SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s Queensland state on Tuesday (Dec 1) lifted border restrictions on the country’s two most populous states for the first time in more than eight months, reuniting families and aiding the country’s economic recovery. Residents from all of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria will now be allowed to freely travel to […]
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – On Sept 15, an Indonesian flight carrying 307 passengers and 11 crew to the northern city of Medan momentarily veered off the runway after landing, sparking an investigation by the country’s transport safety regulator. It found the pilot had flown less than three hours in the previous 90 days. The first officer […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China will impose sanctions on four people with links to US democracy promotion efforts, it said on Monday (Nov 30), over what it called interference in Hong Kong, following US strictures on four Chinese individuals. Relations between China and the United States have deteriorated to their worst in decades during outgoing US […]
KOCHI – Serum Institute of India has threatened to file a defamation suit against a participant who reported having adverse reactions after receiving a dose of the company’s test Covid-19 vaccine during the clinical trial in India. An official at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a co-sponsor of the vaccine trial along with […]
FILE PHOTO: Real estate signs advertise new homes for sale in multiple new developments in York County, South Carolina, U.S., February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell for a second straight month in October as an acute shortage of properties pushed up prices, though the housing […]
FILE PHOTO: Travelers move through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Mike SegarWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Transportation Security Administration said it screened 1.18 million airline passengers on Sunday, the highest number since mid-March but still about 60% […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS)- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (Nov 30) resisted calls for the repeal of farm reforms that have ignited the biggest protests by farmers in years around the national capital, saying they were being misled and that deregulation would benefit them. Thousands of people from the big farming state of Punjab […]
Hi all, In today’s bulletin: China’s plan to raise the retirement age to cope with a rapidly ageing population sparks anger among the public; Thai protesters march to an army barracks to challenge the King’s personal control over some army units; Singapore wants to grow more food locally as the pandemic and climate change raise worries […]
SINGAPORE – The driver of a private-hire car failed to exercise due care while driving along the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) in 2017, leading to an accident in which four motorcyclists and a pillion rider suffered serious injuries, including fractures. On Monday (Nov 30), Tan Tien Hong, 47, was sentenced to four weeks’ jail after […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand was racing to track down about 200 people in its northern provinces on Monday (Nov 30) to stop a potential coronavirus outbreak after three Thai nationals entered the country illegally from Myanmar and tested positive days later. Three women bypassed immigration checks and entered via natural border crossings last Tuesday and Friday, […]