SINGAPORE – There have been calls over the years for harsher penalties for dog owners and walkers who fail to pick up after their dogs in public spaces. Such behaviour can also cause friction among neighbours. To encourage dog owners to clean up their act in Bukit Timah, where up to a third of the […]
SINGAPORE – Learner motorcyclists and drivers could in a few years’ time be assessed for a road licence without the presence of a human tester, if a trial here proceeds smoothly. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has called a tender for a trial of a fully automated circuit that will use technology to test […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Monday, April 12. New laws planned to curb unethical adoption practices in Singapore Such practices will be made a crime, with fines or jail terms. READ MORE HERE Crowds return to Lucky Plaza, Peninsula Plaza after lifting of weekend entry curbs There were so many […]
SINGAPORE – An application by a trainee lawyer to be called to the Bar – usually an uneventful process – raised so many questions that a High Court judge said the matter should be “swiftly and vigorously” pursued by the relevant authorities. Lawyer Tan Jeh Yaw, who supervised the six-month training stint of Mr Kuoh […]
SINGAPORE – An application by a trainee lawyer to be called to the Bar – usually an uneventful process – raised so many questions that a High Court judge said the matter should be “swiftly and vigorously” pursued by the relevant authorities. Lawyer Tan Jeh Yaw, who supervised the six-month training stint of Mr Kuoh […]
Any change in tudung stance should be sensitive to views of other communities: Dialogue participants
SINGAPORE – Any change in the tudung policy for nurses is a sensitive issue that needs to take into account the views of other communities in Singapore, said dialogue participants who met government leaders to discuss the topic on Saturday (April 10). Mufti Nazirudin Mohd Nasir said that the issue of wearing the tudung with […]
SINGAPORE – Firefighters rescued 19 puppies on Saturday morning (April 10) after a fire broke out in a pet store in Upper Thomson Road, near the planned site of the Upper Thomson MRT station. Eyewitnesses said the puppies were carried out of the smoking store in boxes and a group of passers-by helped to hold […]
TAIPEI (BLOOMBERG) – The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island. Eleven People’s Liberation Army planes flew into Taiwan’s south-west air defence identification zone on Friday (April 9), according to a statement from […]
SINGAPORE – There were 32 new Covid-19 cases confirmed at noon on Saturday (April 10), taking Singapore’s total to 60,633. One of these was in the community while the other 31 were imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were no new […]
TOKYO (XINHUA) – Japan’s Kyoto University Hospital has said that it has conducted the world’s first living donor lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient who lost functionality of both her lungs. The patient, a woman who lives in western Japan, is currently in intensive care. Her husband and son, who donated part of their healthy […]