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Lucknow, India — After a glacier burst in northern India, rescue efforts continued as 18 people were confirmed dead on Monday (Feb 8), with at least 200 others missing. After the glacier broke off a mountainside on Sunday (Feb 7), it triggered a flash flood through a valley in the northern state of Uttarakhand. Along […]

Singapore — Workers’ Party (WP) treasurer Gerald Giam is set to raise concerns over the Myanmar coup and its effects on Singaporeans with Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan at the Parliament sitting on Feb 16. On Monday (Feb 1), the Myanmar military seized political control by detaining the nation’s leader, Ms Aung San Suu […]

Hanover, Germany – A veterinary clinic in Germany has trained sniffer dogs to detect the Covid-19 virus in human saliva samples with 94 per cent accuracy. The breakthrough could provide an effective and reliable infection detection technology in various settings like public facilities. A Deutsche Welle report on Wednesday (Feb 3) announced that dogs trained […]

Shanghai – More than 80 people were arrested by Chinese police while 3,000 fake doses of Covid-19 vaccines were confiscated as part of an initiative to combat vaccine-related crimes, reported state news agency Xinhua. Since at least Sep 2020, the suspects have been engaged in manufacturing and profiting from the counterfeit doses’ sale, said Xinhua […]

Singapore — Lawyer M Ravi is helping to take on Chinese tech giant Tencent in his first international human rights law case on breach of privacy and on surveillance. Mr Ravi wrote in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon (Jan 29) that his court clerk had served the court papers on Tencent in a lawsuit […]

Singapore—A man born in Singapore wanted in relation to a murder case nearly four decades ago is in jail in Australia, but the country’s Attorney-General’s Department has said he cannot be extradited if he faces the death penalty. Seventy-seven-year-old Tham Kwok Wah is a suspect in the murder of a man believed to have been […]

by Jing Xuan TENG China on Thursday congratulated US President Joe Biden on his inauguration and called for a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington after a corrosive period of diplomacy under Donald Trump. Beijing also welcomed news that the US would rejoin the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord, as Biden […]

Goh Chok Tong congratulated United States President Joe Biden on his inauguration, wishing him success as he assumes office. In a Facebook post on Thursday (Jan 21), the former Emeritus Senior Minister wrote: “I congratulate Joe Biden on being sworn in as the 46th President of the United States”. Mr Goh continued: “He has to […]

Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday as she was sworn in as the first woman, first black and first Asian American Vice President in the history of the United States of America. As the first coloured Vice President, Ms Harris has risen higher in the country’s leadership than any woman ever before her. She being […]

Singapore — Alibaba billionaire co-founder Jack Ma appeared in public for the first time in months on Wednesday morning (Jan 20), causing a surge in the price of its shares. His tech empire has been under close scrutiny by Chinese regulators of late. Mr Ma was seen in a video released by Chinese state media […]

by Paul HANDLEY US President-elect Joe Biden plans to kick off his new administration Wednesday with orders to restore the United States to the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, aides said. Biden will sign 17 orders and actions just hours after being sworn in as US leader to break from policies of […]

1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing on Wednesday as two Covid-19 cases linked to a new UK virus variant were found in the Chinese capital. China has lauded its response to the pandemic, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan just over a year ago but has been broadly brought to heel, […]

By Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US president Wednesday, drawing a curtain on the most tumultuous administration of modern times and charting a new course to tackle Covid-19 and unite a splintered nation. Outgoing President Donald Trump entered the White House four years ago as a […]

Beijing — As China’s Shijiazhuang city aims to curb a growing Covid-19 outbreak, construction crews are working round the clock to build thousands of prefabricated rooms to function as a massive quarantine facility.   Shijiazhuang, a city in northern China and the provincial capital of Hebei province, has the bulk of new Covid-19 cases. In […]

Singapore—Mr Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, has received a very specific mission from Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Post-Brexit, Mr Sunak will be decreasing the amount of red tape that the other European nations have to contend with. A full-page spread in the tabloid Daily Mail on Sunday (Jan 17)  […]