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Man arrested for allegedly cheating Carousell users of USS and ZoukOut entry tickets

SINGAPORE – A 27-year-old man was arrested on Monday (April 22) for allegedly cheating Carousell users of Universal Studios Singapore and ZoukOut Singapore 2018 entry tickets. In a statement on Tuesday, the police said that they received several e-commerce scam reports from victims between December last year and March. Victims said that after they made […]

PG&E seeks higher cost of capital on increased wildfire risk

(Reuters) – California utility PG&E Corp said on Monday it submitted a proposal with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which if approved, would result in an increase of about 7 percent in monthly bill for some electricity customers. The company has proposed a $1.2 billion increase in its currently approved cost of capital to […]

Sri Lanka Was Warned of Possible Attacks. Why Didn’t It Stop Them?

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle of the night that one suspect would visit his wife. In the days leading up to the devastating suicide attacks that killed nearly 300 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the country’s […]

Samsung to delay launch of Galaxy Fold phone: Wall Street Journal

SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – Samsung Electronics will delay the planned launch Friday of its first foldable smartphone until at least next month, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The Galaxy Fold, priced at almost US$2,000, was hit by early reviews that showed several problems with test versions of the device. The […]

Sri Lanka PM not alerted to warning of attack because of feud: Minister

COLOMBO (REUTERS) – A rift between Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister, which sparked a crisis last year, came under scrutiny on Monday (April 22), a day after a series of deadly bomb blasts, with questions over how the government handled a recent warning of an attack. The premier has been kept out of intelligence […]

What We Know and Don’t Know About the Sri Lanka Bombings

On Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, coordinated bombings targeted churches, hotels and other sites, killing more than 290 people and injuring roughly 500 others. The attacks in Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, are the largest carried out on South Asian Christians in recent memory. What we know about the attacks • […]

SK Hynix eyeing part of MagnaChip Semiconductor – source

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc is looking at buying part of logic chip maker MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, adding nothing had been decided. SK Hynix, the world’s second-biggest memory chipmaker, and its bigger rival Samsung Electronics, have been beefing up development of logic […]

Singaporeans advised to defer non-essential travel to Sri Lanka: Foreign Ministry

SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has issued a travel advisory asking Singaporeans to defer all non-essential travel to Sri Lanka, following a series of attacks at churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday that killed at least 290 people and wounded more than 500. The Sri Lanka government has declared a state of emergency […]