SINGAPORE – Mandatory swab tests for residents of eight Housing Board blocks in Bukit Merah View started smoothly on Sunday (June 20), as Covid-19 testing was expanded to break the links of virus transmission in the community. The mandatory testing for residents of Blocks 116, 117, 118, 119, 124A, 124B, 125 and 126 Bukit Merah […]
DHAKA (REUTERS) – Busy with his brushes beneath a tarpaulin roof, Rohingya artist Ansar Ullah works on a mural depicting a giant vial of Covid-19 vaccine towering over the ramshackle homes of the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh. More than 700,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in 2017 live in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, where a […]
SINGAPORE – Children whose fathers take paternity leave when they are born are significantly less likely to have behavioural issues like hyperactivity or anti-social behaviour, according to a local study by the National University of Singapore (NUS). The two factors have a cause-and-effect relationship, the study found after using rigorous statistical methods. Please subscribe or […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Two construction workers were injured after metal scaffolding of a highway that was under construction in Malaysia collapsed on Saturday (June 19). The incident was reported along the Sungai Buloh – Kota Damansara stretch of the North Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur at […]
NEW DELHI – When a young female journalist accused well-known publisher and journalist Tarun Tejpal of rape and sexual harassment in 2013, it was a sensational case that grabbed headlines not just in India but internationally as well. Mr Tejpal was the founder of Tehelka Magazine, where he encouraged investigations based on sting operations, including […]
KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian government’s hard stance against illegal migrants could worsen the Covid-19 outbreak in the country, as many may go into hiding, raising the risks of new clusters. The authorities in recent weeks have conducted a series of raids which saw hundreds of undocumented migrants being rounded up. Please subscribe or log […]
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has said that there was no indication that a 72-year-old woman who died a day after she received her first Covid-19 jab had had an allergic reaction to the vaccine. It was responding to media queries about a Facebook post by Mr Andrew Tan, who questioned if his […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – A Sydney man who posted extremist rhetoric and possessed recipes for explosives has been arrested for allegedly being a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, the Australian police said on Saturday (June 19). “The man has been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation, namely Islamic State”, after […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – The airport in China’s southern city of Shenzhen said on Saturday (June 19) that anyone entering the premises must show a negative virus test taken within 48 hours before entry. The instruction posted on the airport’s official WeChat page follows the outbreak of new cases in southern China since late May which […]
YANGON (REUTERS) – Supporters of Myanmar’s detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi wore flowers in their hair and paraded with them at street demonstrations on Saturday (June 19) as she marked her 76th birthday locked up by the generals who overthrew her. Protests have been held almost daily in Myanmar since Ms Suu Kyi was […]