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How Cities Can Prepare For The Next Pandemic

March 13, 2020

According to Johns Hopkins CSSE, the COVID-19 outbreak has recorded more than 20 million confirmed cases and 760,000 fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic,…

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Do Face Masks Really Prevent You From Catching Coronavirus?

March 13, 2020

No. The quick answer is no. Even if you wear a mask on a regular basis, there is no guarantee that you will not be infected with the coronavirus. By…

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Technology

OCBC Bank Is First In Southeast Asia To Enable Instant Encashment Of Cash Cheques At ATMs

March 13, 2020

Even as Singapore pushes to become cheque-free by 2025, cash cheques continue to be used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), typically to pay staff salaries, get cash for daily…

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Science

GIS, NUS, And Novo Nordisk Team Up To Study Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease In Asian Populations

March 12, 2020

New study will generate insights in the development and progression of the disease in Asia, which could support the development of effective diagnostics and therapies. The Agency for Science, Technology…

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How Cities Shape Pandemics

March 12, 2020

Cities and pandemics are closely linked throughout history. A lot of lives have been claimed by disease outbreaks. Each time, these outbreaks act like some sort of a lesson that…

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Cities

NEA Offers Automatic Six-Month Extension Of Cleaning Business Licence And Accreditation To Alleviate Administrative Workload For Cleaning Businesses

March 12, 2020

The National Environment Agency (NEA) is offering an automatic one-time six-month licence extension to all licensed cleaning businesses with licences expiring between 1 March 2020 and 28 February 2021 (both…

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SMU Awarded $15 Million Grant For Computational Law Research

March 12, 2020

The Singapore Management University (SMU) has been awarded a major grant of S$15 million from the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) to helm a five-year Research Programme in Computational Law. …

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Technology

TMRW’s Unique Engagement-focused Business Model Sets The Standard For Digital Banks Around The World

March 12, 2020

TMRW by UOB, the first mobile-only bank for ASEAN’s digital generation, has seen customer engagement, its key measure of success, quadruple since its launch one year ago. Engagement has also…

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How Big Will The Coronavirus Pandemic Be? An Epidemiologist Updates His Concerns

March 11, 2020

The Harvard historian Jill Lepore recounted recently in The New Yorker magazine that when democracies sink into crisis, the question “where are we going?” leaps to everyone’s mind, as if…

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What Do Smart Cities Mean For Healthcare And Nursing?

March 11, 2020

Smart cities are cities that are built upon data and automated systems. They have the ability to adjust their infrastructure according to the needs of their citizens. This means, for…

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