SINGAPORE – Social service veteran Gerard Ee remembers well the moment he became “addicted” to helping others. About 30 years ago, Mr Ee was roped in by his father, the late Dr Ee Peng Liang, founder of Community Chest, to help with the logistics for a Community Chest TV show. While he was there managing […]
SINGAPORE – At least 49 people have fallen ill with gastroenteritis after eating food prepared at Spize Restaurant, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Friday (Nov 9). Of the 49 cases, 21 were hospitalised. All of the affected individuals had consumed food that was prepared at Spize Restaurant’s River Valley Road outlet on Tuesday. The […]
SHANGHAI (AFP) – China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. Calling it a “world first”, Xinhua news agency this week debuted a pair of virtual news anchors amid a state-directed embrace of […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s automobile sales fell 11.7 percent in October, bringing the world’s biggest car market closer to an annual contraction not seen since at least 1990. Data from the country’s top auto industry association released on Friday showed 10-month cumulative sales falling, amid broader slowing economic growth and a biting trade war between […]
SINGAPORE – A law firm legal executive approached Traffic Police clerk Khatijah A. Manap and asked her if she could pass him the contact details of traffic accident victims found in police reports. Gulzar Raja Singh Sandhu also told Khatijah, who is 63 this year, that she would be given $200 for every victim who […]
SINGAPORE – A clutch of freshly restored historical landmarks and icons such as the gleaming Jurong Town Hall, The Great Madras boutique hotel in Little India and the colourful headquarters of home-grown biscuit brand Khong Guan have been gaining attention on social media over the past year. On Friday (Nov 9), the heritage buildings were […]
SINGAPORE – The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has filed a police report against five of its full-time national servicemen for taking and circulating photos of the scene of an accident involving a Bionix armoured vehicle last Saturday (Nov 3). One of the photos that ended up in social media shows a Bionix vehicle on […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is considering a stimulus package worth around 10 trillion yen ($87.87 billion) to offset the impact of a sales tax hike next year and to increase public works spending after a series of natural disasters, three sources said. Some of the funds would go toward measures previously announced, such as […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar rose towards a 16-month high on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady and reaffirmed its monetary tightening stance, cueing up investors for a rate hike in December. The greenback fell sharply following U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday on expectations that the outcome of the vote would […]
SINGAPORE – A man molested his young nephew just two months after serving a sentence in a reformative training centre for outraging the modesty of another boy. The 21-year-old man was sentenced on Friday (Nov 9) to three years’ jail and six strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to two counts of molestation. He […]