SINGAPORE – The national water agency PUB is investigating if construction works were to blame for the flood at the Pasir Ris-Tampines junction on Friday morning (Aug 20). In a statement on Facebook, it said its Quick Response Team was immediately deployed when flooding was reported at the junction of Tampines Ave 10 and Pasir […]
SEOUL — The list of election issues set to define South Korea’s presidential race next year is long. The runaway housing prices, the pandemic, North Korea and gender inequality are a start. But an unlikely addition has also emerged in recent weeks: China. South Korea’s decision to let the American military deploy a powerful antimissile […]
SINGAPORE – Landscape maintenance workers will see their minimum basic wages rise by 6.3 per cent a year on average, over six years, after proposals by a tripartite committee on the landscape industry wage ladder were accepted by the Government on Friday (Aug 20). The wage increases will take effect over six years from July […]
SINGAPORE – Landscape maintenance workers will see their minimum basic wages rise by 6.3 per cent a year on average, over six years, after proposals by a tripartite committee on the landscape industry wage ladder were accepted by the Government on Friday (Aug 20). The wage increases will take effect over six years from July […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China has played a constructive role in promoting peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan and is welcome to contribute to the rebuilding of the country, Taleban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Chinese state media. Taleban militants seized control over the weekend in an upheaval that sent thousands of civilians and Afghan military allies fleeing […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – Two positive Covid-19 cases have been recorded in New Zealand’s capital city Wellington on Friday (Aug 20), Radio New Zealand reported, without revealing its source for the information. The cases are part of the same family, the radio station reported. So far, all cases in the outbreak have been in Auckland and […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Friday, Aug 20. 2 new Covid-19 clusters in S’pore: Giant supermarket in Hougang, another with 32 cases Seven cases are linked to the cluster at the supermarket. READ MORE HERE Travel to and from Singapore without quarantine: How the new Vaccinated Travel Lane works For a […]
The Taliban cracked down on protests that erupted in at least four cities in Afghanistan on Thursday and rounded up opponents despite promises of amnesty, even as fearful workers stayed home and thousands of people continued a frenzied rush to leave the country. Even as the Taliban moved to assert control, hundreds of protesters took […]
Along with Pakistan and China, Russia has gained broad influence in security matters at the expense of the United States and India. By Andrew E. Kramer and Anton Troianovski DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — As the Afghan government collapsed this week in Kabul and the United States scrambled to speed up its evacuation effort, hundreds of Russian […]
Twenty years after they were ousted, the Taliban are once again in control of Afghanistan. They swiftly returned to power as the United States was winding down its decades-long presence in the country, where it spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build up the Afghan government and its defense forces. As the Taliban, whose […]