DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh police shot dead four people as hundreds vandalised several Hindu temples across the Muslim-majority country, police said Thursday (Oct 14). Police opened fire on a mob of over 500 people late Wednesday following furore over footage of a Quran being placed on the knee of a figure of the Hindu monkey […]
HONG KONG – While it is of lesser importance that Hong Kong reopens to the rest of the world, being able to travel without quarantine between the city and the mainland is a priority for writer Sandra Han. The 27-year-old, who works in Hong Kong, has not returned home to Jiangsu for more than 11/2 […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Covid-19 infections in Australia’s Victoria hit a pandemic record on Thursday (Oct 14) as Melbourne, the state capital, looks to exit its lockdown next week, several days ahead of plan, helped by a faster-than-expected vaccine uptake. The surge in daily cases comes as Victoria nears the 70 per cent threshold for double-dose […]
Customers at a local cafe are seen through a window displaying a job vacancy notice in central Sydney, Australia, May 9, 2016. Picture taken May 9, 2016. REUTERS/Steven Saphore/FilesSYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian employment fell sharply for a second month in September as coronavirus lockdowns forced businesses to lay off workers and slash hours, while the […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union offered Britain a package of measures to ease the transit of goods to Northern Ireland, but it looked unlikely to end tensions over post-Brexit trading rules for the province as it stopped short of the overhaul that London has demanded.FILE PHOTO: Lorries leave a ferry at the Port of Larne, […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India currently has no plans to give booster doses as some nations have begun doing, the government’s chief Covid-19 advisor said Wednesday (Oct 13) as the country nears the milestone of one billion vaccine injections. Doctor Vinod K. Paul said meanwhile with the country’s vaccine makers ramping up production and domestic […]
SINGAPORE – An internal investigation by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) is under way following the death of a 17-year-old boy after he was arrested by its officers. Justin Lee, who had been charged with drug trafficking on June 24, died on Sept 16 from a fall from height. His mother, Ms Cecilia Ow, 51, on […]
SINGAPORE – A National University of Singapore (NUS) professor who specialises in migration issues has become the first Singaporean to receive an accolade widely regarded as the Nobel Prize in geography. In a statement on Tuesday (Oct 12), NUS announced that Professor Brenda Yeoh, the Raffles Professor of Social Sciences and Director for Humanities and […]
SINGAPORE – It is crucial for states to work together to rebuild public confidence and reopen borders with safe, quarantine-free air travel, said Transport Minister S. Iswaran on Tuesday (Oct 12). “Today, we stand at an inflection point to revive and resume international travel,” he said at a conference on Covid-19 by the International Civil […]
SINGAPORE – When a clinical specialist resigned in April last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, his family finances suffered a huge blow. The healthcare small and medium-sized enterprise he worked for asked him to take no-pay leave, forcing his hand, said the man who wanted to be known only as Mr S. As his family’s […]