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Singapore pledges cash handouts ahead of polls
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/02/2025
» Singapore has forecast a second year of budget surpluses despite Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announcing a long list of handouts, rebates and infrastructure investments ahead of national elections due later this year.
Taxing farm animals’ farts and burps? Denmark gives it a try.
The New York TImes, Published on 02/12/2024
» COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark, known for its inventive restaurants and elegant design studios, is about to become known for something more basic: the world’s first belch and manure tax.
US drugmaker Eli Lilly says slashing insulin prices
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» NEW YORK - US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced Wednesday it would cut the cost of its insulin by 70 percent, with President Joe Biden calling on others to follow suit to tackle soaring drug prices.
Arctic cold 'no sweat' for electric cars in Norway
AFP, Published on 01/02/2023
» JESSHEIM (NORWAY) - Norwegian electric car owners have a word for the way they feel when they look nervously at their battery indicators while driving in subfreezing weather: "rekkevideangst", or "range anxiety".
Xi's 'Chinese Dream' flickers in one Beijing neighbourhood
AFP, Published on 04/10/2022
» BEIJING: Wu has staked out his patch of the Chinese Dream. Married with a second child on the way, he has a Beijing apartment and a car paid for by a tech job with a comfortable salary.
Orc-ward! Amazon ends New Zealand's role as Middle Earth
AFP, Published on 13/08/2021
» WELLINGTON - Amazon on Friday dumped New Zealand as the location of its big-budget "The Lord of The Rings" series after just one season, in a major blow to the South Pacific's self-styled Middle Earth.
Hong Kong rail operator to cut fares to help residents 'ride out tough times'
South China Morning Post, Published on 31/03/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's rail operator will cut ticket prices by 1.7% this summer in its first reduction in more than a decade as the economy continues to limp along during the coronavirus pandemic.
Covid woes, not new checks, weigh on post-Brexit passengers
AFP, Published on 02/01/2021
» PARIS - Travellers braving trains between London and Paris on the first day after Britain's exit from the EU customs union experienced additional checks but were more worried by the extra rules required for travel in a pandemic-haunted world.
G20 backslides on fossil fuel subsidies: report
AFP, Published on 10/11/2020
» PARIS: Rich nations are still providing more than half a trillion dollars annually to fossil fuel projects despite committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris climate deal, research showed Tuesday.
EU leaders agree landmark 750bn euro recovery deal
AFP, Published on 21/07/2020
» BRUSSELS: EU leaders on Tuesday approved a landmark stimulus package to fight the withering aftershocks of the coronavirus outbreak that has sunk Europe into its deepest recession in history.