SINGAPORE – Singapore was on Friday (Nov 10) re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for a 15th consecutive term. The IMO is a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN) that helps facilitate cooperation among governments on matters affecting international shipping, such as maritime safety and prevention of pollution from ships. […]
SINGAPORE – Singaporean and Malaysian police have crippled two international scam syndicates, arresting 15 people in a series of raids in Johor, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The raids were conducted between Monday (Dec 6) and Friday (Dec 10) by the Commercial Affairs Department and seven divisions of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Commercial […]
SINGAPORE – A mother-and-daughter pair pulled a maid’s arms to try to drag her out of a Housing Board flat after the Myanmar national said that she wanted to stop working for the daughter’s household. The mother, Hai Yulan, also grabbed the maid’s shoulders when the latter resisted. A district court heard on Friday (Dec […]
SINGAPORE – In an attempt to claim money from the Covid-19 Support Grant, a 48-year-old administrative officer forged a termination letter from the condominium she worked at. Rajagopal Malini also took cash given to her by residents for their maintenance fees. Separately, in September last year, she went on a shopping spree with her children […]
SINGAPORE – On a 19th century Korean “map of the world”, the land of women, the land of immortals, the land of those with no intestines and the land of those with one eye are marked. Unsurprisingly for its time, China, once known as the Middle Kingdom, is fixed at the centre of a cosmic […]
SINGAPORE – Multiculturalism and harmony have always been the focus in Singapore but foreign ideas now travel here at the speed of light through the Internet and social media, said Senior Minister of State for Manpower Zaqy Mohamad. But these ideas must be contextualised against lived experiences and the nation’s social fabric before they are […]
SINGAPORE – It was past 10.30pm and the shutters had been rolled down, but the drinks were still flowing inside the bar. People went in and out of Darts Buddy through the back door on Jan 29, and at least 35 patrons were still consuming alcohol 10 minutes after 10.30pm. Several glasses containing alcohol were […]
KUCHING, SARAWAK – Two independence-seeking parties are contesting the Sarawak election on Dec 18, no doubt seeking to capitalise on what is believed to be a growing sentiment for more autonomy in the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. But voters in the rural hinterland of the vast state, which is as big as […]
SINGAPORE – The total number of flights going through Changi Airport has reached one-third of pre-pandemic levels as Singapore’s air hub continues its gradual recovery. According to data from flight tracker FlightAware, the trailing seven-day average number of flights passing through the airport was 359 on Thursday (Dec 9). This was just over a third […]
TAIPEI (BLOOMBERG) – A mouse bite is at the centre of an investigation into a possible new Covid-19 outbreak in Taiwan, after a worker at a high-security laboratory was confirmed as the island’s first local case in more than a month. The lab worker, a woman in her 20s, tested positive for Covid this week […]