Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com There is a growing threat to your retirement savings, and you probably are not aware of it. Thieves increasingly are targeting individual 401(k) accounts by impersonating the account owners so the crooks can steal thousands — or even hundreds of thousands — of dollars. Heide …
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In Budget 2018, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced the extension of GST to imported services from 1 January 2020. He shared that the Government would be reviewing international developments on how GST can be applied on imported goods. Mr Heng said that low-value goods imported via air or …
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Synaptics pioneered sensors for touchscreens for PCs and mobile devices. But the San Jose-based hardware company has shifted to where the processing is happening — at the edge of the network. Under CEO Michael Hurlston, the 35-year-old company has pivoted away from its early markets and focused on artificial intelligence …
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Instagram took down the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent anti-vaccine activist, on Wednesday over false information related to the coronavirus. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement. Mr. Kennedy, …
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From booking a sports facility to accessing our CPF statements, it seems that we have a plethora of apps that serve citizens’ needs. A search on the App Store reveals 20 over apps that allow us to perform transactions online without having to head down and queue up at the …
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How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Misinformation, outright lies, conspiracy theories, and fringe movements have always had real-world consequences. Fascists in Italy and Germany, once a small band of pariahs and gadflies who …
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It did not take long for Keith Reed, a deputy health commissioner in Oklahoma, to spot a big logistical problem with the state’s vaccination rollout. Week after week, Oklahoma was allocating thousands of precious doses to a federal program for nursing home patients that was not using them all. In …
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Song Fa Bak Kut Teh started out as a pushcart stall along Johore Road in Singapore back in 1969. Founded by Yeo Eng Song, the stall serves bowls of peppery bak kut teh. Other items on the menu included pork rib, pig tail, liver, kidney soup and braised pig’s trotters. …
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The author of “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” takes on a frightening subject in his new book “The Premonition”: how to prevent a viral outbreak even worse than Covid-19. In his 2018 book, “The Fifth Risk,” Michael Lewis posed an unsettling question: What if the government agencies tasked with managing …
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