SINGAPORE – After three no-shows in State Courts to face 23 new charges of forgery-related offences, Hin Leong Trading founder Lim Oon Kuin finally showed up on Friday morning (April 30) in a wheelchair. He initially did not enter the dock – a point noted by the court. “Is there any reason why the accused […]
SEOUL (XINHUA) – South Korea decided Friday (April 30) to extend its tightened quarantine measures for three more weeks amid lingering worry about a small cluster of Covid-19 infections in the Seoul metropolitan area. Under the country’s five-tier social-distancing guidelines, the third-highest Level 2 will be kept in place till May 23 in the capital […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – An activist group in South Korea said on Friday (April 30) it had released balloons into North Korea carrying dollar bills and leaflets denouncing the government in Pyongyang, defying a recently imposed law banning such releases. Mr Park Sang-hak, who defected from North Korea in 2000 and heads the group Fighters For […]
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – As Indonesia’s borders stay shut for a year and counting, people who used to travel overseas for medical treatment are turning to local hospitals. “More and more cancer patients are showing up at the hospital that I went to,” said Ms Edyth Chatrina, a lawyer who took her 76-year old mother for […]
City Harvest Church, a foodcourt in National University of Singapore (NUS) and popular malls were among places visited by Covid-19 patients while they were still infectious, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (April 29). A food court at NUS Bukit Timah Campus known as The Summit was visited on four separate occasions between […]
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Nato has started the withdrawal of its mission from Afghanistan following a decision by President Joe Biden to bring US forces home, an alliance official said on Thursday (April 29). “Nato Allies decided in mid-April to start the withdrawal of Resolute Support Mission forces by May 1 and this withdrawal has begun. […]
SINGAPORE – Seven family members of a 38-year-old Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer who was earlier diagnosed with Covid-19 are confirmed to have the virus, and were likely to have caught it during a gathering last Sunday (April 25). The Health Ministry (MOH) gave this update on Thursday night, adding that all seven had already […]
NEW DELHI – India, which until a few weeks ago was a global supplier of vaccines and medicines, is now depending on help pouring in from over 40 countries, rich and poor, in a sign of how Covid-19 can quickly change fortunes. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said at a press conference on Thursday (April […]
SINGAPORE – Thirty-two Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at Changi Airport have been placed under quarantine order, while around 100 will be tested for Covid-19 as a precaution. The 32 officers were identified to have been in close contact with the 38-year-old officer who tested positive for Covid-19, said ICA on Thursday (April 29). The […]
SINGAPORE – When Ms Jenine Koh was in primary school, she was in student care at a centre her mother ran alongside a pre-school. As a child, she saw first hand how her mother led both the pre-school and the student care centre. “It was the start of everything,” she said. She went on to […]