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
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is taking more steps to tackle sexual misconduct, in the wake of several recent cases which involved its faculty members and following a recent review. In an e-mail circular to students, staff and alumni yesterday, NUS president Tan Eng Chye laid out the measures the university will implement to... » read more
For nearly a decade, Mr Muhammad Helmy Razali managed critical support operations to secure various sensitive sites, including Changi Airport and hospitals. Now, the 33-year-old is doing the same, but in the digital space as a cyberthreat-monitoring specialist at Deutsche Bank. He made the switch after enrolling in the Technology in Finance Immersion Programme (TFIP)... » read more
Nearly six in 10 Singaporeans or permanent residents have encountered and believed false information in the form of text or images, a study has shown. The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) survey also found that no one is immune to false information across all ages, socio-economic status and educational backgrounds, with more than two-thirds of... » read more
LONDON • Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was disappointed with his team’s 1-1 Premier League draw against Southampton on Wednesday, although he acknowledged it was a decent result after going down to 10 men on the hour. The Gunners last won a league game at the Emirates on Oct 4 and having lost their last four... » read more
LONDON • Former England boss Sam Allardyce returned to management for the first time in 21/2 years after being appointed as West Bromwich Albion manager on Wednesday. The 66-year-old takes over the Premier League strugglers after Slaven Bilic was sacked despite earning a 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Tuesday. The Baggies are 19th in... » read more
Cavani charged over racial term in IG post LONDON • Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani has been charged with an aggravated breach of the Football Association’s rules for using the word “negrito” in an Instagram post last month. The Uruguay international defended the term as an affectionate greeting as it is not considered offensive in... » read more
MOSCOW • A Swiss court yesterday upheld doping sanctions that will prevent Russian athletes from competing at major international events under the country’s flag, but halved the period of the ban to two from four years. The ruling will leave Russian athletes without their flag and national anthem at next year’s postponed Tokyo Olympics and... » read more
Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec 18, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Moss, the largest environmental platform in the world, revolutionizes climate change combat efforts by tokenizing carbon credits. The proceeds from this tokenization project have helped to protect indirectly almost 1 mm hectares of the Amazon forest from deforestation. Subsequently, this initiative will serve as a... » read more
HONG KONG, Dec 17, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 14th Asian Financial Forum (AFF) will be held virtually on 18 and 19 January 2021. Under the theme “Reshaping the World Economic Landscape”, the forum will examine the challenges at hand and strategise the road to recovery and... » read more
TOKYO, Dec 17, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced the launch of the RTU530, an all-new Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) that builds on the established reliability and efficiency of the RTU500 series. The RTU introduces new advanced functionality, including faster processing capabilities and a simple and user-friendly interface. With its... » read more
TOKYO, Dec 17, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Today Arcelik A.S. (ARCLK:IST, “Arcelik”) and Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc. (Hitachi GLS) have signed a share purchase agreement to establish a new joint venture company. As part of the transaction, Hitachi GLS will establish a new company into which it will transfer its global home appliances... » read more
TOKYO, Dec 17, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC, a global leader in Communications & IT solutions, today announced that it now, for six years in a row, is recognized as the global #1 for SMB (Small and Medium Business) Communications Systems. This success underscores the strength of NEC’s portfolio, the company’s commitment to expanding... » read more
TOKYO, Dec 17, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced that the pivotal Phase 3 Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 trial evaluating the investigational use of LENVIMA, the orally available multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai,... » read more
SINGAPORE, Dec 17, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Singapore-headquartered WomenIconsNetwork.com (WIN), has announced the launch of an initiative – The Collective for Equality (Singapore) – to promote and support the actions of organizations, programs and people working towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 that deals with achieving Gender Equality and empowering all... » read more
KAWASAKI, Japan, Dec 17, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd. has successfully developed a technology that uses AI to discover the characteristic cause-and-effect relationships in various pieces of data relating to people and things in a variety of fields, with possible applications in medicine, marketing, manufacturing, and more. Image of the developed technology... » 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 – 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 – 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