Maximilian Zeng, a 22-year-old Singaporean man, has wowed the socks off viewers of quiz show University Challenge by demonstrating his immense memory and knowledge of geography with his quick-fire answers to questions pertaining to maps. He was on the Imperial College team that beat King’s College 235-50 in the long-running quiz show in January 2022. His prowess in identifying...
Seems like the most romantic date of the year is Feb 22, or 22/02/2022, as many couples rush to make it their wedding date. In fact, about 500 couples are planning to get married on this unique, auspicious date. Since it is a once-in-a-lifetime date, it is understandable why many people would want to tie the knot on such...
The World Health Organisation has called for rich countries to pay their “fair share” of a US$16 billion (S$22 billion) shortfall to fund tools it says could end the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic this year. Launching an appeal for funding together with several national leaders on Wednesday (Feb 9), WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
A resumption of North Korea's nuclear weapon or long-range missile tests would "instantly" send the peninsula back into crisis, outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in said this week, calling for measures to prevent that from happening. A record month of North Korean missile testing in January highlighted failures of Moon's efforts to engineer a breakthrough as...
As China’s culture of various aspects becomes increasingly competitive, children’s education is a top priority for many families. Worried Chinese parents are enrolling themselves in various communication boot camps on parent-child relationship to learn how to interact with and teach their children better. Ming Xu, 42, mother of three children, aged three to 10, felt concerned and...
A waste management worker in Malaysia called the police when he found what he thought was a body wrapped in a blanket and plastic, The Star reported. Shah Alam OCPD Assistant Commissioner Baharudin Mat Taib told local media that the incident happened at around 3pm on Tuesday (Feb 8). "We received a call from a Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Bhd waste management...
The lies told by Leader of the Opposition and Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh to a parliamentary committee set up to look into the conduct of his party's former MP Raeesah Khan could amount to perjury, a serious criminal offence, said the committee in its report released on Thursday (Feb 10). Given the seriousness of the...
It’s been a long time coming but Jollibee Malaysia finally opened its first outlet in West Malaysia and in Klang Valley yesterday (Tuesday, 8th February). According to insiders, customers had started queueing at Jollibee Sunway Pyramid as early as 7am. Before the clock struck 7pm, Jollibee Malaysia even had to put up a notice on their socials informing...
Mohd Azwan Haji Mohd Nor, or famously known as Wak Doyok, was recently named as the ambassador for a global Forex broker company called OctaFX. According to Murai, they also brought along actor Fizo Omar as their brand representative, apart from Wak himself. Taking to his Instagram, the celebrity entrepreneur took the opportunity to thank the...
The Rhone glacier and the source of the Rhone river are seen on an autumn day in Obergoms, Switzerland, on Oct 25, 2021.Reuters Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world's glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience on Monday (Feb 7). The revised estimate reduces global sea level...
