The Israeli aircraft that was flying over Singapore’s airspace recently was conducting a “commercial product demonstration”, said defence technology firm ST Engineering in response to speculation...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — A 14-day ‘total lockdown’ was announced by Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a release on Friday night (28 May), in the...
Five Muslim groups on Friday (28 May) have urged the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) to consider reassessing the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS) Certification for...
The National Environment Agency (NEA) has refuted veteran blogger Leong Sze Hian’s assertion that it collects profit from the management of hawker centres, stating that it...
As of Friday noon (28 May), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 30 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
New measures are now in place to segregate travellers from “very high-risk” countries, and better protect and more stringently test workers in the highest-risk zone at...
Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences on Friday for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of...
Japan will extend a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas on Friday until just a month before the Olympics, in a move that...
Aye Mar sits with her seven children in their Yangon kitchen and worries whether their meal of rice and stringy vegetables — all she can afford...
Speaking at an online roundtable conversation organised by Future of Singapore (FOSG) on Saturday (22 May), Toh Han Shih, a Singaporean journalist living in Hong Kong...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has clarified on Monday (24 May) that the 57-year-old man who died a day after he took his COVID-19 shot was...
Referring to a letter published in The Straits Times, Progress Singapore Party (PSP) politician Brad Bowyer said that he finds it “amazing” how “letters appear like...
As of Saturday (29 May), Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs) will be required to present a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test before returning or...
A Tokyo medical group warned Thursday that the Olympics should be held without spectators because of virus risks, while a doctors’ association urged outright cancellation, warning...
Hong Kong police on Thursday banned next month’s vigil marking Beijing’s deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown, a government official said, the second year in a row that...