Boeing leaves Singapore empty-handed, unlike the sanitizer thief

A visitor takes a photograph of the US fighter jet during an aerial display at the Singapore Air Show in Singapore. Bosses at one US aerospace company were befuddled when they arrived at their corporate booth on Thursday morning to find it had been liberated of hand sanitizers. Everything else -- aircraft models, television sets and branded coat pins -- was left untouched. - AP

SINGAPORE: The giants of aviation left the Singapore Airshow on Friday (Feb 14) with little to brag about, but someone ended up with one of the hottest deals in town: a couple of boxes of hand sanitizers.

Alarm over the novel coronavirus outbreak has led to panic-buying of unlikely hot commodities, from toilet paper and instant noodles to soap and even condoms, which people have been using as makeshift finger protectors -- safe texts and all that.