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Singapore extends quarantine-free entry as Asia shifts to “living with COVID”

SINGAPORE, March 24 (Reuters) – Singapore said on Thursday it will lift quarantine requirements for all vaccinated travellers from next month, joining a string of countries in Asia moving more firmly toward a “living with the virus” approach. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the financial hub will also drop requirements to wear masks outdoors […]

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5 Unique Hotels in Singapore: Comfy and Affordable

Unique is a word that describes unusual, different, and characteristic. Some people love unique things and find out about many unique things in this world. Well, in Singapore it also has many unique things, especially when you see unusual interiors. Some hotels in Singapore have unique interiors. We provide a list of unique hotels in […]

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COVID Hong Kong quarantine prompts banking exodus and Australia could benefit along with Singapore

“It is a horrific situation, and it has become increasingly untenable,” he said. “Looking at my clients in the banking sector, a lot of them have been thinking about repositioning people down to south-east Asia. Singapore is a beneficiary of that. But I also think increasingly, because of its proximity to south-east Asia, Australia will […]

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Singapore and Thailand join Australia in easing travel rules

Thailand and Singapore require arrivals to isolate until they get the results of an-on arrival PCR test. Thailand requires another PCR test on day five. Singapore has dropped its requirement for supervised arrival tests on day three and day seven to free up capacity in its system as community transmission of omicron increases. Travellers are […]

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Thailand reintroduces quarantine and Singapore tightens entry restrictions

The spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is forcing countries around the world to introduce tighter border controls and entry restrictions on foreign travellers. Thailand has announced that it will be reintroducing mandatory quarantine for international travellers, while Singapore has suspended its Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), which allowed the quarantine-free entry of international travellers […]

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Singapore and Malaysia freeze ticket sales for vaccinated travel amid Omicron fears.

Singapore said on Wednesday that it would halt flight and bus ticket sales for passengers coming from two dozen countries with which it had established vaccinated travel lanes — a setback for a program that the island nation had hoped would rev up its pandemic-battered economy. It joined other countries in the Asia-Pacific region in […]

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Travel bubble with Singapore brings international students back to Australia

MELBOURNE, Nov 21 (Reuters) – A group of international university students arrived in Australia from Singapore on Sunday after nearly a two-year pandemic absence, as a travel bubble between the two countries came into effect. Fully vaccinated travellers from Singapore are now allowed into Melbourne or Sydney without the need to quarantine – part of […]

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Singapore extends VTLs to Malaysia, Sweden, Finland

Malaysia Airlines aircraft are parked on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on September 7, 2020. Mohd Rasfan | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Quarantine-free travel between Singapore and neighboring Malaysia will start from Nov. 29 for vaccinated travelers, the two countries announced Monday. Sweden and Finland will also be included in […]

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