[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Vendors along the busy pedestrian walkway on Waterloo Street will soon have to pay rent as the government tries to address public health risks amid COVID-19, the Singapore Lands Authority (SLA) announced on Tuesday (December 8). SLA said the area has become cluttered over the years with crowded …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A judge dismissed lawyer Lim Tean’s attempt to prevent police from pursuing two investigations against him, calling the request “completely devoid of any legal merit.” In the full pleas published on Tuesday (December 8), Judge Ang Cheng Hock also ordered Mr. Lim to pay the Attorney General, the …
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[ad_1] SYDNEY: The western state of Australia began on Tuesday (December 8) allowing travelers from Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) to enter without self-quarantine for the first time in eight months, in the latest sign that the country is returning to some kind of normalcy. Passengers on a Qantas …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR, India: Indian authorities are investigating whether organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and the hospitalization of more than 400 in Andhra Pradesh in recent days, a health official said Tuesday ( December 8). The unknown disease has infected more than …
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[ad_1] Gary Neville has criticized the “terrible” timing of super agent Mino Raiola’s comments about Paul Pogba’s future at Manchester United. Raiola recently stated in an interview in Italy that the midfielder is “unhappy” and “has to change teams.” In fact, he urged his client to leave Old Trafford in …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The National University of Singapore (NUS) officially opened a new university on Tuesday (December 8) that will house two of its oldest faculties: arts and social sciences and sciences, and will host some 2,000 university students. The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, which will admit its first …
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[ad_1] A 54-year-old woman was taken to the hospital after a bus accident at the junction of Bedok Reservoir Road and Bedok North Road on Monday afternoon (December 7). Police and the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) told Stomp that they were alerted to the accident at 12:55 p.m. The …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden chose Lloyd Austin, who led U.S. troops to Baghdad in 2003 and rose to the head of the U.S. Central Command, as the first African-American secretary of defense, U.S. media reported Monday (7 December). A veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 67-year-old …
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[ad_1] LONDON, UK on Tuesday (December 8) hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic as it begins the largest vaccination program in the country’s history with a new COVID-19 vaccine. The first patients in line for what has been called “V-Day,” those over 80, nursing home …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A woman went to trial on Tuesday (December 8) accused of abusing two maids in her Sentosa Cove home by pinching, hitting and kicking them. Tan Lee Hoon, 56, is contesting eight counts of willfully causing harm to two Filipino maids who worked for his home on 24 …
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