DIRECT TRANSFERS ENABLED BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE In March, Malaysia and Singapore launched a QR code payment linkage which enabled customers to make cross-border payments to merchants using Singapore’s PayNow and Malaysia’s DuitNow. On Friday, MAS and BNM announced that users of these payment services would now be able to makeContinue Reading
Singapore’s Food Agency( SFA ) announced on Monday, October 23, that it will no longer require imports of milk, milk products, or products containing milk from China due to melamine. Since 2008, when methanol, a plastic-making substance, was found in infant dairy products made in China, the government’s dairy industryContinue Reading
According to the Pew review,” this” spiritual switching” has resulted in a decline in the proportion of Singaporeans who identify as Buddhists or adherents of Chinese traditional religions and an increase in that number of Christians or atheists.
Only 26 % of respondents currently identify as Buddhist, despite the fact that 32 % said they were raised as such. And while 15 % of respondents claimed to have grown up adhering to Chinese traditional religions, only 6 % do so today.
In contrast, while 11 % of those who are currently practicing are raised as Christians, 17 % are not. 13 percent of those who were raised without religion, but 22 % of the respondents do not currently practice any religion.
Pew also examined how federal pertaining intersected with religion and various markers of identity.
In Singapore, respondents were questioned about the significance of different identification markers for being a part of the country.
These included having been born in Singapore, belonging to the majority ethnic group( Chinese ), and practicing the predominant religion( Buddhism ).
According to the study, Singaporeans are much less likely than other people in the area to emphasize these nationalist aspects of national belonging.
SINGAPORE: The fire that forced an emergency landing at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Sunday( Sep 10 ) may have been caused by an engine mechanical failure on Air China flight CA403.
The airport added that investigations are ongoing and stated that this was based on a primary assessment.
Air China even stated in a Weibo post on Monday that staff people handled the affair in accordance with protocol and that travellers cooperated throughout the removal.
When dust was reported in the forward load hold and restroom at around 4 p.m., Flight CA403 was traveling from Chengdu to Singapore. & nbsp,
At around 4.15 p.m., the aircraft, which had 146 people and nine staff members, made an emergency landing at Changi Airport.
JOHOR BAHRU: Two Singaporean women and a Singapore permanent resident were killed on Monday (Aug 28) after the car they were in collided with a lorry in the Malaysian state of Johor. The drivers of both vehicles survived. A fire engine and five firefighters were deployed to the scene of theContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Four Singaporeans were among the alleged trafficking victims rescued by the Philippines police after a raid in Manila on Monday (Jun 26) night.
Responding to CNA’s queries, a spokesperson for Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Thursday that its embassy in Manila is in contact with the relevant Philippine authorities.
It has also reached out to the affected Singaporeans to render consular assistance.
“Currently, we have verified that there are four Singaporeans among those rescued,” added the ministry.
On Tuesday, the Philippine police said they had rescued more than 1,000 people allegedly trafficked into the country to work for an online casino in Manila.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Singaporean and Malaysian victims were among those found when police raided buildings in the capital on Monday night.
People from Indonesia, Pakistan, Cameroon, Sudan, and Myanmar were also found inside the compound.
More than 2,700 people were detained during the raids – over 1,500 were Filipinos.
Dr. Ng responded that many officials had expressed their admiration for General Li’s speech and that he was” really clear” in his attitude when questioned about his thoughts on it.
” I’m glad he did so in a composed manner. Whether you like the information or never depends on the viewer, but the quality was in terms of where the dark lines were and how they would affect different countries. Each nation may include to make a choice, he continued.
Dr. Ng gave a ministerial speech on Sunday morning in which he provided examples of” as new as ten years ago” regular exchanges between American and Chinese officials. The defense officials of the US and China last traveled to one another in 2018.
People may forget that they were at that, and I think that’s something you can aspire to, Dr. Ng said to the media.
I can tell you that it takes time for men from different militaries to click together. That is the process of developing connections. Therefore, we want( the US and China) to develop that kind of relationship, and we are assured that they will do so in the future.
We’re really onlookers, but as I said, we aren’t uninterested observers. We have a responsibility to ensure that the US-China contact ranges are reliable.
Dr. Ng even expressed some opinions regarding a Chinese warship that, according to the US military, maneuvered” in an unsafe manner” close to an American Warship passing through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.
According to Dr. Ng, all nations are” involved when either great or fast-moving objects move nearby” to one another.
And that’s why, ASEAN, we’ve been working very hard to prevent that ,” he continued, citing two set of rules for impromptu air and sea occurrences between members of the group.
Incidents have occurred, and that is precisely what we are saying. Who are you going to phone if it happens? Ghosts? ” Dr. Ng chuckled.
Dr. Ng stated that some people had told him that” we would have needed one very much if there was no such thing at the moment” when assessing how this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue had turned out.
Therefore, he continued,” So in that sense, it’s an assurance that the Shangri – La Dialogue plays a role and that it naturally fills in the gaps today.
Dr Kumaran Rasappan, an orthopaedic surgeon at the National University Hospital who summited Everest in 2012, echoed Mr Lim’s advice.
“They should definitely have tried other mountains, including 6,000m, 7,000m, 8,000m peaks before attempting Everest. I think that’s the minimum, no matter how fit you are, because the body responds very differently at altitudes above sea level,” Dr Kumaran added.
“Training at sea level is also important to get the physique, but having previous experiences at high altitude is important not only for the physique but for the psychological difficulties you may face.”
The 39-year-old, who obtained an international diploma in mountain medicine in 2018, said that altitude sickness can strike due to a variety of factors like the rate of ascent and how acclimatised a climber is.
Those who have mild symptoms of acute mountain sickness may recover by resting and taking medication. But those who come down with HACE or HAPE should get to lower altitudes with the help of steroids or supplemental oxygen, Dr Kumaran said.
Despite all this, the climbers said that even the most experienced ones can get into trouble and succumb to the elements.
In April, Mr Noel Hanna, a mountaineer from Northern Ireland who had climbed Everest 10 times, died while descending from the peak of Annapurna mountain (8,901m) in Nepal.
Ten people have died on Everest this climbing season, including a Malaysian and a Chinese climber, double the average of five climbers who die on the mountain every spring. Another Malaysian has been missing since Friday.
SINGAPORE: Singapore has worked to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in response to a United Nations (UN) expert who reported that entities in the country provide “critical supplies” to the junta’s weapon factories. An MFA spokesperson said on Friday (May 19)Continue Reading
Mr Wong also responded to a question on how Singapore’s fourth generation (4G) leadership will deepen ties with China. He said the relationship between the two countries has been built on mutual trust developed over generations, through years of friendship and working together on multiple projects. These projects include theContinue Reading