SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will visit Malaysia from Sunday (Sep 4) to Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Sunday. It is Mr Wong’s first official visit to Malaysia as Deputy Prime Minister. He was appointed to the role in June. Mr Wong, who is also the the FinanceContinue Reading
SURAT THANI: A fire broke out at a community market in Don Sak district of this southern province – known to tourists for its ferries to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan – early on Sunday, destroying two houses. There were no casualties, police said.Continue Reading
SURAT THANI: A fire broke out at a community market in Don Sak district of this southern province early on Sunday, destroying two houses. There were no casualties, police said.Continue Reading
A majority of people believe news reports about “ghost recruits” – which involve government officials being on record as having been recruited to work in a state agency in three southern border provinces (Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat) but do not actually work there – are true, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.Continue Reading
A majority of people believe news reports about “ghost recruits” – government officials recorded as working at a state agency in three Deep South provinces without actually doing the job – are true, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.Continue Reading
The country signed up 1, 631 new inpatients admitted in order to hospitals and twenty five more Covid-19 related fatalities, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Weekend.Continue Reading
The maid-abuse scandal has exposed many layers of bureaucratic malaise which are perpetuated by a patronage system that eats away at meritocracy.Continue Reading
Designer and design educator Poh Yun Ru’s motion-tracking tool, which manuals seniors with dementia to recall and play out familiar gestures, won the grand prize on the Lexus Design Prize.Continue Reading
Internet criminals have exploited the increase in on-line activity and electronic services over the last few years due to the Covid-19 outbreak, with 203 cyber extortion cases documented in the first half of this year, a 47% increase from the 138 cases cited throughout the same period last year. Understand full story Continue Reading
Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen may have dominated the BWF World Championships plus dethroned Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew, but the pair of best close friends is boldly altering their sport for that better, observes Jan Lin Lee.Continue Reading