HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways reported on Wednesday (Mar 8) an annual loss of HK$6.55 billion (US$834.42 million) for 2022, wider than the previous year’s HK$5.53 billion loss, but was positive about the outlook now that quarantine is no longer required. In January, the airline forecast a loss ofContinue Reading
The Government could also have better managed the outbreak in migrant worker dormitories, border measures, contact tracing efforts and the transition to endemic COVID-19, according to the White Paper.Continue Reading
Support for workers and businesses, home-based learning and effective public communications were other areas highlighted in the government review. Continue Reading
SONGKHLA: A woman alleged to be the leader of a major network smuggling Myanmar workers to Malaysia through Thailand has been arrested by immigration police.Continue Reading
More than a dozen major Chinese cities have seen temperatures hit record seasonal highs this week, with central China’s Wuhan and Zhengzhou at more than 10 degrees Celsius higher than normal for early March, official data showed. Wuhan, located on the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, registered temperatures ofContinue Reading
FEARSOME DETERRENT For the last year and a half, detailed behind-the-scenes talks have taken place between Washington, Canberra and London about Australia obtaining sensitive nuclear-propulsion technologies. Australia has ruled out acquiring nuclear weapons. It is the first time US-derived nuclear submarine technologies will be exported since the 1960s, when theContinue Reading
Thousands of people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on February 19 to protest against the US proxy war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to bring down Russia. It took as its name “Rage against the War Machine,” and it sought to bring together people of all political persuasions in opposing the war. “Everyone in; […]Continue Reading
JOHOR BAHRU: A Singaporean man died after the van he was travelling in was involved in an accident with a lorry in Mersing, Johor on Tuesday (Mar 7). Malaysian news agency Bernama reported that another man was seriously injured when the Nissan van they were in crashed into a lorryContinue Reading
Amid a major overhaul of its top economic team, China’s lowest GDP growth target in decades means meeting it becomes a reasonable endeavour, says Coface chief APAC economist Bernard Aw.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: After a man hired a woman for her escort services, the woman allegedly asked him for S$15,000, otherwise she would report him to the police. The 39-year-old man handed her S$1,800 out of fear. The woman, 27-year-old Tanya Pal, was charged in court on Wednesday (Mar 8) with oneContinue Reading