SINGAPORE – The aviation sector will get additional support and extended cost relief to the tune of $870 million, given that the volume of international air travel remains a tiny fraction of what it was. The sector is expected to remain badly affected this year, and recovery will take some time, said Deputy PM Heng […]
SINGAPORE – The aviation sector will get additional support and extended cost relief to the tune of $870 million, given that the volume of international air travel remains a tiny fraction of what it was. The sector is expected to remain badly affected this year, and recovery will take some time, said Deputy PM Heng […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Feb 16) to charges related to an illegal assembly during mass anti-government protests in August 2019, while seven others, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, pleaded not guilty. The 2019 protests, fuelled by a perception Beijing was curbing the wide-ranging freedoms promised to […]
YANGON (NYTIMES) – Myanmar’s coup leaders have called on hundreds of thousands of government employees – doctors, garbage collectors, electricity workers – to set their “emotion” aside, abandon their protests against the military, and return to work. But even after the army had put armoured vehicles in the street in a night time show of […]
YANGON (BLOOMBERG) – Myanmar’s junta shut down the Internet for a second straight night, part of efforts to stem nationwide protests after it seized power from civilian leaders on Feb 1. The blackout came shortly after state-run MRTV said army chief Min Aung Hlaing enacted a new telecommunications law, with details set to be announced on […]
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s financial watchdog is set to outline by the middle of this year how digital banks should operate in the country, one of its top officials disclosed in an interview with The Straits Times. “We won’t regulate details, or it won’t be rule-based. It will instead be a set of guiding principles for […]
Before anyone outside her hometown knew her name, Disha Ravi spent four years raising awareness among young people in Bangalore about the effects of climate change. Now the 21-year-old activist is jailed in New Delhi. The allegation: She distributed a “tool kit” in the form of a Google Doc containing talking points and contact information […]
Before anyone outside her hometown knew her name, Disha Ravi spent four years raising awareness among young people in Bangalore about the effects of climate change. Now the 21-year-old activist is jailed in New Delhi. The allegation: She distributed a “tool kit” in the form of a Google Doc containing talking points and contact information […]
SINGAPORE – Seafarers getting off ships in Singapore will now need to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at the port where the ship last stopped and test negative before arriving here. This new requirement applies to all applications submitted from Monday (Feb 15) for seafarers who wish to disembark their ships here […]
PANJWAI, Afghanistan — The Taliban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into a no-win situation just as the United States’ longest war is supposed to be coming to an end. Around the northern city of Kunduz, despite […]