The CCCS's Administration of the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act In February 2018, the Singapore Parliament passed the Enterprise Singapore Board Bill ("Bill"), which will restructure the CCCS to regulate and enforce the consumer protection function, in addition to performing i...
OneRepublic performs Born To Race in Singapore at The Star Theatre on 23 April 2018.
Singapore debating big data: a savior for the shipping sector or just a fantasy? BY LASSE KARNER Published 23.04.18 at 15:42 The use of data and artificial intelligence was a major topic when the shipping sector's future was up for debate on the first day of Singapore Maritime Week. T...
Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The ban on ICOs in China is sending blockchain startups that are looking to raise funds into the arms of rival Asian regions. In particular, blockchain startups are increasingly flocking to Hong Kong, where the...
LONDON: Kate, the wife of the United Kingdom's Prince William, has given birth to a baby boy on Monday (Apr 23). In a tweet, Kensington Palace confirmed the birth of the couple's third child and said the Duchess of Cambridge and her son are "both doing well". "The Queen, The Duke of E...
PHNOM PENH: Results from a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Cambodia Fisheries Administration census released on Monday (Apr 23) showed that the population of critically endangered river dolphins in the Mekong has slightly risen from 2015. This is the first increase since the authorities...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court has halted an order by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to provisionally dissolve the opposition party led by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, pending the outcome of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia's (PPBM) legal challenge of the order issued earl...
The ceremony this year also marked the completion of the temple’s SGD 4.5 million renovation process which had been going on for over a year. The temple, located in Little India, has now been restored to its full glory with the amount having been raised by devotees and temple leadersh...
Singapore PM Lee Leads 40,000 Devotees In Hindu Temple Reconsecration Ceremony (News in Hindi from Dainik Bhaskar)
The proposed legislation will give much greater protection for individuals who wish to come forward when they encounter corruption or illegality in the workplace and will provide both public and private sector employers with greater legal certainty around their rights and obligations....
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Parliament has a new furry mascot - a "young winged lion" called Parley. The Parliament of Singapore posted on Facebook in the voice of Parley on Monday (Apr 23). "Now that the Parliament of Singapore has launched its Instagram page, Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin has in...
Vivian Dsena and Karan Wahi recently played a charity football match in Singapore. They played alongside Ranbir Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Arjun Kapoor, Dino Morea, Leander Paes, Shoojit Sircar and Kartik Aaryan. The match took place at Singapore’s Jalan Besar Football Stadium and by ...
SINGAPORE: A 20-year-old man who committed sexual offences against girls as young as 12 was on Monday (Apr 23) sentenced to 16 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane. Goh Kar Aip committed offences against 13 victims. He used Instagram and Facebook to chat with young girls, and init...
Presented by Baz Ashmawy, the documentary will examine our often dysfunctional relationship with gambling, featuring contributions from the likes of former Offaly GAA star Niall McNamee, who has spoken publicly about his issues with gambling in the past, and Tony O’Reilly, who wrote a...
A struggle to communicate within families is one of the painful effects of the Singapore government’s large-scale, decades-long effort at linguistic engineering. Starting with a series of measures in the late 1970s, the leaders of this city-state effectively banned , the mother tongue...
The Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong on Sunday led a Puja for the re-consecration of a 164 year Hindu temple, which was recently renovated at a cost of about SGD 4.5 million. Also present at the puja were four ministers of in his government and about 40,000 devotees. This was ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singaporeans are not used to uncertainty when it comes to their future political leaders. FILE PHOTO: Singapore's Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat gives a keynote speech at the World Bank - Singapore Infrastructure Finance Summit in Singapore April 5, 2018. REUTER...
TOKYO (YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Foreign visitors leaving Japan will have their face screened at immigration, starting from fiscal 2019. Under the system, a photograph of a traveller's face would be taken at the immigration counter. It would then be checked by a computer ag...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singaporeans are not used to uncertainty when it comes to their future political leaders. FILE PHOTO: Singapore's Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat gives a keynote speech at the World Bank - Singapore Infrastructure Finance Summit in Singapore April 5, 2018. REUTER...
SINGAPORE — Singaporeans are not used to uncertainty when it comes to their future political leaders. Only one party has ruled the island-state since its independence more than 50 years ago, and there have been only three prime ministers. When founding father Lee Kuan Yew handed over ...
Image credit: www.facebook.com/greenschool Green School Bali students and friends are one step closer to getting their campus off the grid, with the support of Sunseap, one of the largest clean energy solutions providers in Singapore. Sunseap, a Singapore-based solar developer, genero...
Wanna One will kick off their first world tour “One : The World” in Seoul from June 1 to 3, and the group is confirmed to make a stop in Singapore on July 13 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium! See Also: QUIZ: Can We Guess Your Age Based On Your Taste In K-Pop? Wanna One, a boy band form...
In the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the two Koreas for decades, the two sides come face to face -- along with the contradictory narratives that will underlie a summit at the site this week. South Korean guards chosen for their height and looks, and sporting aviator sunglasses s...
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - The population of Cambodia's critically endangered river dolphin is growing for the first time in decades, conservationists said on Monday (April 23), hailing a major turnaround for the freshwater species. The Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their bulging foreheads an...
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An outbreak of measles in Japan and Taiwan has put thousands of people in quarantine and forced tourists to put off visits to southern Japan, media reports said. More than 3,500 people in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung have been quarantined and are being monitored by the isl...
As China continues on the path of restrictive and ambiguous regulation over their growing fintech industry, tech companies are leaving in droves for the more welcoming shores of Hong Kong and Singapore. Hong Kong And Singapore Benefit from China’s Crypto Phobia Singapore and Hong Kong...
A road accident in North Korea has caused "heavy casualties" among Chinese tourists, the foreign ministry in Beijing said on Monday. The ministry provided few details but China's state broadcaster CGTN earlier tweeted that more than 30 people died when a tour bus fell from a bridge in...
NEW DELHI - Heavy turbulence during an Air India flight to Delhi last week caused a window panel inside the plane to fall off and left three passengers injured, The Times of India news website reported. Flight AI 462, which had taken off from Amritsar on Thursday (April 19), encounter...
