SINGAPORE – The 23 individuals who had close contact with a Nigerian man diagnosed with monkeypox earlier this month are well and have shown no sign so far of having caught the infection, as of Monday evening (May 13). They will remain in quarantine up till 21 days from the last time they were in […]
SINGAPORE – It was not the front facade of the old Traffic Police headquarters along Maxwell Road that piqued heritage conservation expert Ho Weng Hin’s interest during refurbishment efforts, but rather, the building’s rear. For 72 years until 1999, that was where the communal kitchens for the Traffic Police officers and their families were located. […]
SINGAPORE – He started touching his daughter sexually when she was as young as five years old, and when she was around 11, he started having unprotected sex with her. The abuse took place at least once a month, and it was only when the girl was 16 years old that she realised what her […]
The automaker says it expects operating profits to fall by 28 percent in the coming financial year. The troubles at Japan’s second-biggest carmaker, Nissan, appear to be worsening. As its former chairman Carlos Ghosn defends himself against allegations of financial misconduct, the company said on Tuesday it expects operating profits to fall by 28 percent […]
SINGAPORE – All 20 Singapore Management University (SMU) students who were injured in a bus accident during a community service project trip to Vietnam last Saturday (May 11) have safely returned home. Four of the students had to return to Singapore by air ambulance. Two of them – one of whom had suffered a hip […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain may need to copy the United States in building a “super shield” against catastrophic cyber attacks or major IT glitches that could cripple the finance industry, a senior Bank of England official said on Tuesday. The BoE is already taking action to ensure that banks, insurers and other financial firms can […]
HONG KONG — A man in a white protective suit parked a dump truck at the edge of a dusty pit and unloaded a pile of pink carcasses. They tumbled to the ground just as a second truck arrived with another batch. The scene at a Hong Kong landfill this week was part of a […]
BEIJING (AFP) – Beijing unleashed its tightly controlled media this week after keeping a lid on rhetoric for months as the trade war with Washington reignited, with fiery clips from state media ricocheting around the internet. The spree of editorials and commentaries in China’s state media on Monday (May 13) and Tuesday ramped up attacks […]
BEIJING – Singapore’s racial and religious harmony today is the result of decades of hard work and deliberate policies that came from holding firm to an early vision of a united Singapore that is for all races, President Halimah Yacob has said. In an interview with the People’s Daily newspaper ahead of her three-day visit […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone industrial production fell in March for a second straight month as output declined in France and Italy but recovered in the bloc’s largest economy, Germany, data from the European Union’s statistics agency showed on Tuesday. Eurostat said output in the 19 countries sharing the euro dropped by 0.3% on the […]