At least four business missions between Singapore and China will take place over the next three months as travel between the two countries restarts following three disrupted years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Nov 15, the government announced that it’s extending the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) to six more countries such as India and Indonesia. This comes after last week’s announcement on the VTL to Malaysia. As of writing, this brings the total number of VTL countries to 21. Other countries under the VTL previously announced include Australia, South Korea, the United.
Two crude oil traders quit Exxon Mobil s Singapore team
5/19/2021
Two senior crude oil traders will be leaving ExxonMobil Corp s trading team in Singapore next month, sources familiar with the matter said.
Ruddin Dhilawala will join Norwegian energy major Equinor, while Edward Ang will go to Hengyi Petrochemical, which runs a refinery in Brunei, the sources said.
Exxon Mobil said it does not comment on personnel matters.
Equinor and Hengyi did not respond to requests for comment.
Dhilawala and Ang declined to comment. (Reporting by Florence Tan and Shu Zhang; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
Published February 8, 2021, 2:38 PM
Despite the tightness in supply, the Philippine government is targeting to bring down the farm-gate price of pork in the country to P165 to P170 per kilogram (/kg), which is nearly double the commodity’s current retail cost of around P350/kg recently recorded at select markets in Metro Manila.
This is amid the implementation of a new price cap on pork within Metro Manila, based on the Executive Order (EO) recently signed by President Rodrigo Duterte.
During the Laging Handa briefing on Monday, Agriculture Secretary William Dar confirmed that the Department of Agriculture (DA) is indeed providing a transport subsidy of P21/kg to hog shipments coming to Metro Manila, which was first reported in Manila Bulletin on Sunday.