SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party MPs He Ting Ru and Raeesah Khan started the new year by welcoming new additions to their families. For Ms He, 37, it was a boy, while Ms Raeesah, 27, gave birth to a girl. Both women are MPs for the four-member Sengkang GRC, and announced the news on their respective […]
SINGAPORE – Booking platforms are working closely with Sentosa attractions to put in place notices to remind customers, before they buy tickets, to book a time slot. This comes as many have flocked to the island during the December school holidays and could not use their tickets on fully booked attractions. While the change will […]
Housebound because of the pandemic, an international correspondent finds a way to travel the globe in her kitchen. By Hannah Beech BANGKOK — My grandmother in Tokyo kept a pail under her sink. It was filled with what resembled wet sand. But from its pungent depths came what I considered to be the most miraculous […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A domestic high-speed rail network in Malaysia alone is not feasible and likely to end up a white elephant if it is built, transport analysts said. The Malaysian government had, prior to the expiry of the suspension period of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project, announced that it will conduct a […]
TAIWAN/BEIJING (REUTERS) – China has rebuffed the latest offer of talks from Taiwan, saying the government was engaging in a “cheap trick” and provocation by seeking confrontation with China at every turn. Taiwan is ready to have “meaningful” talks with China as equals as long as they are willing to put aside confrontation, President Tsai […]
SINGAPORE – Measures for containing the spread of Covid-19 would still hold for the fast-spreading strain circulating in the United Kingdom which may show up in more cases here, unless it gets loose in the community, said infectious disease experts. So far there is one confirmed case with the more contagious B117 strain in Singapore, […]
YANGON (AFP) – An armed group in Myanmar’s conflict-wracked Rakhine state released on Friday (Jan 1) three members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party, who they had kidnapped ahead of November’s election. The Arakan Army (AA) has for nearly two years been locked in battle with Myanmar’s powerful military, fighting for more autonomy for […]
SINGAPORE – There were 30 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Friday noon (Jan 1), with three new community cases, taking Singapore’s total to 58,629. Two of the community cases are contacts of previous cases working in the marine sector, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). One is a family member of Case 58,817, a Singaporean […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (REUTERS) – Pakistan’s famous truck art will move from its highways to the skies, as a flying academy is painting a two-seater Cessna aircraft with the colourful technique. With elaborate and flamboyant motifs, Pakistani truck art has inspired gallery exhibitions abroad and prompted stores in Western cities to sell miniatures. “We want to […]
MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A stray bullet claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl during the New Year celebration in Lanao del Norte, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Friday (Jan 1). PNP spokesman Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana said the incident, the only fatality during the New Year, happened around 1am […]