Phone scammers steal HK$721 million in first 9 months of 2022 as total lost to fraudsters hits HK$3.3 billion. People working from home and socially isolated under Covid rules ‘more vulnerable to scammers’, police say. Read full storyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Singapore and Malaysia have completed the upgrading of the electricity interconnector between the two countries, said the republic’s Energy Market Authority (EMA). Read full storyContinue Reading
On September 26, 2022, a university professor, two former lawmakers, a Cantopop singer and a Catholic cardinal were charged by the Hong Kong government for failing to register a humanitarian aid fund with the police. The five defendants — 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, singer Denise Ho, cultural studies professor Po-Keung Hui and former lawmakers Margaret […]Continue Reading
TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States, Japan and South Korea warned on Wednesday that an “unparalleled” scale of response would be warranted if North Korea conducts a seventh nuclear bomb test. Read full storyContinue Reading
Wu said Taiwan has received “signs” and intelligence from unspecified diplomatic allies that China was boosting efforts to lure the island’s allies into switching official recognition to Beijing. “The diplomatic challenges we are facing are getting bigger and bigger,” he said. “Looking forward our situation is becoming more difficult.” UnderContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A 12-year-old boy who was last seen on Oct 10 has been found, the Singapore Police Force said in an update on Wednesday (Oct 26). The police issued an appeal for information on Tuesday about the whereabouts of Mohammad Safrizan Mohd Safizal, who was last seen in the vicinityContinue Reading
Overseas investors sold a record US$2.5 billion worth of mainland China shares on Monday, according to Bloomberg data. This pushes the year-to-date level into a “net outflow.” It comes as foreign investors fled after the twice-per-decade Communist Party congress at which Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to cement a power grab with an unprecedented third […]Continue Reading
No one who has lived in central Europe forgets the winters. From November to April, you can be fairly certain that every time you step out of your usually well-heated apartment block, you’ll be walking into what amounts to a freezer. It is this, perhaps more than any other factor, that has driven Russia’s recent […]Continue Reading
In the city of Batac in the neighbouring province of Ilocos Norte, several patients spent most of the night outside a government hospital after the ceiling collapsed on several rooms and damaged equipment, hospital staff said. Boulders rolling down a hillside temporarily blocked a road linking Batac to the nearbyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man posed as a female gynaecologist and created fake profiles online to lure women into sending him photos and videos of their private parts. Malaysian Ooi Chuen Wei, 37, duped 35 women into sending him more than 900 videos and images of their private parts. He was sentencedContinue Reading