Posts tagged with "Singapore"

Trump says N. Korea no longer threat, North highlights concessions Asia

Trump says N. Korea no longer threat, North highlights concessions

June 13th, 2018 North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, nor is it the "biggest and most dangerous problem" for the United States, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday on his return from a summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The summit was the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader and...
Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island -White House Asia

Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island -White House

June 6th, 2018 The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be on Singapore's southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday as preparations accelerated for next week's event. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a Twitter post that the venue would be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa and...
Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame Tech & Science

Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame

April 19th, 2018 Robots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread - assembling flat-packed Ikea furniture. Sifting through pages of instructions and a jumble of screws and bolts to build the low-cost Swedish furniture may soon be a thing of the past given advances in technology, say researchers at the city-state's Nanyang Technological...
Singapore uncovers large oil heist at Shell's biggest refinery Asia

Singapore uncovers large oil heist at Shell's biggest refinery

January 9th, 2018 Eleven men were charged in a Singapore court on Tuesday in connection with a large-scale oil theft at Shell's biggest refinery, while police said they were investigating six other men arrested in a weekend raid. Police in the island-state said on Tuesday they had detained 17 men, whose ages ranged from 30 to 63, and seized millions...
Singapore bans film focused on indicted Palestinian teen activist Asia

Singapore bans film focused on indicted Palestinian teen activist

January 3rd, 2018 Singapore has banned a film festival from screening a documentary later this week that features a teenage Palestinian female activist whose arrest last month has made her a symbol of resistance to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. Justifying the ban, authorities in the Southeast Asian city state said the film Radiance of...
Stakes are high for future of urban planning Opinion

Stakes are high for future of urban planning

October 10th, 2017 By Jaron Lubin The stakes are high when it comes to adapting to rapid urban densification. Innovation is happening all over the world, but the most effective developments are realised when design and policy come together, as they have in Singapore. Hip-hop supergroup De La Soul’s fourth album title, Stakes is High, may be an...
More jail time in Singapore for unruly, drunk Australian Asia

More jail time in Singapore for unruly, drunk Australian

September 19th, 2017 An Australian man imprisoned in Singapore for assaulting airport police officers and other offences during a two-week drunken binge was sentenced to additional jail time by the High Court on Tuesday. Jason Peter Darragh, 44, who was due to be released from prison this weekend, was sentenced to an additional two months after...
Singapore names first woman president Asia

Singapore names first woman president

September 13th, 2017 Singapore named a former speaker of parliament as the multicultural city-state's first woman president on Wednesday while critics expressed dismay that other candidates were disqualified and the election went uncontested. Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity, Singapore had decreed the presidency, a largely ceremonial six-year...
Ten sailors missing after US warship, tanker collision (Update) World

Ten sailors missing after US warship, tanker collision (Update)

August 21st, 2017 Ten sailors are missing after a US warship collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore before dawn on Monday, tearing a hole beneath the waterline and flooding compartments that include a crew sleeping area, the US Navy said. The collision between the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC was the...
Singapore scientists hope for probiotic beer hit World

Singapore scientists hope for probiotic beer hit

July 28th, 2017 It's a breakthrough worth raising a glass to. Researchers in Singapore have brewed up a beer containing probiotic bacteria that can improve gut health and boost the immune system. Food researcher Alcine Chan, 23, experimented for almost a year with a recipe of malt, alcohol, hops and a strain of probiotic bacteria, until she got the...
Thousands of Filipinos gather to cheer Duterte in Singapore Asia

Thousands of Filipinos gather to cheer Duterte in Singapore

December 16th, 2016 Thousands of Filipinos gathered in Singapore on Friday to catch a glimpse of their president, Rodrigo Duterte, in a big show of support for a leader whose bloody war on drugs has horrified global rights groups but won support at home. About 135,000 people from the Philippines live in Singapore, according to a breakdown of Philippine...
Singapore says confirms 26 more local transmission Zika cases World

Singapore says confirms 26 more local transmission Zika cases

September 4th, 2016 Singapore confirmed 26 more cases of locally-transmitted Zika infections, the health ministry and National Environment Agency said in a joint statement on Saturday, bringing the tally to 215. Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly - a severe birth defect in which the head and brain are undersized - as...
Singapore confirms 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus - media World

Singapore confirms 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus - media

August 28th, 2016 Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, local media reported on Sunday, citing the city-state's health ministry. The cases include 36 foreign construction workers employed at a site in Aljunied, in the southeast of the island, the Straits Times newspaper and Channel News Asia television reported. On...
Singaporean gold medalists receive a $753.000 bonus, British athletes get nothing Sport

Singaporean gold medalists receive a $753.000 bonus, British athletes get nothing

August 10th, 2016 The glory of winning a gold medal is a massive incentive for athletes competing in Rio but the impressive bonuses on offer add another more lucrative dimension to the games. The size of the bonus on offer varies hugely by country. For example, British athletes do not receive bonus for winning a gold medal whereas American competitors get...
Dhaka arrests five Bangladeshis deported from Singapore World

Dhaka arrests five Bangladeshis deported from Singapore

May 4th, 2016 Police in Bangladesh have arrested five men deported from Singapore as part of an investigation into an alleged Islamist plot to carry out attacks in the South Asian country, authorities in Dhaka said. Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Tuesday it had detained eight other Bangladeshi men who were planning attacks in...
US agrees spy plane deployment in Singapore amid China tensions World

US agrees spy plane deployment in Singapore amid China tensions

December 8th, 2015 By David Brunnstrom The United States has agreed with Singapore on a first deployment of the US P8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore this month, in a fresh response to China over its pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea. China, which is at odds with Washington over the South China Sea, said on Tuesday the move was...
Customs seize almost 10 million cigarettes at Limassol port (Updated) Cyprus

Customs seize almost 10 million cigarettes at Limassol port (Updated)

April 7th, 2015 Almost 10 million cigarettes were seized on Tuesday by the Customs and Excise department, found in a container imported from Singapore on April 4. The cigarettes were found by Limassol port employees during a routine check to verify the contents of the container. The shipment was supposed to contain synthetic grass. Instead officials...
Thousands of Singaporeans take to the streets to mourn Lee Kuan Yew World

Thousands of Singaporeans take to the streets to mourn Lee Kuan Yew

March 25th, 2015 By Rujun Shen and Aradhana Aravindan Thousands of Singaporeans queued on Wednesday to pay their last respects to former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, who lay in state at Parliament House, waiting for up to eight hours in stifling tropical heat to view his body. Lee's coffin was taken by gun carriage to Parliament House on Wednesday...
Modern Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, dies at 91 World

Modern Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, dies at 91

March 23rd, 2015 By Rujun Shen and Lee Rou Urn Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, died on Monday aged 91, triggering a flood of tributes to the man who oversaw the tiny city-state's rapid rise from a British colonial backwater to a global trade and financial centre. US President Barack Obama described Lee, who ruled Singapore for three...
Interpol opens Singapore centre to fight cyber crime World

Interpol opens Singapore centre to fight cyber crime

October 2nd, 2014 By Theodora D'cruz Interpol, the world's largest police organisation, is opening a centre in Singapore focused on fighting cyber crime, which many countries, it says, are poorly equipped to contain. Cyber crime is increasingly conducted by a highly specialised chain of software break-in experts, underground market-makers and...
Mercedes duo set for Singapore street fight Formula 1

Mercedes duo set for Singapore street fight

September 18th, 2014 By John O'Brien Mercedes team mates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton renew their sometimes hostile rivalry on the floodlit streets of Singapore this weekend at a circuit where mistakes or collisions normally result in race retirement. With six races remaining in the 19-round season, Germany's Rosberg leads Hamilton by 22 points but...
Singapore hit by rare outbreak of rioting Asia

Singapore hit by rare outbreak of rioting

December 8th, 2013 A crowd set fire to vehicles and clashed with police in the Indian district of Singapore late on Sunday, in a rare outbreak of rioting in the city state. The incident reportedly started after a private bus hit and killed a foreign worker in the Little India area. Television footage showing a crowd of people smashing the windscreen of...
Smog in Singapore from Indonesia fires could last for weeks Asia

Smog in Singapore from Indonesia fires could last for weeks

June 20th, 2013 By Kevin Lim and John O'Callaghan Haze from fires in Indonesia blanketing Singapore could persist for weeks or longer, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday, as the smoke drove air quality to "hazardous" levels and disrupted business and travel in the region. Illegal burning of forests and other land on Indonesia's...
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