SINGAPORE – Mandatory testing will be conducted for some residents in Bukit Batok, Outram and Farrer Park after Covid-19 cases were detected in Housing Board flats in those areas. Seven people from four households at Block 237 Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 were confirmed to have Covid-19 infections, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday (Aug […]
TOKYO – The man behind the so-called “anti-sex” beds that have gone viral at the Olympics, Airweave president Motokuni Takaoka, confessed to being surprised at how the claim began and was eventually debunked as fake news. Airweave has created 18,000 beds and mattresses for Olympic athletes, with 8,000 of them to be repurposed for use […]
BANGKOK – While Asean has now appointed a special envoy to try to facilitate dialogue amid Myanmar’s crisis, the key question is whether he would be able to gain access to all the political stakeholders in the country, says Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. “Political solutions whilst essential, are difficult and will take … prolonged […]
SINGAPORE – Competition is hotting up between local motoring portals as upstart UCars teams up with content provider CarBuyer in a bid to rival established incumbent sgCarMart. The development comes on the heels of six-year-old Carro announcing plans for a public listing after securing US$360 million (S$486 million) in funding in June, Motorist.sg planning to […]
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have captured the capital of one of Afghanistan’s western provinces, Afghan officials said on Friday, a symbolic milestone in the insurgents’ relentless march to retake power in the country. Taliban fighters faced little resistance in taking Zaranj, the provincial capital of Nimruz on the Afghanistan-Iran border, Afghan officials said. They […]
SINGAPORE – More support will be given to hawkers to defray the costs of using food delivery services, as such platforms continue to remain popular with diners amid Covid-19 restrictions. The Food Delivery Support Scheme (FDSS), which provides one-time $500 cash assistance to cooked-food stallholders, will be reintroduced on Friday (Aug 6). During a visit to […]
TAIPEI – In what is being seen as an effort to boost confidence in home-grown vaccines, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and Vice President William Lai have signed up to receive them. Both domestically-developed vaccines remain controversial as they have not undergone phase 3 clinical trials which are critical for determining if they offer protection against […]
SINGAPORE – There were 93 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases reported late on Friday afternoon (Aug 6). Of these, 56 were linked to previous cases and had already been quarantined, while another eight linked cases were not in quarantine when detected. The remaining 29 were new unlinked cases. This figure is down from 38 on Thursday. […]
SINGAPORE – There were 93 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases reported late on Friday afternoon (Aug 6). Of these, 56 were linked to previous cases and had already been quarantined, while another eight linked cases were not in quarantine when detected. The remaining 29 were new unlinked cases. This figure is down from 38 on Thursday. […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian man was on Friday (Aug 6) ordered to appear in court over a sexual assault in Parliament, an alleged crime that fuelled a fresh wave of #MeToo protests in the country. The 26-year-old man will appear in court in September over the 2019 rape after officers served a summons to […]