March 01, 2021 7:54 AMGood morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Monday, March 1.

FOR CapitaLand and City Developments (CDL), 2020 was a year to forget.

Covid-19 or not, the Singapore private property market has been on a roll. And with the eye-popping prices of new prime region condos, most of us will have to settle for the next best alternative: city fringe or Rest of Central Region (RCR) condos. They may be an additional 10 minutes’ drive, but that’s easy […]

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMSINGAPORE - Whenever medical technologist, Ms Nur Nabillah Shaid, 30, walks past a tree outside Choa Chu Kang (CCK) Polyclinic, it reminds her of a Christmas tree.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMTo prepare children for Primary 1, some mums and dads would send them to tuition and enrichment classes.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMJust like in an action movie, Station Inspector (SI) Judee Khoo once had to perform an evasive manoeuvre when she noticed a motorcyclist travelling at a high speed towards the VIP security convoy she was in.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMWhen Indonesia announced in December that employers will now have to bear the cost of placement fees for hiring foreign domestic workers, many Singaporeans baulked.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMA 31-year-old dormitory resident was the sole locally transmitted case yesterday, alongside 10 imported cases. The male Bangladeshi national works as a delivery assistant at Chng Woodworking, and stays in a dormitory in Kranji Way.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMQ: My daughter is good in the humanities and has no interest in Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. She was all set to go to the National University of Singapore (NUS) to study philosophy, but now, she is not sure, after the university announced its plan to get all students to take up interdisciplinary courses. I am also worried about her job prospects if she takes up philosophy. How should I advice her?

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMHistorical records bearing the imprint of Singapore's early Hokkien pioneers such as Tan Tock Seng and Tan Lark Sye will soon be available for public viewing, following the donation of more than 4,300 original documents from the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK) yesterday.

Our top stories this week look at the inner workings of Asia's largest global producer of live sports, the dark side of “buy now, pay later,” and Sleek’s new management team.

These companies raised the most funds this week: Ticket Monster, Zomato, Clover Biopharmaceuticals, and more.

Bank Jago will use 97% of the capital for business expansion, while 2% will go to IT infrastructure investments, and 1% to human resources development.

The funding rounds in Vietnam’s edtech sector, and a plant-based meat firm’s US$10m backing from Temasek and others

Funds raised will be used to expand operations and develop its customer experience across the healthcare and insurance verticals in the region.

The company is in "active discussions" with stakeholders regarding turning Indonesia's transport system electric, including its own two-wheeler fleet.

The lawsuits claim that the short-video app "infiltrates its users' devices and extracts a broad array of private data" for ad targeting use.

Suning.com is backed by investors including ecommerce giant Alibaba Group, which invested US$4.6 billion in the retail group for a 19.99% stake.

The funds from this round will be used to expand its team from 15 employees to over 100 people within the next three months.

Video-streaming services including Netflix and YouTube face scrutiny of content containing "sexually explicit scenes, violence, and abusive language."

March 01, 2021 7:25 AMIsrael would offer Moderna vaccines to some 130,000 Palestinians who work in Israel or its West Bank settlements.

March 01, 2021 7:30 AMThe 20m lizard, Ninjatitan zapatai, was discovered in 2014 in the Neuquen province of south-west Argentina.

March 01, 2021 7:12 AMThe surgeon attended a video traffic court hearing while dressed in scrubs and with a patient on the surgical table.

March 01, 2021 7:14 AMThe highest percentage was found in the UK with 89% in favour of taking a vaccine.

March 01, 2021 6:46 AM“All three of them are really quite good, and people should take the one that’s most available to them," he said.  

March 01, 2021 6:48 AMThe highly transmissible variant of coronavirus was first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus.  

March 01, 2021 5:36 AMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Former President Donald Trump on Sunday (Feb 28) will declare himself the dominant figure in the fractured Republican Party and attack President Joe Biden in his first major appearance since leaving the White House nearly six weeks ago.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMNEW YORK • Two men were being held hostage in a Bronx apartment. They had been threatened at gunpoint, tied up and tortured for hours by two other men who pretended to be plumbers to get inside, police said.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMMOSCOW • Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun serving his 2½-year sentence at a notorious penal camp.

March 01, 2021 5:00 AMThe fake degree scandal surrounding Manav Bharti University, a private university in India, has highlighted the issue of corruption in the country's higher education system.