JAKARTA – Singapore and Indonesia are on the lookout for opportunities to work together more closely in infrastructure, investment and human resource development – three areas Indonesian President Joko Widodo has flagged as crucial to helping his country weather turbulence in the global economy. The age of digital disruption and shifts in global value chains […]
(Reuters) – Technology stocks pushed European shares to three-week lows on Thursday after software firm SAP reported poor results, the latest company to warn about damage from protracted trade tensions as gloom about earnings spreads across global equities. Shares in Europe’s most valuable tech company (SAPG.DE) dove 6% after it said investors would have to […]
SINGAPORE – He is the highest-ranked Singaporean polo player and has been shortlisted to represent the country in the sport at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) this November in the Philippines, a district court heard on Thursday (July 18). According to his lawyer, Abdul Sattar Khan was also the national polo team’s deputy coach […]
Dozens of people were injured in a blaze at a Japanese animation studio in Kyoto on Thursday and the police were treating the fire as arson, news media in Japan reported. More than 30 people were injured in the blaze, some of whom were reported to be unconscious, and several people were feared to have […]
SHANGHAI (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It has been three weeks since Shanghai implemented new regulations on domestic waste management, and residents in the metropolis have already developed various new dining habits for online food orders – to reduce the hassle of trash sorting. Eleme, the Alibaba-backed food delivery platform, reported receiving more than 4,100 […]
TOKYO (AFP) – A breakthrough technique harnessing two methods to target disease-carrying mosquitoes was able to effectively eradicate buzzing biters in two test sites in China, according to research published on Thursday (July 18). The mosquitoes targeted are a type that is particularly difficult to control called Aedes albopictus – more popularly known as the […]
LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – Eni has filed a fraud complaint against its former head of oil trading over a suspect Iraqi crude oil shipment, amid concerns inside the Italian oil major that the failed delivery may have included Iranian crude targeted by U.S. sanctions. In the filing to the Milan prosecutor’s office Eni accused its former […]
Singapore is fortifying its defences against climate change, with $400 million being pumped into upgrading and maintaining its drains over the next two years and $10 million more channelled to studying sea level rise. These are just two of a multitude of measures meant to guard against a “perfect storm” of events that could see […]
SINGAPORE – Laundry shop manager Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock, 51, who strangled his China lover in his car at a quiet road near Gardens by the Bay, and then burned her body, was found guilty of murder on Thursday (July 18). Judicial Commissioner Audrey Lim convicted Khoo of murdering engineer Cui Yajie, 31, on the morning […]
Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment, and the United States Army combed through a forested area before fighting through an urban training area, with infantry carrier vehicles moving in to help with capturing the objective. In the course of their assault at the Murai Urban Training Facility yesterday, the 300 or so troops […]