Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Monday, May 6. Trump to hike tariffs on $272 billion of China goods The tougher stance is calculated to compel China to reach an agreement without delay, said analysts. READ MORE HERE Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal says won’t enforce gay death penalty after backlash The sultan’s […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – In a corner of Outback Australia, a drilling crew will soon try tapping shale rocks that could hold more than three times the world’s annual consumption of natural gas. Origin Energy Ltd plans to drill two wells later this year in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin, after the local government ended a […]
SINGAPORE – Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam has given another interview about the proposed fake news law to be read for a second time in Parliament on Monday (May 6). The hard-hitting journalist interviewing him? None other than Ah Lian, a well-known local Internet personality and the alter ego of actress Michelle Chong. […]
SINGAPORE – A rustic landscape with meandering hills, a boardwalk across a marshland and a unique rain tree “island” set in the middle of a lake. This will be a sight that will greet residents of the upcoming Bidadari estate, which will have 10,000 Housing Board (HDB) units and be progressively completed by 2022. Details […]
SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was on his father’s constituency tour on this day 56 years ago when the elder statesman laid a brick that became part of the foundation stone at Princess Elizabeth Estate Community Centre. On Sunday (May 5), PM Lee placed a symbolic brick at where the centre used to […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The number of tourists from China has surged since March with most direct flights from China to Malaysia fully booked. It’s good news for the country as it heads towards Visit Malaysia 2020 but industry players are of the view that there should be additional flights, flexible visa […]
SINGAPORE – The body of a man was found off the coast of a Sentosa beach on Saturday morning (May 4). Police said they were alerted to the case at 7.16am at Tanjong Beach, where they found a body of a man lying motionless along the shoreline. Paramedics from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) […]
The findings from an investigation into actor Aloysius Pang’s death in January, after a training accident, will be presented by Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen when Parliament sits tomorrow. Dr Ng will also set out in his ministerial statement the follow-up actions that will be taken. The House is expected to sit for three days, […]
The billionaire behind online clothing retailer Asos and one of the UK’s largest private landowners bid farewell to three of his children at their funeral today. Anders Holch Povlsen, 46, is Denmark’s wealthiest man and with his wife Anne holds more than 200,000 acres of the Scottish Highlands. They set up the company Wildland in 2007 […]
Japan’s child population has declined for the 38th year in a row and is now at a record low, the government said. The number of children younger than 15 stood at 15.22 million on April 1, down 180,000, or 1.2%, from last year, the Statistics Bureau said. It is the lowest number since comparable data […]