Robots that clean floors, disinfect lift panels among technologies being tested at Tampines market and food centre
SINGAPORE, Sep 19, 2020, ST. Cleaning floors, monitoring pests and other laborious tasks in maintaining…
Taiwan scrambles fighters as Chinese jets again menace island
TAIPEI, Sep 19, 2020, Reuters. Taiwan’s air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day…
Bangladesh set to receive onions from India
DHAKA, Sep 19, 2020, The Hindu. Bangladesh will receive a large consignment of onions from…
Beijing says firms on ‘unreliable entities list’ will be banned from trading with, investing in China
BEIJING, Sep 19, 2020, SCMP. More than 15 months after its announcement, China has finally…
Russia to resume flights to and from S. Korea on Sep 27
SEOUL, Sep 19, 2020, KBS World. Russia will resume regular flights to and from South…
Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday
WASHINGTON D.C., Sep 19, 2020, CNBC. The Commerce Department announced Friday morning that it will…
Japan’s former PM Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine for first time since 2013
TOKYO, Sep 19, 2020, Reuters. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine…
China raises visitors’ upper limit for cultural, tourist locations to 75 per cent
BEIJING, Sep 19, 2020, Xinhua. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday lifted the…
The next wave of the global recovery could send commodity prices soaring
WASHINGTON D.C., Sep 18, 2020, CNBC. The next phase of the economic recovery is likely…
The counterpart of Innopolis should be launched on the Russia-China border: Russian official
KHABAROVSK, Sep 18, 2020, Pan Pacific Agency. A new Russian city of innovations modelled on…
[Analytics] Tourism, lockdown key to deep New Zealand recession
Is New Zealand’s recession worse than Australia’s due to a dependence on international tourism and…
Australia in race against UK, Canada, China to keep university students
CANBERRA, Sep 18, 2020, SMH. Universities overseas are chartering flights for thousands of Chinese international…