KUALA LUMPUR – Retiring Malaysia police chief Abdul Hamid Bador has caused ripples by alleging corruption among senior ranks of the police force. Just weeks before his retirement in May, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hamid said he knew of former police chiefs using serving police officers to do their bidding, though he did not say […]
SINGAPORE – An extra cool spell triggered by the weather phenomenon known as La Niña was not enough to offset soaring temperatures in Singapore, said the weatherman in the country’s annual climate assessment report on Tuesday (Mar 23). Last year’s annual mean temperature of 28 deg C was half a degree higher than the long-term average, […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Myanmar’s ruling military council is cooperating with five neighbouring countries and values and respects their words, plus any countries that respect the stability of Myanmar, its junta said on Tuesday (March 23). Military spokesman Zaw Min Tun said China was friends with Myanmar but did not specify the others, or the extent […]
WINDSOR, AUSTRALIA (NYTIMES) – Ms Kelly Miller stood in her doorway on Monday (March 22), watching the water rise to within a few inches of the century-old home where she runs an alternative medicine business. The bridge nearby had already gone under in some of Australia’s worst flooding in decades, along with an abandoned car […]
SINGAPORE – Underwater World Singapore (UWS) was fined $105,000 on Tuesday (March 23) over lapses in safety measures that investigators found after a stingray fatally stung one of its divers in 2016. Among other things, the now-defunct Sentosa attraction had failed to provide adequate recovery procedures in emergencies during diving operations. It had also failed […]
SYDNEY (XINHUA) – As Australians endured widespread flooding in the country’s east on Tuesday, local wildlife were also being forced from their dwellings to escape the rising waters. Perhaps most unnervingly were reports of swarms of spiders, seeking refuge on raised trees, fences and in homes across the Mid North Coast of state of New […]
TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Russia has been acting insincerely in a series of responses as if it were denying past negotiations. The government needs to take a strategic approach to the matter based on the original point of the territorial issue. The Russian government has unveiled a plan to develop a large-scale […]
SINGAPORE – A former Singapore Management University (SMU) associate director was on Tuesday (March 23) charged with accepting $472,000 in bribes. Christopher Tan Toh Nghee had allegedly accepted illegal funds from three men to advance their business interests with the university between August 2017 and November 2019. The 43-year-old faces 50 charges for offences under […]
SHANGHAI (AFP) – From a small office in Shanghai, marriage counsellor Zhu Shenyong livestreams advice over several phones simultaneously to an attentive audience keen to save their relationships. On his wall hangs the mantra: “Let there be no bad marriages under heaven.” But in the earthly realities of modern China, divorce rates are surging, and […]
YANGON (REUTERS) – Myanmar protesters held candle-lit vigils for the scores killed in demonstrations against military rule, as Western countries imposed more sanctions on individuals and groups linked to last month’s coup and an ensuing brutal crackdown on dissent. Hundreds of people clutching candles held a rally in the Ahlone district of the country’s commercial […]