Police have arrested a Chinese boxing promotor on charges of entrapping Thais into working for a brutal gang of call scammers based in Myanmar’s Myawaddy border township.Continue Reading
KARACHI, Pakistan: It was the kind of attack Pakistani authorities had dreaded. A highly educated female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi in April along with their local driver, targeting nationals from Pakistan’s most important partner and seeking to undermine a relationship on which Islamabad’s financial survival largelyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man posed as a female gynaecologist and created fake profiles online to lure women into sending him photos and videos of their private parts. Malaysian Ooi Chuen Wei, 37, duped 35 women into sending him more than 900 videos and images of their private parts. He was sentencedContinue Reading
The empire has struck back with a vengeance, as Anglo-Indian Rishi Sunak takes the United Kingdom’s national helm as its first-ever non-Caucasian prime minister. In a country that has had a sometimes vexed relationship with multi-culturalism, it speaks much of the millennial UK’s embrace of its ethnic minorities that Sunak has become prime minister. It […]Continue Reading
Sophie Qian will relocate from New York to Singapore later this year.Continue Reading
TOKYO: Satoko Nagamura and her girlfriend conceived their son with donated sperm, but new legislation in Japan could effectively outlaw the procedure for lesbian couples and single women. For decades, anonymous sperm donation has existed in a legal grey zone in Japan, with no law explicitly prohibiting it, but noContinue Reading
A new study found that those who produce high levels of carboxylic acids were more attractive to mosquitoes.Continue Reading
A rare one-man demonstration in Beijing has inspired protest signs and graffiti elsewhere.Continue Reading
Conversational message is now a âmust haveâ for brands to expand reach
Seven in 10 would make purchases over WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger Driven by shifts in digital consumer behaviour, Singaporeâs online shopping landscape has evolved from one-sided, transactional engagements to become a more dynamic digital experience characterised by distributed storefronts, where messaging…Continue Reading
Is that pricey Himalayan pink salt you bought better for you than regular salt? What about MSG – is it really that bad? CNA speaks to nutritionists to find out.Continue Reading