Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Friday, July 3. Spreading falsehoods not the right kind of politics, says DPM Heng on SDP’s 10 million population claim “Singaporeans can judge whether you are saying something serious or you are just spreading statements like this with no basis whatsoever,” said DPM Heng […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – If you have ever bought supermarket sushi, you may know the taste trauma that hit Kazuhiro Shimura one night. But the “disappointing” tuna sparked an idea: he would develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to make sure your sashimi is always delicious. Shimura, a director at advertising firm Dentsu Group’s Future Creative […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest pension fund, on Friday reported a record quarterly loss of 17.71 trillion yen ($164.74 billion) in January-March after global stock markets plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. GPIF posted a negative return of 10.71% on its overall assets during the three months, compared with […]
HONG KONG (AFP) – A man accused of deliberately driving his motorbike into a group of police officers became the first person in Hong Kong to be charged under a sweeping new national security law on Friday (July 3). Tong Ying-kit, 23, was hit with one charge of inciting secession and one charge of terrorism, according to a […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A widening probe by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and the country’s tax authorities into the multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project featuring an ambitious undersea tunnel to link the island of Penang with the peninsula could spell trouble for the top leadership of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) which rules the northern state. In raids […]
SINGAPORE – A doctor has been suspended for four months for intruding on a woman’s privacy at a hospital. Dr Lum Yang Wei, while on duty on Feb 19, 2016, had placed his mobile phone under the toilet door of a disabled toilet cubicle where his victim was relieving herself around 11.15am. The video recording function was […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Under the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, the US treats Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous part of China with its own legal and economic system, differently than the Chinese mainland in trade, commerce and other areas. President Donald Trump has begun stripping away that “special status” to punish China for […]
BEIJING (NYTIMES) – Weeks of abnormally intense rains have swept away buildings and ruined homes across southern China, leaving at least 106 people dead or missing and affecting 15 million residents in the worst flooding that parts of the region have seen in decades. Heavy rains this time of year often swell China’s rivers and […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – The US point man for North Korea is due to visit South Korea next week as it pushes for a resumption of talks with the North ahead of the US election and despite few signs of any progress. US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, who led working-level negotiations with the North […]
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The picture of Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on the steps of the Prime Minister’s official residence and surrounded by the top leaders of Perikatan Nasional was one of those pictures that spoke a thousand words. The group of 14 leaders basically signalled that the Prime Minister has the […]