CHANGCHUN (XINHUA) – A total of 44 tourists in a wave pool in north-east China’s Jilin Province were injured due to a malfunction at the facility, local authorities said Wednesday (July 31). The accident occurred around 2.40pm on Monday at the Yulongshuiyun Water Park in the city of Longjing, the municipal publicity department said. As […]
SINGAPORE – When former Lianhe Zaobao intern Tan Yu Jia, 22, finishes her communication studies at Nanyang Technological University, and gets her own desk in the newsroom as a full-time reporter, she will display one item with pride. It is a handcrafted item made of cloth and newspaper, given to her by a woman with […]
KARACHI (AFP) – At least 12 people were killed as monsoon rains lashed Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, officials and charity groups confirmed Wednesday (July 31), while flooding also triggered power outages and overwhelmed the metropolis’s fragile infrastructure. Authorities said the deaths occurred largely due to electrocutions caused by ill-maintained power lines even as large […]
BANGKOK – Attempts to reduce tension in the contested South China Sea reached a milestone on Wednesday (July 31) when Beijing revealed that Asean and China had completed the first reading of the single draft negotiating text for a code of conduct (COC). “This represents a new and important progress in the COC consultations and […]
SINGAPORE – The Government will continue to partner the labour movement in its efforts to support workers, but it is crucial that workers are at the heart of policymaking, labour chief Ng Chee Meng said on Wednesday (July 31). This is so that when Singapore succeeds, Singaporeans can share in that success, said the National […]
At least 10 people were injured when fireworks were shot from a moving car into a crowd of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Video on social media showed people running for cover as fiery trails were shot towards them outside a police station in Tin Shui Wai district. The activists had been supporting a small […]
MUZAFFARABAD (AFP) – Pakistani officials evacuated more than 50 Chinese nationals working near the Kashmir frontier, authorities said Wednesday (July 31), after skirmishes with India killed at least three people and injured dozens. The Chinese were working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelam and Jhelum rivers when […]
SINGAPORE – Heart surgeons in Singapore now have an extra set of helping hands in the operating theatre. Their new assistant comes in the form of a robotic arm which assists them in minute but vital surgical manoeuvres. It allows doctors here to more efficiently and precisely perform angioplasty. The process sees surgeons place stents […]
YANTAI, CHINA (REUTERS) – A crackdown on the chemical sector by the Chinese government is having a bigger impact on businesses than the United States-China trade war, an industry association official said on Wednesday (July 31), with supply chains disrupted by tough inspections and plant closures. China has launched a series of inspection campaigns aimed […]
SINGAPORE – The group managing director of local construction firm Or Kim Peow Contractors (OKP), Or Toh Wat, was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in court on Wednesday (July 31), for all his three charges in relation to the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) viaduct collapse in July 2017. These were two charges under […]