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2 months ago | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nicolas Ng |Rachel Teng |Jalelah Abu Baker
SINGAPORE: Chinese New Year festivities, which go on for about two weeks, are coming to an end, and some are ensuring that unsold snacks and fruits do not end up in the bin. Unpackt, a zero-waste grocery store and cafe, has managed to save over 100kg of mandarin oranges – a key part of Spring Festival celebrations as they symbolise good fortune, prosperity, and abundance – from being wasted.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Aslam Shah |Jalelah Abu Baker
SINGAPORE: A metaverse and simpler language are among the initiatives Singapore’s Parliament is exploring in the hopes that they will make proceedings more accessible to the layman. The metaverse is in its initial phase, and is expected to involve an interactive, gamified experience hosted on virtual universe Roblox, Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng told CNA.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jalelah Abu Baker
SINGAPORE: Clinical psychologist Annabelle Chow is no stranger to scams. In her line of work, she has helped victims who lost money due to such fraud. Still, she found herself almost falling for a ruse. Tempted by a website that promised a 30 per cent discount and same-day delivery for a gin she had tried overseas and loved, she ordered and checked out with her credit card details.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Sabrina Ng |Jalelah Abu Baker
Singapore The government is looking to implement a mandatory nutrition label for packaged salt, sauces and seasonings, instant noodles and cooking oil. New: You can now listen to articles. SINGAPORE: Regular table salt is an essential ingredient in the marinades used at hawker chain Danlao in its signature scrambled egg rice bowls.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Melissa Goh |Jalelah Abu Baker
KUALA LUMPUR: Russia has been aggressively promoting bilateral trade and investment with Malaysia amid deepening ties between both countries. Russian ministers and officials have been leading business delegations to Malaysia in recent months. This comes following Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to Russia in September at the invitation of his counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jalelah Abu Baker
SINGAPORE: Tech firms Amazon and Grab have one thing in common: They will both return to a five-day work week in office. Grab’s policy will take effect next month, while Amazon’s is set to start early next year. These companies have pointed to improved communication and collaboration and better productivity as reasons for the shift away from the hybrid work model that many have come to expect as the post-COVID-19 norm.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jalelah Abu Baker
Russia’s launch of a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile into Ukraine signals an escalation in the war between both sides, but it is unlikely to change the status quo, analysts said on Friday (Nov 22). Moscow attacked the city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the United States and United Kingdom allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced weapons for the first time.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jalelah Abu Baker
The Group of 20 leaders’ joint declaration at their annual summit was less-than-expected and “disappointing”, said an analyst on Tuesday (Nov 19). The meeting among the world’s major economies in Brazil failed to raise fresh funds for a new global alliance against hunger and poverty, noted John Kirton, the director and founder of the G20 research group at the University of Toronto.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jalelah Abu Baker
United States president-elect Donald Trump loomed large over a meeting between incumbent Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru, experts said on Monday (Nov 18). During Saturday’s two-hour meeting at a hotel where Xi was staying, the Chinese leader said the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China which are not to be challenged.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Lim Yun Suk |Jalelah Abu Baker
SEOUL: Shin Kyung-ha was playing in front of her home with a few neighbourhood friends when a woman told her that her parents did not want her anymore because there was a new baby in the family. Shin, who was just four years old, believed the stranger and allowed her to lead her away. The woman then took Shin on a train ride, where the toddler fell asleep. She woke up alone and was eventually taken to a police station in Jecheon, a city in Seoul’s North Chuncheong Province.
