SINGAPORE – Patients who have undergone cataract surgery have to apply steroid eye drops every three to four hours in a day, for up to one month or longer, in order to control eye inflammation that occurs after the surgery. But it is common for patients to find eye drops difficult to apply, or to […]
SINGAPORE – Patients who have undergone cataract surgery have to apply steroid eye drops every three to four hours in a day, for up to one month or longer, in order to control eye inflammation that occurs after the surgery. But it is common for patients to find eye drops difficult to apply, or to […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia will begin work on a 145 megawatt (MW) floating solar power project, the largest in South-east Asia, after state power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and Masdar of United Arab Emirates agreed financing for the project on Tuesday (Aug 3). Indonesia aims to have 23 per cent of its energy from […]
SINGAPORE – Seafood sellers in wet markets saw few customers on Tuesday (Aug 3) even after Jurong Fishery Port returned to business on Monday night. The markets were virtually empty as consumers continued to prefer to shop in supermarkets, despite prices of most common seafood like red snapper and grey prawns staying the same. Mr […]
SINGAPORE – Around 80 per cent of tenants and workers at Jurong Fishery Port are fully vaccinated, with 88 per cent having received at least one dose, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu on Tuesday (Aug 3). During a visit to the port in the morning, she noted that the vaccination rate at […]
SINGAPORE – While schools have the flexibility to start later so that students get enough sleep, parents must also play their part to cultivate good sleep habits, said Minister of State for Education Sun Xueling on Tuesday (Aug 3). She was responding to Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim (Sengkang GRC) and Ms Cheng Li Hui […]
SINGAPORE – While schools have the flexibility to start later so that students get enough sleep, parents must also play their part to cultivate good sleep habits, said Minister of State for Education Sun Xueling on Tuesday (Aug 3). She was responding to Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim (Sengkang GRC) and Ms Cheng Li Hui […]
SINGAPORE – Around 780 former offenders have been hired between September 2020 and February this year, with support from a government scheme introduced in August last year to encourage firms to hire more locals. This number makes up 56 per cent of ex-offenders who were helped by Yellow Ribbon Singapore to find a job after […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – In the year since making an unprecedented, taboo-breaking speech openly calling for discussion on the role of Thailand’s powerful king, human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa has spent months in jail, charged with the crime of defaming the monarchy. He’s one of 103 people from Thailand’s youth-led anti-government protests now charged with insulting […]
BANGKOK – Singapore will contribute US$100,000 (S$135,000) to Asean’s humanitarian assistance unit as it begins preparations to provide aid to Myanmar, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Monday (Aug 2) after meeting his counterparts from the region. “We discussed the situation in Myanmar, which remains of grave concern,” he wrote on Facebook after the […]