SINGAPORE – Patients who are newly diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will no longer have to wait up to eight weeks before starting treatment. Instead, waiting time for treatment with life-saving antiretroviral medication has been cut to up to four days. The National University Hospital (NUH) is the first hospital to start the Same-Day […]
SINGAPORE – With tighter border controls amid the coronavirus pandemic limiting the entry of new foreign workers into Singapore, sectors dependent on foreign labour are being squeezed more than before. More than 10 employers in the construction and food and beverage (F&B) sectors told The Sunday Times that their manpower costs have gone up significantly […]
SINGAPORE – One is a Bangladeshi worker whose baby was born during the more than two months he spent in intensive care. The other is a local church pastor. They have more in common than a cursory glance may suggest. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to […]
As a millennial born in the early 1990s, I belong to the last of the “in-between generations” that straddle the before and after years of rapid technological change. We are old enough to remember a world of pagers, fax machines and dial-up Internet, unlike Generation Z, who were born into the Internet age from the […]
Malaysia on Saturday (Nov 7) imposed a conditional movement control order (MCO) on all states in Peninsular Malaysia, except in Kelantan, Perlis and Pahang from Nov 9 until Dec 6, amid a spike in Covid-19 cases. This means that the current conditional MCO in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Sabah, which is supposed to end on […]
BANGKOK – Myanmar goes to the polls on Sunday (Nov 8) for the third time since the military loosened its iron grip on power. While some among the over 5,000 candidates have tried to talk policy, the unprecedented public spat over the past week between the military and civilian government – which swept into office […]
SINGAPORE – The father of an 8-year-old girl, who was injured in a Woodlands car crash and just woke up from a coma, has donated money he received from well-meaning Singaporeans to the family of another accident victim. Mr Eric Tan, 45, had received an outpouring of donations to cover medical expenses for his daughter […]
YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday (Nov 8) for a vote expected to return to power the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains a hero at home in spite of a reputation abroad shattered by the Rohingya crisis. The election will be just the second since the Southeast Asian […]
SINGAPORE – When Covid-19 hit Singapore, staff in the healthcare profession swung into action, many of them volunteering to serve on the front lines of the crisis. Among them was Dr Rufus Daniel, 52, a family physician and associate consultant at Yishun Polyclinic. He set up and ran a medical centre at a migrant worker […]
SINGAPORE – The police have confirmed that they have initiated investigations against lawyer M. Ravi for an offence of criminal defamation. In a statement on Saturday night (Nov 7), the police said the investigations were in relation to a Facebook post posted by Mr Ravi on Friday. Mr Ravi alleged in the post that Singaporean lawyer […]