Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, in Singapore for a hawker cook-off with the country's most popular hawkers, says he has loved Singapore food since 12 years ago.
Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash stirred by the deadly Capitol insurrection could crimp a vital stream of campaign cash, complicating the party’s prospects of retaking the Senate in the next election. The GOP already faces a difficult Senate map in 2022, when 14 Democratic-held seats and 20 Republican ones will be on the ballot. Eight Republican senators voted to reject Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, even after the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters who were exhorted by the president to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory.
US prosecutors now believe supporters of President Donald Trump planned to "capture and assassinate elected officials" in their siege of the Capitol building last week, according to a new court filing.
To run from 15 January to 15 April, the public inspection is a requirement under the Land Public Transport Act 2010’s Section 84.
A human rights lawyer who handled the case of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists detained in China had his licence revoked Friday, he told AFP, a move he said was triggered by the sensitivity of the case for Beijing.
A man who was involved in a fatal incident at Orchard Towers in 2019 has been jailed for five months for obstructing the course of justice.
On the eve of a historic opportunity to reset the battered US-China relationship, the incoming Biden administration should focus on getting the American house in order and achieving quick results, according to future and past US officials and top China experts.Panellists at an Asia Society conference on Thursday prescribed an approach of humility and confidence-building measures.In its approach to China, the guiding principles for the US would be predictability, steadiness and clarity, according to Biden’s incoming Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell. He and other panellists said this would stand in sharp contrast to the past four years.Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China.Campbell, a former State Department official, is expected to be Biden’s key point person on China and Asia policy in the newly-created position within the National Security Council.While some in Beijing policy circles favour improved ties with Washington, others believe the US is in structural decline and want China to push its advantage, he said.At the same time, Beijing was cracking down on Hong Kong and Xinjiang, flexing its muscles in the South China Sea, challenging India, seeking to intimidate Australia and trying to divide the US and Europe. “We have to sort of recognise them in our calculations as we go forward and understand that the Chinese are playing a form of hardball.”Campbell said the initial focus in China relations would be on building consensus with allies and partners, all of which would largely come after the administration grapples with daunting domestic health, economic and social challenges.While there was a lot of talk about rebuilding trust with Beijing, it was important not to overplay the trust factor, he added. A potentially better approach was to focus on small steps that would not fail, avoid surprises and communicate clearly on issues that had been mishandled in recent years. Possible early confidence-building steps included reversing the tit-for-tat expulsion of journalists, easing visa restrictions and restoring closed consulates, Campbell said, adding that the priority was on irritants that could be resolved quickly and easily.“We can‘t say we’d like you to change your whole system, and they can’t say to us, withdraw your forces from Asia,” he said. “We need to deal with the world in which we’re living.”Dave Rank, senior adviser at the Cohen Group and former No 2 at the US embassy in Beijing, said a central difference in approach between the two giants during this wobbly transition period was that Beijing tended to view building trust as a prerequisite to achieving results, while Washington sees results as a precursor to building trust. “We don’t even agree on the nature of trust.”Several speakers at the conference – titled “The Future of US and China: Seeking Truth Through Facts” – said one of the most important steps the US could take in redefining relations with an increasingly assertive China was to address its own problems. How Biden’s America and China can turn page on a rocky relationshipThese ranged from the deep partisan divisions that saw last week’s breach of the Capitol building – with five people killed and lawmakers threatened – to the lives and livelihoods destroyed by the pandemic, and the nation’s wobbly infrastructure, education and race relations, speakers said.Panellists also cited the importance of a change in tone after four years of recriminations, inconsistency, name-calling and policy by tweet. They called for a greater focus on diplomacy, rather than leaks to The Washington Post.But they also said renewed relations would ideally involve changes on the Chinese side, where diplomats were unable to provide important insights and signals for fear their colleagues would accuse them of not following the party line.“So how to reconcile this new period in which conflict between the two of us will tear the world apart and cooperation requires us to learn a new approach to the idea of global influence,” said Henry Kissinger, chairman of Kissinger Associates and former Secretary of State.Campbell said presidential transitions were difficult at the best of times but this one was extraordinary, with some 1,000 appointees coming into the executive branch, mostly unvaccinated, amid daunting domestic concerns.And the outgoing government had been less than helpful, enacting a series of last-minute executive orders ranging from investment bans on Chinese companies and the weakening of domestic pollution standards, to stepped up oil drilling and moves against Iran.“This really is an attempt not just to govern beyond the grave. If these were so good, why not do them six months ago or a year ago,” Campbell said. “But doing them with four or five or six days left really suggests they’re doing this not as part of trying to ensure a legacy, but really just to stick it to the Biden administration.”“A lot of things at the door feel more like booby traps than, you know, welcome packages.”More from South China Morning Post: * US adds nine Chinese firms, including Xiaomi, to military blacklist * China’s new rules on ‘unjustified’ foreign laws bolster ability to strike back at US long-arm jurisdiction * China-US rivalry: cancelled trips to Taiwan, Europe will help ease pressure for a while, observers say * Mike Pompeo is laying ‘landmines’ on Taiwan policy, former Australian leader warnsThis article US ‘should get its house in order’ under Joe Biden before any reset with China first appeared on South China Morning PostFor the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Copyright 2021.
German authorities gave permission Friday for work to resume on a subsea pipeline bringing natural gas from Russia that's been the target of U.S. sanctions threats. The decision by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency can be appealed, meaning there could be another halt to the construction on the Nord Stream 2 project, which has drawn major criticism from the United States, some other European countries and environmental groups. The Kremlin has responded by accusing Washington of trying to promote sales of its own liquefied natural gas.
The Ministry of Health confirmed 24 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore on Saturday (16 January), taking the country’s total case count to 59,083.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday imposed sanctions on three of his primary targets -- China, Iran and Cuba -- in a last-minute push aimed in part at boxing in President-elect Joe Biden.
Sanofi, France's biggest pharmaceutical company, could help produce foreign-developed Covid-19 vaccines pending the launch of its own vaccine, which will not be ready for months, a government minister said Friday.
The Ministry of Health confirmed 30 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore on Friday (15 January), taking the country’s total case count to 59,059.
Pfizer expects lower coronavirus vaccine deliveries for a stretch beginning in late January in order to lift output later this winter and throughout 2021, the drugmaker said Friday.
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Shares in Xiaomi collapsed on Friday after the United States blacklisted the smartphone giant and a host of other Chinese firms as the Trump administration aims to cement its trade war legacy against Beijing.
Stock markets struggled Friday as investors weighed a coronavirus vaccine delay against US President-elect Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, which had already been largely priced in.
A homegrown coronavirus vaccine will be rolled out in India from Saturday even though clinical trials haven't been completed. But the government insists it will be safe and effective.
A British national and two Singaporeans were charged in court on Friday (15 January) for breaching Stay-Home Notice requirements last year.
The U.K. moved Friday to toughen up its entry requirements beyond its surprise decision to ban travel from South America and Portugal in the face of a new virus variant in Brazil, arguing that the measures are needed to ensure Britain's fast-moving vaccination program isn't derailed. Conservative Prime Minister Prime Minister Boris Johnson said remaining travel corridors will end Monday and that everyone flying into the U.K. will have to have proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken 72 hours before departure. Under the travel corridor arrangements, anyone arriving in the U.K. from countries deemed safe was exempt from a period of quarantine.
