SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia has named a distinguished military leader as its next governor general, who represents Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the country’s head of state, ahead of an election in May. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Sunday (Dec 16) that David Hurley, former Australian Defence Force chief and current governor of the state of […]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico aims to lift oil and gas production by almost 50 percent in the next six years, and in January will agree on infrastructure and drilling contracts to develop 20 fields, the head of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos said on Saturday. Octavio Romero, chief executive officer of the company generally […]
SINGAPORE – SMRT takes the investigation into a recent accident – which injured one of its employees – “very seriously”, said the public transport operator’s chief executive Neo Kian Hong on Friday (Dec 14). Mr Neo said a board of inquiry into the incident has been convened and that the investigation into the matter has […]
A mannequin placed on the ledge of a Housing Board block in Clementi will get to stay for Christmas. Mr Philip Sobrielo Gene, who put up the mannequin as part of Christmas decorations outside his mother’s HDB flat, was told by the Jurong-Clementi Town Council yesterday that he can keep them there until the end […]
SINGAPORE – He proposed to her last month while she was by his bed in the hospital ward, despite having breathing difficulties due to complications from his terminal illness. On Saturday (Dec 15), almost a month after he asked her to marry him, Mr Pang Ming Kwong, 58, exchanged engagement rings with his fiancee, Ms […]
HONG KONG — It began with a quarrel over cigarettes. Weighed down by loans and the burden of single parenting, a 34-year-old woman often took home leftover food and unopened packs of cigarettes from the banquets she occasionally attended in a nearby village in central China. But one night earlier this month, she discovered that […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Donald Trump played down hopes on Friday (Dec 14) for any imminent deal to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal. “Many people have asked how we are doing in our negotiations with North Korea – I always reply by saying we are in no hurry,” he tweeted. But […]
MUMBAI • Surpassing extravagant scenes from a Bollywood movie, the lavish wedding of the daughter of India’s richest man and the son of another tycoon took place on Wednesday, in a mega-party closely watched in the country and beyond. People familiar with the planning estimated the expense at US$100 million (S$137 million), Bloomberg reported. The […]
Mahinda Rajapaksa, who dominated Sri Lankan politics as president for a decade, is now vying for power again – this time as prime minister. In a move opponents are calling unconstitutional, the island’s parliament has been dissolved and fresh elections scheduled for January. Many now fear the return of a man accused of presiding over […]