SEOUL: South Korea raised concerns over Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea with visiting US climate envoy John Kerry, its foreign ministry said, but Kerry reaffirmed Washington’s confidence in the plan’s transparency. Kerry arrived in Seoul on Saturday to discuss international efforts to tackle global warming on a
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SINGAPORE: Two bodies were found in the Singapore River near Clarke Quay early on Sunday morning (Apr 18). The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it received a call for a “water rescue incident” along the river near 6 Eu Tong Sen Street at about 2am. Advertisement Advertisement “Upon SCDF’s arrival, there were no signs
SHANGHAI: China and the United States agree that stronger pledges to fight climate change should be introduced before a new round of international talks at the end of the year, the two countries said in a joint statement on Sunday (Apr 18). The statement came after a meeting between Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and his
JAKARTA: As soon as the wailing sound of an ambulance sirens were heard, three motorcyclists in matching leather jackets immediately sprang into action, hastily putting on their helmets and hopping on their motorcycles. With their hands revving the throttles, the three motorcyclists quickly caught up with the ambulance. Advertisement Advertisement The emergency workers inside the ambulance were
SINGAPORE: When news broke on Monday (Apr 5) the Government had plans to invite those below 45 to book their COVID-19 vaccination shots from June, my chat groups lit up. People discussed how many would sign up once appointments were available – and the response seemed unanimous. Advertisement Advertisement “Me! Travel!” said one. A sea of
REUTERS: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked US drugmaker Pfizer on Saturday (Apr 17) to provide additional supplies of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan this year, Nikkei reported. Pfizer confirmed in an email that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla met with Suga virtually to discuss vaccine supply on the last day of Suga’s three-day visit to Washington. The
SINGAPORE: A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) national serviceman (NSman) has tested positive for COVID-19 before the start of his in-camp training. He was swabbed as part of routine safety measures for all NSmen before they begin their training, said the Ministry of Defence on Saturday (Apr 17). Advertisement Advertisement The NSman, a 35-year-old Singaporean, was identified as
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) national serviceman (NSman) who was among the country’s four new community COVID-19 cases on Saturday (Apr 17) was asymptomatic when he reported for in-camp training (ICT) at Nee Soon Camp. “The serviceman was well and asymptomatic when he reported for ICT at Nee Soon Camp,” said the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF). Advertisement Advertisement
ISLAMABAD: Western governments should treat people who insult the Prophet Mohammed the same as those who deny the Holocaust, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Saturday (Apr 17). Speaking after a week of violent protests in Pakistan by a radical Islamist party outraged by French government support for magazines publishing cartoons of Mohammed, Khan said insulting
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is appealing for information on the whereabouts of a 16-year-old girl who has been missing since Friday (Apr 16). Wan Le Xuan Shermaine was last seen at Blk 327D Anchorvale Road in Sengkang at about 8pm on Friday, said the police in a news release on Saturday. Advertisement Advertisement She was
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta released 23,184 prisoners from jails across the country on Saturday (Apr 17) under a New Year amnesty, a Prisons Department spokesman said, although few if any democracy activists arrested since a Feb 1 coup were thought to be among them. Saturday is the first day of the traditional New Year in Myanmar and the
HONG KONG: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signalled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing’s scrutiny of its business, according to a source familiar with regulators’ thinking
DHAKA: At least four people were shot dead and many injured on Saturday (Apr 17) as police opened fire at workers demanding a pay rise at a Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant in southeastern Bangladesh, police said. Police were forced to open fire when protesters attacked them at the under-construction power plant in Chittagong, local police official
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Indonesia on Apr 24, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday (Apr 17), for his first known foreign trip since he staged a Feb 1 coup. Myanmar has been in upheaval since Min Aung Hlaing ousted an elected government
SINGAPORE: National diver Mark Lee had put off retiring from the sport for a final shot at the world’s biggest stage – eating right, training right, doing all the right things. Then earlier this month, he was hit by news that the FINA Diving World Cup in Japan would not take place. It serves as a
SINGAPORE: Four community cases were among 39 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (Apr 17). This is the highest number of community cases since Jan 21. Advertisement Advertisement The remaining 35 cases were imported infections and were placed on stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). No
KUALA LUMPUR: Forty healthcare workers in Malaysia have tested positive for COVID-19 despite completing both doses of the vaccination, said health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah on Saturday (Apr 17). According to Dr Noor Hisham, nine of them were infected more than two weeks after having their second dose, while the other 31 workers were infected less
WASHINGTON: The United States and Japan vowed on Friday (Apr 16) to stand firm together against an assertive China and to step up cooperation on climate change and next-generation technology as President Joe Biden made his first summit a show of alliance unity. Waiting nearly three months for his first foreign guest due to the
WASHINGTON: The US Treasury Department on Friday (Apr 16) said Vietnam, Switzerland and Taiwan tripped its thresholds for possible currency manipulation under a 2015 US trade law, but refrained from formally branding them as manipulators. In the first semi-annual foreign exchange report issued by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the Treasury said it will commence “enhanced
SINGAPORE: Like most office workers, economist Song Seng Wun used to spend his workdays behind a desk at his bank and never questioned it. Now, after being forced to work from home during the “circuit breaker” period last year, he has adjusted to a new rhythm. His mornings are spent at the office, then he may
BEIJING: China reported 15 new COVID-19 cases on Friday (Apr 16), up from 11 cases a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said one of the new cases was a local infection reported in southwestern Yunnan province, which discovered a new cluster in late
SINGAPORE: Although pre-school education in Singapore is not compulsory, the majority of young children are registered in pre-schools before entering the mainstream system of education. The pre-school landscape presents over 1,900 childcare centres and kindergartens that offer a wide-ranging fee structure that can range from as low as a few dollars to over S$2,000 a
NAKHON PHANOM, Thailand: From a distance, it is hard to make sense of the small patches of green emerging from the cracking mud flats of the Mekong River. They are not oases, nor sprouts of river grass along dusty channels where water normally flows; they are golf greens. Advertisement Advertisement Recently, an unusual golf tournament
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced last week that four pairs of primary schools and five pairs of secondary schools in Singapore will be merged between 2022 and 2024. This is the third round of school closures in the last five years. In 2016, there were plans to merge 22 secondary schools. In 2017,
SINGAPORE: Ears, phones, and WhatsApp accounts are a-buzzing in Malaysia’s political circles, as players and insiders indulge in a vicarious listen on a phone conversation that two of the country’s leading politicians had. The conversation, which is of mysterious provenance, was purportedly between Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, and Zahid
Climate Change China said Friday that the United States needed to take more responsibility on climate change but welcomed greater cooperation after a visit by envoy John Kerry, state media said. US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, seen on a March 2021 visit to France, is the first official from the Biden administration
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has aired a televised “confession” of a Belizean national after detaining him in connection with his support for the Hong Kong protest movement in November 2019. Henley Lee was found guilty on April 24, 2020 of “financing criminal activities that harm national security,” the overseas-based rights group Safeguard Defenders
A court in Hong Kong on Friday handed down sentences to several prominent pro-democracy figures including media mogul Jimmy Lai, international barrister Margaret Ng, and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, while prosecutors brought two additional charges under the national security law against Lai. Lai, 72, and veteran trade unionist Lee Cheuk-yan, 64, were jailed for
ROME: Italy will ease coronavirus restrictions for schools and restaurants from Apr 26, Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced Friday (Apr 16), in response to increasing lockdown fatigue in the country. Expressing “cautious optimism”, Draghi said his government was taking a “calculated risk” following an improvement in infection numbers and progress with vaccinations. Advertisement Advertisement Looser “yellow
SINGAPORE: An Indonesian who came to Singapore to care for his father and a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are the two community COVID-19 cases reported in Singapore as of noon on Friday (Apr 16). The two cases, who are currently unlinked, were among 34 new COVID-19 infections. Both had tested negative
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