SINGAPORE: Content creator Titus Low Kaide was on Wednesday (Oct 12) fined S$3,000 for uploading obscene photos and videos to online platform OnlyFans. He was also sentenced to three weeks’ jail for accessing the website although he was ordered not to do so. Low, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of failingContinue Reading
Torrential monsoon rains have also inundated hundreds of homes across western Nepal in the past week.Continue Reading
CENSORING “OFF-LIMITS” CONTENT Zeng said he was part of a team at ByteDance that developed automated systems to filter content which the company did not want on its platform. These systems incorporated artificial intelligence to look at images, and to examine the sound that accompanied them, transcribing commentary and scouringContinue Reading
BEIJING: China will persist with its COVID-19 policies to avoid losing control over local coronavirus outbreaks, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party warned in a commentary for the third straight day. “Lying flat is not to be advised, and to win (the COVID-19 battle) while lying flat isContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: The former managing director of a luxury jet firm was charged in court on Wednesday (Oct 12) with embezzling more than S$11 million. Cassidy Geoffery Owen, 34, was handed 34 charges including criminal breach of trust by misappropriation, abetting the forgery of invoices and instigating others to falsely recordContinue Reading
SEOUL – The 50th anniversary of the establishment of China-Japan diplomatic relations did not cross Haruko Satoh’s radar screen. Granted, such occasions are hardly at the top of everyone’s viewing agenda. But Satoh might have been expected to tune in: She is a professor of international relations at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, […]Continue Reading
In its long history, Europe has rarely been as united as has been during the current Ukraine war. Nearly all European countries support Ukraine, as do their mainstream media. Dissenting views are rare, as are anti-war protests of the kind we saw during the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Equally notable, European policies […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Singapore police arrested a 69-year-old taxi driver on Sunday (Oct 9) after he allegedly wound up his car window on a Traffic Police (TP) officer’s arm and drove off, dragging him along the road. The officer was patrolling around Holland Road on Sunday afternoon when he spotted the taxiContinue Reading
Seven quokkas and two wallabies died – the cause is unclear but one theory is “plant toxicity”.Continue Reading
The regime in Pyongyang has been conducting high-intensity military exercises recently. Diplomatic commentators see this as evidence of an alliance with Russia and China. However, if we look at the trends of South Korea’s military development, we can have a different analysis. South Korea’s apparent willingness to develop its military arsenal may worry the North […]Continue Reading