Eco-friendly ‘tiny houses’ on Lazarus Island to be open for public bookings in May
As of Wednesday (Mar 8), more than 600 people have registered online to secure an early-bird discount.Continue Reading
Tourists warned about wearing school uniforms
Young Chinese women visiting the country have taken to dressing up in Thai school uniforms, and the Ministry of Education is less than thrilled by their fashion statements.Continue Reading
China’s students leap ‘Great Firewall’ to get homework help from ChatGPT
BEIJING: Chinese schoolchildren are turning to AI bot ChatGPT to slash their homework time – vaulting the country’s “Great Firewall” to write book reports and bone up on their language skills. With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global goldContinue Reading
Malaysia PM Anwar addresses investors’ concerns over proposed capital gains tax
KUALA LUMPUR: In addressing investors’ concerns, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the proposed capital gains tax on unlisted shares announced during the recent tabling of the budget will only be finalised after engagement with the stakeholders. He said on Wednesday (Mar 8) that Putrajaya wanted to better meetContinue Reading
First female fighter squadron commander, Malay magazine editor inducted into Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame
Pioneer of performance art Amanda Heng and Esther Tay, the first Singapore fashion designer to break into the Japanese retail market, were also inducted this year. Continue Reading
No decision to revive KL-Singapore HSR yet, private sector proposals welcomed: Anthony Loke
The HSR project, which aimed to reduce travel time between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to about 90 minutes, was discontinued after multiple postponements at Malaysia’s request and an eventual lapsing of an agreement in December 2020. Malaysia paid more than S$102 million in compensation to Singapore for the terminated project.Continue Reading
2,336 emergency cases attended to through SCDF’s community response app last year
An update to the myResponder app will widen the alert radius from 400m to a maximum of 1.5km, and let users choose to respond either on foot or vehicle.Continue Reading
62m meth pills seized since October in North
Police in northern Thailand have seized 62 million methamphetamine pills in the last five months, according to statistics released this week by Provincial Police Region 5.Continue Reading
Latest COE prices close mostly higher except for Open category
SINGAPORE: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums closed mostly higher in the latest bidding exercise on Wednesday (Mar 8). For Category A cars, or those 1,600cc and below with horsepower not exceeding 130bhp, premiums closed at S$88,000, up from S$86,556 in the last exercise. Premiums for larger and more powerful carsContinue Reading
The troubled love lives of China’s rural migrants
For the past decade or so, the Western media has been critical of the Chinese state, the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. This criticism has been made in the context of a small number of issues, such as human rights in Xinjiang, political dissent in Hong Kong and Western citizens detained in China. […]Continue Reading