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Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual ...

Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual ...

Christina Boll, Till Nikolka 02 March 2021 The role of intergenerational contact in the spread of Covid-19 has been the subject of debate since the onset of the pandemic. This column uses survey and administrative data to explore the link between grandparental childcare and Covid-19 infection rates in Germany. The findings cast doubt on simplistic narratives that suggest a link between intergenerational contact and infection rates. The statistical significance of the positive relationsh...

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March 02, 2021 Zhong Shanshan, the 65-year-old founder and controlling shareholder of Nongfu Spring, is Asia’s wealthiest person, according to Hurun Report. Weibo One in every two newly minted dollar-denominated billionaires last year were in China, the first country to exit from a nationwide pandemic lockdown and the only major economy to have expanded last year, according to a list by Hurun Report. China surpassed the United States last year to become the first country with more than 1,000 ...

Hong Kong-based luxury Rosewood Hotel group has filed for a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listing that could raise around $400m, two sources close to matter have disclosed.

Bill Barney has set up a new company to buy data centres, mainly in south-east Asia and mostly from local telecoms companies

Share this article Share this article HONG KONG, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New World Development ("NWD" or "the Company") has committed to the Business Ambition for 1.5°C, a global call to action from the United Nations as well as business leaders for climate change mitigation under the Paris Agreement.  NWD is one of 14 real estate companies globally, and the third in Asia, to have committed to setting science-based targets (SBT) that would help limit global warming to 1.5°C.  SBT pro...

Hong Kongs luxury Rosewood Hotel Group, a unit of property developer New World Development , plans to file for a special purpose acquisition company , three people with knowledge of the matter... | March 6, 2021

(Bloomberg) -- New World Development Co. extended closing its flagship mall in Hong Kong through Friday after a cluster of new Covid-19 cases centered there emerged over the past week. The developer decided to shut the K11 MUSEA shopping center -- located in the Tsim Sha Tsui section of Kowloon -- until Friday to begin deep cleaning and testing staff working in the premise, it said in a statement Monday morning. The mall was previously planned...