Two weeks ago (6 Jul), a heated debate over India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) erupted in Parliament with the People’s Action Party (PAP) crossing swords...
As of Saturday noon (17 July), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 68 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
At a media briefing yesterday (16 Jul), Singapore’s director of medical services Kenneth Mak said that the index case of the Vietnamese hostess in the KTV...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has chaired a meeting of leaders representing the 21 APEC member economies overnight. “For the first time in APEC’s history...
by Joseph Nathan The recent outbreak of infections at KTV outlets across Singapore shows that those in charge of the Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) are hugely incompetent...
At a media briefing yesterday (16 Jul), Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said that 2,480 individuals have been quarantined due to their direct contact with the...
The EU’s disease agency said Friday it was predicting a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, with nearly five times as many new infections by 1 August....
China on Friday rebuffed WHO accusations that it failed to share raw data needed for an investigation into COVID-19’s origins, insisting experts were given adequate access...
Pacific Rim leaders including US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping began virtual talks Friday to discuss urgent joint action against the COVID-19 pandemic...
Philippine health officials warned Friday of a possible surge in coronavirus infections as the first locally transmitted cases of the highly contagious Delta variant were recorded...
Members of the public should start recognising COVID-19 infection as a “workplace injury” and extend their empathy to the workers of KTV lounges, not blaming and...
Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, UN rights experts warned Friday. The...
As many as one in every two people hospitalised with severe COVID-19 go on to develop other health complications, according to comprehensive new research released on...
Hong Kong’s national security police on Friday raided buildings at the city’s top university after its student leaders paid tribute to a man who stabbed a...
In the aftermath of the rapidly-growing KTV cluster involving Vietnamese hostesses in Singapore, which has 120 known cases linked to it as of Friday, individuals originating...