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Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has overtaken Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person, according to Bloomberg. A 6% rise in Tesla shares on January 7 lifted the value of Musk’s stock holdings and options by $10 billion, taking his net worth to about $191 billion. A more modest rise of less than 2 per cent lifted Bezos’ Amazon shares by about $3 billion, putting his net worth at approximately $187 billion. While taking to Twitter, Musk responded to the news of his status as the world’s richest person. He also said that he intended to use half of his fortune to “help problems on Earth” and “half to help establish a...

The employer of a foreign domestic worker who tried to commit suicide after a year of his repeated abuse was jailed 10 months and 12 weeks on Thursday (Jan 7).James Ong Teck Keong, 48, had slapped and threw a bottle at Ms San Pa Pa, as well as scalded her with hot water. Unable to take the abuse, she tried to kill herself by jumping off the ninth floor of the block of flats where they lived.She had to be restrained by Ong’s wife and another domestic worker living at the same block. In late November last year, a district court found Ong guilty of four counts of assaulting Ms San Pa Pa, who is from Myanmar, and one count of committing a rash act by throwing a filled water bottle at...

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Two out of five young people in Hong Kong will not take the COVID-19 vaccine, a survey finds, with the vaccine’s efficacy and place of origin among major concerns. Results of the survey, released Sunday, showed that 40.8% of the respondents said that they will not get vaccinated. Just 8% said they “definitely” would. The survey was conducted by Youth New World, a charity tackling poverty in the city. The group surveyed 412 people below the age of 30 via an online questionnaire during the last week of December. Among those who expressed reservations about the vaccine, 81% said they have doubts about its effectiveness while 72% are worried about potential side...

Hong Kong lawmakers suggested that residents should receive up to HK$5,000 (US$645) as a cash incentive for getting the COVID-19 vaccine when the first million doses arrive in January. In a Legislative Council meeting Wednesday, lawmakers questioned Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan about the government’s plan for boosting the city’s vaccination rate. Pro-establishment lawmaker Leung Che-cheung said that people should be given HK$5,000 (US$645) for getting vaccinated, saying, “If there is nothing to motivate residents to be vaccinated, it will be the end of Hong Kong.” Chan Kin-por, a lawmaker representing the insurance sector, also said that people should...

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Amid a sea of fake news circulating on the internet regarding coronavirus, a picture post has gone viral which claims that COVID-19 vaccines prove more effective in men when they are injected through the penis. The post doing the rounds seems to be a CNN news article claiming that doctors are advocating injecting COVID-19 vaccines in the penis with the headline, “Doctors encourage COVID-19 vaccine injections in penis”. Also Read - SII CEO Adar Poonawalla Says Exports of Vaccines Permitted to All Countries, Issues Clarification Pictures of the screenshot which are being widely shared on social media, shows an image of a doctor and a digital sketch depicting an injection in the...

Two nursing home residents died after receiving doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The Medical Director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency and Norway's National Institute of Public Health is investigating the deaths. This comes after a paediatric surgery assistant in Porto was found dead two days after being administered the Pfizer coronavirus jab. According to the Daily mail, Sonia Acevedo, a 41-year-old nurse suffered a "sudden death" at her home on Friday (January 1), 48 hours after being vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Medical Director of Norwegian Medicines Agency Steiner Madsen said in a statement, "We have to assess whether the vaccine is the cause of...

The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said two scientists on the United Nations team had already left their home countries for Wuhan when they were told that Chinese officials had not approved the necessary permissions to enter the country. The arrangements had been jointly agreed with China in advance. "I am very disappointed with this news," Tedros told a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday. "I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials and I have once again made clear that the mission is a...