SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old who allegedly killed a man in Clementi was charged with murder on Wednesday (Oct 23). Toh Chee Hong appeared in court via video-link at around 12.20pm and was handed a capital charge for allegedly killing Winson Khoo Chin Wah, 41. Court documents stated that the alleged murder occurred at Block 311B Clementi Avenue 4,...
SEOUL: Ever since the arrival of her daughter six years ago, the precious little being has become the centre of Park Eun-jeong’s world. It also marked the beginning of a new dynamic in her marriage – a sexless, more companionate relationship with her husband. “(After the baby was born,) we gradually drifted into a sexless relationship....
BEIJING (SCMP): An auto company senior executive in China sparked significant backlash after sharing a video of himself enjoying a hotpot meal inside a new car model from his firm, aiming to promote its multipurpose use and air filtration system. Yang Dacheng, Vice-President of Zeekr Intelligent Technology – a publicly listed electric car manufacturer controlled by...
MANILA (Bloomberg): Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s eldest son came to his father’s defence on Oct 22, saying Vice-President Sara Duterte “crossed the line” with her attacks as the feud between the nation’s biggest political clans escalates. Congressman Ferdinand Alexander Marcos said he can’t stay silent despite his father’s advice to refrain from making a statement...
(Reuters) - Ukraine's prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, said on Tuesday he had resigned, in the wake of a domestic scandal where dozens of officials are alleged to have abused their position to receive disability status and avoid military service. The resignation followed a meeting of the national security and defence council, where officials discussed how to...
BEIJING (SCMP): A young Chinese man has astonished mainland social media with his remarkable academic accomplishments, which include two postdoctoral degrees, four PhDs, four master’s degrees, and more than 20 memberships in academic organisations. Zhao Zijian, 29, sparked intense public debate after the Inner Mongolian National Culture and Art Research Institute announced his appointment as a...
MANILA: Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Justice Department said on Monday (Oct 21). In April 2000, members of the Abu Sayyaf group kidnapped at gunpoint 21 people from a holiday resort on...
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s new leader Prabowo Subianto endeared himself to voters as a kindly grandfather vowing to give free meals to schoolchildren. Now to get things rolling in South-east Asia’s largest economy, the president is signaLling a strongman approach. The former general used his maiden speech on Sunday (Oct 20) to rail against corruption and poverty, a...
JAKARTA: In a strange twist of fate, an Indonesian woman has discovered that the man she married was a groom she had met at a wedding when she was a child. Renata Fadhea, 24, from Bangka Island, Indonesia, realised after marrying her husband, who is 38 years her senior, that she had met him 15 years...
MANILA (SCMP): Philippine police are hunting a Chinese suspect over a fatal shooting in Metro Manila that the country’s embassy has hinted may be linked to offshore gambling. According to The Philippine Star, the shooting occurred on Thursday in a hotpot restaurant in the Makati district. The victim – a 29-year-old Chinese man – was dining with...
