SINGAPORE – Retiree Balan Krishnan had heard the rumours of vaccine side effects but he was full of confidence when he arrived at the Teck Ghee Community Club for his first jab on Feb 3. Once inside, the smooth process only added to his sense that he was making the right move after a hard […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Myanmar’s United Nations envoy in New York vowed to fight on Saturday (Feb 27) after the junta fired him for urging countries to use “any means necessary” to reverse a Feb 1 coup that ousted the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “I decided to fight back as long as […]
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s month-old military regime fired the country’s ambassador to the United Nations on Saturday, a day after he gave an impassioned speech to the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, pleading for international help in restoring democracy to his homeland. The ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, ended his speech with a three-finger salute, a […]
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan — The Taliban prison is a ruined house, a cave, a filthy basement in an abandoned dwelling, or a village mosque. Beatings or worse are a certainty, and the sentence is indefinite. Food, if there is any, is stale bread and cold beans. A bed is the floor or a dirty carpet. The […]
BANGKOK – Nearly one month after the coup in Myanmar, commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing has a problem: Neighbouring countries are tiptoeing around anything that can be construed as legitimising his regime. His foreign minister Wunna Maung Lwin travelled to Thailand on Wednesday (Feb 24), meeting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Dong Muang airport. The Thai […]
SINGAPORE – Two-room flexi flats have proved popular with seniors, with more than half of buyers aged 55 and above, figures revealed on Saturday (Feb 27). Singles have been the second largest group purchasing the units since they were introduced six years ago, the Housing Board (HDB) said. As of December 31, about 34,700 two-room […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A year after his sudden resignation sparked a constitutional crisis and worsened political instability in Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, indisputably the country’s most renowned political leader, looks unlikely to be in the running for a third stint as prime minister. Dr Mahathir, 95, has served a total of 24 years as […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A year after his sudden resignation sparked a constitutional crisis and worsened political instability in Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, indisputably the country’s most renowned political leader, looks unlikely to be in the running for a third stint as prime minister. Dr Mahathir, 95, has served a total of 24 years as […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A year has passed since Malaysia was stunned by an unprecedented change of government midstream, but the political instability has only worsened since. Then, the biggest question in the corridors of power was when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would hand over the reins of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government to Datuk Seri […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A year has passed since Malaysia was stunned by an unprecedented change of government midstream, but the political instability has only worsened since. Then, the biggest question in the corridors of power was when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would hand over the reins of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government to Datuk Seri […]