SINGAPORE – The new school year brims with the promise of new learning adventures, new friendships… and the same old mess of bags, books and toys at home. Many parents know the drill all too well – polite instructions quickly escalate to desperate bribes or threats, before Mum and Dad capitulate and clean up after […]
SINGAPORE – While the sound of passing trains is but a memory and the tracks have been removed, a different kind of travel is now possible on the trail formerly occupied by the KTM railway in Singapore. At present, a 5km stretch in the central section of the rail corridor – with a short detour […]
SINGAPORE – Aside from the Joint Admissions Exercise, the mainstream route that most students take into polytechnics, diverse admissions processes have been established in recent years to allow students to take different paths into diploma programmes. Here’s a look at the various schemes and three students who took different routes to enter a poly. Please […]
SINGAPORE – askST Law seeks to address various legal issues faced or raised by affected parties. This inaugural column dwells on a nagging problem in dealing with a jointly-owned HDB flat post-divorce. Q: My wife and I married in Singapore last year but she continues to live in an HDB flat jointly owned with her […]
A trade pact with 14 other Asian nations. A pledge to join other countries in reducing carbon emissions to fight global warming. Now, an investment agreement with the European Union. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has in recent weeks made deals and pledges that he hopes will position his country as an indispensable global leader, even […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia’s largest party Umno said on Sunday (Jan 3) it would at the next polls field candidates in all parliamentary and state seats it won at the 2018 general election, marking its territory ahead of any seat negotiations with its allies in the Perikatan Nasional ruling coalition. Umno […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – Dressed in South Korea’s traditional costume hanbok, two divers at a Seoul aquarium make New Year bows to visitors from underwater. Under mysterious yellow and blue lights in the country’s largest 2,200-tonne water tank, which holds 650 species of marine life, the divers swam alongside stingrays, sharks and other fish. “It was […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) – The head of India’s drugs regulator said on Sunday (Jan 3) he had given final approval for the emergency-use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat Biotech. The overall efficacy of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was 70.42 per cent, while Bharat […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s most-populous state of New South Wales on Sunday (Jan 3) reported eight new Covid-19 cases as new social distancing restrictions and mandatory mask wearing kicked in while neighbouring Victoria had three new cases. The New South Wales outbreak, which began around mid-December at Sydney’s Northern Beaches, now totals 148. There are […]
SINGAPORE – The minimum legal age for the purchase, use, possession, sale and supply of tobacco products was raised from 20 years to 21 on Friday (Jan 1). This is the third and last change to the minimum age requirement under the amendments to the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Act, which were passed […]