KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – The family of a French-Irish teenager will challenge an inquest ruling that the girl died by misadventure after vanishing in the Malaysian jungle while on holiday, their lawyer said on Thursday (Jan 21). The body of Nora Quoirin, a 15-year-old with learning difficulties, was discovered after a massive hunt through the […]
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Bayu Wardoyo tends to skip the 6am breakfast of Indonesian fried rice served to divers on the ship searching for wreckage of the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Jan 9. He prefers coffee, light snacks and some fruit to prepare for the long day ahead. Later […]
DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It is encouraging to know that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is sending a mission to Wuhan in Hubei province in China for the review and assessment of the origin and reasons of Covid-19, and China has endorsed this mission. Never before had the world been confronted with […]
DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It is encouraging to know that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is sending a mission to Wuhan in Hubei province in China for the review and assessment of the origin and reasons of Covid-19, and China has endorsed this mission. Never before had the world been confronted with […]
SINGAPORE – The United States’ announcement to rejoin the Paris Agreement is welcomed by Singapore, and the Republic is ready to work with the US and other parties to tackle climate change. The US’ decision to return to the agreement is a positive development that provides an important boost to global efforts to address climate […]
SINGAPORE – Students in Mendaki’s tuition scheme will be able to get help in more subjects and benefit from mentoring from this year. Those in Primary Four to Six can get help with science, in addition to English and maths. And though the number of students enrolled in the programme dipped from 8,000 last year […]
SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have sent congratulatory letters to United States President Joe Biden on his inauguration, wishing him success as he assumes office. “Your decades of experience in public office will provide a stable, guiding hand during this critical juncture for America and the international community. I […]
SINGAPORE – Fifty-two people are being investigated for breaching safe distancing measures by holding parties in an industrial building in Sin Ming, said the police in a press release on Wednesday night (Jan 20). On two occasions, the police discovered large gatherings of people drinking alcohol with the operator of the space – a 24-year-old […]
SINGAPORE – Two drink stalls in coffee shops have been ordered to shut by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) for serving alcohol after 10.30pm, said the agency and the police in a joint press release on Wednesday (Jan 20). Both operators, one located in a coffee shop at Bistro 8 in Kelantan Lane in Jalan […]
On the final full day of the Trump presidency, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that China was carrying out a genocide against Uighurs and other Muslim peoples, the toughest condemnation yet of Beijing’s crackdown in its far western region of Xinjiang. The announcement was welcomed by exiled Uighurs as a long desired recognition of […]