Amazon started laying off employees in its cloud services division on Wednesday (April 26) as part of a retrenchment exercise that is expected to affect 9,000 employees, and those from the Singapore office were not spared. The exercise, which was announced in March, comes on the heels of layoffs that cut 18,000 jobs between November 2022 and...
As a parent it takes a lot having to entrust their child to someone else, including their helper. So, you can imagine one mother's horror after she realised that her child, a boy, was allegedly sexually assaulted by their helper. In a five-minute clip that went viral online, the Indonesian maid, who was then employed in Malaysia, allegedly made the child touch her private parts...
A new type of Chinese combat drone that China's state media says can carry a heavy weapons payload has flown around Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said on Friday (April 28), in the latest uptick in military tensions. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has increased military pressure on the island over...
Donald Trump said on Thursday (April 27) that if he wins the 2024 presidential election, he will order the Justice Department to investigate "radical" county and state prosecutors whom he accused, without evidence, of targeting conservatives. In a campaign speech, the former president, who faces multiple criminal investigations, said the prosecutors were "persecuting conservatives" and touched on...
Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh visited her father’s grave for Qing Ming with the Best Actress Oscar statuette she won for the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. The grave is at Paradise Memorial Park, Tanjung Rambutan in Perak, Malaysia. Qing Ming, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, was on April 5 this year. On Wednesday (April 12), Yeoh shared on...
Malaysia said on Saturday (April 8) it was firmly committed to protecting its sovereign rights and interests in the South China Sea after China expressed concern about Malaysian energy projects in a part of the sea that China also claims. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday China was worried about activity by the state energy...
The head of China's Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday (April 8) urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to return to a "scientific, fair" position in tracing the origin of Covid-19. At a news conference, Shen Hongbing warned the WHO against politicising the source of the virus, which was first detected in central...
India's federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up-testing for Covid-19, after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday (April 7). There were 6,050 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Friday, continuing a sharp upward...
Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defences to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have US officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some Western security experts and US officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the US. Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents,...
Mr Li Xiting, founder and chairman of Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, a global provider of medical devices based in China, has again topped Forbes' list of billionaires in Singapore. Mr Li was among 35 billionaires from the Republic – up from 26 in 2022. Their collective net worth came to US$118.9 billion (S$157.6 billion), compared with US$106.7 billion in...
