SINGAPORE – A former district judge has been fined $2,700 and disqualified from driving for seven months over traffic offences he committed in 2019. Wong Keen Onn, 63, pleaded guilty on Friday (April 16) to one count of reckless driving and one count of breaching a traffic signal. He was represented by lawyer Tan Hee […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – The Thai health authorities on Tuesday (April 20) assured the public that there were sufficient hospital beds for the rising number of coronavirus patients, amid a new wave of infections this month that has spread fast across the country. Thailand’s policy of hospitalising all those who test positive for Covid-19, even those […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – Ms Nick Yanez, a 28-year-old ambulance nurse in a satellite city of Manila, says she sometimes spends six to seven hours in her emergency vehicle caring for a Covid-19 patient before a bed can be found in a hospital. Already facing one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in Asia, the Philippines has […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Surfers in the coastal Australian town of Byron Bay staged a “paddle out” protest Tuesday (April 20) as locals rally against a planned Netflix reality show they say will damage their beachside paradise. Local media images showed dozens of people who formed a symbol for ‘no’ in the ocean to demonstrate their […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – India’s surging epidemic has forced both its financial and political capitals into lockdown, spurring a fresh exodus of migrant labourers fleeing the cities fearing vanishing jobs as panic rises over the ferocity of the country’s second Covid-19 wave. The nation now has the world’s fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding 259,170 new infections […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he was prepared to send his military ships in the South China Sea to stake a claim over oil and mineral resources in the disputed part of the strategic waterway. With some critics complaining that Mr Duterte had gone soft by refusing to push Beijing to comply […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Terrorist groups have conducted 11 attacks since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic last year. These attacks resulted in the killing of two police officers, seven civilians and seven terrorists, and injuring three police officers and 20 civilians. Ten attacks were perpetrated by two pro-Islamic State (IS) groups, […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – A testing and quarantine free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand launched with lopsided demand, according to airlines and data firms, with an unusually high number of the travellers departing from Australia. The initial results from Asia’s first restriction-free travel bubble since the pandemic hit, which opened on Monday (April 19), […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India is hopeful the United States will soon lift a ban on vaccine raw materials that has threatened to slow output of shots in the country, two Indian government sources told Reuters on Monday (April 19), after the foreign ministers of the two nations spoke. One of the officials said the […]
SINGAPORE – As Muslims mark the ongoing fasting month of Ramadan, mosques have increased their focus on detecting potential threats to their buildings and worshippers. The police have also continued patrols at places of worship, which they recently stepped up for the Easter weekend of April 2 to 4. Please subscribe or log in to […]