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WASHINGTON – The world is at risk of losing ground in the fight against Covid-19 because of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, but vaccines remain the most effective weapon against it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has
SINGAPORE – There were 10 new Covid-19 clusters reported on Sunday (Aug 1), including clusters at Yishun Community Hospital and Westlite Mandai Dormitory. The hospital cluster has two new cases, bringing its total to four. The Mandai dormitory cluster, which
PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) – Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in an effort to fight the spread of the coronavirus in the South-east Asian country. Prime Minister Hun Sen,
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s Covid-19 crisis has magnified the inadequacies in Malaysia’s public health system, thrown into focus this week by a brief walkout by contract doctors and the lack of beds at public hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Experts
BANGKOK – Lockdown measures in Bangkok and other high-risk zones will be extended for two more weeks, and more provinces will also come under the new curbs, as Covid-19 cases in Thailand surge. Provinces under the dark red zone, meaning those
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia extended restrictions outside Java island by another week in efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus, the local media reported on Sunday (Aug 1), citing an interior ministry senior official. The highest level of restrictions
In 2015, The Straits Times, marking Singapore’s 50th year of independence, published a delectable collection entitled 50 Things To Love About Singapore, where ST writers contributed short essays bringing to light and celebrating odd and quirky, unexpected and even weird
Sometimes, all one needs is Tom Hiddleston aka Loki crooning John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci in one’s ear. Hiddleston, along with other British acting luminaries such as Helena Bonham Carter, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory and Emma Watson, read
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