‘Buy now, pay later’ code of conduct launched to protect consumers against debt accumulation
The new code of conduct aims to protect consumers against over-indebtedness amid a growing BNPL industry.Continue Reading
Nonthaburi cop held over theft of 90 guns
A police senior sergeant-major has been arrested in connection with the theft of about 90 guns from the Pak Kret district station in Nonthaburi where he was based.Continue Reading
Police to charge ‘Aed Carabao’ with defaming provincial governor
Performer Yuenyong “Aed Carabao” Opakul will be summonsed to report to police next Tuesday to answer a charge of defaming the governor of Suphan Buri province, a senior police officer said on Thursday.Continue Reading
Giant dome collapses in Indonesia mosque fire
The grand mosque, located inside an Islamic centre complex, was undergoing renovation. “We have discussed the possibility of continuing the renovation… the most important (thing) is we can use it (the mosque) again soon,” Jakarta’s acting governor Heru Budi Hartono told Metro TV Thursday. The cause of the fire, whichContinue Reading
N Koreans risk life and limb to consume foreign media
SEOUL – North Koreans are so keen to consume overseas media that they take life-threatening risks to do so, a survey clandestinely conducted among respondents in the deeply isolated state and published this week has found.
Despite – or perhaps because of – the ongoing ultra-tight border closure instituted as a result of Covid-19, North Koreans want to learn about the wider world and are coming up with ingenious technological countermeasures to access external information, the survey notes.
The survey was conducted from June to August this year among 50 North Koreans who live in different parts of the country by the Unification Media Group, or UMG. UMG operates Seoul-based Daily NK, a niche media outlet whose reporters obtain on-the-ground information from sources inside North Korea and secretly smuggle it out on smartphones.
Electric vehicle battery flat? Mobile charging vans to the rescue
One service provider’s 10-minute charge can last about 30km, roughly the distance between Raffles Place and Changi Village.Continue Reading
Pakistan hopes to get off global dirty money watchdog’s ‘grey list’
ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday (Oct 20), and is expected to take up the removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the FATFContinue Reading
More than 600 appeals for waiver of 15-month HDB resale wait-out period: Desmond Lee
The wait-out period was one of several property cooling measures that were introduced on Sep 30.Continue Reading
Man fined for abandoning cat he brought with him from Hong Kong, after it attacked other pets
SINGAPORE: A man was fined S$2,500 by a court on Wednesday (Oct 19) for abandoning his pet cat by leaving it at a lift lobby in Bukit Batok. Lau Wai Hung, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of breaching his duty of care as an animal owner by permanently abandoningContinue Reading
Singapore’s household debt situation ‘healthy’, with low non-performing home loans: Alvin Tan
The proportion of non-performing mortgages among financial institution loans has remained low at 0.3 per cent.Continue Reading