulgarities being hurled at her almost every day, by a man she loved. Her husband, who had been in and out of prison for drug offences, also asked her for money regularly to feed his habit. “He threatened to ‘no...
We went for Cereal Mix, and Roasted Rice Milk Tea to pair with our Charcoal Waffle ($12.20). I’ve tried to make my own cereal milk – it really is simple; soaking some cereal in milk and decanting the top layer. I think the version served at Kindred Folk is quite good. Albeit on the mi...
5 Troubleshooting Techniques for POS Systems The POS system might be working as a right hand to any small or big business house. But as any efficient worker does suffer a bad day and take an unexpected leave for a while, so can these POS system technologies do, all of a sudden, when t...
MANILA (AFP) – A ferry with 251 people on board capsized in rough seas off the Philippines on Thursday (Dec 21), with reports of an unspecified number of casualties, the coastguard said. Rescuers have retrieved four bodies from the water as well as several survivors, radio station DZM...
This is actually an area where Emirates has Singapore beat — the former offers entirely self-contained mini-apartments , while SQ’s walls and doors stop around eye level. Still, with the door shut, you’d need to make quite an effort to see over the wall, and while you’ll probably want...
The proclamation declaring Singapore’s independence was announced on Radio Singapore at 10:00 am on 9th August 1965. Simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur, the Tunku announced the separation to the federal parliament. He then moved a resolution to enact the Constitution of Malaysia (Singapor...
Nature's Rhythm will show flocks of fishes and birds moving in a "unified purpose", Strokes of Life will feature a "contemporary form of traditional Japanese calligraphy", birds, butterflies and flowers to depict life, while Festive Celebration is an interactive 4D vision light sculpt...
Ducatus Café, which is owned by the cryptocurrency mining company Ducatus Global, accepts no cash. Business Insider / Jessica Lin Singapore's first cashless café, Ducatus Café, has officially opened its doors. Patrons cannot pay in cash — only bitcoin or the café's own Ducatus coin — ...
Lithuania will ban Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab's products from computers managing key energy, finance and transport systems due to security concerns, authorities said Thursday. The Russian firm's software was banned from US government networks earlier this year amid...
