Trump administration skirted law to avoid telling Congress, evading concerns about deaths, humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The United States State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found the administration of President Donald Trump skirted laws regulating US arms sales to avoid notifying Congress and to evade concerns about civilian casualties in the war […]
(Reuters) – European stocks hit a near three-week high on Tuesday, as U.S. stimulus bets and encouraging data out of China and Germany galvanised growth-linked cyclical sectors like travel and leisure, banking and automakers. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 1.7% higher, with Wall Street’s S&P 500 .SPX coming in close quarters with an all-time […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Young people who have lost jobs or schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic risk carrying “scarring effects” throughout their working lives unless governments provide immediate support, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. An ILO poll of 12,000 youths in 112 countries showed in May that more than one in six people […]
SINGAPORE – From Sept 1, those aiming to get licensed as taxi or private-hire drivers will be able to attend courses at a third training provider: NTUC LearningHub. It will offer courses for the Taxi Driver’s Vocational Licence and Private Hire Car Driver’s Vocational Licence, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Tuesday (Aug 11). […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The euro inched higher on Tuesday after investor sentiment in Germany improved more than expected in August. The ZEW survey of economic sentiment rose to 71.5 from 59.3 points the previous month, far exceeding a forecast for 58.0 in a Reuters poll of economists. [nAPN0GPHBW] As a result, euro/dollar gained 0.5% to […]
SINGAPORE – There were 61 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Tuesday noon (Aug 11), taking Singapore’s total to 55,353. They included two community cases, both of whom are Singaporeans, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were also three imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices upon arrival in Singapore. Migrant workers […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – The arrest of Jimmy Lai has prompted an outpouring of support for the Beijing government among Chinese state media and Weibo users, with some people suggesting the Hong Kong media tycoon should be tried on the mainland. Video clips and images of Lai’s arrest Monday (Aug 10) were trending a day later […]
SINGAPORE – The assistant diving supervisor of a ship repair company was sentenced to 12 weeks’ jail on Tuesday (Aug 11) over an underwater incident in 2014 which resulted in the death of a diver. The company, Underwater Contractors, was also sentenced to a $300,000 fine over the incident, during which diver Mr Kwok Khee […]
SINGAPORE – The assistant diving supervisor of a ship repair company was sentenced to 12 weeks’ jail on Tuesday (Aug 11) over an underwater incident in 2014 which resulted in the death of a diver. The company, Underwater Contractors, was also sentenced to a $300,000 fine over the incident, during which diver Mr Kwok Khee […]
BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese workers raise their fists beside a red communist flag in a painting displayed at a Beijing museum, one of nearly 200 works put together for a propaganda exhibition that hails, not the Maoist past, but the “heroic deeds” of frontline medics fighting the coronavirus. Since the deadly contagion was first detected […]