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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Investigators found flaws in Underwater World Singapore’s (UWS) security measures after a stingray fatally stings one of its divers in 2016. Among other things, a district court heard Thursday (January 14) that the now-defunct Sentosa attraction had failed to provide adequate emergency recovery procedures during diving operations. …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Olympic swimmer Mark Chay, conservation scientist Koh Lian Pin and Security Industry Association Director Joshua Thomas Raj are among the nine New Nominee MPs (NMPs) to be appointed by President Halimah Yacob for a period of two and a half years starting next Thursday (January 21). The …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Hume MRT station on the Downtown Line will be upgraded and operational by JSM Construction Group for a contract value of $ 34.3 million, the Land Transportation Authority (LTA) said on Thursday (January 14). Works on the station are expected to be completed in 2025, as …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known rock painting in the world – a life-size image of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday (January 13) provides the earliest evidence of human settlement …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Donald Trump became the first United States president in history to be indicted twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday (January 13) to charge him with inciting the mob attack on Congress last week. The 232-197 approval by the Democratic House of Representatives of a single …

[ad_1] Pinduoduo (PDD) – the third largest e-commerce company in the country after Alibaba (SLIME) and JD.com (JD) – became the target of public outrage after two of its employees died unexpectedly during the Christmas season. First, a worker in her twenties collapsed in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators said on Wednesday (January 13) they were hoping to recover the second black box from a crashed passenger plane, as they seek to explain why the plane with 62 people on board crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff. . Divers off the coast of the …

[ad_1] LAS VEGAS: Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire mogul and power broker who built a casino empire that stretched from Las Vegas to China and became a singular force in national and international politics, has died after a long illness, said his wife on Tuesday (January 12). Miriam Adelson and the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The government has offered Covid-19 vaccines to Singapore Airlines (SIA) staff, in the latest step forward in Singapore’s vaccination exercise. The airline is believed to be the first in the world to offer its staff the option of getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. An SIA spokesperson said …

[ad_1] BEIJING: China’s state media lashed out at the outgoing Trump administration’s latest move on Taiwan, accusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “maliciously trying to inflict a lasting scar on China-US ties.” . A writer for the official Xinhua news agency also said in a comment on Sunday …