SINGAPORE – When competing in the water technology section at the WorldSkills Singapore challenge last year, Miss Raine Lim, 20, had trouble managing her time and had to settle for a silver medal. But she did not allow this to discourage her. Instead, she practised hard for this year’s challenge and emerged as the gold […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Canberra firefighters rushed to a store in Australia’s capital Friday (Oct 15) after reports of a gas leak – only to find that the smell was caused by the penetrating waft of durian fruit. Emergency responders instructed the public to avoid the area as they hunted in vain for the source of […]
SINGAPORE – It took more than 20 years before local materials science company NanoFilm, an offshoot of Nanyang Technological University, became listed on the Singapore Exchange. And it took about the same amount of time for research on bat-borne viruses carried out by Duke-NUS Medical School’s Professor Wang Linfa to lay the foundation for the […]
SINGAPORE – In the war against obsolescence, the mindset and development processes employed by the defence sector have to change to stay ahead of the latest innovations in technology, said a United States defence official. Speaking on Thursday (Oct 14) at the third Singapore Defence Technology Summit, chief technology officer for the US Department of […]
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has signalled his intention to shift economic policy and freshen up the ruling party’s image by scrapping a growth strategy panel and replacing it with a more gender-balanced group tasked with fomenting a “new form of capitalism”. The new panel is assigned the task of creating a […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – In early 2020, as economies and societies the world over began to shut down in efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19, I was, like many of us, reminded of how closely we are all interlinked through transport. The mobility of people and goods – the lifeblood of […]
SINGAPORE – A Singapore permanent resident who arrived at Changi Airport on July 14 allegedly lied on his declaration form for opt-out travellers so that he could serve his Stay Home Notice (SHN) at home. Taiwanese Lu Yi Yin, 48, is said to have declared that he would be occupying his home alone or with […]
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday (Oct 14) called on countries to leverage transportation as the key driver of the global recovery from the pandemic and pushed for greater cooperation to ensure more even development. The pandemic has widened gaps in economic growth, Mr Xi told the second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore has slipped three places in a global ranking of rule of law and fallen outside the top three spots in the region for the first time since 2015. This is based on an index compiled by the World Justice Project (WJP), an independent advocacy group founded in the United States. The Republic’s […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – A fire in a residential building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 46 people and injured another 41, the government said on Thursday. (Oct 14). The fire broke out in the 40-year-old building in Kaohsiung’s Yancheng district in the early hours of the morning and was extinguished around dawn. […]