Eng’s Wanton Noodles at Tanjong Katong Road fined after 68 develop gastroenteritis symptoms in 2021

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SINGAPORE: The licensee of Eng’s Wanton Noodles was fined for selling food unfit for consumption, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on Wednesday (Oct 19). Lao Huo Tang Group was fined S$3,300 after a joint investigation by SFA and the Ministry of Health (MOH) found that the ready-to-eat food items at one of theContinue Reading

China wants patriotic scientists to fight US chip ban

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China aims to recruit and groom a new team of strategic scientists and engineers in an inward-looking reaction to new US sanctions that will force American experts to quit working at Chinese semiconductor fabs. On October 18, the Ministry of Industrial and Information (MIIT) suggested in an opinion document that China should encourage top graduates […]Continue Reading

How Vietnam can win even more from China decoupling

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People move past a clothing boutique selling locally made products in downtown Hanoi on October 29, 2014. A EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement promises to boost Vietnamese exports and growth. AFP / Hoang Dinh Nam

In late August 2022, news broke that Apple was in talks to manufacture its famed Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time. Some view this as a move by transnational corporations and their core suppliers to diversify their production away from China, buffering themselves from intensifying US-China geoeconomic competition. Others interpret this as a sign of […]Continue Reading