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SINGAPOREAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN VIETNAM FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Cher Wei Hon, a 40 year old Singaporean who is residing in Ho Chi Minh City, was sentenced to death by a court in Southern Vietnam.Cher was in a ride-hail car crossing the Cambodia-Vietnam border when it was stopped...

UK TEEN PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULTING S’POREAN IN ALLEGED RACIAL ASSAULT

A 15-year-old teenager (who cannot be named due to legal reasons) in the UK pleaded guilty to wounding or causing grievous bodily harm without intent to a Singaporean student, Jonathan Mok, 23.The teenager was purportedly silent during police interviews...

SIA GROUP MAKES 6,000 STAFF TAKE NO-PAY LEAVE TO “COPE WITH COVID-19”

The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group spoke to Straits Times last Friday, disclosing that more than 6,000 or their 27,000 employees have taken no-pay leave to help the firm cope with the collapse in air travel.SIA Group's spokesman said: "These...

M’SIA FOREIGN MINISTER HISHAMMUDDIN CAUGHT VAPING INSIDE PARLIAMENT

Malaysian foreign minister Hishammuddin Hussein was caught on video vaping in the Malaysian Parliament (Dewan Rakyat) in a Twitter post that has since garnered about 650,000 views and went viral on the platform.Hishammuddin could be seen vaping underneath his...

PORT EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT LIKENED TO HIROSHIMA BOMBINGS, 78 DEAD (VIDEO)

An explosion took place yesterday afternoon (August 4) in the port of Beirut, Lebanon - devastating and destroying absolutely everything within it's immediate radius.At the time of writing, 78 people have been confirmed dead and over 4,000 are injured...

COVID-19 CAUSING HEARING LOSS IN SURVIVORS

121 Covid-19 survivors were surveyed by the University of Manchester eight weeks after they were discharged, and it was found that one of the lingering complications of the coronavirus is hearing loss.The coronavirus infection is mild in four out...

NEW MONITORING DEVICE FOR THOSE SERVING STAY HOME NOTICE

In a joint release by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Ministry of Education (MOE), they announced that all travellers arriving in Singapore will have to put on the new monitoring device...

INDIANS DRINKING SANITISER DUE TO LIQUOR SHOP LOCKDOWN, 10 DIE

Ten men from South India have died in the town of Kurichedu, Andhra Pradesh from drinking hand sanitisers.The Southern Indian town is in a state of lockdown with liquor shops closed, so the men have taken to drinking from...

SINGAPORE TO BEAR 61% OF THE COST SG-M’SIA RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM. RM6.3BIL

The construction of the RM10 billion Rapid Transit System Link between Malaysia and Singapore will begin in early 2021 with Singapore covering the cost of close to RM6.3 billion.Malaysia stated that they will be forking out RM3.715 billion which...

2.9% OF S’POREANS JOBLESS, HIGHEST IN MORE THAN A DECADE

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Wednesday (July 29) that Singapore's overall unemployment rate rose to its highest level in more than ten years.Retrenchments increased by more than two-fold and total employment declined in the midst of the...

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PRC Security Guard’s Death Due To Sex During Work Hours Classified as Industrial Accident

In a peculiar case that has drawn attention, a Chinese security guard in his sixties tragically passed away while...