Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic may have brought about strict social distancing measures, especially during the circuit breaker, but that has not deterred real estate agency PropNex from marketing and sellin

Earnings of Tiger Balm maker Haw Par Corporation dropped 19.1% to $91.0 million in 1H2020 ended June, from $112.5 million a year ago, due to the lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed

Economists are maintaining a cautious stance on Singapore’s economic growth for the year as the city-state reels from the Covid-19 bug. 

Earnings of Mainboard-listed dormitory operator Centurion Corporation slipped 10% to $9.1 million in 2Q2020 ended June 30, from the $10.2 million posted a year ago.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia cleared the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine for use and hopes to begin mass inoculation soon, even before clinical testing has finished.

All workers’ dormitories in Singapore, where the bulk of the confirmed cases took place, have been declared by the Ministry of Manpower to be cleared of Covid-19.

Koufu saw a large chunk of its 1H20 earnings bitten off due to the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. Earnings came in at $2.5 million, some 82.0% lower than $14.1 million recorded in 1H19.

Russia registered its first coronavirus vaccine, President Vladimir Putin said during a televised meeting with the government.

DBS Group research analyst Derek Tan is predicting a re-rating of real estate firm Tuan Sing Holdings following the $500 million sale of its Robinson Point property.

Some 24,000 people have been placed under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills package as at end July, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed in the first of its series of weekly updates on Singapore’s jo