U Hla Min, a rice farmer in central Myanmar, was getting regular radiation therapy for cancer when the military seized power on Feb. 1. Initially expected to survive, he lasted less than three months. His treatment ended when doctors at Mandalay General Hospital walked off the job to protest the coup. Soldiers soon occupied the […]
SINGAPORE – A Chinese woman who is employed by Hong Ye Group as a cleaner at ION Orchard is one of the five unlinked cases among nine new community cases on Saturday (June 12). The 45-year-old woman was asymptomatic, and detected when she went for a Covid-19 test directed by her employer on Friday. Her […]
NEW DELHI – Battle rap artistes thrive on offence, irreverence and braggadocio, using language skilfully as weapons to beat their opponent. Their terrain is a free speech zone, where everything is fair game amid deft usage of homophones, similes and metaphors, among other arms. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. […]
BEIJING – Living on 200 yuan (S$41) a month, not working for two years and playing a corpse on television when the mood strikes – such is the life described in a forum post that has gone viral recently, and led to youth in China questioning their choices. “Tang ping” or “lie flat” is the […]
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka is seeking US$40 million (S$53 million) in damages from the operator of a ship that left massive pollution when it caught fire off the country’s west coast, officials said on Saturday (June 12). Ports and shipping minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena said an interim claim had been lodged with X-Press Feeders, which […]
SINGAPORE – While women in Singapore have made good progress over the last few decades, mindsets about the roles and expectations of women and men in a family need to change in order to better support mothers here, Ms Sim Ann, Senior Minister of State for National Development and Foreign Affairs, said on Saturday. She […]
BEIJING (NYTIMES) – The police in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are still buying hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of American DNA equipment despite warnings from the United States government that the sale of such technologies could be used to enable human rights abuses in the region. The US government has tried to prevent […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Saturday, June 12. Helping low-wage workers in S’pore climb the wage ladder While cleaners, security officers and landscape workers have much to cheer about, things are less upbeat for low-wage workers outside of these industries. READ MORE HERE Ion Orchard to close for 4 days […]
SINGAPORE – Mr Ramli Mohd Hussin was 16 years old when he got his first job as a general toilet cleaner in 1988. He earned $380 a month. He had dropped out of his basic course at the Vocational and Industrial Training Board, the equivalent of today’s Institute of Technical Education. Over the years, he took […]
SINGAPORE -A 50-year-old woman who works as a janitor in Raffles City Tower and One Raffles Quay was one of the three Covid-19 cases in the community reported on Friday (June 11). She is employed by Campaign Complete Solutions and was fully vaccinated, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in an update on Friday night. […]