With just a few dozen COVID-19 deaths and one of the world's highest vaccination rates, Singapore wants to reopen for business—and is laying the groundwork to live with the coronavirus as it does other common diseases such as influenza.
SINGAPORE - Households here will each be given 50 medical-grade surgical masks and 25 N95 respirator masks, which they can collect at 131 supermarket outlets islandwide from Aug 26. This is the fifth distribution exercise of Temasek Foundation's Stay Prepared…
Apple is set to launch the iPhone 13 in the third week of September and a 1TB internal storage option will be available for the high-end Pro models,...
WhatsApp has released a slew of new features and updates to its Android and iOS smartphone apps. They include joinable calls, View Once, multi-device support and much more, which will ensure your WhatsApp chats get even more enthralling.
SINGAPORE — After returning to Singapore from India on the same flight in March, Bojanki Suresh Naidu and Bharati Tulshiram Choudhari were placed on a stay-home notice on the same floor in Oasia Hotel Novena.
England vs India: Mohammed Siraj was the wrecker-in-chief with the ball as India bowled out England for 120 to win the second Test by 151 runs on Monday.
PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): Continued service to the people will be Perikatan Nasional's main agenda that will be given attention by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who strongly believes that the people still need help to face the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Weeks after the assassination of its president, a second crisis has hit the nation: a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has left large-scale destruction in its wake.
Manny Pacquiao finally arrived in Las Vegas on Tuesday for the final phase of his preparation for Sunday’s WBA welterweight championship bout against holder Yordenis Ugas of Cuba at the T-Mobile Arena.
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings says Covid-19 death claims during the recent third wave of infections were more severe than the company initially expected.
Lamborghini took the covers off of its new Countach LPI 800-4: a futuristic limited edition paying homage to its predecessor's iconic status in the 70s.
India decided to withdraw the ambassador and all other staff from the mission in Kabul – effectively closing the embassy for the second time since 1996 – due to the uncertainty created by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan following the collapse of the Ashra…
The Deputy Governor, Corporate Services Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Edward Adamu, has attributed the depreciation in the value of the naira to the effects of the COVID-19 pa…
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TXT has returned with their repackaged album “The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE”! The title track “LO$ER=LO♡ER” is produced by Slow Rabbit, who has produced many of TXT’s previous title tracks. The addicting melody and youthful chant in the chorus conveys an…
South Asia News: NEW DELHI: Facebook has initiated action against posts and accounts affiliated to Taliban, as the social media giant identifies the outfit as a terror.
Afghanistan's defiant vice president made one thing clear as the Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of his government -- he will not surrender.
SINGAPORE: A Ninja Van delivery driver was sentenced to 15 weeks' jail on Tuesday (Aug 17) for misappropriating dozens of parcels worth S$34,000 that he marked as missing and placed in his mother-in-law's home.
When courier company Ninja Van caught wind of…
Mask mandates and other interventions can help stop a surge, even where vaccination rates are low, say scientists who combed through states' data. When they start and how long they last matters.
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US health experts are expected to recommend Covid-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the delta variant spreads acros…
Cases of Covid-19 among children have steadily increased in the US since the beginning of July, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. And an expert says this rise is just the start of what is to come.
TWICE’s Jeongyeon will be taking another break from activities due to health concerns. On August 18, JYP Entertainment announced that due to symptoms of panic and psychological anxiety, Jeongyeon will not be participating in TWICE’s scheduled activities for t…
The film, about a Deaf family with a hearing teen, showcases how sign language can be visual poetry -- as raunchy as a limerick, as sublime as a sonnet.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a steering committee to oversee the process of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publici…
Private education provider Curro will require all staff to be vaccinated by the end of the year, and those who don't want to be could face retrenchment
Xiaomi has now finally launched the Redmi 10 globally. The Redmi 10 sits below the Redmi Note 10 in Xiaomi's hierarchy and may prove a more attractive device thanks to an attention-grabbing design, overall solid hardware, and a sub-US$200 price tag.
Global blood products company CSL, the world’s biggest miner, BHP, and the most expensive bank in the universe, CBA, are set up for ASX ascendancy for years.
Ubisoft Singapore is being investigated by a national employment watchdog over allegations of misconduct at the studio. It follows a report from Kotaku about sexual harassment and racial disparities at the studio.
The scheme will immensely benefit the oil palm farmers, increase capital investment, create employment generation, shall reduce the import dependence and also increase the income of the farmers
AS he prepares fo his boxing bout this weekend, Sen. Emmanuel 'Manny' Pacquiao has called on Filipinos to rally behind him in exposing corruption in government.Pacquiao issued the...
Arsenal got off to a bad start in their Premier League opener vs Brentford but could be set to solve some of their problems by bringing in a fourth player to the Emirates this summer
New Zealand's city streets are largely deserted as the country returned to life in lockdown for the first time in six months, in a bid to halt any spread of the infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
SINGAPORE: After a brief one-day trial, British national Benjamin Glynn was on Wednesday evening (Aug 18) convicted of all charges against him and sentenced to six weeks' jail.
Glynn, who claimed to be a "sovereign, living man" against whom the law had "no…
A Chinese consortium awarded the contract to develop the world’s second-largest copper mine in Afghanistan is planning to return after years of delay as Beijin
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS has removed all congratulatory posts to the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan to avoid the party from being blocked on social media sites, says its International Affairs and Foreign Relations committee.
One parent in Austin's Eanes Independent School District ripped a teacher’s mask off her face, the superintendent said. Others yelled at a teacher to remove her mask because they claimed they could not understand what she was saying.
The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters two decades after the United States invaded the country has triggered a political and humanitarian crisis. It's also causing security experts to wonder: What's going to happen to the country's vast untapped mi…
The U.S. Geological Survey said the area around Port-Orly, one of the Vanuatu islands in the South Pacific, are at risk of a tsunami after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake
Royal fans have claimed that the Americanisms in Prince Harry's Afghanistan statement show it was 'not written by him' and was Meghan's statement that he was just 'going along with.'
Bloemfontein Celtic’s famous, shower cap-sporting No 1 fan Botha Msila said that the sale of the club left him like a fish out of water, adding, “it means they killed me”.
Afghans who arrived in Germany on Wednesday described chaotic and terrifying scenes at Kabul airport before they were evacuated to safety and said they feared for lives of loved ones they left behind.
Ohio-based singer Nightbirde won millions of hearts across the globe through her mesmerizing performance and inspirational story after appearing on America’s Got Talent in June.
The Taliban have offered a pledge of reconciliation, vowing no revenge against opponents and to respect women's rights in a "different" rule of Afghanistan.