Archive for November 13th, 2019
China says World Bank report ‘clarifies truth’ on Xinjiang programmes
China responded on Tuesday to a decision by the World Bank to reduce funding for vocational training centres in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, by saying the [...] » More
Singles Day started in China but now it’s catching on in Southeast Asia’s growing e-commerce market
Southeast Asian e-commerce player Lazada said it received a record of over 3 million orders within the first 60 minutes of the mega 24-hour shopping event known as Singles [...] » More
Japanese women protest after being told not to wear glasses at work
Japanese female employees are protesting a so-called ban on wearing eye glasses in the workplace. The hashtag (which translates to #GlassesBan) has been trending on the [...] » More
The voyage home: Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe to head for Earth
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe will leave its orbit around a distant asteroid and head for Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented mission, carrying samples that could shed [...] » More
Nissan slashes full-year forecast as first-half profit falls
Crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan Tuesday slashed its full-year sales and profit forecast as it struggles with weak demand in Japan, the US and Europe, as well as the [...] » More
Crisis-hit Nissan chops forecasts, net profit worst for a decade
Crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan Tuesday slashed its full-year forecast for both sales and profit as it struggles with weak demand in Japan, the US and Europe, as well as [...] » More
Scandal-hit Nissan’s profits crash amid lower global sales
Japanese automaker Nissan reported Tuesday that its July-September profit tumbled to half of what it earned the year before as sales and brand power crumbled following the [...] » More
Japan’s rising sun flag is not a symbol of militarism
Alexis Dudden’s opinion piece presents an argument on the rising sun flag based on the misunderstanding of Japan’s sincere dealings with the past (Japan’s [...] » More
Japan’s NTT to invest $5.5 bn in building power networks for supply backup
NTT will provide electricity by using power saved in batteries at the 7,300 buildings it owns and will purchase power from others, the report said. Nippon Telegraph and [...] » More
Xavier: Singapore should be more open to Malaysia’s raw water price revision plan
Water, Land and Natural Resources minister Datuk Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar asked Singapore to be more open towards Malaysia’s plan to revise its rate for raw water supply [...] » More
Singapore condo resale prices rise at faster 0.8pct pace in October: SRX
Resale prices for non-landed private residential properties in Singapore continued their rise in October following an increase in September, while volumes picked up from a [...] » More
Man charged with slamming head of 9-month-old baby boy who died
A 27-year-old man has been charged with causing grievous hurt to a 9-month-old baby boy by slamming his head against the floor board of a van. Mohamed Aliff Mohamed Yusoff, a [...] » More
Singapore beats out HK for property investment prospects
The fortunes of two of Asia’s hottest property markets are diverging. Singapore is now ranked No. 1 for real estate investment prospects in terms of price increases in [...] » More
Plastic bag charge ‘not a small step for Singapore’: NTUC CEO
Rolling out a per-transaction plastic bag charge to 25 outlets islandwide “really is not a small step for Singapore”, said group CEO of FairPrice GroupSeah Kian [...] » More
COMMENT: Community needs to act as a shield in suicide prevention
The theme for World Mental Health Day 2019 was Suicide Prevention. Its message “A day for 40 seconds of action” was based on the statistics from the World Health [...] » More
