THULASENDRAPURAM, INDIA (REUTERS) – Villagers in the Indian ancestral home of Ms Kamala Harris painted slogans on roads wishing her victory on Thursday (Nov 5), as Mr Joe Biden, her Democrat running mate in the US presidential election, moved closer to the White House. Thulasendrapuram, located about 320km south of Chennai, is where Ms Harris’ maternal […]
TOKYO • Japanese health officials have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house in one of the country’s worst cases of animal hoarding, an animal rights activist said yesterday. The parasite-infested animals were found last month in a 30 sq m house in the city of Izumo in western Japan, after neighbours had […]
SINGAPORE – Signing legal and business documents online will be made possible with the rollout of a new feature on national digital identity system SingPass. Its first user is the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), which is piloting the technology to allow the digital signing of property caveats e-lodged with the SLA. The new Sign with […]
SINGAPORE – Signing legal and business documents online will be made possible with the rollout of a new feature on national digital identity system SingPass. Its first user is the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), which is piloting the technology to allow the digital signing of property caveats e-lodged with the SLA. The new Sign with […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – A North Korean man who crossed the heavily fortified border with South Korea has said he wants to defect to the South, Seoul officials said on Thursday (Nov 5). The man was taken into custody in the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas on Wednesday, several hours after he was spotted crossing […]
TOKYO (AFP) – At a Tokyo clinic, a woman in a white coat carefully records the particulars of the newest patient: a sheep-shaped stuffed toy. The Natsumi Clinic specialises in restoring much-loved teddies and other cuddly toys to their original glory, delighting deeply attached owners like Ms Yui Kato, who brought in the sheep, Yuki-chan. […]
SINGAPORE – New evidence and details have emerged of the rift between Ms Parti Liyani and her former employers, the family of former Changi Airport Group chairman Liew Mun Leong. The Straits Times outlines the events that have transpired since Ms Parti started working for the Liews, as stated in the court judgment and as […]
SINGAPORE – Technical manager Neo Wei Ren, 35, was aware that military camps are protected areas and had reason to believe that he was flying his drone over one of them, a district court heard on Wednesday (Nov 4). Despite this, he repeatedly flew the device over Upper Bukit Timah Road near Gombak Base last […]
SINGAPORE – In a small country like Singapore, it is inevitable that people appointed to high positions have deep connections with others they may have met through work, in school or even during national service, Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam said on Wednesday (Nov 4). This is why people appointed to these positions […]
With a dream of eventually starting his own e-commerce business, Mr Oerianto Guyandi, 54, who was the director of finance at a Jakarta-based media conglomerate until January, made an investment with promised returns that turned out to be too good to be true. For three years in a row, starting in 2016, Mr Oerianto, through […]