Progress against the coronavirus pandemic remains “fragile” and international travel should be avoided, the World Health Organization’s Europe director warned on Thursday, but stressed that authorised...
Wildlife rescue group Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) on Thursday (20 May) reported that a civet carcass was found dead with a dart lodged...
A major new storm was brewing in the Bay of Bengal off India’s east coast on Thursday, forecasters warned just days after the biggest cyclone to...
The Shangri-La Dialogue, slated to take place early next month in Singapore, has been cancelled two weeks before the meeting. The event, which was scheduled to...
China on Thursday branded the United States an “out-and-out security risk creator” in the South China Sea, after an American warship sailed through waters near the...
The first Hong Konger to be charged under Beijing’s national security law can be tried without a jury, a senior judge said Thursday in a ruling...
As of Thursday noon (20 May), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 41 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
Following the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) statement in regards to claims made by former DJ Jade Rasif on her foreign domestic worker (FDW)’s quarantine orders, the...
A Taiwanese Indigenous hunter facing jail for killing protected animals was granted a rare presidential pardon on Thursday, a gesture that followed an unfavourable court ruling...
Two officials at Myanmar’s embassy in Tokyo have become the latest diplomats dismissed by the junta after protesting the military coup in their country, Japan’s Kyodo...
Eight Britons were each fined S$3,000 after they pleaded guilty on Thursday (20 May) to flouting COVID-19 regulations during their yacht gathering off Lazarus Island in...
The first day of classes moved to full home-based learning (HBL) hardly went smoothly, as some students had trouble accessing the Student Learning Space (SLS) system...
Zoom on Thursday (20 May) announced the launch of ‘Zoom Events‘, an upcoming all-in-one platform with the power to produce interactive and engaging virtual experiences. Zoom...
Profits from COVID-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group said Thursday, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations’ “monopoly control”...
Olympic chief Thomas Bach will visit Japan by mid-July, the IOC has announced, after he was forced to cancel a planned trip this month over virus...