Hi all, In today’s bulletin: US & Australia affirm their positions on South China Sea, Washington considers a travel ban on Chinese Communist Party officials, gruesome killing of Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur in Manhattan shocks New York, China’s GDP growth surges but remains fragile, India faces a key challenge in battling Covid-19, and more. Reading this on the […]
SINGAPORE – A woman was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail for defrauding Enterprise Singapore of $30,000, the police said on Thursday (July 16). Between November 2012 and March 2013, 43-year-old Singaporean Angela Sim, the director of ENCE Marketing Group, a public relations and marketing firm, had cheated the government agency – then known as Spring […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea needs to train for potential infectious disease outbreaks worse than Covid-19 and detailed treatment guidelines, as risks of more frequent such outbreaks rise and public sickbeds remain tight, a senior government official said. South Korea’s early success to tame the novel coronavirus through aggressive contact tracing and testing has been […]
SINGAPORE – Twin red ruffed lemur babies were born at the Singapore Zoo on Feb 22, at a time when Covid-19 began its spread across the globe. The lemur babies, which have not been named yet, are almost five months old and have begun to welcome visitors following the zoo’s reopening on July 6. “(The […]
The first signs that young voters might have been crucial in the outcome of last Friday’s general election came early on Saturday morning as the results were still sinking in. Asked at the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) press conference if the ruling party had lost the youth vote, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said young […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Fewer British workers lost their jobs in June and there were other signs that the hit to the labour market had eased off since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, but economists said unemployment remained on course to jump. The number of employees on company payrolls slumped by 649,000 between March and […]
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – A mother found out her elder son was a serial sexual predator who had sexually preyed on 19 girls, many of them minors, from a newspaper article. Madam Linda Tahir fainted from the shock at the hawker centre where she works as a cook. On June 12, Muhammad Anddy Faizul […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday (July 15) the United States will support countries that believe China has violated their maritime claims in the South China Sea but suggested it would do so through diplomatic rather than military means. “We will support countries all across the world who recognise […]
SINGAPORE – The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced on Thursday (July 16) that it will freeze scheduled fee increases for this financial year to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The freeze in fee increases will apply for the period between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021. About 170 aviation companies […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank will consider a cutting interest rates next week, but it’s already used much of its room to ease policy and foresees limits to what it can do in the future, Deputy Governor Alexei Zabotkin told Reuters. The central bank slashed its key rate by 100 basis points, the most […]