SINGAPORE – Raffles Hospital has removed benches from the public area of its premises after a passer-by was bitten by bugs. Mr Zhu Rai Mi, 49, was bitten by what looked like bedbugs when he stopped to sit on a bench in the indoor public area of the hospital around 12.45pm on Friday (Jan 4). […]
SINGAPORE – While they are working hard and pushing themselves, junior lawyers should be aware of potential burnout, said Mr Foo Chee Hock, dean of the Singapore Judicial College. Mr Foo, 58, one of four new Senior Counsels appointed on Monday (Jan 7), added that they should take stock of the situation from time to […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Highly venomous jellyfish have stung more than 3,000 people on Australia’s northeastern shores in just a few days, authorities said on Monday (Jan 7), forcing the closure of several beaches. The massive influx of Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish, whose stings are notoriously painful, has been described as an “invasion” by local […]
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could meet in Vietnam’s capital for their second summit on Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, the South Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbo said. Denuclearisation talks have sputtered since Mr Trump and Mr Kim held an unprecedented meeting in Singapore in June last year, with […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s Sumire Nakamura will become the youngest professional player of the ancient board game Go when she makes her debut on April 1 at the age of 10. Nakamura, who will turn 10 on March 2, according to local media, started playing the game with her father when she was three. The […]
BANGKOK — A young Saudi woman who fled her family and was facing deportation from Thailand won a brief reprieve Monday after she posted a short video from her barricaded hotel room asking for asylum. Thai immigration officials, who had said earlier that they would put her on a plane to Kuwait, allowed her to […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – AirAsia passengers departing from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) will no longer have to pay the RM3 (S$0.99) KLIA2 fee starting Monday (Jan 7). In a statement, budget carrier AirAsia said it will cease charging the fee in an effort to keep fares low. Malaysia Airports […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices jumped by more than 1 percent on Monday, pushed up by optimism that talks in Beijing can resolve a trade war between the United States and China, while supply cuts by major producers also supported crude. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $57.86 per barrel at 0538 GMT, up 80 […]
JAKARTA (AFP) – At least 32 people were killed by a landslide in Indonesia on New Year’s Eve, authorities said on Monday (Jan 7) as they ended a week-long search for missing victims. Rescuers who have been pulling bodies from mountains of mud called off the search with one person still unaccounted for after heavy […]
SINGAPORE – The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has referred a case to the Law Society over possible professional misconduct by Mrs Lee Suet Fern, the daughter-in-law of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, in preparing his last will. In a statement on Monday (Jan 7), the AGC said the referral does not relate to the validity […]