SINGAPORE – As Singapore inches closer to the polls, the Elections Department has announced campaigning rules to keep candidates, voters and officials safe amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The new rules will place restrictions on physical campaigning, and parties and candidates have been encouraged to consider alternative modes of campaigning, such as e-rallies. Here are the […]
Sadiq Khan has taken a 10% pay cut and called on Boris Johnson to bail out local authorities facing funding black holes because of the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities need help as they face a shortfall of income from business and council tax, the London mayor said. Mr Khan warned that a funding shortfall of almost […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Prime Minister’s usual military aircraft is being given a bright new makeover because it was deemed to be too dull. A defence source said the RAF Voyager transport plane would be transformed […]
A controversial Lethbridge pathway project has been cancelled by city council, despite previous approval for a $1.75-million update in the city’s river valley. A motion to cancel the Pathway 24 project was raised on June 1, by Coun. Blaine Hyggen, following significant public backlash surrounding what was going to be a stretch of shale pathway […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday his former national security adviser John Bolton will have broken the law and face criminal liability if a book he has written about his time in the White House is published. Trump told reporters that Bolton knows he has classified information in his book, and […]
(Reuters) – Ohio has taken the first step toward sending every registered voter in the state an application for an absentee ballot for November’s presidential election, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said Monday. The decision by a budgetary board to use federal funds to send the applications comes as mail-in voting has drawn criticism […]
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration is hindering oversight of over $1 trillion in pandemic stimulus funds, according to a watchdog group tasked by Congress to detect fraud and misuse of federal aid aimed at mitigating economic fallout from coronavirus. Treasury Department officials have said the agency is not required to report key information […]
SINGAPORE – The Reform Party unveiled its first batch of candidates on Monday – setting up a possible three-cornered fight with the PAP and the Progress Singapore Party in West Coast GRC. During a livestream on Facebook, RP secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam introduced six candidates, three of them entering their first electoral contest. Theparty intends to […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. After the BBC briefly removed the “Don’t mention the war episode of Fawlty Towers” and removed Little Britain from their streaming services in response to criticism by leftwing campaigners, questions have been […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. They gave up trying to delay the country’s departure from Brussels after being told by Michael Gove that the Government will not request an extension in any circumstances. With talks about a […]