[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Retired local actor and director Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, was sentenced on Friday (February 26) to 10 months in prison for assaulting a Bangladeshi worker in 2018. The 59-year-old Singaporean used a metal scraper to hit the worker, Mr. Jahidul, twice in the …
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[ad_1] Nigel Skea, 52, and Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, 39. The couple married in November of last year. (PHOTO: Facebook / Agatha Maghesh) SINGAPORE – A British man who escaped from a hotel room where he was serving his Notice to Stay at Home (SHN) twice last September to meet his …
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[ad_1] ZURICH: Vaccines from AstraZeneca, Russia’s Gamaleya Institute, and Johnson & Johnson fight coronavirus with another virus, leaving scientists concerned that injections could lose potency if annual vaccines become necessary to combat new variants. So-called viral vector injections, also used by several Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developers, use harmless modified viruses …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore’s total fertility rate (TFR) fell to a record low of 1.1 last year, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Minister Indranee Rajah said on Friday (February 26). He said the COVID-19 pandemic caused some Singaporeans to postpone their marriage, resulting in about 10 percent fewer marriages last year than …
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[ad_1] JAKARTA – Tempers have started to flare in Indonesia as several people from privileged backgrounds joined the queue for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign that has covered 1.58 million people as of Friday (February 26). Earlier this month, pharmacy owner Helena Lim, nicknamed the “Crazy Rich Jakartan” after an American …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore does not need an independent tax council because the country remains fiscally prudent, Minister of the Office of the Prime Minister and Second Finance Minister Indranee Rajah said on Friday (February 26), responding to a suggestion from the deputy Workers Party, Jamus. Lim. Associate Professor Lim (WP-Sengkang) …
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[ad_1] STRASBOURG, France: An 88-year-old man who was caught speeding at a dizzying speed of 191 km / h on a French country road told officers he was late for his appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine, police said. The speed limit on the highway where he was stopped on Thursday …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: With independent audits from the Auditor General’s Office and parliamentary scrutiny of government spending, an independent Budget office would be a “useless duplication of these functions,” Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Friday (February 26). He responded to leading opposition MP Pritam Singh (WP-Aljunied), who on …
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[ad_1] A central defensive goal for Manchester United is open for a summer change to Old Trafford, while Jurgen Klopp will turn to LaLiga to fuel the Liverpool front fight, both at Euro Paper Talk on Friday. DEFENSIVE OBJECTIVE MAN UTD OPEN TO MOVEMENT United manchester appear to have been …
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[ad_1] YANGON: Myanmar security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in the country’s second-largest city on Friday (February 26), injuring at least three people, two of whom were shot in the chest with bullets. rubber and another who suffered an injury to his leg. The protesters had gathered on a …
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