TOKYO: A 10-year-old boy enrolled in a Japanese school in Shenzhen, China, has died after being stabbed by an assailant on Wednesday (Sept 18), Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported citing the Japanese consul-general. The attack took place near the school on the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that triggered war between China and Japan, a...
We love to hate them, but we can't live without them. Social networks are part of the lives of millions of Internet users around the world. But as some platforms rise, others fall out of favour. From TikTok to Instagram, a recent study looks at the most loved and hated social networks around the world. The...
BEIJING: Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai Monday morning (Sept 16) as a Category 1 storm, the most powerful tropical cyclone to directly hit the Chinese financial hub in more than seven decades. Packing top wind speeds of 151kmh near its eye, Bebinca landed in the city of nearly 25 million around 7.30am, state media reported,...
A coalition of 21 human rights organisations and activists – collectively known as the End Child Detention Network (EDN) – raises concern that children at the Baitul Mahabbah immigration detention centre are still being detained a year after its launch, and urges that they are released to community-based alternatives. They say that what was intended as...
BEIJING (SCMP): A Chinese woman was brutally beaten and blinded by her husband two months after they married because she refused to fund his gaming habit. The woman, known as Lao Chunxue, 28, from Inner Mongolia in northern China, met her husband, surnamed Xie, who is two years older than her, through an introduction by a...
SINGAPORE: With more people treating their cats or dogs as family members and often willing to pay for the animals’ medical treatments like they would for their own, veterinary services have changed from offering mainly primary care to something resembling human healthcare today. This means expensive diagnostic scans, surgery and cancer treatments are routinely offered, leading...
BEIJING: Middle-aged wives in China are participating in “sex appeal training camps” designed to teach them seduction techniques as a means to discourage their husbands from cheating. In July, a group of women convened in the eastern city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province for a two-day programme that charged each participant 2,999 yuan (US$420). A poster advertising...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Ronnie Ang enjoyed cycling regularly along the Sembawang Park Connector. But the 60-year-old’s leisurely ride on July 4, 2022, was tragically his last after he was attacked by hornets and died in hospital three days later. State Coroner Adam Nakhoda delivered his findings on Ang’s death on Sept 13, ruling it a...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore Customs has warned the public against falling for an impersonation scam bearing the agency’s name. In a Facebook post on Sept 13, the agency said there has been a circulating SMS that falsely claims to be from Singapore Customs by identifying itself as “S.G. Customs”. Singapore Customs clarified that it does not...
SINGAPORE: Ronnie Ang enjoyed cycling regularly along the Sembawang Park Connector. But the 60-year-old’s leisurely ride on July 4, 2020, was tragically his last after he was attacked by hornets and died in hospital three days later. State Coroner Adam Nakhoda delivered his findings on Ang’s death on Friday (Sept 13), ruling it a tragic misadventure. At...
