Archive for June 6th, 2020
Japan schools abroad to get more PCs for online study amid pandemic
The government plans to supply more personal computers to overseas Japanese schools so their students can continue to study online at home as the coronavirus epidemic shows [...] » More
New subway station opens near Tokyo’s Toranomon high-rise complex
The newly built Toranomon Hills Station in downtown Tokyo opened Saturday, becoming the first new station on the Hibiya subway line since its full launch in 1964. The station [...] » More
As opposition grows, Japan says it has no plan to set date for state visit by China’s Xi
Japan does not plan to set a new date for a postponed state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping for the time being, taking heed of growing domestic opposition following [...] » More
TAT plan aims to keep tourists at home
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has floated an idea to convert half of the 12 million local outbound travellers expected this year into domestic tourists. Such [...] » More
Scheme to cut living costs gets under way Sunday
The Commerce Ministry has teamed up with manufacturers, distributors, retailers and wholesalers to organise a campaign to lower prices of goods by 4-68 percent to help reduce [...] » More
Hospital boss accused of kickbacks
Fact-finding and disciplinary probes have been ordered against a hospital director in Khon Kaen accused of demanding 5 percent commission fees from pharmaceutical firms. The [...] » More
Exiled Thai activist ‘abducted in Cambodia’
Thai police say they have no information on the alleged abduction in Cambodia of an outspoken Thai anti-government activist, the latest in a series of mysterious [...] » More
Tourist spots face quotas
The Department of Health (DOH) will push for measures to curb the number of visitors to tourist spots to prevent a new surge in Covid-19 transmission as the government [...] » More
Govt urged to provide pensions
A civil society group yesterday urged the government to provide welfare for all and universal pension coverage to reduce economic inequality deepened by the Covid-19 crisis. [...] » More
Brazil threatens to quit WHO, Trump says US beating pandemic
President Jair Bolsonaro threatened Friday to pull Brazil from the WHO over “ideological bias,” as his counterpart Donald Trump said the US economy was recovering [...] » More
N Korea criticises Korea, threatens to close liaison office
North Korea lashed out at South Korea for the second day in a row on Friday, threatening to close an inter-Korean liaison office and calling the South naive to think the [...] » More
$72 billion set aside to save jobs and workers affected by Covid-19 pandemic: DPM Heng
About 80 per cent of the nearly $100 billion set aside to tackle the coronavirus pandemic will be used to support businesses and help workers keep their jobs. The rest of the [...] » More
More than half of S’pore households can get extra Covid-19 relief
About 60 per cent of households in Singapore will be able to receive extra benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic. These benefits include cash assistance from the Temporary [...] » More
Covid-19 jobs and skills package aims to save jobs, create new openings, help hard-hit groups, says DPM Heng
A jobs and skills package to help workers through the Covid-19 economic slowdown will work on three fronts, said deputy prime minister Heng Swee Keat. These are saving jobs, [...] » More
US sues Chinese firm over half-million ‘fake’ N95 masks
The US Justice Department sued a Chinese company for selling nearly a half million fake and substandard N95 respirator to US buyers in April as the Covid-19 pandemic swept [...] » More
