SINGAPORE: A dormitory resident was among the 14 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Tuesday (Apr 20). The remaining 13 cases were imported and were placed on stay-home notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its preliminary daily update. Advertisement Advertisement There are no
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government will seek a vote in parliament on Tuesday (Apr 20) on whether to expel the French ambassador after violent anti-France protests by Islamists demanding action over cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, the interior minister said. Prime Minister Imran Khan warned his nation in a televised address late on Monday that Pakistan risked paying
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had hoped a fight over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed would result in an easy win - placating the ultra-conservative quarters at home while being hailed as a defender of Islam abroad. The gamble seems to have backfired spectacularly. Advertisement Advertisement For the past week, riots have again engulfed Pakistan,
SINGAPORE: Transport operator SMRT is targeting to change its entire taxi fleet to electric vehicles within five years, with the first batch of 300 to arrive in Singapore progressively from July. The fleet could include models such as sedans, station wagons and multi-purpose vehicles to “meet the diverse needs of the market as it evolves”,
SINGAPORE: Citi plans to hire up to 1,500 more employees in Singapore, as it looks to ramp up its consumer wealth management businesses amid a significant revamp. The new hires will support its plans to triple its assets under management and increase wealth clients by two and a half times by 2025, a spokesperson told
WASHINGTON: China is guilty of ongoing “crimes against humanity” in its oppressive treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released on Monday (Apr 19). Beijing has imprisoned more than one million members of the main ethnic group in its western Xinjiang region and keeps millions more under
Security has been beefed up for Chinese workers at a power plant in southeastern Bangladesh, and police have filed cases against thousands of local workers who went on a rampage Saturday, leading officers to shoot dead five of them, authorities said Monday. More than 3,500 Bangladeshi workers upset over unpaid wages and work hours during
JAKARTA: It is a bold and somewhat depressing prediction: That by 2063, the Indonesian farmer will disappear as a profession. This according to the National Development Planning Agency of Indonesia (Bappenas). Advertisement Advertisement Their projection bears out the slow decline of workers in the agricultural sector. Bappenas data shows that the proportion of Indonesian workers
BEIJING: The Chinese economy grew by 6.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020, providing a strong indication that it has recovered from the COVID-19 shock. The market consensus is that, due to base effects, GDP growth shot up to more than 18 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2021,
SINGAPORE: Earlier this year, Luda Lee, an AI (artificial intelligence)-powered chatbot, went “rogue”. Created by Korean start-up Scatter Lab, Luda was designed to chat naturally with South Korean Facebook users (attracting more than 750,000 over just 20 days), and to improve based on user data. Advertisement Advertisement Soon after however, Luda Lee began making bigoted
A jailed Vietnamese blogger serving an 11-year prison term for writing articles criticizing Vietnam’s government is showing signs of poor health and mental decline in the prison to which he was moved last week, his wife said Monday. Nguyen Tuong Thuy, an independent journalist and former RFA Vietnamese Service blogger, was moved April 15 from
Authorities in Hong Kong on Monday announced plans to start terminate the contracts of civil servants who refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong govermment. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip told lawmakers that 129 out of 170,000 civil servants haven’t signed a written declaration of loyalty, with some writing
SINGAPORE: The new SafeEntry Gateways deployed at malls, cinemas and other locations with large volumes of visitors has made the flow of people entering these places smoother. With the gateways in place at NEX since mid-February, checking in at the mall is “quick and convenient” for those who use the TraceTogether token and app, “even
SINGAPORE: A 12m-high steel structure collapsed onto an unoccupied workers’ quarters at a Housing and Development Board (HDB) construction site on Monday (Apr 19), said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The incident happened on a piece of land adjacent to the proposed public housing development at Tengah Garden Avenue, Plantation Crescent and Tengah Boulevard, said MOM
NEW DELHI: India on Monday (Apr 19) opened its COVID-19 vaccination drive to all adults from May 1, as the vast nation battles a massive spike in infections that has forced the capital into a week-long lockdown. India, which currently limits shots to over-45s, kicked off its inoculation drive in mid-January and has administered more
BRUSSELS: The European Union on Monday (Apr 19) announced sanctions on 10 Myanmar junta officials and two conglomerates linked to the military over the coup and bloody crackdown on protesters in their country. The individuals “are all responsible for undermining democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar/Burma, and for repressive decisions and serious human rights
YANGON: Sleeping by their makeshift barricades, knots of young men at Tahan in the western Myanmar town of Kale had not expected an attack in the pre-dawn darkness. Armed with a few hunting guns made by village blacksmiths, catapults, some airguns and Molotov cocktails, they were no match for forces hardened by decades of conflict and
SINGAPORE: Electric motorcycle manufacturer EuroSports Technologies (EST) has partnered with Strides Transportation, a subsidiary of public transport operator SMRT, to develop, market and supply smart electric motorcycles for commercial and corporate clients. The two signed an agreement on Monday (Apr 19) that will see Strides act as the sole distributor of the smart electric motorcycles in
NEW DELHI: Many Indians are pillorying Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his response to a scary surge in coronavirus cases, sickened by him addressing tens of thousands of people at state election rallies and letting Hindu devotees congregate for a festival. Tags like #ResignModi and #SuperSpreaderModi have trended on Twitter in the past two days,
Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have formally arrested rights attorney Chang Weiping on suspicion of “subversion of state power,” his wife said on Monday. Chang is currently being held in Fengxian Detention Center in Shaanxi’s Baoji city. The charge against him appears to have been changed from “incitement to subvert state power,” which
MANILA: Strong winds and high waves lashed the eastern Philippines on Monday (Apr 19) as the strongest typhoon ever recorded in April barrelled past in the Pacific Ocean, killing one man and triggering flooding in lower-lying communities, disaster officials said. The national weather bureau issued a severe wind and heavy rainfall warning on Monday, saying “destructive
NEW DELHI: Delhi will impose a week-long lockdown from Monday (Apr 19) night, Indian officials said, as the megacity struggles to contain a huge surge in COVID-19 cases with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen supplies low. The vast nation of 1.3 billion people reported a record high of 273,810 infections on Monday – the fifth
SINGAPORE: One community case was among the 20 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Monday (Apr 19), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its preliminary daily update. The remaining 19 cases were imported infections and had been placed on stay-home notice or isolated upon their arrival in Singapore. Advertisement Advertisement No new
HONG KONG: A Chinese painting from 1924 is expected to fetch at least US$45 million in an auction in Hong Kong, as collectors’ appetite for art continues to rise even amid economic uncertainty brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The painting by influential Chinese modern artist Xu Beihong depicts a slave hiding in a cave
TOKYO: A recent surge in COVID-19 cases could see major parts of Japan slide back into states of emergency with authorities in Tokyo and Osaka looking at renewed curbs to stop the spread. The new wave of infections complicates preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games, which are due to start in July having already been
SINGAPORE: The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has seized drugs worth more than S$2.3 million, including about 23kg of cannabis and about 16kg of heroin, the agency said on Monday (Apr 19). The cannabis seizure is the CNB’s largest since 1996, while the heroin haul is its biggest since 2001. Advertisement Advertisement About 23,687g of cannabis, 16,548g
KUALA TERENGGANU: The number of vaccinated healthcare workers in Malaysia testing positive for COVID-19 is 10 times lower than the number of cases among healthcare workers before the inoculation regime, said Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Ahmad Amzad Hashim. When COVID-19 first hit Malaysia in March last year, Malaysia had an average of 436
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will suspend flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for two weeks from Tuesday (Apr 20), after the N501Y mutant COVID-19 strain was detected in the Asian financial hub for the first time, authorities said in a statement late on Sunday. The three countries would be classified as “extremely high risk”
SINGAPORE: “Papa, where are you going?” came the small voice of my five-year old daughter as I put on my shoes for work. The accompanied puppy-look made my response even harder, but I told her I had to go to work. Advertisement Advertisement “Why do you need to go work? Why can’t you continue to
SINGAPORE: Certain countries, such as the Netherlands, have had a head start in putting in place hybrid working legislation, well before COVID-19 brought homeworking to the forefront, to protect the interests of both the employer and its employees. Such legislation typically regulates flexible working arrangements including working hours, working times and places of work. Advertisement
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