SINGAPORE: The Singapore dollar is poised to outperform its South-East Asian peers as a higher vaccination rate and rising core inflation may spur its central bank to start tightening policy sooner than its regional counterparts. While all South-East Asian currencies have been under pressure against the greenback since the Federal Reserve’s latest “ dot plot ” brought US rate-hike forecasts forward, Singapore’s comparative success in dealing with Covid-19 may soon set the local dollar apart from

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DARAGA, Philippines--The Philippines' most active volcano has begun spewing lava in a gentle eruption, putting thousands of people on heightened alert for the possibility of a violent explosion that would force them to suddenly evacuate from their homes, authorities said Monday.... More than 12, 000 villagers have left their homes so far in mandatory evacuations from the mostly poor farming communities within a 6-kilometer( 3.7-mile) radius of Mayon volcano's crater in northeastern Albay provin