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Singapore tightens rules for expat workers with an eye on local discontent

The city-state is raising the salary threshold for foreigners to get a work permit amid stiff competition for jobs.

Al Jazeera

So long Singapore: Expats flee city as rents go through the roof

Southeast Asian city-state is losing international talent as some expats report rent hikes as high as 80 percent.

Al Jazeera

China’s rich flee crackdowns for ‘Asia’s Switzerland’ Singapore

Chinese wealth is rushing into the Southeast Asian city-state, prompting unease among some locals.

Al Jazeera

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What is the Lunar New Year? Traditions and celebrations explained

Sunday marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit and more than a billion people from China and Asia will celebrate.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

Reuters

Habitual mask-wearing is likely helping Japan, Singapore and South Korea bring daily Omicron deaths down, epidemiologists say

There is "a really quite important cultural difference" in Asia that epidemiologists suggest is having a dramatic impact on their daily rate of COVID-19 deaths.

ABC News

Analysis-Ukrainian dreams of retaking Kherson hinge on Western weapons

For the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retake ground in the wheat fields and empty villages northwest of the city of Kherson, the liberation of one of Ukraine's most strategically important Black Sea cities feels tantalisingly close.

Reuters

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Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'

As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.

Reuters

'Danger! mines' - Odesa's popular beaches now off limits

Tourists once flocked to the Ukrainian resort of Odesa to lie on its Black Sea beaches, but the white sands are now covered in mines because of the war with Russia and police officers patrol the boardwalks.

Reuters

Western artillery already making difference for Ukraine -regional governor

Western-supplied artillery systems are already making a difference on the ground for Ukraine and it is "just a question of time" before its forces win back significant ground in the south, the governor of the Mykolaiv region said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russia strikes Kyiv for first time in weeks as battle rages in east

Russia struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles early on Sunday for the first time in more than a month, while Ukrainian officials said a counter-attack on the main battlefield in the east had retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetsk.

Reuters

Ukraine's 'unicorn' LGBTQ soldiers head for war

As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction - a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers.

Reuters

Relatives of Ukraine's evacuated Azovstal fighters seek news

Relatives of Ukrainian fighters who remained for weeks under the besieged Azovstal steel works said on Monday they had received no news of the whereabouts of their loved ones since they were evacuated to Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine.

Reuters

Singaporeans hold vigil for Malaysian in high-profile death row case

About 300 people held a candlelight vigil at a Singapore park on Monday to protest against the planned hanging of a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling whom activists say should be spared because he has an intellectual disability.

Reuters

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Singapore extends quarantine-free entry as Asia shifts to "living with COVID"

Singapore said on Thursday it will lift quarantine requirements for all vaccinated travellers from next month, joining a string of countries in Asia moving more firmly toward a "living with the virus" approach.

The Guardian - UK

Winter Olympics 2022 day eight: skeleton, women’s curling and more – as it happened

Updates from day eight of the winter Games as Jaclyn Narracott took Australia’s first ever medal in skeleton

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