Travellers who have taken all required doses of the vaccines from low-risk areas will have to serve seven days of mandatory quarantine instead of 14. - AFP
HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): From as early as end-April or early May, fully vaccinated visitors to Hong Kong will have their mandatory quarantine reduced by seven days.
For travellers who have taken all required doses of the vaccines from low-risk areas including Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, mandatory quarantine will be seven days instead of 14.
For those from high- and medium-risk areas, they will serve a 14-day quarantine instead of 21 days.
All of these inoculated visitors will have to self-monitor for another seven days after their quarantine, the Hong Kong government said in a release late Wednesday (April 14).
The sole Covid-19 case reported in the community on Wednesday (April 14) has been linked to three other cases in the country.- ST FILE
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The sole Covid-19 case reported in the community on Wednesday (April 14) has been linked to three other cases in the country, prompting the Ministry of Health (MOH) to announce a new local cluster.
The patient, a 44-year-old Papua New Guinea national, arrived in Singapore from Australia on March 25 on a short-term visit pass for a work project.
Two of the other cases in the cluster are his co-workers, who arrived on a separate flight from Papua New Guinea, said MOH.
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore-based ride-hailing company Grab has bought a stake in Indonesian technology and media conglomerate Emtek, a signal that their digital payment firms - OVO and DANA - may be merged.
Softbank-backed Grab bought a stake of around 4 per cent, valued at more than 4 trillion rupiah (S$366 million), in a recent private placement sale of Emtek shares, a person who helped with the transaction told The Straits Times.
On April 5, Emtek announced it had completed a 9.3 trillion rupiah private placement, with Naver Corporation, South Korea s largest web search engine, and an investment company called H Holdings Inc being the buyers of the shares that represent about 8.4 per cent of the company s enlarged capital.
Three stars of
Story Of Yanxi Palace (2018) brought fans of the period drama down memory lane with photos of them together on social media.
In a post on Weibo on Sunday (April 11), Chinese actress Wu Jinyan posted two photos of herself with fellow actresses Qin Lan and Tan Zhuo at a fashion event in Shanghai, with the trio dressed coincidentally in white.
Wu, 30, wrote: It is not easy to get together outside the palace.
She was referring to the palace intrigue drama set in the Qing dynasty about the backstabbing and politics among Emperor Qianlong s wives and concubines. It starred Wu as consort Wei Yingluo, Qin as Empress Fuca and Tan as Noble Consort Gao.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi posted a photo of her with her son on social media on April 12, 2021. Photo: Zhang Ziyi/Weibo
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi s love for her son is so strong that she apparently developed a double chin from kissing him.
On Monday (April 12) morning, Zhang posted on Weibo a photo of her smooching the toddler, who turned one in January.
The 42-year-old wrote: I am serious about kissing my son, proven by the double chin brought on by love. Will miss him on my working trip.
Zhang is married to rocker Wang Feng, 49, and the couple also have a five-year-old daughter.