ST & BT Podcasts of the week (Dec 11)
Green Pulse Ep 39: Singapore’s great green transition (featuring Singapore Management University assistant professor of strategic management Simon Schillebeeckx)
Editor Says Ep 7: Why we should not refuse the Covid-19 vaccine (featuring The Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez)
BT Money Hacks Ep 85: How to fix money mistakes of the sandwich generation (featuring Aviva’s product and marketing director Daniel Lum)
SFF x Switch 2020: The 2020 Singapore FinTech festival (featuring Monetary Authority of Singapore s managing director Ravi Menon)
The Big Story Ep 62: Grab-Gojek merger will have less competition dilution compared with 2018 Uber deal (featuring ST s senior transport correspondent Christopher Tan)
SINGAPORE - No Covid-19 testing regime is foolproof, said experts, when asked how a cruise passenger ended up testing positive for the virus despite being cleared by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test prior to the trip. While the PCR test is highly accurate, it does not detect a coronavirus infection that is still in the incubation phase, which is.
The Straits Times
When news broke this week that the World Economic Forum was trading the snowy alps of Davos, Switzerland, for the tropics of Singapore it was widely seen as a public relations coup for the island nation and a testament to its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
But the one-off switch in location for the forum’s Special Annual Meeting in May 2021 was also seen as something more: a shot in the arm for the section of Singapore’s tourism industry known as “Mice”, or meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.
Singapore’s $3.8 billion (US$2.8 billion) Mice industry, which supports about 34,000 jobs and accounts for nearly 1 per cent of gross domestic product, has been hit hard as the coronavirus pandemic puts the brakes on international travel.
The Straits Times
Sentosa (above) could be part of a hub-and-spoke concept for the meeting.ZAOBAO FILE PHOTO
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