Japan ministries bar Dentsu, others from bids for 9 months over Olympic scandal
TOKYO: Japanese ministries said on Wednesday (Feb 15) that advertising giant Dentsu Inc and two other companies linked to a Tokyo 2020 Olympics corruption scandal will be unable to take part in bids for contracts for nine months. Prosecutors last week arrested an ex-Tokyo Olympic official and executives at theContinue Reading
Boy who survived Thai cave rescue dies in UK
The teenager was enrolled in a football academy in Leicester since late last year.Continue Reading
Smuggled meth pills found contaminated with pesticide
Life-threatening pesticide contamination was found in methamphetamine pills seized on the bank of the Mekong River in Bueng Kan province, a senior border patrol official said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
How should the effects of inflation be managed in future?
Analysts also said that measures announced for platform workers will help, but that those targeted at improving the fertility rate may not have much effect.Continue Reading
Number of Singapore teens caught taking cannabis tripled in 2022: CNB
The drug enforcement agency points to a “worrying” trend of more new cannabis abusers below 30 years old, with some as young as 14.
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Russia wants India to take its T-14 battle tanks
Russia is pitching its T-14 Armata main battle tank (MBT) to India to secure a place in New Delhi’s next-generation tank program. Russia is ready to share T-14 MBT technologies with India’s next-generation MBT project, said Vladimir Drozhzhov, deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation at the 2023 Aero India exhibition, Russian state-owned […]Continue Reading
A kidnapping puts Papua on a razor’s edge
JAKARTA – Former Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) commander Andika Perkasa’s brave hearts-and-minds campaign in Papua’s rebellious Central Highlands appears doomed to failure, underscored by the abduction last week of a New Zealand pilot and the torching of his plane on a remote jungle airstrip. Confronted by well-armed rebel bands whose fight for independence has morphed into […]Continue Reading
Man to be charged over security guard attack in Bukit Batok condominium
SINGAPORE: A 45-year-old man will be charged in court on Friday (Feb 17) for an alleged offence of voluntarily causing hurt to a security officer. The police in a news release on Wednesday said that they were alerted to a suspected case of assault at a condominium along Bukit BatokContinue Reading
85,000 people born before 1948 to receive automatic monthly payouts: CPF
About 7,000 members on CPF Life will also see higher monthly payouts if they have savings in their Ordinary and Special Accounts that cannot be withdrawn in a lump sum.Continue Reading
Air India: How the record plane deal is a game-changer
Expert say it shows the airline’s desire to reclaim its pole position in India’s crowded aviation market.Continue Reading