Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Saturday, June 15. Malaysian police detain Azmin’s accuser, Haziq, in gay sex video scandal Mr Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz (above), who claims that he and Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali are the men in the sex video, has been detained by police. A group aligned […]
For Staff Sergeant Muhammad Khairi Khairudin, following in his father’s footsteps by joining the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) allowed him to have a better appreciation of his father’s job. Staff Sgt Khairi, 28, a fire and rescue specialist section commander at Ang Mo Kio Fire Station and the oldest of four sons, said: “To […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Power producers NextEra Inc , Consolidated Edison Inc and Calpine Corp on Thursday said they will appeal to try to overturn a recent decision by a judge that a federal regulator has no say in whether utility PG&E Corp (PCG.N) may reject its power purchase agreements if it chooses to while […]
SINGAPORE – Two Malaysian men were caught trying to evade the goods and services tax (GST) on items they brought into Singapore at Woodlands Checkpoint, Singapore Customs said in a Facebook post on Friday (June 14). Both men were nabbed by Singapore Customs officers on Monday. One of them, a 30-year-old, under-declared the value of […]
SINGAPORE – An annual cyber security youth camp has been expanded to include additional focus on artificial intelligence (AI), with more than 1,500 students from 30 schools taking part in the two-day event. The camp has been held yearly since 2012, but this is the first time it is held with the expanded format. This […]
SINGAPORE – Fibre broadband services for users in some areas of Yishun were affected on Friday evening (June 14). Three telcos – Singtel, M1 and StarHub – posted updates informing users that the difficulties in accessing the fibre network were due to a NetLink Trust fibre outage. In a statement issued on its website at […]
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – Audi, Nissan and other car makers are banking on talking cartoon characters and other virtual reality experiences to keep drivers and other occupants of future autonomous vehicles entertained, car industry executives said. Carmakers have long focused on getting drivers to sit tight and pay attention to the road. Now, as the industry […]
(Reuters) – Technology shares pushed European stock markets lower on Friday after U.S. chipmaker Broadcom warned of a broad slowdown in demand due to trade tensions and the U.S. ban on Chinese mobile phone company Huawei Technologies. Disappointing industrial data out of China also dampened sentiment shortly after opening and the pan-European STOXX 600 index […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The outlook for oil demand growth in 2019 has dimmed due to worsening prospects for world trade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday, although stimulus packages and developing countries should boost growth going into 2020. The Paris-based IEA, which coordinates the energy policies of industrial nations, revised down its 2019 […]
SINGAPORE – When entering a pool of water, a person who does not know how to swim might not know to breathe in before entering, and to exhale slightly while submerged. As a result, it is possible he might inhale water while submerged. Forensic pathologist George Paul was pointing this out as he testified on […]