Talk to Envision Group s Zhang Lei and you get the feeling he believes that where there is a wind, there is a way.
A few weeks ago, when I made contact with this globally recognised environment genius after a two-month pursuit, he was in Shanghai and preparing for a trip to Inner Mongolia, where he is building a massive zero-carbon industrial park.
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Alexandra Hospital senior physiotherapist Tan Ee Leng demonstrating a wrist-stretching exercise during a virtual consultation with a patient last year.PHOTO: ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL
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Singapore has punched above its weight in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic with the expertise it provided to enable the rapid sharing of genomes of the virus.
This not only helped the World Health Organisation (WHO) and governments around the world to respond faster, but also sped up the development of much-needed vaccines and diagnostic kits.
It has been a year since the first five fully sequenced Sars-CoV-2 virus genomes were made public by laboratories in China via the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, or Gisaid, on Jan 10 last year.
Since then, the sequence of more than 360,000 genomes of the virus causing the Covid-19 pandemic, submitted by more than 145 countries, has been shared.
SINGAPORE - Driverless road sweepers have been deployed to clean limited areas as part of trials launched on Wednesday (Jan 13).
If the trials are successful, these autonomous environmental service vehicles (AESVs) will pave the way for pilot deployment on roads during off-peak hours in the next few years.
The trials began this month, after the National Environment Agency (NEA) said two AESV prototypes had successfully demonstrated their features, and are expected to run till July.
The proof-of-concept trials of the AESVs will be conducted progressively, starting with off-peak timings, such as weekends and evenings, in designated small-scale environments in one-north, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and CleanTech Park at Jurong Innovation District.