KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 869 new coronavirus cases on Saturday (Oct 17), its highest daily count so far, health authorities said. All of the new COVID-19 cases are local transmissions, involving 745 citizens and 124 non-Malaysians, Health Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said. Advertisement Advertisement Many of the cases continue to be in the state of Sabah,
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SINGAPORE: The importance of Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) premium brand can be seen through the promotional events that it sponsors to attract foreign tourists to Singapore such as the F1 Grand Prix. This premium brand perception is formed in the minds of SIA’s passengers through the safe track-record of the airline, interior cabin of its aircrafts,
HONG KONG: An elderly woman who disappeared midway through Hong Kong’s protests last year resurfaced in the financial hub on Saturday (Oct 17) after 14 months away, saying she had been detained in China. Alexandra Wong said she was forced to renounce her activism in writing, record a video statement saying she was not tortured,
SINGAPORE: The new Pasir Panjang Park, scheduled to open in phases from 2021, will include features that allow visitors to experience the natural and maritime history of the area, said the National Parks Board (NParks) in a media release on Saturday (Oct 17). The park, stretching from West Coast Park to Labrador Nature Reserve, is part of the Greater
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent a ritual offering on Saturday (Oct 17) to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, which is seen by neighbouring countries as a symbol of the nation’s past militarism, especially during World War II. Yasukuni honours some 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who perished in the country’s wars since the late
SINGAPORE: The tripartite advisory on managing excess manpower and responsible retrenchment has been updated to provide more guidance on how employers should lay off workers, as further job cuts are expected amid the COVID-19 crisis. The latest advisory, released on Saturday (Oct 17), is jointly published by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the National Trades
SINGAPORE: Singaporean Amos Yee, who was granted asylum in the United States three years ago, has been charged with solicitation and possession of child porn in the US, according to the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. Yee – who was jailed in Singapore in 2015 and 2016 for hate speech against both Christians and Muslims - allegedly exchanged
Thai security forces with sniffer dogs and drones have been combing bamboo groves and cornfields along the country’s border with Myanmar for more than 48 hours, searching for two Uyghur escapees who sawed iron bars to break out of an immigration detention center, authorities said Friday. Murad Yeslicana, 41 and Rashid Ashim, 29, identified as
WELLINGTON: New Zealanders went to the polls Saturday (Oct 17) with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in striking distance of re-election with an unprecedented outright majority after campaigning on her success handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Ardern brought homemade cheese scones to campaign volunteers Saturday morning in Auckland and appeared relaxed as she awaited results, which will
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Oct. 14 named Robert A. Destro, a veteran human rights advocate and civil rights attorney, to serve as the department’s Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, a position that had gone unfilled since 2017. Destro, now Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor,
SINGAPORE: The police have made more arrests following a spate of thefts involving Budget 2020 grocery vouchers from letterboxes in residential blocks across Singapore. It said on Saturday (Oct 17) that 14 more people have been arrested for allegedly stealing the vouchers from letterboxes in separate locations and cases. Advertisement Advertisement Suspects were escorted by police officers
OTTAWA: Canada will continue to defend human rights in China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Friday (Oct 16), after a top Chinese diplomat warned Ottawa against welcoming Hong Kong pro-democracy activists. China’s ambassador to Ottawa, Cong Peiwu, warned Canada on Thursday against granting asylum to Hong Kong activists, which he said could have consequences for
SINGAPORE: A teenager who claimed to earn up to S$30,000 a month reselling collectible sneakers made the headlines recently. He plies his trade by procuring limited edition kicks such as Air Jordans and Adidas Yeezys and then goes on to resell them at exorbitant prices with as much as a 300 per cent profit margin.
JAKARTA: In Central Java, officials have dressed as ghosts and positioned themselves at a village entrance to deter people from leaving home. Over in Jakarta, those who violated COVID-19 protocols have been asked to lie in a coffin to reflect on their mistakes. Advertisement Advertisement Indonesia has one of the highest number of COVID-19 cases
WASHINGTON: A top White House official on Friday (Oct 16) urged Taiwan to build up its military capabilities to protect against a possible invasion by China, saying Beijing would have that ability in 10 to 15 years. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien told the Aspen Security Forum that a missile attack by
Saudi Arabian authorities have deported at least four Uyghurs to China over the past four years who were either visiting the country as part of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca or living in the country legally, putting them at risk of extralegal detention back home, according to relatives and other sources. Saudi Arabia began providing
YANGON: More than 1.1 million voters in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state will be disenfranchised in upcoming national polls, according to data released by the election commission Friday (Oct 16), a move experts warned could fuel yet more conflict. Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) is widely expected to be returned
WASHINGTON: The US national security adviser said on Friday (Oct 16) that China was perpetrating “something close to” a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. “If not a genocide, something close to it going on in Xinjiang,” Robert O’Brien told an online event hosted by the Aspen Institute, while highlighting other Chinese
Since the start of the anti-extradition protest movement in Hong Kong last year, police have arrested more than 10,000 people and prosecuted more than 2,000, mostly on public order charges that have been widely criticized by human rights groups as curbing people’s right to peaceful protest. As Beijing began a crackdown on public dissent under
While Taiwan’s Oct. 10 National Day celebrations were being punctuated by incursions from Chinese military jets, the democratic island’s president Tsai Ing-wen was busy giving shout-outs to the nation’s women. As part of her traditional nod to the armed forces of the island, which is still formally governed by the 1911 Republic of China founded
MANILA: Jailed Philippine activist Reina Mae Nasino wanted to hold her three-month-old daughter for the last time before she was laid to rest on Friday (Oct 16) but she could not. Heavily armed prison officials guarding her refused to uncuff her despite pleas from her family and human rights supporters, who have decried what they
SINGAPORE: Nine new COVID-19 cases were reported in Singapore on Friday (Oct 16), including eight imported infections. For the first time since Mar 12, the number of active cases in Singapore has fallen below 100, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Advertisement Advertisement One case was discovered in a foreign worker dormitory. No new cases
BANGKOK: Thai protest organisers declared an end to Friday’s (Oct 16) demonstration that was held in defiance of a government ban, as riot police fired stinging liquid from water cannon to disperse the crowd. “End of protest,” said a message sent from one of the organisers. Advertisement Advertisement Police fired water cannon and pushed forward with riot
An app developed by Chinese digital forensics giant Meiya Pico is used in the mass surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Ningxia and Yunnan, according to an anthropologist who has spoken with a former Kazakh security officer, one among some 90,000 who now patrol the streets of Xinjiang, searching people’s devices. Darren Byler, a postdoctoral
China’s ambassador to Canada has warned that Ottawa’s granting of political asylum to democracy activists fleeing a national security crackdown on Hong Kong could put some 300,000 Canadians in the city at risk. “We strongly urge the Canadian side not [to] grant so-called political asylum to those violent criminals in Hong Kong,” envoy Cong Peiwu
SINGAPORE: My eyes had just about adjusted to the sunlight filtering through the curtains at my resort room in Lim Chu Kang when the phone started buzzing. “No Caller ID” read the screen – surely this was too early in the morning for a scammer pretending to be an official from China. Advertisement Advertisement “Hi Matthew, this
SINGAPORE: Two people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at Somerset MRT station in the early hours of Friday (Oct 16), said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). SCDF said that at about 12.45am on Friday, it was alerted to the fire at Somerset MRT station, which lies along the underground stretch of
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday (Oct 16) that it is not the police’s duty to obtain the list of parliamentarians backing him to form a new government, after he emerged from a Bukit Aman interview. He also clarified that he had presented letters from the heads of parties backing him
Lahore:A soft inaugural ceremony of Pakistani-German Facilitation and Reintegration Center was held at the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation regional office, Lahore in continuation/progression to the MoU that was signed between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation
SINGAPORE: The Manpower Ministry (MOM) has suspended the work pass privileges of two employers after they failed to arrange for their workers to undergo mandatory rostered routine testing for COVID-19. Action was taken after the employers did not provide valid reasons or submit an exemption request for their workers, according to a joint press release by MOM, the Building and Construction
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