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 […]
PORAC, Philippines (AFP) – Philippine rescuers were scrambling on Tuesday (April 23) to reach dozens of people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake, as the death toll climbed to 11. The 6.3 magnitude quake struck northwest of the capital on Monday, scientists from the US […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SINGAPORE – As a single mother of three young children, Ms Lydia Indranee, 34, has to juggle care of her energetic youngsters, aged seven to 11, with full-time work. This presents a challenge for the human resource manager, who often has to work overtime as well. But thanks to the CareNights @ Morning Star programme offered by […]
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 • […]
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 […]
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 […]