About 3,010 jobs are available in the financial service sector here, with nine in 10 for professionals, managers, executives and technicians. They make up 57 per cent of the nearly 5,200 job, traineeship and attachment openings available in the sector as at the end of last month, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) yesterday in... » read more
Molecular Transport Medium at the price of VTM BANGALORE, INDIA, Dec 15, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Azooka Labs, a leading safe fluorophore company with specialization in Molecular Biology products, reveals its first range of novel COVID-19 diagnostics products. RNA Wrapr is a molecular transport medium for COVID-19 sample collection, developed as part of the COVID-19 response team from... » read more
SINGAPORE – All 113 circuit breaker trip coils along the Tuas West Extension (TWE) on the East-West Line (EWL) have been replaced, with work to replace 150km of power cables along the stretch starting next month. Plans for these replacement works had been announced earlier after a massive three-line breakdown left more than 6,700 passengers... » read more
SINGAPORE – Foreigners accounted for almost nine in 10 of Singapore’s total employment contraction in the first three quarters of this year, according to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s labour market report out on Thursday (Dec 17). This was due to a strong rebound in the employment of residents, namely Singaporeans and permanent residents, said... » read more
SINGAPORE – Close to 60,000 local jobseekers have been placed into job and training opportunities under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package from April to October, with more than 120,000 openings still currently available. Of the total placements, more than 80 per cent, or 47,400, were in jobs, exceeding the National Jobs Council’s original target... » read more
SINGAPORE – The number of job vacancies in Singapore rose for the first time this year in September, one of several indicators of a pickup in labour market activity. There were 49,600 job vacancies in September, seasonally adjusted, a huge improvement from the decade-low of 42,400 job vacancies in June, according to data from the... » read more
SINGAPORE – About 3,010 jobs are available in the financial services sector, with nine in 10 for professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs). They make up slightly more than half or 57 per cent of the nearly 5,200 jobs, traineeship and attachment openings available in the sector as of end-November, said the Ministry of Manpower... » read more
LONDON • Yuki Tsunoda will race for Red Bull-owned AlphaTauri next season as Formula One’s first Japanese driver since 2014, the team announced yesterday. The 20-year-old, who replaces Daniil Kvyat, finished third in this year’s Formula Two championship with seven podiums, including victory in two feature races and a sprint race. Tsunoda will be the... » read more
MIAMI • The LPGA’s season-ending Tour Championship will be without two of this year’s Major winners, Women’s British Open champion Sophia Popov of Germany and newly crowned US Women’s Open champion Kim A-lim of South Korea. The field for this weekend’s season finale, set to begin today at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, was... » read more
Doha wins bid to host 2030 Asian Games DUBAI • Doha beat Riyadh to clinch the hosting rights for the 2030 Asian Games at the general assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in Muscat yesterday. Riyadh would host the Games four years later in a move to prevent a diplomatic dispute between bitter... » read more
BARCELONA • With his contract expiring next summer, Barcelona captain Lionel Messi will be free to talk to clubs from next month. As such, the looming possibility of their greatest player leaving on a free transfer is dominating the agenda ahead of their club elections, now set for Jan 24. The candidates vying to become... » read more
MADRID • Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane hailed Karim Benzema as the best striker in French history after his match-winning double against Athletic Bilbao provisionally put the Spanish champions top of La Liga on Tuesday. Bilbao’s Ander Capa had cancelled out Toni Kroos’ thumping opener before Benzema struck twice late on, heading home a cross... » read more
SINGAPORE – There is no reason to believe that Singapore was a target of the recent high-profile hacking attack involving cyber security firm FireEye and software provider SolarWinds Corp, authorities said late on Tuesday (Dec 15). Even so, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) said that it has sent out an advisory on Dec... » read more
SINGAPORE – Three Singaporean men accused of committing crimes related to obtaining personal details of Singtel and StarHub customers appeared before a district court on Wednesday (Dec 16). Two of them, Foo Cheek Ann Kelvin, 32, and Zhang Jiazheng, 38, are said to have used computers at their workplaces to illicitly access the subscriber databases... » read more
SINGAPORE – Residents are now able to verify their SingPass account identity by scanning their faces using computers and camera phones, or by inputting a one-time password sent to another trusted SingPass user. These two features are made available to all SingPass users accessing government digital services from Wednesday (Dec 16). They come as an... » read more
SINGAPORE – Lawyer Ravi Madasamy, better known as M. Ravi, was charged in a district court on Wednesday (Dec 16) with criminal defamation. The 51-year-old Singaporean is accused of defaming Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam in a unit at People’s Park Centre at around 8.45am on Nov 6. Ravi allegedly posted on Facebook... » read more
SINGAPORE – A blogger, who has been featured riding her motorcycle overseas various times by the media, was awarded $60,000 in damages after winning a defamation suit in the State Courts on Tuesday (Dec 15). After a three-day trial, the court found that social media personality Vaune Phan had been defamed by Mr Mark Yeow... » read more
LONDON • McLaren are still years from closing the gap to Formula One champions Mercedes and runners-up Red Bull despite enjoying their best season since 2012, according to team principal Andreas Seidl. The former champions reclaimed third place overall after the Abu Dhabi season-ender last Sunday. “We need to stay realistic. Despite the good result... » read more
TOKYO • Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said she can see “no circumstances” under which the postponed 2020 Olympics will be cancelled, despite rising coronavirus infections in Japan and continued public scepticism. In an interview with AFP, she warned that the fate of the Tokyo Games would impact future Olympics, including the 2022 Winter Games in... » read more
For years, javelin in Singapore has been overshadowed by the gold-medal feats of athletes from other throwing events such as discus and shot put. Discus had James Wong, who won seven consecutive SEA Games golds from 1993 to 2005 and nine overall, besides one in hammer throw (1997). Please subscribe or log in to continue... » read more