Under-50s are cancelling vaccine appointments, health bosses admit
Health authorities have confirmed over-50s are expected to be able to book in for coronavirus vaccinations sooner than planned, as…
Poor are hardest hit in disasters
In South Africa, it sometimes feels as though we get battered every month by crises, tragedies and disasters that…
Let’s vaccinate the whole world
We seldom have cause to comment on advertisements carried in this newspaper. After all, barring common sense restrictions on…
Federal Government pulls ‘milkshake’ and ‘shark’ consent videos after Respect Matters campaign backlash
The Federal Government has pulled two videos from an education campaign aimed at teaching consent to school students after they…
Australia’s $160m hay exports to China under threat as permits lapse
Australian hay growers could be the next major industry frozen out by China, with Canberra-Beijing relations yet to thaw since…
Coronavirus live news: EU to rule on J&J vaccine safety; India records nearly 1.6m cases in a week | World news
Europe’s drug regulator was expected to rule Tuesday on the safety of the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine after fears…
STACS bags US$3.6M pre-Series A to expand its fintech blockchain platform
Ray Ferguson, Chairman of STACS STACS, a Singapore-based fintech startup providing blockchain technologies for financial services, has raised US$3.6 million…
A sneak peek into 8 Singapore startups joining Big Idea Ventures’s New Protein programme
Global VC firm Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has unveiled the eight Singaporean startups selected for its New Protein accelerator programme. This…
‘The system isn’t working’: the expats in Greece who can’t book Covid jabs | Greece
On Hydra, the Greek isle long famous for an artistic community that once included Leonard Cohen, expatriates are not having…
Samwu against decision to dismiss 525 Cape Town firefighters over unlawful strike
Many of the firefighters risking their lives to bring Cape Town’s devastating Table Mountain fire under control are doing…