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Who Singapore's presidential contenders are
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/08/2023
» Singapore will head for its first contested presidential election in over a decade in an exercise seen to weigh public sentiment at a time when the city-state had been rocked by controversies.
IMF downgrades Asia Pacific forecast
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/07/2022
» The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its growth forecast for the Asia Pacific region this year to 4.2% -- 0.7 percentage point lower than it expected in April, and well below the region’s 6.5% growth in 2021.
Can AI gain sentience?
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/06/2022
» Media coverage of artificial intelligence tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing a spaceship’s passengers. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive.
YouTube going to hide 'dislike' counts
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 12/11/2021
» YouTube will no longer show the number of "dislikes" on videos, an attempt to make the platform more hospitable to creators.
Hong Kong police arrest protesters, fire repellents
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/05/2020
» Hong Kong police arrested at least 10 people and fired “pepper balls” in an attempt to disperse groups of pro-democracy demonstrators who defied social distancing rules, local media reported.
Virus update: China deaths top 3,000; California declares emergency
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/03/2020
» Deaths from the coronavirus surpassed 3,000 in China, although the first country hit by the disease also announced progress on discharging people after treatment. California called a state of emergency, underscoring the global spread of the disease.
Taiwan reports first death, toll at 1,665: Virus update
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/02/2020
» Fears continue to grow of further infections from cruise ships where virus cases have been detected. Japan said it had found an additional 70 cases aboard the Diamond Princess, a luxury liner that’s been quarantined at the port of Yokohama, bringing the total number on the ship to 355.
UK gives Huawei partial role in 5G network
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/01/2020
» LONDON: Britain will let Huawei Technologies Co play a limited role in building the country’s next-generation mobile phone networks, denying a long-running attempt by the US to have the Chinese tech giant barred.
Singapore leader’s wife defends his 7-figure pay on Facebook
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/08/2019
» SINGAPORE: Ho Ching, who is married to Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, took to Facebook to defend her husband’s pay, which looks higher than those of many government leaders.
N.Korea says nuclear programme now completed
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/11/2017
» SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his regime completed its nuclear program after firing a missile that put the entire US in range.