Tech workers left hanging as Sea e-commerce arm Shopee rescinds job offers
“Due to adjustments to hiring plans on some tech teams, a number of roles at Shopee are no longer available. We are working closely to support those affected,” a company representative said. The move follows other recent job cuts at Sea. Staff at Booyah!, a gaming livestream app, which isContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s ‘The Line’ and the need for big ideas
Now, perhaps more than ever, the world needs big dreamers with big ideas. They change things. They challenge redundant orthodoxies, through sudden revolution, not slow evolution. Big dreamers gave us everything from internal combustion, powered flight and spaceships to electricity, nuclear power, antibiotics and vaccines. One of the first big dreamers lived some 6,000 years […]
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Flood-hit Pakistan works to prevent overflow of biggest lake
JAMSHORO, Pakistan: Pakistan was scrambling on Tuesday (Sep 6) to widen a breach in its biggest lake and prevent the waters from overflowing to swamp nearby towns, so worsening unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation. Waters brought by record monsoon rains and melting glaciersContinue Reading
Outcry as Chinese lockdown traps residents during earthquake
Some say they tried to flee during an earthquake but found their gates locked due to Covid restrictions.Continue Reading
Waste startups and entrepreneurship tackle Cambodia’s growing trash problem
As waste collection and management issues persist in Cambodia’s major cities, a resident steps up to take out the trash
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Four months’ jail for ex-lecturer in SG who took students’ upskirt videos, photos on campus
A lecturer was working at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College East in Simei when he took upskirt videos and photographs of multiple students. Read full storyContinue Reading
Amazon grapples with more labour strife, this time in Japan
Amazon.com Inc, which is struggling to quell workplace movements from the US to Europe, faces a growing union effort in Asia’s second largest economy. Read full storyContinue Reading
Four-year-old’s ambulance call helps save mother in Australia
Australian boy Monty Cocker had been taught how to call paramedics only a day before the emergency.Continue Reading
Strong demand for larger flats in August BTO exercise, with Tampines units most popular
She said that demand is stronger in Ang Mo Kio and Tampines because these places are in mature estates. The Tampines project has one of the shortest completion periods – about 36 months – and is set to be ready by the second quarter of 2026. “We noticed that five-roomContinue Reading
King grants audience to Singapore’s DPM
KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah granted an audience to Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and his wife Loo Tze Lui at Istana Negara here. Read full storyContinue Reading