With his top honours in finance and economics, Singaporean Edwin Chaw, who recently graduated from the University of Melbourne, should enjoy good job prospects when he returns home. But the 26-year-old is applying for jobs in Melbourne, Australia, instead, as he believes that his past as a “dropout” from the elite Integrated Programme at Hwa […]
DHAKA (AFP) – Voting began in a Bangladesh general election on Sunday (Dec 30) which is expected to deliver a record fourth term for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Polls opened at at 8am (10am Singapore) amid tight security following a campaign that was marred by violence and allegations of a government crackdown on opposition activists. Some […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Sunday, Dec 30. Four-room HDB resale flats cross $1m mark in Tiong Bahru At least four such transactions have been made since September, with all of them located in same cluster in Tiong Bahru. READ MORE HERE ‘I flunked the IP’: Integrated Programme dropout shares his […]
SINGAPORE – Their engagement ceremony at Mount Elizabeth Hospital two weeks ago touched thousands online, and he wanted to register their marriage in January. But, he did not make it. Mr Pang Ming Kwong, who had terminal lung cancer, died at 1.21am on Friday (Dec 28), friends said. He was 58. When contacted by The […]
MANILA (AFP) – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday (Dec 29), monitors said, adding that a tsunami threat was possible for parts of the Philippines and neighbouring Indonesia. The quake struck southeast of Davao City at a depth of 59km, the US Geological Survey said, while the Pacific […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Saturday, Dec 29. Parents see red as operator of school bus quotes monthly charge of up to $550 A bus operator engaged by Singapore Chinese Girls’ School has enraged parents by quoting a monthly fee that is almost double that of the previous bus contractor. […]
LONDON (Reuters) – European shares clawed back losses on Friday, buoyed by a bounce on Wall Street as a turbulent week drew to a close and investors licked their wounds after the region’s benchmark STOXX 600 sank to its lowest level since U.S. President Donald Trump’s election. The STOXX 600 ended the day up 1.9 […]
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that a U.S. labor agency’s Obama-era standard making it easier to hold companies liable for illegal labor practices by their contractors and franchisees was too broad, giving business groups a victory. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling, said that […]
SEOUL, South Korea — The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers gained access to a resettlement agency’s database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said it discovered last week that the names, birth dates and addresses of 997 defectors […]
SINGAPORE – The last time they rode up the Tiger Sky Tower more than 10 years ago, Singaporeans Benedict John and Marianne John were in primary school and were accompanying their parents for a day out in Sentosa. Now university students, the roles were reversed as the siblings brought their parents and grandparents for a […]