SINGAPORE – A maid was so angry when she thought her girlfriend had a secret smartphone that she slapped her and also threatened her with a knife. Calastre Elena Canto, 44, was sentenced to three months’ jail on Wednesday (Oct 6) after pleading guilty to one count of criminal intimidation. One charge each of carrying […]
SINGAPORE – ST Engineering is actively linking up with training schools in the region to bring in skilled labour as the aerospace industry recovers from the impact of Covid-19, said its president of commercial aerospace, Mr Jeffrey Lam. He said at the Asia Aerospace Leadership Forum held at Capella Singapore on Wednesday (Oct 6) that […]
SINGAPORE – Certificate of entitlement (COE) premiums eased in the latest tender on Wednesday (Oct 6), with the exception of that for bigger cars which continued to rise. The COE price for cars above 1,600cc or 130bhp ended at $70,200, up from $68,310 two weeks ago. Its proxy, the Open category, closed at $72,756, up from […]
New Zealand hopes to vaccinate as many as 350,000 people in a single day next week, the country’s largest Covid inoculation effort to date, as it pushes closer to reopening its economy. Vaccination clinics will be open all day on Saturday, Oct. 16, said Chris Hipkins, the minister leading New Zealand’s Covid-19 response. The facilities […]
SINGAPORE – Fireworks and a spectacular display of ethnic dance and song marked the start of Indonesia’s biggest sporting event – PON which is the acronym in Bahasa Indonesia for the national games – last Saturday (Oct 2) in Papua. President Joko Widodo joined in the celebrations, surprising the spectators by taking part in a […]
SINGAPORE – Crocodiles can usually be seen sunbathing and swimming at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, but they have made surprise appearances at other parts of the island. The reptiles have been spotted at Changi, Pasir Ris and Lower Seletar, with the latest sighting at East Coast Park on Tuesday (Oct 5). While they have been classified by […]
SINGAPORE – A drug prescribed to smokers to help them quit the habit has been suspended from distribution in Singapore after cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines were found in the pills. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Wednesday (Oct 6) said it was alerted in May to the presence […]
SINGAPORE – Former United Nations under-secretary-general Noeleen Heyzer and SPH Media Trust interim chief executive officer Patrick Daniel have been named by the Institute of Policy Studies as its S R Nathan Fellows for the Study of Singapore. Dr Heyzer, the 10th person appointed to the annual fellowship named after Singapore’s sixth president, and Mr […]
SINGAPORE – A Malaysian syndicate used courier services in Singapore to traffic drugs to other countries through the Republic. The syndicate is believed to have been operating in this fashion since January and had been monitored by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) since July. Acting on information from CNB, the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – India is grappling with an escalating crisis as stockpiles of coal, the fuel used to generate about 70 per cent of the nation’s electricity, dwindle to the lowest in years just as power demand is set to surge. Coal-fired power stations have an average of four days’ worth of stock of […]