SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Facebook Inc has blocked Australian users from sharing and viewing news content on its popular social media platform, escalating a dispute with the government over paying media publishers for content. While Big Tech and media outlets have battled over the right to news content in other jurisdictions, Australia’s looming law represents the […]
FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda wearing a protective face mask attends a news conference as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Tokyo, Japan, April 27, 2020, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s central bank governor said on Thursday he told the […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysian police have arrested the founder of Sugarbook, a sugar daddy dating platform. Selangor Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Chief Fadzil Ahmat said a team comprising Selangor and Shah Alam CID personnel arrested the 34-year-old man. “The man who is from Gelugor, Penang, was arrested in the compound of […]
SINGAPORE – A 35-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in Jurong East had purportedly hurt her with a penknife in November last year. Zheng Xianfeng, a Chinese national, was facing two charges, including for last year’s alleged offence, before he was charged on Thursday (Feb 18) with murdering Tham Mee Yoke. Tham, 34, […]
FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda wearing a protective face mask attends a news conference as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Tokyo, Japan, April 27, 2020, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Thursday he […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – All New Zealand schools will have free access to sanitary products from June, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday (Feb 18), an initiative aimed at stamping out period poverty in the country. The announcement follows a successful pilot programme launched around the middle of last year, which provided free period products […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden told 10 top union leaders on Wednesday that his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and a separate measure to modernize U.S. infrastructure would boost the U.S. economy and create millions of good-paying jobs.U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., February 16, 2021. […]
SINGAPORE – A 59-year-old Singaporean woman who works in an administrative role at engineering company Aibel was the sole community case of Covid-19 reported on Wednesday (Feb 17), said the Ministry of Health (MOH). She has been working from home since March last year, and all people identified as close contacts of hers, including family […]
PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – With active Covid-19 cases Malaysia declining, the Health Ministry is seeing some breathing space in its hospital overcapacity problem. The Health Ministry’s director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, said one move that has helped to ease the ministry’s burden is allowing low-risk and asymptomatic Covid-19 patients to undergo home […]
SINGAPORE – When Mr Edwin Khoo exits the fare gate at Caldecott MRT station every workday morning, he is glad to hear the familiar sound of safety boots knocking on the ground as a sighted guide approaches him. Mr Khoo, who is visually handicapped, is head of Braille production and the library services centre at […]