[ad_1] SINGAPORE: While trying to break up a fight between her father and her husband, a woman was pushed by her mother-in-law and started fighting with her. In the ensuing fight, the woman hit, scratched and bit her mother-in-law, leaving a laceration to her eye. Ad Ad Chen Xu Jia, …
Read More »Parliament: tougher fines for data breaches, more support for legitimate business uses of data under the PDPA amendment, political news and news highlights
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Businesses will be penalized more severely for data breaches while at the same time having more freedom to use personal data to innovate under changes to Singapore’s data protection laws passed in Parliament on Monday (November 2). This tension between keeping consumer confidence high and supporting the …
Read More »Hong Kong Official Explains The City’s Role In Fintech Development
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – For Hong Kong’s fintech ecosystem to continue to grow, the city needs more measures in the areas of funding, talent and regulation, according to a senior Chinese city official. Compared to other technologies, fintech is the equivalent of a new industrial revolution and can potentially be used …
Read More »229 Budget 2020 grocery voucher sets reported stolen; 55 arrests made: Indranee
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Less than 0.2 percent, or 229 sets, of the 2020 Budget grocery vouchers that were mailed to 150,000 Singaporeans last month were stolen on October 28, the Second said on Monday (November 2). Finance Minister Indranee Rajah. Investigations into these reported cases of theft are ongoing, and police …
Read More »Students must use TraceTogether at school starting December 1, Singapore News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Starting December 1, all schools will require students to use the token or the TraceTogether app on their mobile phones to sign in, to help track contacts. December will be a grace period, however, in which scanning of NRICs or student passes will still be allowed. The …
Read More »16 killed after Typhoon Goni hit the Philippines
[ad_1] MANILA: The most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines this year destroyed tens of thousands of homes and killed at least 16 people, authorities said on Monday (November 2), as communications with the worst affected areas remained cut off. Catanduanes Island and the nearby province of Albay, on the …
Read More »Single new box of Covid-19 imported into Singapore, lowest daily figure in over 8 months, Singapore News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – There was a new confirmed coronavirus case at noon on Monday (November 2), the lowest since February 25, which also had a single patient. The case is an imported patient who had been put on notice to stay at home upon arrival in Singapore. There were no …
Read More »SIA sees ‘overwhelming demand’ for training center tour
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Monday (November 2) that it closed reservations for tours of its training facilities due to “overwhelming demand.” The airline said it received more than 6,800 individual registrations after reservations opened Sunday at 10 a.m. M. Each record can have a group of up …
Read More »Man who escaped from the gallows in 1994 after killing a CNB officer is sentenced to death for drug crime
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A man who escaped from the gallows in 1994 after killing a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer was sentenced to death for possession of trafficking drugs. In pleas published on Monday (November 2), Judge Valerie Thean said she gave the mandatory death sentence to Roshdi Abdullah Altway, 61, …
Read More »Tottenham’s Mourinho takes aim at Real Madrid after Bale’s first Premier League goal
[ad_1] Tottenham manager José Mourinho has said he is eager to see how Real Madrid react after Gareth Bale scored the winning goal 2-1 against Brighton on Sunday, his first goal since returning to the Premier League. Bale left Spurs to join Real Madrid seven years ago, but returned to …
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