[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Overseas training for apprentices at the Singapore Armed Forces Officer Cadet School (OCS) has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cadet officers now also have to maintain their own platoon, which has 40 or fewer people, including instructors, for training as part of safe distancing measures. …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Thirteen companies here donated 100,000 KN95 masks and five tons of hand sanitizers to Batam on Monday (May 11) in an effort organized by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The donation from the 13 companies, 11 of which have operations in Batam, will go to front-line …
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[ad_1] The 14 African penguins at the Singapore Zoo have started a new routine since the zoo closed on April 7, the first in its history, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. They have since been allowed to leave their compound to explore other spaces in the zoo as …
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[ad_1] By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China has issued a lengthy rebuttal of what it said were 24 “ludicrous accusations” by some top American politicians about its handling of the new coronavirus outbreak. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has devoted most of its press releases over the past week …
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[ad_1] SEVILLE: Facial mask waiters served coffees and sandwiches in sandwiches on cafe terraces in Seville on Monday (May 11) as parts of Spain eased restrictions amid a slowdown in the coronavirus epidemic that reduced the number of new deaths to almost two months. low. “I am very happy, I …
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[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 …
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[ad_1] An 85-year-old man was fined after being caught in a series of raids targeting vices that took place from May 4-6. Thirty women, aged 19 to 48, were arrested for alleged involvement in vice-related activities during the three-day operation across the island, police said in a press release yesterday. …
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[ad_1] A woman has shared a moving experience she had on the way home in a taxi, where the driver showed extreme understanding of his observance in Ramadan. In a video that was republished on All Singapore Stuff last Saturday (May 9), passenger Nurul listed the ways her taxi driver, …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – He went to a mosque with the intention of praying, but ended up undressing himself repeatedly despite attempts by staff members to dress him. Djamaludin Supadi, 53, also misused a “kentong”, a percussion instrument used in calling prayers, and damaged it. The Singaporean was jailed for six …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A former director of Singapore Zam Zam restaurant in North Bridge Road, who masterminded a 2015 attack against a supervisor of rival eatery Victory restaurant next door, was sentenced on Monday (May 11) to six years’ jail and six strokes of the cane . Before sentencing Zackeer …
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