The home of former Hong Kong actress Bonnie Lai Suk Yin has been put on the market a month after her tragic demise. The luxury condominium where the celebrity – who’s reported to have taken her own life – was found, is being sold at HK$16mil (RM9.6mil). This is HK$10mil (RM6mil) below the current market value of...
BANGKOK (AP): Thailand’s immigration authorities have revoked the visas of two New Zealand tourists accused of assaulting a traffic police officer on a popular resort island in an incident widely shared online, police said Monday. Brothers Hamish Day and Oscar Mattson Day were charged with offenses including robbery, causing physical harm to an on-duty officer, attempted...
NEW DELHI (Bernama): Two restaurant workers in southern India stole a visiting Malaysian family's bag containing their passports and cash. The Malaysian couple and their daughter were travelling from Trichy city in Tamil Nadu state to Puducherry by car on Sunday when they had stopped to have lunch in the Samayapuram area, according to a report...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Three men were each fined $1,800 and banned from driving for a year for providing illegal car and motorcycle pooling services, following enforcement operations by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). They were all caught on May 3, 2023, and one of them became the first motorcyclist here to be convicted for conveying...
A former preschool teacher who became famous last year when she appeared in a video singing to children, has claimed she has become the target of an online pornography slur. The woman, surnamed Huang, worked as a music teacher at a nursery school in Wuhan, Hubei province in central China. She shot to fame in April 2023...
Belarus has reportedly deployed tanks near its border with NATO, while tensions between Russia and the strategic alliance continue to simmer amid the war in Ukraine. The Belarusian military "mobilized reservists and kicked off major military maneuvers," according to a report published by The Kyiv Post on Thursday. Troops and equipment including tanks from Belarus' 19th Guards Mechanized Brigade...
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida denied one of the former president's motions to have his federal charges dismissed. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, said in a two-page order on Thursday that the questions at the heart of the case are best decided in "connection with jury-instruction briefing." Trump's defense team had argued that the first...
SINGAPORE: She came, she thrilled thousands across six sold-out shows, and now, Taylor Swift has left Singapore – but leaves in her wake a lasting impact. The celebrated American megastar filled the National Stadium and generated a spike in business for airlines, hotels and eateries here. She inspired MPs to pepper their Parliament speeches with references...
A JAPANESE man accused of helping to run a US$90mil investment scam will be sent home after four years on the run, Indonesian authorities said. Yusuke Yamazaki, 43, was arrested off Bulan island in Kepulauan Riau province on Jan 31, while attempting to cross into Malaysia in a small wooden boat, said Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram,...
JAKARTA (Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesian Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno visited Singapore recently and aims to explore potential bilateral cooperation on hosting major concerts and other international events amid pop singer Taylor Swift’s exclusive six-date concert series in the city-state. During the visit, Sandiaga met with Grace Fu Hai Yien, Singapore’s minister-in-charge of trade relations...
