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As governments race to roll out contact-tracing apps to fight the pandemic, including an Apple-Google effort in the U.S., an early experiment in Singapore faces a big hurdle: getting people to sign up ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s health ministry said on Wednesday it had preliminarily confirmed another 1,016 cases of the novel, taking total infections there to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will witness a deeper recession this year after the nation extended and tightened its partial lockdown, Citigroup Inc. warned, widening its forecast for an economic contraction. ( read original story ...)

Coronavirus pandemic resulted in grounding a vast majority of its aircraft. The common stock is trading at 10-year lows and well below 50- an ... ( read original story ...)

Though the curve has flattened, new cases have exploded among migrant workers who live in the country’s far-flung dormitories. Human rights watchers say these ... ( read original story ...)

The modern city-state was labeled the gold standard for virus tracing, but cases have now risen tenfold in a month, concentrated among low-income laborers. ( read original story ...)

Fast-growing second peak of infections underlines how easily virus is able to return ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will extend its partial lockdown by four more weeks after reporting thousands of new coronavirus cases in recent days, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said ... ( read original story ...)

Spain's daily death toll has risen slightly from Monday; meanwhile, Singapore's partial lockdown, known as the "circuit breaker," has been extended to June 1. ( read original story ...)

Many of those customers lease space, power and connections to the wider internet from Equinix, but purchase and operate their own data servers and equipment. By contrast, cloud computing companies ... ( read original story ...)

Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic: Cash-strapped Virgin Australia collapsed Tuesday, making it the largest carrier to buckle under the strain of the ... ( read original story ...)

Donald Trump signals immigration ban; Oktoberfest cancelled; US oil market collapses into negative prices; global cases near 2.5 million ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (AP) - will extend its partial lockdown by another four weeks after reporting thousands of new coronavirus cases in recent days, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday. The tiny ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore had a plan to fight the coronavirus from the very start, with one of the world’s best contact-tracing operations. Now its infections are rising quickly. ( read original story ...)

Media outlets report on global news from Singapore, Russia, China, Iran, New Zealand, St. Maarteen, and Chile. The New York Times: Singapore Seemed To Have Coronavirus Under Control, Until Cases ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore energy tycoon Lim Oon Kuin spent decades building a business empire, transforming his “one-man-one-truck” operation selling diesel to fishermen into one of the biggest shipping fuel traders ... ( read original story ...)