Malaysians will be vaccinated with several different brands of COVID-19 vaccines, and the breakdown of the vaccines we’ll get are as follows: Pfizer-BioNTech; Oxford-AstraZeneca; Sinovac; CanSinoBIO; Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. While there are plenty of vaccines to cover most Malaysians, the new virus variants that emerged recently like UK’s COVID-19 …
Read More »S’pore-Based Fintech Startup GoBear Lays Off 22 Staff Despite Recent US$17M Funding
Singapore-based fintech startup GoBear announced yesterday (1 September) that it would be retrenching 22 employees due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This makes up 11 per cent of GoBear’s total workforce of 200 employees. The affected employees are from GoBear’s operations, product and technology teams. Out of the 22 employees, six …
Read More »COVID-19: South Korea’s Recent Election Gives S’pore A Glimpse Of How GE 2020 Might Be Like
Earlier this Wednesday, the Elections Department of Singapore (ELD) announced that the Registers of Electors have been certified and are now available for public inspection online. According to the ELD, 2.65 million Singaporeans are now eligible to vote in the upcoming election — this is an increase of over 59,000 …
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