As of Thursday noon (6 May), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 18 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered police to arrest anyone not wearing a mask properly, including below the nose, as the country battles to contain surging...
China said on Thursday it had suspended an economic agreement with Australia, in an apparent tit-for-tat response to Canberra’s scrapping a Belt and Road infrastructure pact...
The recent spike in COVID-19 community cases has forced Singapore to be “effectively back” in Phase Two, but co-chair of Multi-Ministry Taskforce Lawrence Wong stressed that...
A Hong Kong journalist who was prosecuted over investigating an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists won a prestigious press prize on Thursday, even after...
India saw record new jumps in COVID-19 cases and deaths on Thursday, dashing tentative hopes that the catastrophic recent surge was easing. Health ministry numbers showed...
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympic Games, a move that will reignite debate over...
At a webinar conference on Tues (4 May), Ravi Menon, the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), told his audience that Singapore will...
Workers should not be held responsible for the climate crisis — instead, it is “the elites” who failed to take “ethical considerations” in their “relentless search...
Jailed Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong was handed an additional 10-month sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in an “unlawful” protest last...
In the wake of declining revenue from advertising, Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) will be transferring its media business to a non-profit entity. The company said...
The largest real-world study yet of the Pfizer/BioNTec vaccine on Thursday confirmed that the jab provided more than 95 per cent protection against COVID-19, but found...
The COVID-19 task force is looking into the factors that might have led to the COVID-19 cluster at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), said Associate Professor...
The latest variant of COVID-19 originating from India has been detected in Singapore, which is also believed to spark the country’s largest active cluster at Tan...
by Shaun Tandon The Group of Seven wealthy democracies on Wednesday wrapped up their first in-person meeting in more than two years, accusing China of human...