New Bill to clarify court process for applications in death penalty cases after appeals have failed
Under proposed amendments to the law, if a prisoner or their lawyer has abused court processes, they will not be allowed to file a post-appeal application unless there is new evidence.Continue Reading
COVID-19 cases from hospital clusters, nursing homes form less than 1% of total reported community cases
In a supplementary question, Ms Lim asked whether the reported COVID-19 cases in hospitals and nursing homes could be underestimates, given that some patients could be asymptomatic. “The numbers may be an underestimate, we did not do daily testing on everybody,” said Dr Puthucheary. He added that it would beContinue Reading
Singapore’s main source of doctors is local schools, supplemented with foreign hires to ease hospital workload
Singapore’s medical schools increased their combined intakes by around 60 per cent over a period of 10 years.Continue Reading
Frost on Doi Inthanon
CHIANG MAI: The first frost of the winter season was reported on top of Doi Inthanon on Monday morning, as ground temperatures fell as low as 1°C overnight.Continue Reading
How Xi Jinping thinks about Chinese characteristics
Xi Jinping has told us over and over again that we must respect the “Chinese characteristics” of his socialism. Thus to fathom his ambitions, his policies and his politics, we need to understand better what he means by “Chinese characteristics.” The best guide to “Chinese characteristics” is Richard Solomon’s 1971 work Mao’s Revolution and the […]Continue Reading
Singapore Airlines expects 2023 airfares may decline as rivals add capacity
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) expects passenger yields, a proxy for airfares, could decline in 2023 as rival airlines bring back planes idled during the pandemic and add capacity, a senior executive said on Monday (Nov 7). “We would not expect yields to stay at the same elevated levels we wereContinue Reading
Motorcyclist killed, hit concert platform blocking road
NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A young man was killed when his motorcycle hit a temporary platform erected in the middle of a country road for a Loy Krathong concert, in Phimai district before dawn on Monday.Continue Reading
Foxconn Zhengzhou plant offers bonuses to encourage workers to return
SHANGHAI: Apple supplier Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant on Monday (Nov 7) kicked off a fresh recruitment drive seeking workers, saying that it would offer staff who had left in recent weeks a one-off bonus of 500 yuan (US$69.28) should they return. New workers will be offered a salary of 30 yuanContinue Reading
Apple: iPhone shipments delayed over China Covid lockdown
Tech giant warns customers to expect longer wait times for its new iPhone line due China’s Covid lockdown.Continue Reading
Olaf Scholz’s peace mission to China
Barely back home from his November 4 encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz found himself on the premises of the former Berlin Kindl brewery on Saturday afternoon for a policy debate with 1,000 invited members of his Social Democratic Party (SPD). The most important […]Continue Reading