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Ohayo Japan: Club Med Resorts in Japan welcome back travellers in time for the winter season

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SINGAPORE, Sep 30, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Club Med, the pioneer of Premium All-Inclusive holidays, is ready to welcome travellers back to Japan, following the further relaxation of travel restrictions for overseas travellers into the country. This much-anticipated move by the Japanese government is the final lid to allowing overseas travellers easier access into the country after more than two years following the COVID-19 pandemic."Japan has been on the wish-list of many of our guests and travellers alike, listing the country as the top place to visit amongst Asian travellers post-pandemic, according to a survey by the Development Bank of Japan and Japan Travel Bureau Foundation and is the number one choice for 49% of Singaporeans according to a recent study by market research firm, YouGov. Our resorts in Japan have been preparing to welcome back our guests with the needs of post-pandemic travellers in mind," said Rachael Harding, Chief Executive Officer, East and South Asia & Pacific Markets, Club Med. "We are very excited to introduce another property in Japan to meet this pent-up travel demand and to also showcase both enhanced and new programmes plus acti...

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Former Mediacorp artiste Shane Pow intends to admit to drink-driving charge

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SINGAPORE - Former Mediacorp artiste Shane Pow Xun Ping, 30, intends to plead guilty to his drink-driving charge, a district court heard on Thursday (June 3). He will be back in court on July 14 to admit to the offence. This will be his second drink-driving conviction. In 2014, he was fined and disqualified from driving after he was convicted of a similar offence. Details on the fine amount and disqualification period were not revealed in court documents. Pow could end up behind bars this time as repeat drink drivers can be jailed for up two years and fined up to $20,000. First-time offenders can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $10,000. Pow allegedly committed his latest drink-driving offence at around 11.20pm on Sept 17 last year. He is said to have had 49 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath while driving a van along Java Road towards Nicoll Highway that evening. The prescribed limit is 35mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. Besides this case, Pow has also been in the spotlight in recent months, after he was one of 12 guests in an unlawful gathering at veteran actor Terence Cao Guohui's home amid the Covid-19 outbreak last October. Cao, 53, had hosted the event at hi...

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Singapore couples say ‘I do’ despite higher wedding costs, Covid-19 curbs

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SINGAPORE - Mr Jerrold Tan and Ms Stephanie Chan decided not to hold off on their wedding celebrations any more, despite a 10 per cent guest dropout rate and higher costs following the roll-out of stricter Covid-19 regulations. The veterinarians, both 29, tied the knot at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore on Saturday (May 8). They had postponed their wedding celebrations twice owing to the pandemic. "As long as it was safe for us... (we decided) we would go ahead... with the 100-person wedding that we had planned for," said Mr Tan. New regulations were announced on Tuesday, in response to a recent spike in community cases. The rules, which kicked in yesterday, include mandatory pre-event testing (PET) for all unvaccinated attendees of wedding receptions involving more than 50 people. For wedding solemnisations where more than 50 people are attending, PET is also required for an unvaccinated wedding couple. Mr Tan and Ms Chan were unfazed by the PET requirements and having to spend more - as each test cost between $60 to $80 per guest - saying it was better than postponing their wedding again. The couple also shared a video of the PET - prepared by the hotel - with their guests, to assua...

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Full refunds for hotel guests after cases at Crowne Plaza Changi

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Guests at the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport who wish to cancel their bookings can do so at no charge, the hotel said after two Covid-19 cases among its staff forced it to close for two weeks. Those with pre-paid reservations will receive a full refund, it said in a statement to The Straits Times. They will also be given the option of staying in another hotel under its parent, the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). A third linked case was confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday, with a special operation under way to test 234 staff working at the hotel. The latest case is a 20-year-old Singaporean who works at Azur, a restaurant in Crowne Plaza Changi Airport. The man was identified as a close contact of the first case at the hotel, and quarantined on Tuesday. He developed symptoms on Thursday, was swabbed and found in preliminary tests to be positive for the more infectious B117 strain. MOH said that of the 233 hotel staff who have been swabbed, 129 test results have come back negative. The rest are pending. The hotel said its current guests will be given the option to move. A spokesman said: "If they prefer to check out before the end of their stay, they will be compens...