Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Friday, Sept 3. SingPost Centre death: How the elderly man could have got into the stairwell Soh Eng Thong’s body was found three days after he was reported missing. READ MORE HERE 341 Covid-19 cases now linked to bus interchanges, with 21 new cases The 191 […]
SINGAPORE – Former offender Ang Kim Song passed his PSLE, N, O and A levels in a span of five years when he was in jail. Now, he is helping other inmates find success in their studies. In the four years he has taught in the prisons, he has helped a few inmates get into […]
BEIJING (AFP) – US climate envoy John Kerry is in Beijing this week to urge the world’s biggest polluter to reduce its reliance on coal. But China is building more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined, a plan that is threatening to derail its decarbonisation plans and global efforts to tackle […]
SEOUL – South Korea has pledged to develop new missiles “with significantly enhanced destructive power” to deter the North, as it unveiled a new military blueprint with increased budgets for defence. The plan sets aside 315.2 trillion won (S$366 billion) a year for defence spending, marking a 5.8 per cent year-on-year increase on average for […]
PARIS (AFP) – Many of the more than 120,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan are qualified professionals from civil servants to lawyers, a brain drain that will affect the Taliban’s ability to rule, experts say. During the airlift from Kabul led by the United States and other Western countries, people who had worked with the US-backed […]
SINGAPORE – Commuters may have to wait longer for buses if Covid-19 clusters at public bus interchanges continue to grow, though the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said there is no major impact on bus operations for now. At a briefing on Thursday (Sept 2) on the clusters, the authority said contingency plans are in place […]
SINGAPORE – Struggling through secondary school in the Normal stream, Mr Jeff Koh thought that he was not cut out for academia. But after retaking his O levels and getting into Singapore Polytechnic, he found his stride and began to top his class. Now a mechanical technology lecturer at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), […]
KUALA LUMPUR – The market’s positive early reaction to Malaysia’s new government is proof of investor confidence that it is stable despite the fact that it is made up of the same parties that backed the immediate past prime minister, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz has said. Datuk Seri Zafrul – who was reappointed to […]
SINGAPORE – The Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) will have a new second permanent secretary, Mr Chng Kai Fong, 42, from Oct 4. Mr Chng is now the managing director of the Economic Development Board (EDB), and has held appointments at theformer Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, as well as at […]
BANGALORE – The biggest and oldest zoo in the southern Indian city of Chennai reopened last week with resounding roars from 13 lions that have just recovered from Covid-19. For 50 days, the staff had worked round the clock to care for the sick felines, developing what forest officials believe could be a treatment protocol […]