SINGAPORE - HOOQ Digital, a video streaming service majority owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, said it was filing for liquidation as it had not been able to grow sufficiently to provide sustainable returns nor cover escalating costs. HOOQ was started...
The Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) on Tuesday (24 March) has issued an advisory on two additional precautionary measures for preschool and primary school students in light of the recent spike...
SINGAPORE - Shopping malls and standalone stores must limit the number of shoppers on their premises and disperse groups of more than 10 people, said the authorities on Thursday (March 26). Operators of malls and standalone stores such as...
SINGAPORE - Those who are on five days' medical leave should avoid contact with their elderly family members "at all cost", warned the National Centre for Infectious Diseases' (NCID) executive director Leo Yee Sin on Friday (March 27). That...
SINGAPORE - Starting April 1 next week, all schools will conduct one day of home-based learning a week, in the light of the recent spike of Covid-19 cases in Singapore. Primary schools will do so on Wednesdays, secondary schools...
United States President Donald Trump's insistence on calling the coronavirus a “Chinese virus” hasn’t exactly won him fans in the Asian-American community. It certainly hasn’t done anything to stem the outbreak in the country too as the US...
With a total of 2,594,740 Singaporeans eligible to vote in the next general election (which will have to arrive soon, coronavirus or not), that’s a whole lot of first-time voters this time around. To be exact, there are about...
She was in the Philippines on home leave, but her employer in Singapore terminated her work permit before she could even return. Sharing the story of the Filipina, who is a foreign domestic worker (FDW) here, Mr Michael Khan,...
SINGAPORE/SYDNEY - Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIAL.SI) said it had secured up to $19 billion of funding to help see it through the coronavirus crisis and expand afterward, in a sign of confidence travel demand will eventually return. As many carriers around...
With the pandemic panic, closed borders and cancelled flights, it's been a tough time for airlines around the world. But one group of Singaporean students on the last flight out from New Zealand came up with a way to...
