BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand’s constitutional court on Tuesday (Dec 1) warned against “vulgar” criticism of its rulings, on the eve of a crucial judgment that could see Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha forced out of office. The court will on Wednesday hand down a verdict on whether Mr Prayut has broken rules by living in an […]
SINGAPORE – The world’s fastest supercomputer Fugaku, developed by Fujitsu, is available for use by Singapore researchers under an agreement between Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) and two Japanese entities: Riken Centre for Computational Science and Research Organisation for Information Science and Technology (Rist). The collaboration would boost more complex and larger-scale research as well […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Indonesian armed forces (TNI) was set to deploy a special unit to Poso in Central Sulawesi to assist in a manhunt for members of a terrorist group who murdered four villagers and destroyed six houses in a village last week. TNI commander Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said […]
SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob has appointed Associate Professor Benjamin Ong as a member of the Public Service Commission (PSC) for a five-year term from Tuesday (Dec 1). Prof Ong, 63, is senior vice-president (health education and resources) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as senior consultant with the division of neurology […]
JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK – A family of seven enjoying time together got a rude shock when they heard an explosion outside their house in Taman Setia Indah in Johor Baru. A housewife, who identified herself only as Chook, 30, said they rushed out and found the front of her car, which was […]
WUHAN, CHINA (AFP) – Wuhan native Liu Pei’en shut down his investment business and converted to Buddhism to try to make sense of his father’s death last January from suspected Covid-19. Ms Zhong Hanneng still struggles to sleep or eat following the death of her son from the disease nearly 10 months ago, and says […]
BEIJING (CAIXIN GLOBAL) – After a year-long legal battle, 34-year-old law professor Guo Bing won a partial victory in China’s first court challenge to the rapidly spreading use by businesses and governments of facial recognition technology. A court in the eastern city of Hangzhou ruled Nov 20 that a local wildlife park breached a contract […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Vaccines are most likely not going to help much in Indonesia’s fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, so keeping expectations low is probably the best thing we can do. It all boils down to the low likelihood that our vaccination strategy will achieve herd immunity: immunising a certain proportion […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia’s Parliament was thrown into disarray when proceedings were abruptly interrupted following an evacuation warning on Tuesday morning (Dec 1), in what could have been possibly due to a faulty water sprinkler. Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun had told Members of Parliament (MPs) to step out of the building […]
SINGAPORE – Step into the boots of a soldier and take down your enemies in a forest in Mandai, or solve jigsaw puzzles of pictures related to the army. These games are part of the activities in the Singapore Army’s first virtual exhibition, launched on Tuesday (Dec 1) to commemorate its 55th year since the […]