Rescue operations continue for a fourth day in the country’s worst ever jade mine landslide, as more bodies are buried. Mandalay, Myanmar – Aye Mon, 30, is left alone with a two–year–old daughter after her husband and younger brother died in Myanmar’s worst jade mine landslide that killed more than 170 people on Thursday. In hopes of […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Camera traps in a forest in western Thailand have captured footage of tigers in an area for the first time in four years, a conservationist said, raising hopes over efforts to preserve the species in the South-east Asian country. The video and photographs show three male tigers roaming at night, including at […]
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – SK Bioscience, the South Korean pharmaceutical company backed by Bill Gates, may be capable of producing 200 million coronavirus vaccine kits by next June, the Microsoft co-founder said in a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Gates is seeking to cooperate closely with South Korea, the presidential office in Seoul said […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia posted a deficit of 109.2 billion riyals ($29.12 billion) in the second quarter this year as low oil prices hurt revenues, according to a finance ministry report on quarterly budget performance. The coronavirus crisis has hurt the non-oil sectors of the world’s largest oil exporter this year, adding to the […]
SINGAPORE – Children hoping to clinch a place at 22 primary schools in the fourth of seven phases of Primary 1 registration for next year will have to face a ballot. These schools include Fairfield Methodist School (Primary), with 51 children applying for 25 spots; Holy Innocents’ Primary, with 58 kids eyeing 41 vacancies; and […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – A video of a female lawmaker wearing a garbage bag to protest what she called “rubbish” comments on her clothes has gone viral in Australia and drawn support from across the political spectrum. In it, Ms Nicolle Flint of the ruling Liberal Party asks whether people are “sick of sexist garbage” before […]
SINGAPORE – As a volunteer in charge of managing people placed on stay-home notice (SHN) on returning from overseas, Ms Grace Koh worked long hours and on public holidays in the past few months to ensure they are received properly at designated hotels. But what proved to be more challenging was managing the emotions of […]
SINGAPORE – Unhappy with the performance of her two domestic helpers, a woman ordered one of them to slap the other’s face 10 times. Filipina maid Annabel Timbol Reyes, 26, obeyed Kan Choi Yit out of fear and repeatedly slapped Indonesian Ratna Lestari, 25, on Aug 20, 2018. On another occasion, Kan ordered her daughter-in-law’s […]
SYDNEY (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) – Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in “one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history”, according to a report released on Tuesday (July 28). The study by scientists from several Australian universities said the wildlife hit included 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s government is pushing ahead with the distribution of its much derided masks even though commercially made masks are now readily available, prompting a renewed outcry on social media. Dubbed the “Abenomask”, which means Abe’s mask and is a pun on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” programme, the washable gauze mask has […]