A 52-year-old Indian lingerie model is pushing e-commerce firms to hire older women for their advertising campaigns, challenging what she says are the ageist norms practised by many companies. Geeta J, a former teacher who took to modelling when she turned 50, says she wants innerwear companies in India to be more inclusive and avoid featuring...
A property sales company used woman’s bodies as a gimmick to sell real estate, but the promotion has backfired in China.Weibo A real estate developer in central China has been accused of ‘consuming women’ and ‘selling vulgarity’ and halted from making sales after using female models as human brochures with floor plans painted on their backs,...
Minister K. Shanmugam (second from right) speaking at The Religious Rehabilitation Group Quarterly Engagement on March 23, 2021, with (from left) Ustaz Mohd Hasbi Hassan, Ustaz Ali Mohamed and Minister of State Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim.The Straits Times Senior Muslim leaders have welcomed the shift in the Government's position to consider allowing nurses to wear the tudung...
A view of the city skyline in Singapore December 31, 2020.Reuters Singapore has started to plan for how offices will look and operate in the post Covid-19 era, signaling its intent to get one of the world’s key financial hubs fully back to business with new technology and safer workplaces. Adopting more touch-free technology, motion sensors, facial...
European High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, speaks during European Foreign Ministers and Interior ministers Council in Brussels, Belgium, on March 15, 2021.Reuters The European Union will on Monday impose sanctions on 11 individuals linked to the Monday (Feb 1) coup in Myanmar, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as he...
The F-5E jets crashedReuters Two Taiwanese fighter jets crashed on Monday (March 22) in the third such incident in the past half-year, at a time when the Beijing-claimed island's armed forces are under increasing pressure to intercept Chinese aircraft on an almost daily basis. While Taiwan's air force is well trained and well equipped, mostly with US-made equipment,...
The preliminary data was from Phase I and II clinical trials involving over 500 people.Reuters Sinovac Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine appears to be safe and able to trigger immune responses among children and adolescents, according to preliminary results from early and mid-stage trials, the company said late on Monday (March 22). The preliminary data was from Phase I...
Twitter/imnormgoh A move by Pyongyang to sever ties with Malaysia, following the extradition of a North Korean national to the United States on money-laundering charges, could be aimed at testing the administration of US President Joe Biden, according to analysts. Pyongyang announced on Friday that it was cutting diplomatic ties after a Malaysian Federal Court panel earlier...
Swabbing stations would be set up at UTown Residence on March 23, 2021. Residents of a hostel block at the National University of Singapore will need to be swabbed after traces of Covid-19 were detected in its wastewater. Staff and students were informed in a circular seen by The Straits Times on Monday night (March 22). Dr...
Ng Yu Zhi was charged with two counts of cheating and two of being a party to fraudulent trading on March 22, 2021. Hreasily A businessman charged on Monday (March 22) has been linked to an alleged fraud involving at least $1 billion, the largest in Singapore's history. Ng Yu Zhi, 33, is the director of two firms...
