[ad_1] A total of 55 people have been arrested as of last Wednesday for the alleged theft of shopping vouchers. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Deputy Minister for Finance and National Development Indranee Rajah said that 229 sets of grocery vouchers had been stolen as of last Wednesday. This amount is …
Read More »Ant Group’s $ 37 billion listing suspended as China slammed on the brakes
[ad_1] SHANGHAI: China suspended Ant Group’s stock listing worth $ 37 billion on Tuesday (Nov. 3), thwarting the world’s largest IPO with just a few days to go, in a dramatic move that left investors and bankers struggling to find answers. The Shanghai Stock Exchange first announced that it had …
Read More »172 cases of sexual misconduct in IHL from 2015-19: Sun Xueling
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The 11 institutes of higher education (IHL) in Singapore handled a total of 172 disciplinary cases related to sexual misconduct by students and staff from 2015 to 2019, Minister of State for Education Sun Xueling said on Tuesday (3 of November). Sun told Parliament that this translates …
Read More »So far no reports of ‘protracted COVID’ cases in Singapore: Ministry of Health
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has received no reports of “long COVID” in Singapore so far, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said in a written parliamentary response on Tuesday (November 3). Prolonged COVID refers to persistent symptoms of COVID-19 infection after a person has recovered, Gan said, noting …
Read More »9 new cases of Covid-19 in Singapore, with 7 imported and none in the community, Singapore News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Nine new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of Tuesday noon (Nov. 3), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,029. They include two cases of workers’ dormitories, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said on Tuesday. There were no new community cases. The remaining seven new patients were imported and included …
Read More »9 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, including 2 locally transmitted infections
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Nine new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Singapore as of noon on Tuesday (Nov. 3), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its preliminary daily update. Two of the infections were transmitted locally and both cases reside in dormitories, the Health Ministry said. This is the highest …
Read More »52,000 Singaporeans earn less than S $ 1,300 a month: Zaqy Mohamad to WP’s Jamus Lim in discussion of minimum wage
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Around 52,000 Singaporeans earn less than S $ 1,300 per month, including Workfare cash supplements and after deducting contributions to the Central Provident Fund (CPF), the Chief Minister of State for the Manpower, Zaqy Mohamad, in Parliament. The figure includes 30,000 full-time Singaporean employees working in areas such …
Read More »Family tortured woman with mild intellectual disability
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – After fleeing her home, a woman sought refuge in her friend’s family’s high school apartment. However, instead of security, the woman, who has a mild intellectual disability, only found cruelty at the hands of that family, who used pliers to twist her toes, a hammer to hit …
Read More »‘You’re not my mother anymore’: a divided America will fight to heal after the Trump era
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: When longtime Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she would vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election on Tuesday (November 3), she removed her from her life. “He specifically told me, ‘You’re not my mother anymore, because you’re voting for Trump,'” …
Read More »Detention of an unemployed and mental man ordered after trial for murdering his 75-year-old father, Courts & Crime News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 46-year-old man in mental health condition was ordered arrested on Tuesday (Nov. 30) at the discretion of the president after the High Court found after a trial that he had killed his 75-year-old father. Judge Valerie Thean concluded that Tan Kok Meng, who was alone for …
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