Bloomberg In an election that took place largely on social media, the most tweeted-about hashtags during Singapore’s recent polls reflected the breakthrough made by the main opposition party as it won a record number of seats in Parliament. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit are just some of the platforms where both campaigning, and heated debate, took place as social distancing ...

Bloomberg Thousands of people marched through the streets of the Russian far east city of Khabarovsk, local media reported, in a second week of protests over the arrest of the region’s popular governor, amid a deepening crackdown on opponents of President Vladimir Putin. Demonstrators carried slogans demanding the release of Khabarovsk Governor Sergey Furgal, according to footage posted on social ...

Bloomberg Former Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen warned that the US economic recovery from the coronavirus shock could be slow and uneven and said the central bank may opt to cap yields on Treasury securities to help it along. “It is possible, though not certain,” that the Fed will implement yield-curve control, they wrote on the Brookings Institution ...