SINGAPORE – The authorities will closely study all feedback in devising plans for the use of a forest site in Ulu Pandan, following concerns from the public over its zoning for residential use. National Development Minister Desmond Lee on Thursday (Jan 28) invited more Singaporeans to send in their views and ideas, adding that all […]

YANGON (REUTERS) – Myanmar’s election commission on Thursday (Jan 28) rejected allegations by the country’s military of vote fraud in last year’s election and said there were no errors big enough to impact the credibility of the vote. The commission’s statement comes two days after the armed forces spokesman declined to rule out a coup […]

BANGALORE – After 12 days of worrying, a senior resident in a Sivamogga government hospital got his Covid-19 vaccine jab on Wednesday (Jan 27). “I’m still not sure if it will work, but since my colleagues (who also got the jab) did not have any side effects, I thought okay, let me get it too. […]

SINGAPORE – More needs to be done to drive home the idea that retraining and equipping workers with new skills is an investment, rather than a cost to employers, Mr Alain Dehaze, chief executive of human resources firm The Adecco Group, said on Thursday (Jan 28). One way to do so would be to put […]

BEIJING (AFP) – Any attempt to contain China is “mission impossible”, the country’s defence ministry warned the United States on Thursday (Jan 28), as the Biden administration works to shore up its Asian alliances against Beijing. Military tensions between the two superpowers worsened under former US president Donald Trump, who adopted an aggressive stance on […]

SINGAPORE – A young man who handcuffed and blindfolded a 13-year-old girl before groping her body in a handicapped toilet was ordered on Thursday (Jan 28) to undergo reformative training for at least six months. This means that Alaric Lim Qixian, now 21, will be detained in a centre and made to follow a strict […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will likely avoid setting a 2021 growth target, dropping the closely watched measure for a second straight year on concerns that maintaining one could encourage provincial economies to ramp up debt, policy sources told Reuters.FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing a face mask works on a production line manufacturing bicycle steel rim […]

SINGAPORE – The general consensus among experts is that generous wage subsidies and hiring incentives from the Government helped to cushion the impact of the pandemic on the job market last year. But they also agree that challenges still abound for longer-term recovery. The latest quarterly labour market data estimates for the fourth quarter of last […]

SINGAPORE – There were 34 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Thursday noon (Jan 28), all of them imported. The imported cases had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Thursday’s new cases take Singapore’s total to 59,425. There were no new cases in the community for […]

SINGAPORE – A fleet of private-hire drivers have been trained and equipped to be lifesavers in an ongoing effort by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to get more first responders on the roads. Partnering with a ride-hailing firm for the first time, SCDF has fitted 50 Grab vehicles with automated external defibrillators (AEDs), which […]