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When the ‘New Normal’ is Far from Normal

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Fend off the Zoom fatigue and keep your audience wanting more Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, online events, meetings, and conferences are pretty much part of our lives. Most of us have even had enough by this point, with Zoom fatigue setting in deeply.  Though we may all be a little tired of […]

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Fend off the Zoom fatigue and keep your audience wanting more Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, online events, meetings, and conferences are pretty much part of our lives. Most of us have even had enough by this point, with Zoom fatigue setting in deeply.  Though we may all be a little tired of

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Keeping Your Head in the Game: NBA in COVID-19

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Professional sports in the age of COVID-19 By Yun Chen Nearly 1,400 adults, mostly super-athletic males, were isolated and locked up for almost three months, in a faraway, man-made world. In this artificial world, famous attractions, habitats, and cultures from all over the world were replicated, and participants battled against each other to stay until

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Professional sports in the age of COVID-19 By Yun Chen Nearly 1,400 adults, mostly super-athletic males, were isolated and locked up for almost three months, in a faraway, man-made world. In this artificial world, famous attractions, habitats, and cultures from all over the world were replicated, and participants battled against each other to stay until

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Meaning and Wellbeing in Troubled Times

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Boundaries can be your best friends – use them to keep your mental health strong. By LEANNE LAM The past year has been filled with ups and downs, uncertainties, and changes for all of us. From travel bans, to setting up home offices, to adjusting to a masked way of life, there were a lot

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Boundaries can be your best friends – use them to keep your mental health strong. By LEANNE LAM The past year has been filled with ups and downs, uncertainties, and changes for all of us. From travel bans, to setting up home offices, to adjusting to a masked way of life, there were a lot

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Overcoming Zoom Anxieties

An Actor’s Advice: Staying Authentic and Overcoming Zoom Anxieties

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By Crystal Yu Zoom me (zoom me) on the line, Zoom me, zoom me any, anytime. “Yuck!  I hate it.  It is just so impersonal and unnatural!” a close friend of mine exclaimed when asked how she feels about all the Zoom meetings and auditions since COVID-19 began.   “I stood in my living room and

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By Crystal Yu Zoom me (zoom me) on the line, Zoom me, zoom me any, anytime. “Yuck!  I hate it.  It is just so impersonal and unnatural!” a close friend of mine exclaimed when asked how she feels about all the Zoom meetings and auditions since COVID-19 began.   “I stood in my living room and

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Countering Burnout in the Remote Work Era

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How to avoid burnout in the age of remote working. While some may feel the need to work all the time to showcase their devotion and productivity to their employers, others may struggle to balance their work and personal life. For working parents, remote working becomes all the more stressful as they now have to

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How to avoid burnout in the age of remote working. While some may feel the need to work all the time to showcase their devotion and productivity to their employers, others may struggle to balance their work and personal life. For working parents, remote working becomes all the more stressful as they now have to

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[Press Release] Shell Singapore and D’Crypt Pilot Singapore’s First Contact Tracing Device Use in Live Process Plant Environment

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A modified version of D’Crypt’s BluePass contact tracing device will be issued to 4,000 people working on or visiting Shell’s Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site to automate COVID-19 management January 12, 2021, SINGAPORE − D’Crypt, a Temasek-owned security engineering company, today announced that it has embarked on a pilot project with Shell Singapore, to deploy specially

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A modified version of D’Crypt’s BluePass contact tracing device will be issued to 4,000 people working on or visiting Shell’s Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site to automate COVID-19 management January 12, 2021, SINGAPORE − D’Crypt, a Temasek-owned security engineering company, today announced that it has embarked on a pilot project with Shell Singapore, to deploy specially

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Free Trade Agreements are Writing a New Chapter for Asia

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Asia-Europe trade deals drive momentum for SME recovery By Kawal Preet As economies worldwide respond to continued waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are positive signs in markets across Asia, where cross-border commerce is trending positively against the backdrop of the health crisis. This is the marketplace for growth. Asia has long been a world

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Asia-Europe trade deals drive momentum for SME recovery By Kawal Preet As economies worldwide respond to continued waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are positive signs in markets across Asia, where cross-border commerce is trending positively against the backdrop of the health crisis. This is the marketplace for growth. Asia has long been a world

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Phase Scientific International Wants to Make Regular Rapid Antigen Tests Possible for All

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PHASE Scientific International has built rapid antigen tests based on the easy-to-use home pregnancy testing mechanism. The device is designed to enable mass rapid testing and tracking for COVID-19. Ricky Chiu speaks with Jumpstart about the tech behind the innovation. It’s been a busy year at Hong Kong-based biotech startup PHASE Scientific International. The Bill

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PHASE Scientific International has built rapid antigen tests based on the easy-to-use home pregnancy testing mechanism. The device is designed to enable mass rapid testing and tracking for COVID-19. Ricky Chiu speaks with Jumpstart about the tech behind the innovation. It’s been a busy year at Hong Kong-based biotech startup PHASE Scientific International. The Bill

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Healthy Bites Nutrition to Keep Your Mental Health in Top Shape

Healthy Bites: Nutrition to Keep Your Mental Health in Top Shape

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By Michelle Lau COVID-19-depression is real, and so is the urge to reach for comfort food, but eating with care is a much better, healthier, and more sustainable solution to the mental health pandemic. Now more than ever, we need to be mindful of our mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we may find ourselves

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By Michelle Lau COVID-19-depression is real, and so is the urge to reach for comfort food, but eating with care is a much better, healthier, and more sustainable solution to the mental health pandemic. Now more than ever, we need to be mindful of our mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we may find ourselves

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Meeting Business Challenges in the New Normal

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By Nilanjan Raghunath and Durriya Nadeem Practical and essential insights for businesses with the drive to survive. We are facing an unprecedented global crisis, where normal life has stopped for the world’s vast population. Like all crises, this too will end, and there has been plenty of chatter about the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19.  But

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By Nilanjan Raghunath and Durriya Nadeem Practical and essential insights for businesses with the drive to survive. We are facing an unprecedented global crisis, where normal life has stopped for the world’s vast population. Like all crises, this too will end, and there has been plenty of chatter about the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19.  But

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[Press Release] AVIA closes the year on a high note with its biggest turnout yet for the Asia Video Summit, behind a backdrop of COVID-19, content, collaboration and community.

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AVIA closes the year on a high note with its biggest turnout yet for the Asia Video Summit, behind a backdrop of COVID-19, content, collaboration and community. This year’s summit was attended by over 1000 delegates globally and featured the industry’s first hybrid event with live gatherings in both Hong Kong and Singapore. FOR IMMEDIATE

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AVIA closes the year on a high note with its biggest turnout yet for the Asia Video Summit, behind a backdrop of COVID-19, content, collaboration and community. This year’s summit was attended by over 1000 delegates globally and featured the industry’s first hybrid event with live gatherings in both Hong Kong and Singapore. FOR IMMEDIATE

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Leveling Up in the Post-pandemic Esports Market

Leveling Up in the Post-pandemic Esports Market

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Why esports companies should change their business strategies in a post-COVID-19 market, and how exactly it should be executed. The US$1 billion esports sector is set to win this pandemic. With hordes of players entering the gaming landscape, craving the experience of online social interaction in lieu of offline social distancing, esports has seen a

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Why esports companies should change their business strategies in a post-COVID-19 market, and how exactly it should be executed. The US$1 billion esports sector is set to win this pandemic. With hordes of players entering the gaming landscape, craving the experience of online social interaction in lieu of offline social distancing, esports has seen a

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COVID-19 and the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents

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Being moody, or clingy, throwing tantrums, or experiencing breakdowns are symptoms of declining mental health. How is COVID-19 affecting children and what can parents do about it? Social distancing, online learning, and remote work have become our ‘new normal.’ These disruptions in our daily routine and lifestyles have been stressful for everyone, but for children

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Being moody, or clingy, throwing tantrums, or experiencing breakdowns are symptoms of declining mental health. How is COVID-19 affecting children and what can parents do about it? Social distancing, online learning, and remote work have become our ‘new normal.’ These disruptions in our daily routine and lifestyles have been stressful for everyone, but for children

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A Clean Bill of Innovation

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How Raze is reinventing the sanitation space during the Covid-19 era For months now, the world has been eyeing the great unknown of Covid-19 with fear and apprehension from behind closed doors. Sterilizing homes, offices, and every other place that facilitates human interaction has become a top priority on a local and international level. One

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How Raze is reinventing the sanitation space during the Covid-19 era For months now, the world has been eyeing the great unknown of Covid-19 with fear and apprehension from behind closed doors. Sterilizing homes, offices, and every other place that facilitates human interaction has become a top priority on a local and international level. One

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Cybersecurity in Crisis Risky Business for Young Companies

Cybersecurity in Crisis: Risky Business for Young Companies

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Startups and SMEs are facing a wave of cybercrime during the Covid-19 pandemic In the non-fiction classic In Cold Blood, Truman Capote documents a 1959 crime that shook the state of Kansas. One glaring detail about the crime stood out from the rest: the criminals walked into the house they were robbing through an unlocked

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Startups and SMEs are facing a wave of cybercrime during the Covid-19 pandemic In the non-fiction classic In Cold Blood, Truman Capote documents a 1959 crime that shook the state of Kansas. One glaring detail about the crime stood out from the rest: the criminals walked into the house they were robbing through an unlocked

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How to Bring Your Accelerator Online

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By Zane Bojāre COVID-19 has been a force of digitization in many industries, including the startup accelerator world, as many programs have been forced to move online in recent months. But running programs online is not new; Y Combinator’s Startup School is an 8-week online program and we have been running our digital native accelerator

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By Zane Bojāre COVID-19 has been a force of digitization in many industries, including the startup accelerator world, as many programs have been forced to move online in recent months. But running programs online is not new; Y Combinator’s Startup School is an 8-week online program and we have been running our digital native accelerator

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