SINGAPORE – The Court of Three Judges on Tuesday (April 23) dismissed the appeal of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Kevin Yip Man Hing against a conviction of professional misconduct. It also allowed an appeal by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and increased Dr Yip’s suspension by three months to eight months. Following a complaint lodged by […]
Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s former chairman, has now spent three months in jail and faces many more. Japan’s former chief prosecutor was, until he unexpectedly resigned on Wednesday, his lawyer, and has declared Mr Ghosn to be a victim of “hostage justice”. It is a term few outside Japan will have heard of until now, but […]
SINGAPORE – About 900 soldiers from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the United States Marine Corps are taking part in an annual bilateral exercise held in Singapore which ends next Monday (April 29). Exercise Valiant Mark, which begun on April 11, will culminate in a battalion heliborne urban operations mission on Wednesday, said the […]
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bomb attacks were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed to be responsible. “The initial investigation has revealed that this was in retaliation for the New Zealand mosque attack,” junior minister for defence Ruwan Wijewardene […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India’s ban on popular Chinese video app TikTok is resulting in “financial losses” of up to US$500,000 (S$678,400) a day for its developer, Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, and has put more than 250 jobs at risk, the company said in a court filing seen by Reuters. TikTok allows users to create […]
PATHANAMTHITTA, INDIA (AFP) – Voters in a flashpoint constituency in southern India went to the polls on Tuesday (April 23) after a campaign dominated by the fallout from the controversial decision to allow women to enter a Hindu temple. The district of Pathanamthitta in the state of Kerala includes the Sabarimala Hindu temple, where two […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar held near three-week highs on Tuesday as a drop in market volatility ramped up demand for riskier assets. With 10-year U.S. Treasury yields up by more than 20 basis points over the past four weeks to a one-month high, demand for U.S.-denominated assets has grown. Broader market moves were quiet […]
Rescuers found more bodies overnight in the rubble of a supermarket that crashed down in a powerful earthquake in the northern Philippines, raising the death toll to 11, officials said. The bodies of four victims were pulled from Chuzon Supermarket and three other villagers died due to collapsed house walls, said Mayor Condralito dela Cruz […]
SINGAPORE -A teenager convinced his 14-year-old classmate to skip her lesson then lured her into a toilet and molested her. The offender, who is now 16, also grabbed the girl’s wrist and forced her to sexually stimulate him. He was sentenced to a year and nine months’ probation on Tuesday (April 23) after pleading guilty […]
SINGAPORE – The police have explained their decision to give a 23-year-old male undergraduate from the National University of Singapore (NUS) a conditional warning for trespassing and filming a female student in the shower without her consent. In a statement on Tuesday (April 23), the police said the accused in this case was assessed to […]