BANGALORE, INDIA (AFP) – India’s IT hub Bangalore will go back into lockdown on Tuesday (July 14) as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged towards a million, with about 500 people dying daily. After imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March, India has been steadily easing rules to lessen […]
SEOUL (AFP) – A South Korean court on Tuesday(July 14) found the mother of Korean Air’s chief executive guilty of repeatedly assaulting her employees, but gave her a suspended sentence. Lee Myung-hee is the matriarch of the Cho family, which controls the Hanjin transport and logistics conglomerate where her son Cho Won-tae succeeded her husband […]
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam – designed to help tame the Yangtze river – has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record, the Chinese government […]
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – Doughnut lovers can heave a sigh of relief as Dunkin’ Donuts will not be closing any of its outlets here. The confirmation follows news of the popular United States coffee chain permanently closing 450 of its outlets located in Speedway petrol stations across the US. Outlets not located in the […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s annual defence review accuses China of pushing its territorial claims amid the coronavirus pandemic and suspects Beijing of spreading propaganda and disinformation as it provides medical aid to nations fighting Covid-19. China “is continuing to attempt to alter the status quo in the East China Sea and the South China Sea,” […]
Case numbers in foreign worker dormitories have not come down as fast as expected, a clear sign that there are hidden reservoirs of infection there, experts said. What makes the situation harder to control is that many of the workers who are infected are likely to show no symptoms, allowing the virus to continue spreading. […]
SINGAPORE – In what prosecutors described as “one of the worst cases of child abuse”, a couple who repeatedly splashed hot water on their five-year-son until the boy died from his scald injuries were sentenced to jail on Monday (July 13) by the High Court. Ridzuan Mega Abdul Rahman, 28, was given 27 years’ jail […]
SINGAPORE – After breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home, a 38-year-old man held a knife to the woman’s neck and threatened to blow up her house with a gas cylinder. He also tied up the woman, her two daughters and her maid, and cut up her clothes. Mohamad Ridwan Ali, 38, was sentenced on Monday (July […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand ordered security stepped up at its land borders on Monday (July 13) after concerns surged over a possible second wave of coronavirus infections, following the arrests of thousands of illegal migrants in the past month. Since the start of June, the authorities have arrested 3,000 migrant workers for overland entry attempts, […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – About a third of Japanese medical institutions are cutting summer bonuses to staff, a trade union said on Monday (July 13), as many hospitals and clinics face a cash crunch, having had to delay routine treatments to make room for coronavirus patients. The Japan Federation of Medical Worker’s Unions said that out […]