We've repeated this phrase so many times until our faces are bluer than the coloured side of a disposable face mask, but it doesn't help to say it one more time, with feeling: 2020. Has. Been. A. Crazy. Year.
We’ve been through 1 month, 3 weeks, and 4 days of Circuit Breaker, followed by a slightly relaxed Phase 2 of.
Businesses in Johor Bahru, Malaysia are struggling with the lack of Singaporean visitors since the start of the pandemic.
They have called on the Malaysian government to begin talks with Singapore as soon as possible to reopen the border,
One such entreaty was made by an adviser to the SME Association of South Johor, Teh Kee Sin, who said that many SMEs in the area were now worried about cash flow, given that a loan moratorium by the government had ended.
The government in Putrajaya must begin holding talks with Singapore about allowing the movement of people into Johor, he added.
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Singapore is expecting its first shipment of the Pfizer and BioNTech s coronavirus vaccine this month.
But the country s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan warned that it will be a fallacy, it will be very dangerous to assume we re going to go back to business as usual.
Balakrishnan told CNBC that technology such as artificial intelligence and robotics will alter jobs and economies globally, so all of us are going to have to focus on economic restructuring.
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I think we should talk about a new normal. So yes, there will be recovery in 2021, the question is to what extent that bounce back will be. But it will be a fallacy, it will be very dangerous to assume we re going to go back to business as usual, Balakrishnan told CNBC s Squawk Box Asia. All of us are going to have to focus on economic restructuring, he said, explaining that technology such as artificial intelligence and robotics will change jobs and economies around the world.
Singapore is expecting its first shipment of Pfizer and BioNTech s coronavirus vaccine this month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday. The government has set aside more than 1 billion Singapore dollars ($752.9 million) to buy different Covid vaccines, and plans to have enough shots for everyone in the country by the third quarter of 2021, said Lee.
I think we should talk about a new normal. So yes, there will be recovery in 2021, the question is to what extent that bounce back will be. But it will be a fallacy, it will be very dangerous to assume we re going to go back to business as usual, Balakrishnan told CNBC s Squawk Box Asia. All of us are going to have to focus on economic restructuring, he said, explaining that technology such as artificial intelligence and robotics will change jobs and economies around the world.
Singapore is expecting its first shipment of Pfizer and BioNTech s coronavirus vaccine this month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday. The government has set aside more than 1 billion Singapore dollars ($752.9 million) to buy different Covid vaccines, and plans to have enough shots for everyone in the country by the third quarter of 2021, said Lee.