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2021-02-19 03:44:55 News for your morning!

Singapore
NTUC is seeking to expand the progressive wage model to higher-paying sectors and specific vocations.
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There's no indication the Covid-19 vaccine caused a cardiac arrest in an elderly Singaporean man who had taken the first dose, says MOH.
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A construction firm director dies after falling through a hole in a floor of a 2-storey house that was undergoing alteration works.
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World
Nasa’s astrobiology rover Perseverance makes a historic landing on Mars in search for traces of ancient microbial life.
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2021-02-18 19:10:43 The woman who was killed by a falling tree in Marsiling Park on Feb 18 was wearing noise-cancelling earbuds while running, said her sister. https://str.sg/JHss

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2021-02-18 14:05:01 Satellite images of Kranji woodland showed over 8ha of forested land, which is around the size of 11 football fields, being cleared since March 2020 - nearly a year before developer JTC Corporation knew about the mistake. https://str.sg/JHmV

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2021-02-18 12:02:28 Short-term business travellers arriving in Singapore can now stay and hold physical meetings at a newly launched facility, Connect@Changi, without undergoing quarantine.

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2021-02-18 11:13:41 JUST IN: Singapore confirms 11 new imported Covid-19 cases. There are no new locally transmitted infections. https://str.sg/JHmA

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2021-02-18 06:58:58 A woman has been killed after a tree fell on her in Marsiling Park.

The 20m-tall tree was last inspected in April 2020 and found to be healthy, says NParks. https://str.sg/JHWK

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2021-02-18 05:51:40 The Malaysian court has ordered Rosmah Mansor to enter her defence over graft charges.

The wife of the country’s former prime minister Najib Razak allegedly accepted $2.14 million in bribes in relation to electricity supply to rural schools in Sarawak. How Rosmah reacted: https://str.sg/JHW6

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2021-02-18 03:35:03 News for your morning!

Singapore
The first of 5 victims of the Tanjong Pagar car crash has been cremated.
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World
Millions of Texans braved a third day without heat following a punishing winter storm.
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Asia
Facebook will block news content from being read and shared in its news feed in Australia. The move follows a proposed law that would require it to pay the country’s news publishers for content.
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Business
Bitcoin soars to new high above US$52,000, as analysts warn against the sustainability of such prices amid elevated volatility.
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2021-02-17 19:26:51 A Singaporean woman who works at an engineering firm is the sole Covid-19 community case today: https://str.sg/JHAQ

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2021-02-17 16:51:12 Some 129,000 Singtel customers' data, including their names and identity card numbers, were stolen during a recent breach of a third-party file sharing application. https://str.sg/JHAJ

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