Minister K. Shanmugam (second from right) speaking at The Religious Rehabilitation Group Quarterly Engagement on March 23, 2021, with (from left) Ustaz Mohd Hasbi Hassan, Ustaz Ali Mohamed and Minister of State Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim.The Straits Times Senior Muslim leaders have welcomed the shift in the Government's position to consider allowing nurses to wear the tudung...
A view of the city skyline in Singapore December 31, 2020.Reuters Singapore has started to plan for how offices will look and operate in the post Covid-19 era, signaling its intent to get one of the world’s key financial hubs fully back to business with new technology and safer workplaces. Adopting more touch-free technology, motion sensors, facial...
Swabbing stations would be set up at UTown Residence on March 23, 2021. Residents of a hostel block at the National University of Singapore will need to be swabbed after traces of Covid-19 were detected in its wastewater. Staff and students were informed in a circular seen by The Straits Times on Monday night (March 22). Dr...
Ng Yu Zhi was charged with two counts of cheating and two of being a party to fraudulent trading on March 22, 2021. Hreasily A businessman charged on Monday (March 22) has been linked to an alleged fraud involving at least $1 billion, the largest in Singapore's history. Ng Yu Zhi, 33, is the director of two firms...
Singapore is closely monitoring ongoing trials on the effect of Covid-19 vaccines on children.The Straits Times file Singapore is closely monitoring ongoing trials on the safety and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines on children, and hopes to be able to certify and administer them on students here in the near future. For now, the vaccines that the Government...
A man was found stuck in a drain — with water up to his chest — at a hiking trail along the Bukit Timah Expressway near Mandai Road on Sunday (March 21). He was later pulled out by officers from the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) using rescue ropes, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF). After receiving...
A sign of Chinese video-streaming platform iQiyi Inc is pictured at the Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo, in Beijing, China May 29, 2019.Reuters Chinese online video platform iQIYI plans to launch a talent agency in Southeast Asia to cultivate its own entertainers as it pushes to become Asia’s dominant streaming platform, a senior executive...
Singapore has already opened its border to a handful of countries that have controlled the Covid-19 virus. Photo: AP Australia is “working with Singapore” to create a travel bubble between the two nations as early as July, officials said Sunday, in an effort to restart tourism and travel put on hold by Covid-19. Early in the pandemic...
A handout photo. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks during an interview with BBC on March 2, 2021.Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) via Reuters Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a TV interview he hoped Singapore would start re-opening its borders by the end of the year as more countries ramp up vaccination...
Chilli Api Catering was ordered to suspend its operations from Sunday (March 14) following a food poisoning outbreak which affected 82 people. Those affected fell ill with gastroenteritis symptoms after eating food prepared by the catering firm between March 10 and 12. Fourteen of them have been hospitalised, and are in a stable condition, the Ministry...
