SINGAPORE – NTUC Foodfare has denied a report that a stall owner who died of heart failure – allegedly after working 18-hour days – had appealed to the social enterprise to have his hours shortened. An elderly hawker who owned two stalls at Changi Airport’s Terminal 4 food court died after falling ill on Feb […]
A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a lump of trash in its stomach including 115 plastic drinking cups and two flip-flops. Wakatobi National Park chief Heri Santoso said rescuers found the rotting carcass of the 31-foot sperm whale on Monday near Kapota waters in the Southeast Sulawesi province. Mr Santoso said […]
SINGAPORE – Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has appointed Professor Simon Redfern, a scientist and academic at Cambridge University, as the new dean of its College of Science. Prof Redfern is an experimental materials physicist and also a mineral physics professor at Cambridge, and heads its Earth Sciences Department. He will leave his positions in Cambridge […]
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, in Sapporo. The capital city of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido saw its first snowfall of the season early on Tuesday (Nov 20), which matches the latest date ever recorded in history. Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, quoting the Sapporo District Meteorological Observatory, reported on Tuesday […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s municipal government will assign citizens and firms “personal trustworthiness points” by 2021, state media reported on Tuesday (Nov 20), pioneering China’s controversial plan for a “social credit” system to monitor citizens and businesses. The system’s rollout has attracted international headlines, sparking comparisons to George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, with critics saying […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – A panel advising Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso urged the government on Tuesday to go ahead with a planned sales tax hike next October, taking all steps needed to prevent a downturn while also avoiding fiscal expansion. The proposal, made in recommendations from the Fiscal System Council, is the basis for debate […]
(Reuters) – Florida-based Islamic wealth manager ShariaPortfolio Inc aims to expand into Canada next year, as the firm taps into a growing number of Muslim clients seeking to invest according to their religious beliefs, its chief executive told Reuters. The plans by the independent investment adviser highlight how Islamic finance is gradually developing in some […]
PETALING JAYA • Umno members should accept the reality of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal as denials will continue to hurt the party, said former Cabinet minister and MP Khairy Jamaluddin. “1MDB is not a perception or slander, but it is indeed a case that has been proven in the United States. What is […]
SINGAPORE – A man who allegedly killed his daughter was taken to court on Tuesday (Nov 20). Tan Tian Chye, 64, was charged with murdering Ms Desiree Tan Jiaping, 35, in a unit on the eighth story of Block 171 Bedok South Road. Court documents did not disclose details about her death, such as the injuries […]
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Three men who allegedly plotted “chilling” terror attacks in Melbourne were arrested early Tuesday (Nov 20), less than two weeks after a stabbing rampage inspired by the ISIS group left two dead in Australia’s second largest city, police said. The trio, all Australian nationals of Turkish descent, were nabbed in overnight raids […]