SINGAPORE – An application by a trainee lawyer to be called to the Bar – usually an uneventful process – raised so many questions that a High Court judge said the matter should be “swiftly and vigorously” pursued by the relevant authorities. Lawyer Tan Jeh Yaw, who supervised the six-month training stint of Mr Kuoh […]
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SINGAPORE – An application by a trainee lawyer to be called to the Bar – usually an uneventful process – raised so many questions that a High Court judge said the matter should be “swiftly and vigorously” pursued by the relevant authorities. Lawyer Tan Jeh Yaw, who supervised the six-month training stint of Mr Kuoh […]
Any change in tudung stance should be sensitive to views of other communities: Dialogue participants
SINGAPORE – Any change in the tudung policy for nurses is a sensitive issue that needs to take into account the views of other communities in Singapore, said dialogue participants who met government leaders to discuss the topic on Saturday (April 10). Mufti Nazirudin Mohd Nasir said that the issue of wearing the tudung with […]
SINGAPORE – Firefighters rescued 19 puppies on Saturday morning (April 10) after a fire broke out in a pet store in Upper Thomson Road, near the planned site of the Upper Thomson MRT station. Eyewitnesses said the puppies were carried out of the smoking store in boxes and a group of passers-by helped to hold […]
TAIPEI (BLOOMBERG) – The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island. Eleven People’s Liberation Army planes flew into Taiwan’s south-west air defence identification zone on Friday (April 9), according to a statement from […]
SINGAPORE – There were 32 new Covid-19 cases confirmed at noon on Saturday (April 10), taking Singapore’s total to 60,633. One of these was in the community while the other 31 were imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were no new […]
TOKYO (XINHUA) – Japan’s Kyoto University Hospital has said that it has conducted the world’s first living donor lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient who lost functionality of both her lungs. The patient, a woman who lives in western Japan, is currently in intensive care. Her husband and son, who donated part of their healthy […]
NEW DELHI – India last year built 36.4km of highway roads per day, up from 28.04km per day the previous year, in what Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari described as a world record in a year of disruptions. The Covid-19 pandemic saw the country go into a 21-day nationwide lockdown in March […]
BANGKOK -A new movement has sprung from the fading embers of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests. On Tuesday (April 6), a coalition of political and civic groups called Re-Solution launched a campaign to collect one million signatures to amend Thailand’s Constitution. “One name from everyone. Uproot the Prayut regime,” went the slogan espoused by the candy-coloured mascot, in […]
BANGKOK -A new movement has sprung from the fading embers of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests. On Tuesday (April 6), a coalition of political and civic groups called Re-Solution launched a campaign to collect one million signatures to amend Thailand’s Constitution. “One name from everyone. Uproot the Prayut regime,” went the slogan espoused by the candy-coloured mascot, in […]