THE ACCIDENT Mr Rahman first came to Singapore in 2015, after spending about S$16,000 on fees to secure work at a landscaping company. In July 2016, then 21, he was instructed to clean an underground…
BEIJING: Beijing will ban the possession of drones within city limits under new rules from November, further tightening regulations that already prohibited the sale of the devices. The rules…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday (Sep 13) brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed three US troops there in…
The US military presence will remain a major issue for Koja, a former civil servant who was also a deputy mayor of Naha, the region’s capital city. The United States has around 54,000 military…
UNDERSTANDING THIS DISASTER On the morning of Aug 26, scientists found that a mass of bedrock and overlying glacial ice broke off Langtang-Lirung mountain and plunged from a height of about 5,200 m…
On Sunday, Edy Prakoso, another official at the national rescue agency, said the ship leaned heavily to one side after strong waves hit its starboard side. A passing helicopter reported the vessel…
SEOUL: North Korea has conducted a “firepower attack drill” with long-range artillery and missiles, state media reported on Monday (Sep 14). The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the drill took…
Heri Purwanto, head of the Banjarmasin Sea Port Authority, said the ship, which was carrying people and vehicles, lost contact at 2am on Sunday (2am, Singapore time). “We responded quickly to the…
“If you build a new city in a place that was well preserved before, it would inevitably be very destructive, no matter how you mitigate it,” said Brian Wong of Liber Research Community, an NGO…
JAKARTA: Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation on Sunday (Sep 13) after authorities lost contact with a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people in the Java Sea while traveling from…
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to work together towards resolving their countries’ contested border, New Delhi’s foreign ministry said on…
NEW DELHI: Iran and the United Arab Emirates signed up to a joint statement from the BRICS group of nations that called for restraint in the Middle East war on Saturday (Sep 12), in what was seen as…
For Youqi Agricultural Company, the firm is focused on quality rather than competing on volume or price. “We are differentiating ourselves. We only target the high-end segment,” said Zhang, the…
KYIV: Russian air strikes in several Ukrainian regions on Saturday (Sep 12) killed nine people, injured dozens and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, officials said…
PUTIN, XI, PEZESHKIAN, RAMAPHOSA IN ATTENDANCE Foreign policy experts had said the key test for the bloc would be finding language on the Middle East crisis that both Abu Dhabi and Tehran could…
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian lawmaker and a major interfaith group have criticised Islamist party Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) president Abdul Hadi Awang’s latest remarks on limiting the Cabinet roles…
“LOST HOPE” Myra Cabilan told AFP she had flown to Coron to find her missing brother, 40-year-old Rammel Gonzaga, who had taken the ferry from Manila on a business trip with his brother-in-law. “His…
NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in New Delhi on Saturday (Sep 12) for a BRICS summit alongside leaders from India, Russia and Iran, as wars, trade and energy test the divided…
Anthropic broke up attempts to use its Claude models to develop biological weapons and carry out a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign against Ukraine, the AI heavyweight said in a…
Enflame is one of a group of Chinese AI chip startups sometimes called the “four little GPU dragons”, alongside Moore Threads, MetaX and Biren Technology. Enflame sold 43.04 million new shares, equal…
