Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Tuesday, May 18. Teens aged 12 to 15 to get Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in S’pore The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has demonstrated high efficacy and safety for this age group. READ MORE HERE S’pore delays 2nd vaccine dose to 6-8 weeks later; those aged 40-44 can […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia has recorded 4,865 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (May 18), its highest since the end of January this year to bring the country’s cumulative total to 479,421. In a Twitter post, Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor had 1,743 new cases, the state with […]
NAGOYA, Japan — First came a high fever. Then her face and limbs turned numb. Soon, she could keep down little more than water, sugar and bites of bread as she wasted away in her cell in a Japanese detention center. By early March, Wishma Rathnayake — a migrant from Sri Lanka who was being […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in is hoping to use his first summit with US President Joe Biden this week to revive long-stalled talks with North Korea and urge the White House to embrace the issue with more urgency. South Korean officials say they were heartened by the new administration’s recent policy review, […]
SINGAPORE – There were 38 new Covid-19 cases, including 27 in the community, as at noon on Tuesday (May 18), said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Of the community cases, 11 are currently unlinked. The remaining 16 are linked to previous cases. Fourteen of the community cases had already been quarantined. There were also 11 […]
SINGAPORE – Ikea is recalling some of its plates, bowls and mugs because of safety concerns. In a press release on Tuesday (May 18), the Swedish furniture chain said the Heroisk and Talrika plates, bowls and mugs can break when used with hot food and potentially cause burns. It had received reports of these products breaking. […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – A unit of Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Tuesday (May 18) it can develop detection kits for new variants of the coronavirus in about a month, responding to concerns over the spread of more infectious strains of the virus. Fujifilm Wako Pure Chemical Corp developed a kit that can identify the […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – A top medical organisation has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics, saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games. The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association, representing about 6,000 primary care doctors, said hospitals in […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday (May 18) to look into the tech powerhouse’s electricity management after two major blackouts hit homes and businesses in less than a week, triggering criticism of the government’s power policy. Taiwan, which hosts major chipmakers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, imposed power cuts on Monday […]
SINGAPORE – Veteran actor Terence Cao Guohui, who had initially organised a gathering at his home for himself and five others last October, later found more guests at his doorstep after one of his friends invited them to the party. The friend, Lance Lim Chee Keong, 50, had invited four more people and the total […]