SINGAPORE – Gaps in safe management measures at Jurong Fishery Port (JFP), such as lapses in mask wearing, will be rectified before the port is reopened, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said in Parliament on Monday (July 26). While investigations by the Ministry of Health and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) are […]
XINXIANG, CHINA (REUTERS) – Chinese farmer Cheng wades through knee-deep water, pulling dead pigs behind him one-by-one by a rope tied around their ankles as he lines up the bloated carcasses for disposal. More than 100 of Mr Cheng’s pigs drowned in in floods that paralysed China’s central Henan province last week, and the outlook […]
SINGAPORE – Since the start of Covid-19, over 15,000 workers have been placed in public sector or government-funded short-term roles, said Manpower Minister Tan See Leng in Parliament on Monday (July 26). These workers were placed under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package to support Covid-19 operations such as swabbing or quarantine procedures, implementing safe […]
SINGAPORE – The nation’s Covid-19 vaccination rate has been going up by about one percentage point a day, with 54 per cent of the population having received two doses of a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine as at Sunday (July 25). Revealing this in a ministerial statement on Monday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea kicked off Covid-19 vaccinations for people ages 55 – 59 on Monday (July 26) to speed up the pace of its inoculation campaign, as the country battles the fourth wave of infections. The rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations for people in their upper 50s had sputtered to a week-long halt this […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – One of the Hong Kong democracy activists who was returned from a Chinese jail after being captured at sea last year was ordered detained in a training centre for under-20-year-olds on Monday (July 26) for attempted arson and possessing dangerous objects. Hoang Lam Phuc, 17, was among a group of 12 […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday (July 26) she has agreed to a request from Turkish authorities to accept the return of a New Zealand citizen accused of having links to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and her two young children. The three have been in immigration detention […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Monday, July 26. Free Covid-19 test kits for visitors of 2 markets as Jurong Fishery Port cluster grows to 792 2 new clusters were reported by MOH, while 3 clusters were closed. READ MORE HERE 16 quick test centres for Covid-19 set up in S’pore, […]
SINGAPORE – Eager buyers converged on the lorry, loaded with durians in large 50kg baskets, as soon as it stopped in front of Mr Michael Siow’s hardware store in Balestier Road on July 14. For Mr Siow, 54, it is the first harvest from his new durian venture – Titi Durian – to be sold […]
SINGAPORE – When Madam S Veluthai learned in 2018 that husband Murugan was sentenced to the gallows, she pledged in prayer to donate the gold Thali necklace she had worn for more than 25 years to a Hindu temple, if he were spared. Earlier this month, her prayer was answered when the prosecution amended the charge […]