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Premier Integrated Platform in APAC to Develop Innovative Therapies for Oncology Antengene Corporation Limited Successfully Listed on Main Board of SEHK

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HONG KONG, Nov 20, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene" or the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group", stock code: 6996.HK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with integrated drug discovery, clinical development, anchored in Asia-Pacific (APAC) with a global layout, is officially listed and commenced trading on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ("SEHK") today.Antengene's listing ceremony in Shanghai: Dr. Jay Mei, M.D., Ph.D., founder, Chairman and CEO (Left); Mr. Yiteng Liu, M.Sc., Chief Operating Officer (Right) The total number of offer shares under the Global Offering amounts to 154,153,500 shares, with the final offer price determined at HK$18.08 per offer share. The net proceeds from the Global Offering to be received by the Company, after deduction of the underwriting fees and expenses paid and payable by the Company in connection with the Global Offering, are estimated to be approximately HK$2,635.9 million. The Hong Kong offer shares initially offered under the Hong Kong Public Offering have received satisfactory response, where the total number of valid applications amounted to approximately 264...

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Promptlink Technology Chosen by Indonesia’s Cable TV and Fixed Broadband Internet Provider, Link Net’s First Media, for Expanded HFC Network Diagnostics

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Oceanside, California, Nov 20, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Promptlink Communications, Inc., a leading provider of software applications for broadband network management and customer premise equipment testing, today announced that it has been chosen by First Media, one of the leading cable TV and fixed broadband internet providers in Indonesia, operated by PT Link Net Tbk (LINK), to provide Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and Network Noise Localization solutions to help First Media optimize customer's broadband experiences.Promptlink's network monitoring and diagnostics suite will assist First Media to direct network technicians to specific network components affected by network noise and other issues that impact First Media's customers. Utilizing patent-pending algorithms to analyze data, Network NoiseHawk accurately pinpoints network noise and geographically displays it for First Media, allowing for quick correction of noise issues. The addition of Proactive Network Maintenance tools and Network NoiseHawk to Promptlink's Cable Plant Monitoring (CPM) reinforces First Media's commitment to provide its customers with the highest-quality broadband services."Promptlink, together with o...

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Over 150 queue outside Orchard Road store for Uniqlo’s new collection with fashion designer Jil Sander

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SINGAPORE - Uniqlo's launch of its latest clothing collection designed with German fashion designer Jil Sander attracted long queues at its flagship outlet in Orchard Central on Friday (Nov 20). About 160 people were seen queueing up at around 10.30am before the store opened at 11am. The +J Fall/Winter 2020 collection marks the second time Uniqlo has collaborated with Ms Sander since 2009. Mr Calvin Ong, who was the 25th person to join the line when he arrived at around 9.30am, said: "I have waited for around a decade for the return of this collaboration, her clothing is usually very expensive." The fashion consultant in his late 40s, who bought three shirts and two belts, chose to visit the shop because it was easier to gauge the size of the clothing in person. Each customer was limited to purchasing five items. People queueing outside Uniqlo's flagship outlet in Orchard Central for the launch of the +J Fall/Winter 2020 collection. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI A 26-year-old engineer who wanted to be known as Ms Feng took leave to queue up for the launch, which she had been anticipating since it sold out on Chinese online shopping portal Taobao on Nov 3. "My flatmate started queueing at ar...

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NTUC nominates Union of Power and Gas Employees general secretary as next labour NMP

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SINGAPORE - Mr Abdul Samad Abdul Wahab, vice-president of the National Trades Union Congress, has been put up as the labour movement's choice for Nominated MP. The 48-year-old is also general secretary of the Union of Power and Gas Employees, which he first joined in 2003. He was elected as a union leader in 2006, and has held his current post since 2015. That year, he also became part of NTUC's central committee. He was appointed vice-president last year. In a statement on Friday (Nov 20), NTUC said Mr Samad has worked to forge strong labour-management relations over the years. It highlighted that he was instrumental in the formation of the Market Development and Resilience Scheme launched by the Energy Market Authority in 2018, which helped secure bonuses, increments and training funds for workers in the industry. An advocate for workers' training and skills upgrading, Mr Samad also played a key role in setting up company training committees with employers to implement training plans for workers in the power and gas industry. NTUC president Mary Liew spoke of him as an "experienced, caring and dedicated" union leader who understands the importance of tripartism in Singapore. "His...

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Union meets Robinsons’ employees to discuss liquidation and give advice

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SINGAPORE - Current and former employees of liquidating department store Robinsons met union leaders from the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union (SMMU) this week to discuss the liquidation process and to receive advice on filing their outstanding claims. In a statement on Friday (Nov 20), the union said it has been engaging Robinsons' management and liquidators to give assistance to the affected workers, including those who have been retrenched. The SMMU also said that it would be attending the liquidator's meeting with creditors next week to represent workers' interests. On Oct 30, Robinsons said that it had decided to liquidate its Heeren and Raffles City stores due to changing consumer tastes and cost pressures such as rent. The Covid-19 pandemic played a part as well, it said. At least 11 former employees of the retailer have approached the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management for help after Robinsons announced its liquidation. Robinsons' parent company is the Dubai-based conglomerate Al-Futtaim Group, which owns other franchises in Singapore including Marks & Spencer and Zara. "In Robinsons' liquidation process, the SMMU's k...

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Made With Passion: Husband and wife team behind Bynd Artisan carries on 80-year home-grown legacy

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SINGAPORE - For husband and wife Ms Winnie Chan and Mr James Quan, their brand Bynd Artisan is not only a labour of love, but also part of a long legacy that has spanned close to 80 years. The duo - who have worked together as co-founders and brand owners since 2012 - started the business as an experiential retail concept. But while customers might know the brand for its sleek, personalised notebooks and customised leather goods, few might know just how intertwined the company's brand is with a traditional craft business whose history spans decades. "It started with my grandfather, Mr Chan Koon Seng, who founded a small bindery workshop back in 1942. We've since drawn inspiration from the hand-designed, traditional book making methods and machinery we used back in the day, with the skills of our older craftsmen really taking centre stage (in our products)," Ms Chan said. Bynd Artisan was on Friday (Nov 20) one of the 48 pioneer recipients of the "Made With Passion" Singapore brand mark. The mark has been awarded to a selection of local lifestyle brands to highlight their strong connection to Singapore, as well as cast a spotlight on the stories behind these brands. For Bynd Artisan...

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Made With Passion: Brothers inspired by uncle’s home-made beers to set up 1925 Brewing Co

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SINGAPORE - For brothers Yeo Eng Kuang and Ivan Yeo, the idea that inspired their successful microbrewery and restaurant business 1925 Brewing Co was first sparked at the family's dining table where they would gather every week. Years later, these fond memories of dinners spent sipping on their uncle's home-brewed beer and dining on authentic Teochew cuisine have spurred them to build and grow their business. The brothers named their business 1925 Brewing Co as 1925 was the birth year of the family patriarch Yeo Kim Ho, who was a dry goods grocer. "At the time, it was definitely a risky move. Our family was concerned, especially when the food and beverage business was so volatile," Mr Yeo Eng Kuang, 35, told The Straits Times. The business was founded by the Yeo brothers and their uncle Yeo King Joey back in November 2013. They were on Friday (Nov 20) one of the 48 pioneer recipients of the "Made With Passion" Singapore brand mark. The mark has been awarded to a selection of local lifestyle brands to highlight their strong connection to Singapore, as well as cast a spotlight on the stories behind these brands. In May 2014, the Yeo brothers first began restaurant operations in what ...

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NEC to Launch PCIe-based Vector Engine Card to Explore New Opportunities in the SME Market

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TOKYO, Nov 20, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the global launch of a PCIe-based Vector Engine card (Vector Engine) to tap into the growing demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The shipment of the Vector Engine will start from January 2021.PCIe-based Vector Engine cardThe Vector Engine is the core component of NEC's SX-Aurora TSUBASA vector supercomputer, which has been deployed to more than 100 customers worldwide since 2018. The Vector Engine provides a 2.45 TeraFlops computation capability and a 1.53 TeraBytes/second memory bandwidth with around 200W power consumption for processing scientific applications. This high computation capability and power efficiency are enabled by eight powerful cores, making it possible to accelerate data intensive scientific applications with lower power consumption.Sourcing the Vector Engine from NEC allows system integrators to offer vector computing systems by combining the Vector Engine and general x86 servers from other IT vendors while enabling server manufacturers to develop and market their own-branded vector computing servers using the Vector Engine. ...

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Japan’s consumer prices fall at fastest pace in decade, reviving deflation fears

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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's core consumer prices fell in October at their fastest pace annual in nearly a decade as the boost from last year's sales tax hike petered out, heightening fears of a return to deflation for an economy still dealing with Covid-19. Analysts expect consumer prices to continue falling in coming months due to sluggish consumption, casting doubt on the central bank's view Japan will eventually see prices bounce back towards the central bank's elusive 2 per cent inflation target. The nationwide core consumer prices, which excludes volatile fresh food costs, fell 0.7 per cent in October from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday (Nov 20), matching a median market forecast. It was the third straight month of declines and the biggest year-on-year drop since March 2011, the data showed. The decline was largely a result of the high base effect of a boost to inflation last year, following a sales tax hike to 10 per cent from 8 per cent, as well as a more recent government discount campaign for domestic travel aimed at reviving tourism, which weighed on prices. Prices also fell for gasoline, fuel and hotel accommodation, the data showed. Japan's economy grew ...

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Air travel in US, Europe was gaining momentum. Now what?

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NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - Confidence about the course of the Covid-19 pandemic has helped put passengers back on planes in recent months, and Thanksgiving week is shaping up to be one of the busiest periods for US air travel since it came to a near-standstill in the spring. News that effective vaccines may be close at hand lifted airline stocks. But new concerns over the spread of the virus are rattling travelers and threatening airlines' hopes for the months ahead. United Airlines said on Thursday (Nov 19) that bookings had slowed and cancellations had risen in recent days because of the surge in virus cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to avoid holiday travel altogether, presenting the industry with its latest wrenching question: How dark can this winter get? "There's two trains running toward us," said John Grant, a senior analyst with OAG. "One is full of optimism on a vaccine, and the other is, sadly, full of more caution. Who gets there first?" When Angela Henry booked her Thanksgiving flights months ago, she had no idea that the United States would be setting new coronavirus infection records as the holiday approached. She also didn't know that ...

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Fear for 4,700 jobs as two UK retailers go into administration

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LONDON (AFP) - UK fashion chains Peacocks and Jaeger have gone into administration, their owners announced on Thursday (Nov 19), putting 4,700 jobs at nearly 500 shops under threat. Parent company the EWM group, which had been searching for a buyer, said administrators had been appointed, although no redundancies or store closures had yet been confirmed. Peacocks is based in Cardiff and has 423 shops across the country with 4,369 staff. Jaeger runs 76 stores and concessions and has 347 employees. EWM earlier this month placed its Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home businesses into administration and had hoped to find a buyer or investor to take over Peacocks and Jaeger. A two-week High Court deadline for them to do so has now expired. Joint administrator Tony Wright, from FRP Advisory, said they were in "advanced discussions with a number of parties and working hard to secure a future for both businesses". EWM blamed "the continuing deterioration of the retail sector" due to coronavirus closures and restrictions, which had complicated the process of finding a potential buyer. "While those talks are ongoing, we no longer have an option to extend the standstill agreement originall...

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Former Wirecard boss stonewalls German lawmakers’ inquiry

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BERLIN (REUTERS) - Wirecard's former boss stonewalled questions from lawmakers on Thursday (Nov 19) when he was temporarily released from jail for an inquiry into post-war Germany's biggest corporate fraud. Markus Braun, wearing his hallmark turtle neck and a blazer, declined to answer more than 50 questions about Wirecard's demise, other than to say no German officials behaved inappropriately. Braun, who has denied any wrongdoing and said Wirecard was the victim of a wider fraud, is in jail awaiting trial. He told lawmakers on Thursday he had confidence in the German legal system but said little else in a prepared speech. The former chief executive's stance is a setback for lawmakers investigating the implosion of a German tech star once worth US$28 billion, which folded owing billions. Braun said he had also refused to speak to Munich state prosecutors, who have charged him with fraud and embezzlement, although he pledged to cooperate with them. Some of the German parliamentarians, who were visibly irritated, resorted to posing questions of Braun such as about his family, before the hearing was temporarily disbanded. Braun's appearance, which is being closely watched in Germany a...

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US stocks gain on revived stimulus talks

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NEW YORK (AFP) - Wall Street stocks snapped a two-session skid on Thursday (Nov 19) as optimism over revived US stimulus talks countered worries about higher coronavirus cases. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2 per cent at 29,483.23. The broad-based S&P 500 gained 0.4 per cent to 3,581.87, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 0.9 per cent to 11,904.71. Aides to top US lawmakers met to again discuss passing another spending Bill after months of stalemate on a package to support the coronavirus-ravaged US economy. That helped shift attention from the coronavirus as the US added more than 170,000 new Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans against travelling for the Thanksgiving holiday next week in light of the worsening outbreak. Some states have begun to reimpose restrictions, but “Covid-fatigue” and public resistance makes extreme lockdowns unlikely, said economist Joel Naroff. “We will not be facing anything like what happened in the spring,” Naroff said in a note. “Nevertheless, the steps to reduce virus cases, hospitalisations and deaths are likely to cause workers to be laid ...

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YUI FINANCE – The Story of Setting Benchmarks

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Tallin, Estonia / NOVEMBER 19, 2020 / The YUI Finance project was listed on Uniswap on 17th November 2020. After listing on the Uniswap platform and its liquidity locked for 6 months, the project has also successfully listed on Bilaxy, Coingecko, CoinMarketCap and Blockfolio. Furthermore, the team behind YUI Finance is happy to inform users that we have entered into a partnership with Dextools (https://www.dextools.io/app/) and Ferrum Network (https://bit.ly/35HVnUs) to further scale the project and make staking accessible to members of our community. People are all not unaware of the challenges that businesses and entrepreneurs alike face in their attempt to source for funding to scale their business interest. Among others, some of the challenges confronting the average business person out there are credit rating, high interest rates, high default rates, and rising cost of supplies. While different governments of the world are striving to mitigate these identified challenges, a bunch of entrepreneurs still find it difficult to access loans to scale their businesses. The YUI Finance project is here to address these challenges and also liberate loan seekers from the stronghold of ou...

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China Dynamics Delivers its First Air-conditioned Electric Buses to the Philippines

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HONG KONG, Nov 19, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - China Dynamics (Holdings) Limited (Stock Code: 476, together with its subsidiaries, collectively referred to as "China Dynamics" or the "Group"), a provider of new energy vehicles and integrated technology solutions, is pleased to announce that the Group has completed the delivery of electric buses to Davao, the third largest city in the Philippines. This successful effort not only demonstrates the Group's commitment to establishing a foothold overseas, but also highlights its competitive advantages in the new energy vehicles market. China Dynamics has completed the delivery of electric buses to Davao, the third largest city in the PhilippinesChina Dynamics tailor-made the electric vehicle for downtown shuttle service in the Philippines. The electric bus, running on fast-charging lithium ion batteries, is equipped with full air-conditioning and a retractable ramp that has been specially designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities and the elderly - the first of its kind in the Philippines public transportation network. Leveraging the Group's advanced cloud-based software, which monitors the vehicle's diagnostics to determine pot...

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Honda to Begin Sales of All-new N-ONE Mini-vehicle

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TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. will begin sales of the all-new N-ONE mini-vehicle on November 20, 2020, at dealerships across Japan.Based on the underlying concept of the Honda N Series, which is to offer "enjoyable lives with N*," the development team for the all-new N-ONE focused on people's daily lives and the concept of time in Japan, striving to make N-ONE a vehicle which will be a part of people's daily lives and that can sustain the enjoyment of customers for a long time.* The "N" represents Norimono which means "vehicle" in Japanese.The exterior design of the all-new N-ONE was refined to further highlight the unique characteristics of N-ONE in the motif of "circle, square and trapezoid" which is identified as a combination of basic shapes that constitute the uniqueness of N-ONE.The interior was designed in the pursuit of a cozy cabin space with a minimalist design. To achieve this goal, non-essential elements were pared away boldly. Honda's original center-tank layout that places the fuel tank underneath the front seats, also contributes to the minimalist yet cozy interior design of the all-new N-ONE. This is the embodiment of Honda's M/M conce...

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Fujitsu, AIST, and RIKEN Achieve Unparalleled Speed on the MLPerf HPC Machine Learning Processing Benchmark Leveraging Leading Japanese Supercomputer Systems

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TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and RIKEN today announced a performance milestone in supercomputing, achieving the highest performance and claiming the ranking positions on the MLPerf HPC benchmark(1). The MLPerf HPC benchmark measures large-scale machine learning processing on a level requiring supercomputers and the parties achieved these outcomes leveraging approximately half of the "AI-Bridging Cloud Infrastructure" ("ABCI") supercomputer system, operated by AIST, and about 1/10 of the resources of the supercomputer Fugaku, which is currently under joint development by RIKEN and Fujitsu. Utilizing about half the computing resources of its system, ABCI achieved processing speeds 20 times faster than other GPU-type systems. That is the highest performance among supercomputers based on GPUs, computing devices specialized in deep learning. Similarly, about 1/10 of Fugaku was utilized to set a record for CPU-type supercomputers consisting of general-purpose computing devices only, achieving a processing speed 14 times faster than that of other CPU-type systems. The results were presented as ...

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Buzzvil Inks Partnership With Japan’s Ad Platform MicroAd

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SEOUL, S.KOREA, Nov 19, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Buzzvil, a global leader of rewarded ads platform announced that it has inked a partnership with Japan's online ad portal and network operator MicroAd.MicroAd is a Japan-based online ad portal and network that offers its clients with demand and supply platforms.Through this partnership, MicroAd will introduce Buzzvil's unique rewarded ad inventories that generate ad revenue and boost user engagement for Japan's mobile app publishers.John Lee, CEO of Buzzvil, said, "We are so glad to have found a partner that can bring us new mobile app publishers in Japan and will do our best to help MicroAd's mobile advertising business grow."Meanwhile, Buzzvil recently raised 20.5 billion Korean won (17 million USD) in series C from Mega-7 Club for its compelling reward-based ad tech that maximizes ad revenue for publishers. The Mega-7 Club, dubbed as South Korea's version of Softbank Vision Fund, consists of returning investors LB Investments, Company K Partners and new investors SBI Investments, Korea Development Bank and Shinhan Bank.The deal follows the fast-growing company's series B in 2015 from LB Investments and Company K Partners, alongside...

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NEC Establishes its Global Open RAN Center of Excellence in the U.K. to Accelerate Global Adoption of 5G Open RAN

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TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the establishment of its Global Open RAN Center of Excellence (CoE) in the U.K. to accelerate the global adoption of Open RAN and to further strengthen its structure for accelerating the global deployment of 5G.This new CoE is responsible for business and solution development, product development support, project execution and technical support for NEC's global Open RAN business. The CoE helps communication service providers (CSP) introduce Open RAN worldwide through its in-depth knowledge of wireless technology and NFV businesses, as well as NEC's experience in supporting large scale Open RAN commercial deployment in Japan. It will also form the backbone of NEC's global project delivery capability, building on the company's long term experience in communication network deployment, including wireless networks, across the globe.Its operations will be further strengthened and scaled through an Open RAN Laboratory (technical verification facility) based in India, which will be responsible for building up Open RAN ecosystems with interoperability validation in a multi-vendor environment, as well as verif...

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Emerging Stronger Taskforce outlines new collaborative approach to drive economic growth in a post-Covid-19 world

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SINGAPORE - A new "start-up" approach adopted by public agencies and the private sector working together on initiatives to drive economic growth may soon become the norm, with the Government keen on making this new agile way of collaboration more widespread. Members of the Emerging Singapore Taskforce (EST), convened in May to help chart a vision for the country and its industries in a post-Covid-19 world, said on Thursday (Nov 19) that this approach has seen the public and private sectors working alongside each other as partners - rather than as regulators and the regulated. They have also come up with prototypes even as the strategy is being worked out, instead of only moving when a direction has been set. Said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, who chairs the Future Economy Council which the Taskforce comes under: "The emphasis is on taking quick action to prototype solutions and to concurrently explore ways to scale viable solutions across our economy and beyond." "In keeping with the spirit of Singapore Together, these efforts are led by industry leaders, working in close partnerships," he added, referring to the movement he and his fourth-generation colleagues launched las...