SINGAPORE – There were 13 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Friday noon (Feb 26), taking Singapore’s total to 59,913. They were all imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were no community cases and no cases from migrant workers’ dormitories. More details […]
SINGAPORE – The wild boar believed to have been involved in various attacks in Punggol was caught on Friday (Feb 26). This comes after two wild boar attacks last Saturday (Feb 20), in which one woman was bitten on her left leg. Member of Parliament for Punggol West SMC Sun Xueling said on Friday that […]
CANBERRA (REUTERS)- It was supposed to be a milestone week for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that began with the nation’s first Covid-19 vaccinations and ended in the country becoming the first to force Silicon Valley giants to pay for news content. But while Mr Morrison secured two significant victories, he ends the week under […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Friday (Feb 26), adding that the survivors would not be allowed to enter Indian territory. Another refugee was missing, External Affairs Ministry spokesman […]
JAKARTA – Like many families in the village of Semerak in Central Java, Mr Pipit Wahyudi, 26, and his father as well as his older brother could count on an infusion of about five million rupiah (S$470) every month since his mother started work as a housekeeper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, about a decade ago. The money […]
SINGAPORE – A Briton who breached his stay-home notice (SHN) and sneaked out of his room at the Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore to meet his fiancee was sentenced on Friday (Feb 26) to two weeks’ jail and a fine of $1,000. Nigel Skea, 52, had left his room on the 14th storey to meet Agatha Maghesh […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Friday stressed the need to keep interest rates “stably low” to protect an economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that prospects for a recovery were fraught with uncertainty.FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda wearing a protective face mask attends a news conference […]
SINGAPORE – More than 2,000 Build-To-Order (BTO) Housing Board flats in Singapore’s newest large estate, Bidadari, have been completed, with families progressively moving into their new homes. These flats are spread across three projects – Alkaff Vista, Alkaff LakeView and Alkaff CourtView – which were launched for sale by the HDB in 2015. More than […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand’s government said on Friday (Feb 26) that it was backing a new project that uses drone technology to understand and protect the endangered Maui dolphins in the country. Maui dolphins live in a small stretch of ocean off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island and current estimates suggest […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand’s government said on Friday (Feb 26) that it was backing a new project that uses drone technology to understand and protect the endangered Maui dolphins in the country. Maui dolphins live in a small stretch of ocean off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island and current estimates suggest […]