SINGAPORE: Over several years, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) massage therapist molested his stepdaughter on the pretext of treating her, telling her she suffered “imbalance” or was possessed by an evil spirit. The 44-year-old man was sentenced to two years’ jail and nine strokes of the cane on Friday (Nov 4).Continue Reading
A 9.7-billion-baht spending splurge is forecast for the Loy Krathong festival on Tuesday, the biggest in five years, fuelled by expectations of economic recovery, according to the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.Continue Reading
Sarawak’s Gabungan Parti Sarawak is one coalition seen as a potential kingmaker, said analysts. It aims to make a clean sweep of all 31 parliamentary seats at the Nov 19 polls.Continue Reading
Sarvjeet Singh, a 48-year-old autorickshaw driver, said the smog was hurting his eyes and he was finding it difficult to breathe. “There are problems, especially in the morning. It’s difficult to drive my vehicle because of the pollution. My autorickshaw is open. It will affect us more than people inContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea’s military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean warplanes flying north of the military border over four hours on Friday (Nov 4). The North Korean aircraft flew north of the so-called tactical measure line, drawn up to 20km north of the Military DemarcationContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man who made a bomb threat on a Singapore Airlines flight was on Friday (Nov 4) sentenced to four weeks’ jail on Friday (Nov 4) for slapping a cabin crew member. He was given a discharge amounting to acquittal for making the bomb threat, after the prosecution indicated last monthContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea’s barrage of missiles this week was a vivid illustration of how tracking and intercepting waves of missiles at different altitudes and trajectories is a complex task – even in peacetime. The challenge was evident in conflicting and sometime contradictory details released by South Korea and Japan aboutContinue Reading
Unsubstantiated social media posts flagging an aim to relax COVID-19 rules in March have also driven optimism all week and seemed to get new momentum on Friday from the appearance of Guang Zeng, former chief expert of epidemiology, at a Citi investor conference on the topic of China’s exit fromContinue Reading
MORBI, India: A senior administrative official in the Indian town of Morbi has been suspended by the Gujarat state government following the collapse of a bridge that led to the death of 135 people, the chief minister’s office said on Friday (Nov 4). The colonial-era suspension footbridge in Morbi, overContinue Reading
The Russian military – under instruction from Vladimir Putin – is rewriting the rules of siege warfare for the 21st century. The classic definition of a siege is: “The process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the […]Continue Reading