SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh has described former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s account that the opposition party’s leaders had told her to take her lie “to the grave”, as a “complete, utter fabrication” and a “bare lie”. The WP chief had told her that if the issue came up in Parliament, she had to […]
SINGAPORE – Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh did not see it as relevant for the public to know that Workers’ Party (WP) leaders knew about Ms Raeesah Khan’s lie days after it was uttered in Parliament. Instead, Mr Singh said he decided to call a press conference on Dec 2 and disclose this information […]
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AFP) – Gunmen shot dead a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s northwest on Sunday (Dec 12) in the second such killing in two days, police said. The attack in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came a day after two men with the Pakistani Taliban gunned down another police officer who […]
JAKARTA – Haunted by trauma, survivors of the deadly Mount Semeru eruption earlier this month in Lumajang, East Java, are hoping for a relocation of their settlement to avert recurrent danger. After taking shelter in a school for a few days, Ms Suprih Miyati, 40, ventured home to check if she could save some of her […]
BANGKOK – A salt tax, which was slated to have come into effect in Thailand this year but was deferred, could be implemented next year with a lead time of one or two years for industries to adapt. This was disclosed by the president of the Nephrology Society of Thailand, Dr Surasak Kantachuvesiri, who also […]
SINGAPORE – The Republic’s first museum dedicated to children will be opening its doors to visitors next December. Targeted at families with kids aged 12 and younger, the museum is located at the former Singapore Philatelic Museum. The team behind Children’s Museum Singapore gave an update on Tuesday (Dec 7), unveiling its logo and tagline: Start […]
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japan and South Korea agreed to have a dialogue to restore a “healthy relationship” after long-simmering tensions between the two sides worsened in recent years, Kyodo reported. Japan Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met with his South Korean counterpart Chung Eui-Yong on the sidelines of G-7 summit in Liverpool, England, on Saturday (Dec […]
KABUL (AFP) – Four Afghan brothers have hauled their family’s carpet loom out of storage in the desperate hope of earning a living as the nation’s economy teeters on the edge of ruin. The Haidari brothers now spend their days sitting abreast on a squat bench – as generations of the family did before them […]
CANBERRA (REUTERS,BLOOMBERG)) – Australia said on Sunday (Dec 12) it will shorten the waiting time for people to receive Covid-19 booster vaccines following a rise in cases of the Omicron variant. Australia had previously said it would offer a Covid-19 booster to everyone over 18 who had their second dose of the vaccine six months prior. […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a tweet early on Sunday (Dec 12). The matter was escalated to Twitter and the Prime Minister’s personal twitter handle @narendramodi was immediately secured, PMO India’s tweet said, adding any tweet shared […]