SINGAPORE – Students in Singapore who sat the GCE A-level examination last year achieved the best passing rate since 2006 despite the difficult circumstances brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of students who attained at least three H2 passes, with a pass in General Paper (GP) or Knowledge and Inquiry (KI), was 10,905, or 93.6 […]
SINGAPORE – The founder of a modelling and escort business arranged for models to provide sexual services to customers and kept a portion of the earnings. She even assigned a teenager, whom she had earlier hired, to service two clients. Farlynda Tan, 38, was sentenced to five months’ jail and fined $920 on Friday (Feb 19). […]
TOKYO (NYTIMES) – Like many schools in Japan, where most people are born with straight, black hair, the Kaifukan Senior High School in Osaka is fussy about students’ appearances. Perms and braided extensions are off limits, as are dyed and bleached hair. One brown-haired Japanese-born student ran into trouble when school officials, believing that she […]
TOKYO (NYTIMES) – Like many schools in Japan, where most people are born with straight, black hair, the Kaifukan Senior High School in Osaka is fussy about students’ appearances. Perms and braided extensions are off limits, as are dyed and bleached hair. One brown-haired Japanese-born student ran into trouble when school officials, believing that she […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China’s military on Friday (Feb 19) named four soldiers killed in a brawl with Indian forces last year, the first confirmation of deaths by Beijing from the border clash that also killed at least 20 Indian soldiers. The Chinese soldiers “sacrificed themselves” during the June confrontation in the contested Galwan Valley border […]
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Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Thursday, Feb 18. Connect @ Changi facility opens to allow business travellers to meet in S’pore without quarantine The facility has been billed as the first of its kind in the world. READ MORE HERE Woman killed by falling tree in Marsiling Park The woman, Loke […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Dozens of Australian companies, charities and information providers reacted with anger on Thursday (Feb 18) after being shut down by Facebook, imploring the social media giant to restore their pages as calls for users to delete the platform grew. Australians were blocked from accessing news in their Facebook feeds after an escalation […]
SINGAPORE – Facing his Secondary 2 form class, Mr Michael Chow shared with them his own series of setbacks since young, from family problems to having to scale back on sports when he tore a ligament in his right knee. The 38-year-old Serangoon Secondary School teacher weaved in his personal experiences into a character and […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Electronics shops in Hong Kong have seen a sharp increase in demand for cheap burner phones as the Chinese-ruled city’s government eases coronavirus restrictions but pushes the use of a contact-tracing app which has raised privacy concerns. The financial hub saw anti-government and anti-China protests erupt in 2019 and a sweeping […]