HONG KONG (REUTERS) – US tech giants Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the city if the authorities proceed with planned changes to data-protection laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (July 5), citing a letter. The […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The police will tighten control at all localities placed under the enhanced movement control order (MCO) in Malaysia, the Bernama agency reported, following an incident where three men escaped from a People’s Housing Project (PPR) in Jalan Kampung Pasir in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief Yong […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Getting vaccinated in Australia is like “The Hunger Games” a top health official admitted Monday (June 5), as the country battles scarce supplies during a growing Covid-19 outbreak. A vaccine shortage has led to panicked efforts by people looking to get jabbed, said Mr Brad Hazzard, health minister for the country’s most […]
SINGAPORE – While the People’s Action Party (PAP) and Workers’ Party (WP) both want a racially integrated Singapore, the country is more likely to achieve this with the Government’s housing policies, said Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean on Monday (July 5). Joining the debate on the Housing Board’s Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP), Mr Teo said […]
SINGAPORE – There are 13 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus as at Monday noon (July 5), taking Singapore’s total to 62,630, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Of these cases, six are locally transmitted and seven are imported. The six locally transmitted cases include two unlinked cases. The remaining four are linked to existing […]
SINGAPORE – With travel disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is getting harder for tech firms here to bring in talent. But this does not mean that the sector has come to a standstill in Singapore. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at […]
SINGAPORE – About 21 per cent of households successfully appealed for a waiver of the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) on their Housing Board flats last year, up from 14 per cent in 2018. Last year, the HDB received 500 such appeals, with more appeals coming from sellers from the minority races. The 500 appeals made […]
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) – Malaysia will examine recruitment fees charged to workers and review its agreements with the home countries of migrant workers, the Human Resources Ministry said, after the South-east Asian nation was downgraded in a United States human trafficking report. The US State Department last week ranked Malaysia in “Tier 3” in this year’s Trafficking […]
SINGAPORE – People here are exercising more and eating healthier now compared with last year, with about three in four saying physical health is “very much” a priority. But nearly 25 per cent said their mental health has suffered, with money woes being the top reason for anxiety and depression, a recent poll has found. […]
SINGAPORE – Project Wolbachia – Singapore’s weapon against dengue fever – has managed to suppress the Aedes aegypti mosquito population by up to 98 per cent, with 88 per cent fewer dengue cases, at selected study sites. The study sites were in Yishun, Tampines, Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Batok towns, where male mosquitoes carrying the […]