FILE PHOTO: A woman gets her phone’s QR code of the digital payment services scanned at a food shop, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song(Corrects month in final paragraph) BEIJING (Reuters) – Activity in China’s services sector grew at a slower pace in October, official data showed […]
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Elizabeth Towers at Mount Elizabeth in Orchard Road has been put up for collective sale, with a reserve price of S$630 million. The freehold residential site occupies a rare corner plot with a site area of 54,317.9 sq ft, according to sole marketing agent Edmund Tie & Company’s press statement on […]
A group of 44 prisoners all died in one night in a prison in Chad because they were all kept in the same cell in 46C heat, an investigation has concluded. Prosecutors had suggested that the group were suspected Boko Haram militants and had taken poison to kill themselves. But the National Human Rights Commission […]
