SINGAPORE – A woman who opened multiple bank accounts in Singapore that were used to receive more than $1 million in criminal proceeds was sentenced to 2½ years’ jail on Tuesday (Nov 23). Annee Foong, now 48, committed the offences after receiving instructions from a man who called himself Steve Williams whom she had met […]
SINGAPORE – Some DBS/POSB customers were unable to access the bank’s Internet and mobile banking services on Tuesday (Nov 23). The disruption began around 11am, according to social media posts. DBS Bank acknowledged the disruption in a Facebook statement at around 3pm. It said: “Some of our customers are facing intermittent slowness when accessing our […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan will respect the outcome of the Honduras election but the country should be aware of getting sucked in by China’s “false” promises, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday (Nov 23) ahead of a vote which could see Taipei lose a steadfast ally to Beijing. Honduras is one of only 15 countries […]
SINGAPORE – With children as young as three now eligible for Covid-19 home recovery, parents may have questions on how to cope and care for them. The Straits Times speaks with experts to find ways to navigate the 10 days of isolation. Q: How should parents care for and explain to a child why he […]
JIUQUAN (XINHUA) – China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China on Tuesday (Nov 23). The satellite, Gaofen-3 02, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7.45am Beijing time and has entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellite will operate in a solar synchronous orbit at an […]
DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Aside from the essentialist concepts of male and female, gender identities are most often socially constructed and driven by the ideology of a community. Ideologies are a set of beliefs, ideas, public discourses, and values used to make sense of the world over time. Many societal stereotypes collide […]
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai’s video call with the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not address or alleviate the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) concern about her well-being, the WTA said on Monday (Nov 22). The whereabouts of Ms Peng, a former doubles world number one, became a matter of […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan firms operating in China need to draw a line between themselves and independence supporters, China’s government said on Monday (Nov 22) after punishing a major Taiwanese firm ostensibly for business violations. China, which claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has heaped pressure on the island to accept Beijing’s rule. It […]
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Two Covid-19 antibody drugs developed in China have yielded promising results in studies and clinical trials, researchers said during an academic conference over the weekend. Professor Zhang Linqi at Tsinghua University’s School of Medicine said on Sunday (Nov 21) that a domestically developed cocktail therapy of monoclonal antibodies BRII-196 […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Senior Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders have come to the defence of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the head of the opposition coalition, after his leadership was called into question following its poor showing in the Melaka state election last Saturday (Nov 20). Senior leaders from the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Amanah Negara […]