SINGAPORE – A 58-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly having a knife with him in a coffee shop in Clementi Avenue 1. The police said on Saturday (Oct 9) that they received a call for assistance at around 6.10pm on Friday (Oct 8). When officers turned up at the scene, they established the identity […]
SINGAPORE – A 58-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly having a knife with him in a coffee shop in Clementi Avenue 1. The police said on Saturday (Oct 9) that they received a call for assistance at around 6.10pm on Friday (Oct 8). When officers turned up at the scene, they established the identity […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (NYTIMES) – Its name translates into “floating island,” and for up to 100,000 desperate war refugees, the low-slung landmass is supposed to be home. One refugee, Munazar Islam, initially thought it would be his. He and his family of four fled Myanmar in 2017 after the military there unleashed a campaign of murder […]
SINGAPORE – Aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney will hire 250 new staff by the end of the year, in a move that shows the aviation and aerospace sector is slowly getting back on its feet. The United States-based firm had retrenched 400 staff at five of its six facilities here in August last year […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – Mr Lee Jae-myung became the presidential candidate for South Korea’s ruling party on Sunday (Oct 10), hoping to overcome a property scandal and gather national support while conservative opponents trade barbs over anal acupuncture and fortune-tellers. Mr Lee, governor of Gyeonggi province and a party outsider often critical of incumbent President Moon […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will allow interstate and overseas travel from Monday (Oct 11) for the 90 per cent of its adult population that have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. In a national broadcast on Sunday to mark the achievement of the immunisation target, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob also vowed that the progressive relaxation of […]
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, revered as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb”, has died at 85, the authorities said on Sunday (Oct 10). He had been hospitalised with Covid-19. The atomic scientist was hailed as a national hero for transforming his country into the world’s first Islamic nuclear power, but regarded by the […]
SINGAPORE – Young people volunteering for mental health causes say the stigma surrounding mental health problems has eased among their peers, in part due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Jovan Chong, 20, is a volunteer at mental health charity Resilience Collective, whose peer support programmes involve persons with mental health conditions, typically aged from 18 […]
The Youth Mental Well-Being Network, set up in February last year, brings together people from all walks of life to develop ground-up solutions to improve youth mental well-being. About 1,500 individuals, comprising young people, parents, caregivers and mental health and social sector professionals, have joined the network and developed 22 ground-up projects. Roping in parents, […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday (Oct 10), in a strong riposte to Beijing. Taiwan has come under growing military and political pressure to accept […]