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You shouldn't simply open up after you reach zero COVID-19 cases, because there will be latent cases lurking around. Even after more than 200 days without locally transmitted infections, Taiwan remains conservative and refuses to open up carte blanche. And now, the incident with this cruise ship, and the stoppage of the travel... 

Is it about our “willingness to pay fair prices” for “ethnic food” or a matter of our societal goal to manage the rising cost of living here? The burden of keeping hawker food affordable must fall primarily on the Government who must keep all key cost drivers like rentals, utilities and raw ingredients etc. as low as... 

Quite a lot of netizens have commented as to why the Business Times' headline is that the employment rate has gone back to pre-Covid-19 levels, when all the labour statistics (unemployment, unemployment rates, etc) continue to worsen? Well, a lot of people may be working at much lower wages, part-time, less work hours, freelance,...