SINGAPORE – A floating city in Singapore may well become a reality, with Keppel Corp exploring such nearshore urban developments. Keppel chief executive officer and executive director Loh Chin Hua disclosed this at the World Cities Summit on Tuesday (June 22), during a panel discussion on how cities can take the lead in responding to climate, social […]
SINGAPORE – Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) has developed surgical techniques to treat nasal deformity in Asians. These include a new nose bone sculpting technique and instruments for nasal surgeries, or rhinoplasty. Dr Ng Chew Lip, who specialises in ear, nose and throat (ENT) and facial plastic surgery, introduced the techniques to cater to […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – The head of a major inquiry into Japan’s nuclear disaster and a former senior Cabinet adviser have sounded the alarm over plans this week to restart a 44-year old reactor, saying the industry and government have not taken on board the lessons from Fukushima. Kansai Electric Power, which serves Osaka and its […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – A Thai medical committee has agreed to narrow the gap between doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to eight weeks from 10-12 weeks previously in places where there has been outbreaks of the Delta variant, an official said on Tuesday (June 22). Areas where the more contagious Delta variant, first identified in […]
HANOI (REUTERS) – One million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine will be transferred to Vietnam weekly starting next month to fulfil its order of 30 million doses within this year, state media reported on Tuesday (June 22). Vietnam, which has so far received about 4.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, has relied heavily on the […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday (June 22) approved bail for a pro-democracy activist who is among 47 charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on its freest city last year, the city’s public broadcaster RTHK reported. Owen Chow, 24, who has been in […]
SINGAPORE – There were more instances of financial advisers offering unsuitable recommendations or using inappropriate influence – through gifts or incentives – at roadshow sales than through customer referrals, a mystery shopping exercise by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has found. A majority of financial advisers also failed to properly identify if their clients […]
SINGAPORE – Public spaces and one of the blocks at the Enabling Village in Redhill will be deep cleaned, after a cleaner at the community and social business hub tested positive for Covid-19. In a Facebook post, SG Enable, a government agency that seeks to empower people with disabilities, said that the cleaner worked at […]
SINGAPORE – With the resumption of dining in for up to two people on Monday (June 21), restaurants are slowly filling up as bookings trickle in for the week ahead. One-Michelin-starred Restaurant Labyrinth at Esplanade Mall, which reopens on Tuesday after closing for a month, initially had 30 per cent of its reservations cancelled or […]
SINGAPORE – In a lengthy judgment, Justice Chan Seng Onn, who acquitted Ms Parti Liyani last year, set out why the prosecution against the former domestic worker was not frivolous or vexatious as she had asserted. Sufficiency of evidence Justice Chan said there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Ms Parti. He said: “While I overturned all […]