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Facebook’s decision was in response to a proposed media law in Australia that will require online platforms to pay news outlets for content.

Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said the funds will be used to support Covid vaccination efforts and economic segments hit hard in the pandemic.

Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will announce Singapore’s budget for 2021 on Feb. 16.

Some Asian countries have bounced back from the economic pain of Covid-19 and that bodes well for the 2021 outlook, according to Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS.

Temasek is one of the world’s largest investors. Its portfolio value stood at 306 billion Singapore dollars ($230 billion) as of March 31 last year.

Investors are factoring in easy policy ahead in China despite authorities “explicitly” signaling a move toward normalization, warns BCA Research’s Jing Sima.

This latest state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas was announced last week, in a bid to combat the latest surge in coronavirus infections.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, fell over 10% from a day earlier to $34,200, according to Coin Metrics data.

It was the third identical autonomous underwater glider found in Indonesian waters within two years, according to defense analytics firm Janes.

Indian markets have performed relatively well in recent months following a sharp sell-off in March.

The World Bank said said growth prospects were already weakening before the pandemic — and the global Covid outbreak will likely worsen that slowdown.

Samsung’s launch is set to happen in the same week as the digital-only CES 2021.

Singapore’s economy contracted by 5.8% year over year in 2020, better than official forecast for an annual contraction of between 6% and 6.5%.

Henner Schwarz, CEO of German firm &ever, said that his company’s new indoor vertical farm in Singapore will produce 1.5 tons of “leafy green” produce per day.

Tesla’s shares have soared more than 676% so far in 2020. Meanwhile, bitcoin has risen about 220% as of midnight EST Tuesday, according to Coin Metrics.

The passenger was aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas that set sail on Dec. 7 for a round trip to the city-state with no port of call in between.

Singapore has been testing trips where cruises make round trips to the city-state with no port of call in between.

The Reserve Bank of India held its benchmark repo rate — the rate at which it lends to commercial banks — at 4%.

Alibaba-backed AutoX said this is the first time a “completely autonomous fleet” without any safety drivers or remote operators is on the streets of China.

The Swiss bank forecast 19% in U.S. dollar returns for the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index between now and the end of 2021, compared with 15% globally.