[ad_1] The internet watched with great anticipation as several police officers forced their way into a man’s apartment along Yishun Avenue 5, while officers from the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) jumped out of the building. The 45-year-old man, who had allegedly thrown two glass bottles from his unit in …
Read More »Barack Obama will hold his first in-person event for Joe Biden
[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Former President Barack Obama will return to Philadelphia on Wednesday (October 21) for his first in-person campaign event of 2020 for Joe Biden. In 2016, the man known as one of the loudest speakers in the Democratic Party delivered Hillary Clinton’s final argument in the same place: at …
Read More »China Defends Giving Covid-19 Experimental Vaccines To Thousands, East Asia News & Top Stories
[ad_1] BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China said administering coronavirus vaccines that are still being tested on hundreds of thousands of people outside of clinical trials is justified given the risk of Covid-19 returning across its borders and the lack of significant side effects so far from injections. . In July, the …
Read More »TraceTogether registrations are required in public places before the end of the year, Digital News
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – By the end of December, registering with the TraceTogether app or token will be mandatory at all popular venues, including restaurants, workplaces, schools and shopping malls, as Singapore prepares to enter phase three of its reopening. It means that members of the public will no longer be …
Read More »31 Suspects Arrested for Illegal Gambling, Vice Activities in HDB Units and Private Apartments
[ad_1] A five-day repression operation carried out by the Central Police Division resulted in the arrest of 23 men and eight women, between 24 and 76 years old. The operation targeted illegal gambling and vice activities allegedly in Telok Blangah Crescent, Kelantan Lane, Chay Yan Street, Jalan Besar, Geylang Bahru, …
Read More »Translation tools, air purifiers: face masks go high-tech
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: From monitoring vital signs to filtering dirty air and even translating speech into other languages, the coronavirus-fueled boom in the use of masks has spawned an unusual range of high-tech face coverings. As masks become the norm around the world, technology companies and researchers are implementing weird and …
Read More »The fired NUS teacher had an “intimate association” with the bachelor’s degree; University makes police report
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Jeremy Fernando, the Tembusu College professor who was fired by the National University of Singapore (NUS), had “an intimate association” with a student, the university said in a statement on Wednesday (October 21). NUS also said it made a police report on Wednesday in response to the CNA’s …
Read More »Children under 5 have the lowest risk of COVID-19 infection of adults: KKH study
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Children under the age of five have the “lowest risk” of contracting COVID-19 from adults, according to a Singapore study on household transmission of the virus. The KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) study was based on data from children who were household contacts of COVID-19 cases and …
Read More »Mustafa Center cousin’s boss seeks one-third stake in business, says father cried ‘like a baby’ after making will
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A cousin of the head of the Mustafa Center, Mustaq Ahmad, told the High Court on Wednesday (October 21) that his father came home crying “like a baby” one day in 2004 after making a will declaring who had a 15.12% stake in the company. Mr. Fayyaz …
Read More »China warns Swedish companies of tit-for-tat actions after Huawei ban
[ad_1] BEIJING: China on Wednesday (October 21) told Sweden to revoke the ban on Chinese tech companies from its 5G network, warning of “negative impacts” if it did not do so. The Swedish telecoms regulator issued a ban on Tuesday that would require operators to recall existing Huawei and ZTE …
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