Jolovan Wham fails in appeal over unlawful assembly outside court, chooses to go to jail again
SINGAPORE: Activist Jolovan Wham will be going to jail instead of paying a fine for the third time, after losing his appeals against his sentence and conviction over an illegal assembly outside the State Courts in 2018. Wham, 42, took to the High Court on Friday (Sep 9) to appealContinue Reading
Singapore leaders send condolences after death of Queen Elizabeth II
Letter from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to King Charles III 9 September 2022 Your Majesty, I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of your mother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty The Queen was the very heart and soul of the United Kingdom. Her reign sawContinue Reading
Apple’s China iCloud operator warns of ‘dire’ Covid lockdown
China’s latest Covid lockdown has virtually paralysed a city of 6 million that homes much of the country’s electronic information, forcing Apple Inc’s information centre operator to consider emergency measures in order to shut out the pandemic. Read full story Continue Reading
Recycling firm battles Jakarta’s plastic waste emergency
Kurniawati’s company receives plastic from recycling centres across the greater Jakarta area – which has 30 million people – at its factory in Banten province outside the city. Then the company exports recycled plastic to European countries and also distributes it locally to be processed and used as packaging orContinue Reading
Frasers Property launches up to S$420 million worth of five-year green notes
Up to S$300 million will be offered to retail investors, with a fixed interest rate of 4.49 per cent per annum.Continue Reading
The dark side of Facebook, Google, TikTok ‘dark ads’
Once upon a time, most advertisements were public. If we wanted to see what advertisers were doing, we could easily find it – on TV, in newspapers and magazines, and on billboards around the city. This meant governments, civil society and citizens could keep advertisers in check, especially when they advertised products that might be […]
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Myanmar junta critics struggle to survive as Thai security increases
As the Kingdom raises its security existence, anti-coup critics encounter death if pushed back to Myanmar.
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Long-reigning Thai and British monarchs shared a bond
Their own ancestors were “royal friends by correspondence” but Britain’s King Elizabeth II and Thailand’s His Majesty King Bhumibol the fantastic developed a face-to-face bond during their lifetimes.Continue Reading
Kim Jong Un suggests North Korea may begin COVID-19 vaccinations
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested the isolated country can begin COVID-19 shots in November, state media reported on Friday (Sep 9). In a speech on Thursday night to the North Korean national assembly, Kim cited World Wellness Organization (WHO) warnings that the winter could see aContinue Reading
The ghosts of Gorbachev’s energy legacy
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who died last month at 91, was famous in the West for perestroika and glasnost. But three other Russian words also familiar in English were even more consequential for his reign and the resulting Soviet downfall: gaz, neft (oil), and atom. Gorbachev’s approach to these pillars of the Soviet economy […]
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