All posts tagged "Singapore"
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0ASEAN NewsA Tale of Two Countries: Different Journeys, Same Destination
Neighbouring countries Malaysia and Singapore have had wildly divergent experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic, and have reacted in ways almost as different....
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0ASEAN NewsSingapore Appears Increasingly Confused in Its Covid Approach
Singaporeans, long accustomed to decisive, orderly government, have been lashing out on social media at the apparent dithering and reversals by officials...
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0ASEAN NewsAs Malaysia and Singapore Discuss Opening Border, a Clear Data Reporting Gap Emerges
The difference in the way information is reported in the two countries — and the depth and quality of that information —...
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0ASEAN NewsSingapore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Shut out of the Olympic medal race while neighbouring countries fared better, and struggling to launch travel bubbles and a more open...
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0ASEAN NewsSingapore to Start Relaxing Travel Restrictions by September
Adopting a ‘living with Covid plan,’ Singapore’s revised rules include health and treatment protocols that will allow for quarantine-free travel. Singapore’s government...
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0OpinionAs Malaysia’s Lockdown Turns Into an Open-Ended Affair, Is It Time for a Completely New Strategy?
A full month of nationwide lockdown and well over 200,000 vaccine doses given daily – and none of Malaysia’s Covid-19 numbers are...
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0NewsThe Delta Variant Has Unravelled the UK’s Recent Covid Success. Should Malaysia Be Worried?
A much more infectious variant of the coronavirus has become the dominant strain in the United Kingdom and erased a lot of...
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0ASEAN NewsLike Malaysia, Singapore Is Reintroducing Significant Movement Restrictions
Less than a week after Malaysia implemented MCO 3.0, Singapore made a move to tighten up its own restrictions amid a rise...
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0TravelIf You’re Hoping to Travel Again in 2021, Prepare to Be Disappointed
With nearly two months of the year already gone, governments throughout the region are showing no signs of reopening borders or easing...
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0ASEAN NewsThroughout Southeast Asia, the Ideals of Democracy Are Getting Harder to Find
If you’re getting the sense that democracy is on the decline in the ASEAN region, and perhaps even in peril, you’re not...
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0TransportTouted for Years, the High-Speed Rail Between KL and Singapore Is Officially Dead
Planes, trains, and automobiles. Now just two of those will be viable ways to get to Singapore for the foreseeable future. The...
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0TravelSingapore Tried a ‘Cruise to Nowhere’ This Week. It Didn’t End Well.
The failed cruise was just the latest in a string of mounting evidence that the coronavirus is spoiling everything. A few years...
