A woman has been spared jail for trapping her cat in a washing machine as punishment for defecating on her clothes in a Hong Kong flat last year. Insurance agent Yuki Wong Yee Ting received 80 hours of community service on a count of animal cruelty at Tuen Mun Court on Monday, after a magistrate found...
People who have survived the acute stage of Covid-19 have a higher chance of experiencing mental health issues within a year, a study by Washington University suggests. Those problems include anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and sleep disturbances, according to the research led by Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at the university’s School of Medicine in...
If you buy illegal plants or their by-products in China, you could be jailed for up to seven years. Buying endangered animals could result in life imprisonment or death. But for someone found guilty of buying a trafficked woman or child , the maximum jail term is three years. And if the court rules that the...
The father of the 11-year-old twin boys who were found dead in a canal in Upper Bukit Timah was slapped with a second murder charge on Friday morning (Feb 18). Xavier Yap Jung Houn, 48, is now also accused of murdering Aston Yap Kai Shern on Jan 21 between 4.25pm and 6.20pm, at the covered canal...
Maximilian Zeng, a 22-year-old Singaporean man, has wowed the socks off viewers of quiz show University Challenge by demonstrating his immense memory and knowledge of geography with his quick-fire answers to questions pertaining to maps. He was on the Imperial College team that beat King’s College 235-50 in the long-running quiz show in January 2022. His prowess in identifying...
Seems like the most romantic date of the year is Feb 22, or 22/02/2022, as many couples rush to make it their wedding date. In fact, about 500 couples are planning to get married on this unique, auspicious date. Since it is a once-in-a-lifetime date, it is understandable why many people would want to tie the knot on such...
The World Health Organisation has called for rich countries to pay their “fair share” of a US$16 billion (S$22 billion) shortfall to fund tools it says could end the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic this year. Launching an appeal for funding together with several national leaders on Wednesday (Feb 9), WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
A resumption of North Korea's nuclear weapon or long-range missile tests would "instantly" send the peninsula back into crisis, outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in said this week, calling for measures to prevent that from happening. A record month of North Korean missile testing in January highlighted failures of Moon's efforts to engineer a breakthrough as...
As China’s culture of various aspects becomes increasingly competitive, children’s education is a top priority for many families. Worried Chinese parents are enrolling themselves in various communication boot camps on parent-child relationship to learn how to interact with and teach their children better. Ming Xu, 42, mother of three children, aged three to 10, felt concerned and...
The lies told by Leader of the Opposition and Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh to a parliamentary committee set up to look into the conduct of his party's former MP Raeesah Khan could amount to perjury, a serious criminal offence, said the committee in its report released on Thursday (Feb 10). Given the seriousness of the...
