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2021-02-12 04:01:02 Happy Niu Year! TODAY wishes all our Chinese readers a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year

And to all our other readers: Enjoy the long weekend!

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2021-02-11 20:35:19 Shop owner at Chinatown Complex and son who have Covid-19 didn’t see doctor or use TraceTogether token or app

A 66-year-old man and his son both did not seek medical attention despite feeling unwell. They also did not use the TraceTogether app.

“While they both have TraceTogether tokens, they did not carry their tokens with them,” the Ministry of Health said.

https://tdy.sg/3jRnLcl

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2021-02-11 19:19:28 Chinatown Complex visited 14 times by Covid-19 cases while infectious between Jan 28 and Feb 10

Other places visited by Covid-19 cases while they were infectious include the Swensen’s restaurant at Changi Airport Terminal 3, City Square Mall and Plaza Singapura.

https://tdy.sg/3tRi2rh

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2021-02-11 13:05:10 TODAY’s top stories, Feb 11, 2021
Good evening! Here’s a selection of our headlines this Thursday.

1. Experts laud ‘ambitious’ S’pore Green Plan 2030; some urge more climate change education
https://tdy.sg/371sB1c

2. S'pore's GDP would have contracted 12.4% in 2020 instead of 5.8% without Covid-19 support measures: MOF
https://tdy.sg/372yrQ4

3. NEA appoints leading German environmental solutions firm to collect e-waste from July 1
https://tdy.sg/3pdJqMC

4. Aung San Suu Kyi aide, electoral officials arrested in Myanmar, Biden approves sanctions
https://tdy.sg/373Btn5

5. Very inconvenient': Chinese migrants torn over staying put for Lunar New Year
https://tdy.sg/3rA1tOO

6. COMMENTARY: Are private messaging apps the next misinformation hot spot?
https://tdy.sg/3b0kNOG

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2021-02-11 11:59:51 How help from government schemes kept those in hard-hit sectors afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic

“The Government’s allowance really, really helped us… If the Government did not help us we would have drowned, we would be out of this industry,” said one limousine driver, whose income dipped by 30 per cent.

https://tdy.sg/3aTdS9F

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2021-02-11 10:58:38 UPDATE:
12 new Covid-19 infections in Singapore, including 3 in community

https://tdy.sg/3aY4Hos

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2021-02-11 09:20:11 More than 9 in 10 front-line aviation, maritime workers have received first dose of Covid-19 vaccine: MOT

Singapore Airlines and Scoot dispatched their first flights with full sets of vaccinated crew to Jakarta and Bangkok on Thursday morning. 

https://tdy.sg/2NaPHvj

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2021-02-11 08:23:23 Former Miss Universe Singapore contestant jailed 6 weeks for shopping with friends’ debit card details

Ashley Rita Wong Kai Lin, now 27, memorised her friends’ bank card numbers and within a span of three months in 2016 spent more than S$2,000 of their money on expenses such as ride hails, a hotel stay and clothing from online stores.

https://tdy.sg/3aXAAxk

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2021-02-11 04:01:01 73-year-old man on trial for molesting 28-year-old woman with special needs

The woman, who has autism and borderline intelligence, told the court she confronted the man’s wife. “I told her, ‘Your husband touched me’. Her answer was, ‘He’s like that’.”

https://tdy.sg/2Z0Uhz3

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2021-02-11 02:37:09 TODAY’s top stories, Feb 11, 2021
Good morning! Here’s a selection of our headlines this Thursday.

1. 250,000 in S’pore have received first dose of Covid-19 vaccine: PM Lee
https://tdy.sg/2MRCUOA

2. Fall in traffic accidents, deaths in 2020 an ‘anomaly’ on quieter roads during Covid-19 pandemic: Police
https://tdy.sg/3aNnEKy

3. Growing preference among elderly residents to ‘age in place’: HDB survey
https://tdy.sg/2Ohp20k

4. More than 1,000 GP clinics to be open during Chinese New Year holiday period
https://tdy.sg/3jAakgF

5. 6 years 10 months’ jail for man who scammed over S$1m by faking links to Temasek’s Ho Ching
https://tdy.sg/3a6X53S

6. Macho macho man: Myanmar's shirtless gym junkies join anti-coup rally
https://tdy.sg/2NflXgG

7. YOUR SAY: Upgrading of The Substation’s premises to preserve structural integrity, arts group ‘regularly engaged’ on move — National Arts Council
https://tdy.sg/36W4EIL

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