Flood-hit Pakistan breaches largest freshwater lake to avert overflow

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KARACHI: Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday (Sep 4), a minister said, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering flood water. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floodsContinue Reading

POFMA correction direction issued to The Alternative View for implying HDB profits from Ang Mo Kio BTO flats

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SINGAPORE: Facebook page The Alternative View has been issued a correction direction for suggesting that the Housing & Development Board (HDB) profits from the sale of Build-to-Order (BTO) flats at Central Weave @ AMK.  The direction was issued under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA).  The case involvedContinue Reading

Pakistan floods wash away a family’s marriage hopes

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FAZILPUR, Pakistan: Truck driver and father-of-seven Mureed Hussain was planning for his daughter’s October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry. “I had been collecting her dowry for almost three years,” Hussain told AFP from the courtyard of hisContinue Reading