While the aviation industry suffered over the year-long COVID-19 pandemic that caused lockdowns globally and domestically, one company that hit a new sales record of RM2.4 million in November 2020 was Malaysian startup T-Commerce Gateway (TCG). Positioned in between online travel agent (OTA) portals and airlines, TCG works like a …
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bbernard / Shutterstock.com So, your retirement plan is to live on your Social Security? It might work. Much depends on the size of your checks and your lifestyle. Bear in mind, though, that the maximum you can expect to earn from Social Security in 2020 is about $ 3,000 a …
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By In April, when my adoptive mother began to decline after months of battling cancer, I tried to show my love and let her know I was thinking of her through phone and Skype calls, gifts and handwritten letters. I was managing her finances and helping to coordinate her care, …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Earlier this week, Nintendo finally announced Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Switch, a compilation with Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. But while 64 and Galaxy are often the subject of universal praise, …
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The role of the automobile has been reinvented in the coronavirus era. Once just a way of getting from one place to another, the car has been turned into a mini-shelter on wheels, safe from contamination, a cocoon that allows its occupants to be inside and outside at the same …
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Women preparing to give birth at some hospitals in New York City will no longer have to labor alone, nor will they need to remain isolated from their partner or family while recovering in the hospital after delivery, state officials said. Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, …
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