[ad_1] A second person has been sent to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for psychiatric evaluation after a public episode involving facial masks. Kasturi Govindasamy Retnamswamy, who refused to wear a mask correctly when told to do so, is said to have later assaulted a police officer who tried …
Read More »Serial underwear thief who hid in the bathroom of the jailed apartment for 9 months
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A thief with a fetish disorder entered an HDB apartment and managed to escape with 10 bras from a room in which the owner slept. About four months later, Muhammad Iqbal Mohamed Rafe entered another department after seeing a bra on a coat rack inside. This time, …
Read More »The banking and pharmaceutical giant among the companies that returned or donated wage subsidies from the Employment Support Plan
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: British bank Barclays and German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim are among the companies that have returned or donated the Employment Support Plan (JSS) payments. A total of 32 companies returned wage subsidies worth a combined S $ 35 million, the finance ministry said on Sunday (May 10). Ad …
Read More »Singapore Airlines requires face masks on flights – Business traveler
[ad_1] Passengers traveling with Singapore Airlines and Silkair must bring their own face mask to wear throughout the flight, the airline said in a statement. The airline joins a number of companies that have made face masks mandatory for passengers on flights recently such as Emirates, Air Canada, and Air …
Read More »No new cases linked to Singapore’s largest COVID-19 cluster for the first time since April 1
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: No new cases of COVID-19 were linked to the cluster in the dormitory of foreign workers S11 @ Punggol for the first time since April 1, according to the update of the daily figures of the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sunday (10 of may). The group, the …
Read More »Singapore tackles costly setback
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Weeks after two of his roommates were diagnosed with COVID-19, Mohamad Arif Hassan says he is still waiting to be tested for the coronavirus. Quarantined in his room in a sprawling foreign worker dormitory that has become Singapore’s largest viral group, Arif says he …
Read More »Malaysians support extended coronavirus brakes, but fear new groups from Hari Raya, SE Asia News & Top Stories
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR – Most Malaysians have been trapped in their homes for almost two months due to the partial closure of the country that helped curb the coronavirus outbreak but cost the economy billions of ringgit in losses. However, many of them still support the government’s measure on Sunday …
Read More »Companies partner with EDB to donate masks and hand sanitizers to Batam’s COVID-19 face liners
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A total of 100,000 KN95 masks and five tons of hand sanitizer have been donated to frontline health care workers in Batam, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said. Thirteen companies partnered with EDB to make the donation on Monday (May 11) to the Batam city government to …
Read More »Armed man who attacked others, disrupted class in jailed mosque
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Within half an hour of leaving his home with a knife, a man cut the arm of a runner, threatened a cyclist, then entered a mosque and disrupted a packed religious class. Before leaving his home earlier this year, Fadhil Yusop, 35, had asked his wife to …
Read More »China rebukes New Zealand for supporting Taiwan at WHO
[ad_1] BEIJING: China rebuked New Zealand on Monday (May 11) for its support for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organization (WHO), saying the country should “stop making wrong statements” on the issue to avoid damage bilateral relations. Taiwan, with strong support from the United States, has stepped up its …
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