SINGAPORE – Lawyers have been engaged to represent all three people allegedly linked to the murder of four-year-old Megan Khung Yu Wai. The girl’s mother, Foo Li Ping, 24, and a man identified as Wong Shi Xiang, 33, are accused of killing her in an apartment at the Suites @ Guillemard condominium in Lim Ah […]
(Reuters) – A searing blog by a former Federal Reserve economist accused the economics profession generally, and the Fed in particular, of discrimination against her and other women, prompting the central bank’s head – Jerome Powell – to say that women had experienced unfair treatment “for far too long.” “Everyone who is privileged enough to […]
Singapore is now seeing a third wave of imported Covid-19 cases, with more than 100 such cases confirmed in the past month. These make up about 15.5 per cent of the total number of imported cases here since the start of the outbreak in January. As of Tuesday, a total of 688 imported cases of […]
HONG KONG (AFP) – Four Hong Kong students involved in a recently disbanded pro-independence group were arrested by police on Wednesday (July 29) under a controversial new national security law, officers and members of the group said. The arrests are the first to target public political figures since the sweeping legislation was imposed on the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it has reached a deal with U.S. Postal Service on the conditions of a loan of up to $10 billion that was included in recent coronavirus relief legislation. The postal service does not need to borrow at the moment, but the money will now be available […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ trade deficit in goods fell sharply in June as exports rebounded following several months of decline, suggesting a recovery in global trade after being severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The shrinking goods trade gap reported by the Commerce Department on Wednesday did not change expectations that the economy […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it has reached a deal with U.S. Postal Service on the conditions of a loan of up to $10 billion that was included in recent coronavirus relief legislation. The postal service does not need to borrow at the moment, but the money will now be available […]
Tahir Ahmad Naseem, accused of blasphemy by claiming to be a prophet, shot six times during a hearing. A man accused of blasphemy for claiming that he was a prophet has been shot dead in a courtroom in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police officials say, the latest violence associated with Pakistan’s strict blasphemy […]
BATAM (AFP) – Indonesia has detained a Vietnamese boat carrying two tonnes of fish that was operating illegally in its waters, officials said Wednesday (July 29), just a week after a similar high-seas pursuit. The trawler with nine crew tossed fishing nets and other incriminating equipment overboard and then set a tyre alight in the […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya said the central bank will not rule out deepening negative interest rates as part of efforts to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. But he said the BOJ must be vigilant to the cost of any such steps, warning that excessively low rates […]