The coronavirus variant first detected in India has now been officially recorded in 53 territories, a World Health Organization (WHO) report showed Wednesday. Additionally, the WHO...
As COVID-19 swept the globe, deepening existing fault-lines in societies and generating fear and uncertainty, many governments used the pandemic as a pretext to clamp down...
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, called for the Games to be cancelled on Wednesday, describing the event as “a threat to health”....
DBS posted a message on its Facebook page today (25 May) clarifying that the person, Ms Sonal Wadde, mentioned in an article from The Independent Singapore...
As Singapore continues to report more COVID-19 cases, with many among the community, members of the the Workers’ Party (WP) have come forward to share a...
From 13 June onwards, Changi Airport staff will be segregated based on their COVID-19 exposure risk and only those who have been vaccinated will be allowed...
Messaging app WhatsApp has blocked the accounts of dozens of Palestinian journalists following this month’s fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, reporters said. Shortly...
Four people have been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly stealing COVID-19 vaccines marked for prisoners and selling them to the public, authorities said Tuesday. The suspects...
A new US travel warning for Japan over virus risks will not affect this summer’s pandemic-postponed Olympic Games, the Japanese government and Tokyo 2020 organisers said...
As of Tuesday noon (25 May), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 30 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
Deliveroo Singapore on Monday (24 May) introduced additional support initiatives to help its customers, riders, and restaurant partners tide through the Phase Two (Heightened Alert) period....
Police in India’s capital served a notice at Twitter’s offices late Monday, seeking information for a complaint about why a tweet by the spokesperson of the...
Australia on Tuesday abruptly announced it will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan this week, expressing fears over the “increasingly uncertain security environment” in Kabul as foreign...
Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed...
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21, which is characterized by impairment of...