The south-east Asian country has recorded just 36 deaths since the start of the pandemic, and officials now want to ditch measures such as counting infection numbers each day. A blueprint has been laid out by three leading members of Singapore’s Covid-19 taskforce to end 18 months of tough restrictions in order to restore quarantine-free travel and public gatherings. The hope is to let people “get... 

Scientists have unveiled a blood test designed to detect signs of cancer up to a year before tumors emerge. Results from a 1,000-patient trial have shown 100 percent accuracy, even identifying cancers in a control group of patients initially believed to be cancer-free. Published in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, the blood biopsy technique focuses on changes in the behavior of stem cells, presenting... 

A panel of scientists has expressed “serious safety concerns” about Bill Gates’ plan to “revolutionize the future of food” by taking traditional meat off the table and replacing it with “lab-grown meat“, which is produced by taking biopsied stem cells from a living animal and using them to grow meat in a biolaboratory. Gates has teamed up with Richard Branson to invest tens of millions... 

Singapore has introduced a line of beers made from recycled water. This may sound like a joke but it’s not. A brewery in Singapore has taken the green message to another level. They have turned urine and feces into alcoholic beverages. It doesn’t matter if it sounds appealing or not, but in an effort to make alcoholic beverages eco-friendly, this is what Singapore is doing. Currently the... 

Details about life inside the Australian quarantine camps are beginning to leak out through the internet. Although the information cannot be directly verified, due to the importance of this issue, TheCOVIDWorld has decided to report on this story since the Australian government is unlikely to release such information themselves. An anonymous poster has detailed their experiences in an Australian quarantine... 

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are holding their first ever meeting on Tuesday in the hope of finding a peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shook hands with each other for the first time, before kicking off negotiations aiming to bring complete denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula. Trump... 

A new city is being built on barren lands in India’s western state of Gujarat to give foreign investors easy access to its booming economy. Called Gujarat International Finance-Tec City, or GIFT City, it is planned to be on a par with global financial hubs. “Except for the fact that we are not sitting in Singapore and GIFT City is not Singapore, I think from a business perspective we have everything... 

Rarely photographed or filmed, the North Korean capital of Pyongyang is captured in this amazing aerial footage by a Singaporean photographer, given exclusive access to record from a small aircraft. Aram Pan filmed the footage from a Piper Matrix PA-46 aircraft, flying above the capital of the secretive state. “It’s a rare treat that a foreigner is allowed photography and filming over... 

Former Fox News commentator Kathleen Troia MacFarland has been kicked out of her role as deputy national security adviser by her newly appointed boss Lt General HR McMaster. She is the third close Trump ally to be removed from the National Security Council after Steve Bannon was ousted on Wednesday and McMaster’s predecessor, Lt Gen Michael Flynn, resigned in February. McFarland, 65, will now... 

Tim Leissner, chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia’s operations, has taken a “personal leave” amidst corruption scandals associated with Malaysia’s state-owned 1MDB fund, with which Goldman worked closely. President of Goldman’s Singapore operations since 2006 and chairman of its Southeast Asia operations since 2014, Leissner oversaw the bank’s operations in Malaysia, where it became... 

An AirAsia plane taxis on the tarmac after landing at terminal 1 at Changi international airport in Singapore on December 29, 2014. Indonesia says the Singapore-bound AirAsia plane which went missing with over 160 passengers on board has likely crashed deep into the sea. “Based on the coordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane... 

Friends, relatives of passengers await news of AirAsia QZ8501 at Changi Airport. AirAsia flight number QZ8501, bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, has lost contact with air traffic control, the airline has confirmed. The missing flight is an Airbus A320-200 with up to 161 people on board. Indonesia air transport authorities have provided details of the plane’s last position. “We... 

Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University have created a new biological marker for cancer patients that lights up tumor cells and treats disease with drugs at the same time. The breakthrough biomarker is a nanophosphor particle ten thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, which lights up when it detects tumor cells to allow scientists to take a better look. “This is the first... 

A news ‘invisibility’ cloaking device has been unveiled by US scientists, which they say can be constructed at home, causes no distortion of objects in the background, and can conceal objects in 3D from different angles. Scientists from upstate New York’s University of Rochester have managed to create the device, which looks like a set of optometrist’s equipment and can bend light around... 

Australia and Singapore agree to enhance intelligence sharing. Australia and Singapore have agreed to enhance intelligence sharing amid concerns about the threat posed by Takfiri militants returning home from Syria and Iraq. The agreement was reached during a meeting between Singaporean Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen and visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Friday. “In this context of...