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A subsidiary of Sinochem Corporation , one of China’s four major state-owned oil companies, has completed a shipment of gasoline from China to Singapore entirely using Blockchain technology, Reuters reports April 2. Sinochem Energy Technology sent a shipment from Quanzhou, China to Si...
When we first heard about a 15-year-old domestic worker from Myanmar seeking help at a shelter in Singapore in 2016, we thought it was an isolated case. But at the shelter, we met three other teenage maids from Myanmar who'd also run away from their employers. One said she'd been phys...
(THE WASHINGTON POST) - A few years ago, I was dining at a French restaurant. I ordered one of my favourites - a crock of French onion soup topped with a big crouton and Gruyere cheese. When it arrived, I eagerly dug in, only to find that something was extremely off about the taste. I...
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian police say a 16-day-old baby boy believed to have been snatched by a monkey has been found drowned in a well. The infant was sleeping under a mosquito net at his home in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday (Match 30) when he was taken by a rhesus macaque, a ...
Love afternoon teas but always feel guilty after a lazy afternoon of indulgence? You will be thrilled to know that Capella Singapore’s designer kitchen, Chef’s Table is adding a healthier option – Capella Singapore Wellness Tea Time to their well known classic afternoon tea menu! Only...
To boost innovation and adoption of blockchain technology beyond fintech, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) launched its very first Blockchain Challenge. “To ensure every business is a digital business, Singapore’s digital economy requires technologies which can ...
AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and l...
Author: Editorial Board, East Asia Forum The politics of food is a vexed question in Indonesia. The ambition to achieve what Indonesians call kedaulatan pangan (food self-sufficiency) plays an outsized role in the country’s political imagination — a result of memories of the appropria...
The insurance industry has been impervious to change for many years – but all that is different now with the digital revolution. Insurtech is a growing force around the world, with startups in the space receiving $2.3 billion worth of funding in 2017. But while three in four insurance...
Move over, Tide pods. Condom snorting, apparently, is the latest fad making its rounds on social media in the United States. The challenge, an old one which has recently made a reappearance on platforms like YouTube and Facebook, requires the person to snort a condom into his nose and...
Singapore private home prices surged the most since 2010 as the property market staged a recovery from a four-year slump. An index tracking private residential prices jumped 3.1 percent in the three months ended March 31, according to a flash estimate from the Urban Redevelopment Auth...
Many of us engaged in research on China regularly spend time within this dictatorship. Beyond concerns about visa access, deeper experiential issues also serve to further repress the increasingly obvious reality that political developments will never correspond to, and may even move i...
Released from April 2018, the P20 series from Huawei — which consists of the P20 and the P20 Pro — is taking the smartphone camera to the next stage by integrating Artificial Intelligence to broaden photography capabilities.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A ministerial committee set up to examine the future of a house that is at the center of a family feud between Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his two siblings said on Monday it had decided a future government of the island state should make the fina...
About 50 families from remote hill and forest areas on the Bangladesh side, attracted by offers of free land and food, have moved to Rakhine state in mainly Buddhist Myanmar - the scene of a brutal army crackdown which prompted hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's government on Monday (Apr 2) pushed a law through parliament that makes "fake news" punishable by a maximum six-year jail term despite an outcry from critics worried it will be used to stifle dissent before elections. The law targets foreign as well as local m...
After obtaining master at Tokyo University of the Arts, build a career in the area of disaster area recovery and education. The research theme is BOP (Base Of the economic Pyramid) layer. Being a university lecturer and principal of an art school, he has worked with local governments ...
Team Flash, the eSports team representing Singapore, has done us proud again on the international stage. The Singapore team beat teams from all over the world to win gold for FIFA at the EA Champions Cup (EACC) Spring 2018. They also took home a prize money of USD$108,000 (about SGD$1...
(THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - As blossoming flowers herald the arrival of spring, the Cultural Heritage Administration is running several programmes related to the royal palaces in Seoul. Changdeokgung Moonlight Tour, an annual event that kicked off in 2010, will be held from...
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Monday (Apr 2) that it is developing a guide to promote responsible and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analytics by financial institutions. In a media release, MAS said that it will work with key i...
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's lawmakers approved an anti-fake news law on Monday (April 2) despite numerous protests from opposition lawmakers and civil society groups that it would be misused to muffle dissent ahead of a general election expected within weeks. The legislation, which carr...
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy / There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti" – so go the iconic lines from 'Lose Yourself' , the standout track from the soundtrack for 8 Mile , the semi-autobiographical film self-professed rap god Eminem starred in back i...
People under the age of 21 will not see the critically acclaimed gay coming of age film Love, Simon in Singapore. Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) slapped the highest classification – R21 -on the film. That rating means that anyone under the age of 21 will not see the fil...
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - About two months ago, Mr Xing Yan started experiencing insomnia for the first time. "It developed suddenly. I was under heavy pressure from work at the time. I could not fall asleep at all at night, and was wide awake until dawn," said the ban...
Taste the cuisine of Australia's award-winning chef-restaurateur Scott Pickett at a four-hands meal at Stellar at 1-Altitude later this month. Melbourne-based Pickett, who is behind fine-dining restaurant Estelle by Scott Pickett with a two-hat rating in The Age Good Food Guide, the m...
MANILA – Marvel fans could get a once-in-a-lifetime chance of meeting the cast of the upcoming movie "Avengers: Infinity War" at a fan event in Singapore next week. In a statement released Monday, Marvel Studios and Marina Bay Sands announced further details of the highly anticipated ...
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SINGAPORE'S chairmanship of Asean 2018 will present it a worthwhile opportunity to lead the region in developing its various digital economies, said Ravi Rajendran, managing director (Asia's south region) at multi-cloud data management company Veritas. He told The Business Times in a ...
