SINGAPORE – The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) women’s wing and youth wing will present a joint paper with proposals on furthering women’s development to the Government in the coming months. In Facebook posts on Sunday (May 23), PAP women’s wing chairman Josephine Teo and Young PAP chairman Janil Puthucheary said the paper will set out […]
Kerala uses tracking of patients and supplies, a network of health care workers and coronavirus “war rooms” to succeed where the national government has fallen short. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat When India’s second coronavirus wave slammed the country last month, leaving many cities without enough doctors, nurses, hospital beds or lifesaving oxygen to cope, Sajeev […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Sunday, May 23. S’pore’s construction blues: Manpower shortage exacerbated by barring of South Asian workers Asking workers to also work on Sundays is not appropriate as it will cause fatigue and expose them to more worksite risks, said a Scal spokesman. READ MORE HERE Jem and Westgate […]
BEIJING (AFP) – At least 16 people were killed and five more are missing after extreme weather hit runners taking part in a 100km cross-country mountain race in China, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday (May 23). “Extreme weather hit the area during the race” being held in the Yellow River Stone Forest near […]
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has apologised to former DJ Jade Rasif for saying that her account of her domestic worker’s Covid-19 scare was “inaccurate”. In a Facebook post on Saturday night (May 22), MOM said it was retracting its point about Ms Rasif’s account and redacting the word “inaccurate” from its post […]
SINGAPORE – Jem and Westgate will be closed from Sunday (May 23) for two weeks for deep cleaning after investigations found that there is likely ongoing transmission among visitors to the two malls in Jurong East. The closure aims to break any potential chain of transmission and enable deep cleaning of the premises, said the Ministry of Health […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The Pacific island nation of Samoa hurtled toward a constitutional crisis on Saturday, when the country’s head of state announced that he was suspending Parliament just two days before it was scheduled to swear in the country’s first new prime minister in more than two decades. In a single-page letter posted […]
SINGAPORE – Business owners have been asked by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) to update their onsite staff numbers. This is to enable the Government to monitor the number of people working outside as Singapore works to choke the spread of Covid-19 during its current period of heightened alert. An MTI spokesman told […]
SYDNEY – Australia is experiencing a solar power boom, as a growing number of households install photovoltaic (PV) panels on their roofs and turn their houses into power plants. There is also a growing push to lift the currently low rates of battery installation – a move that would enable solar power storage and drastically increase […]
SINGAPORE – The police said on Saturday (May 22) that they were investigating a 50-year-old man for allegedly using abusive language towards their officers. Separately, a 32-year-old man is also being probed for allegedly using criminal force against a safe distancing enforcement officer. In the first case, which occurred on May 12, the 50-year-old was […]