GENEVA, Jan 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coronavirus pandemic took a huge toll on global jobs last year, the United Nations said, with the equivalent of more than a quarter of a billion lost. In a fresh study, the UN’s...
JAKARTA, Jan 26 (NNN-ANTARA) – Ten miners are trapped underground, as landslides struck a coal mine in South Kalimantan province in central Indonesia, a senior disaster official said today. The landslides, occurring outside...
Guiyang, January 21st (Reporter Xiang Dingjie) The “RCEP Opening Opportunity Guiyang Seminar” was held in Guiyang on the 20th. More than 100 representatives of member states conducted cloud dialogues via video...
General
January 26, 2021
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JAKARTA, Jan 26 (NNN-ANTARA) – Ten miners are trapped underground, as landslides struck a coal mine in South Kalimantan province in central Indonesia, a senior disaster official said today. The landslides, occurring outside...
January 26, 2021
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The Police have arrested a 33-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a case of loanshark harassment. On 24 January 2021, the Police were alerted to a case of loanshark harassment along Bukit Batok West Ave 8, where the...
January 26, 2021
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The Police are appealing for the next-of-kin of Mr Tan Siew Hoe Peter Adrian to come forward. Mr Tan, a former resident at Blk 62B Lorong 4 Toa Payoh, had passed away at Tan Tock Seng Hospital on 13 January 2021. Anyone with...
Lifestyle
January 6, 2021
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When security forces raided the village of Dong Tam early last year, Vietnamese blogger Bui Thi Minh Hang livestreamed an interview with a woman whose 3-year-old child was exposed to tear gas. Hang used social media to report...
December 8, 2020
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It’s 3:30 a.m. It’s almost time for class. I take a moment to stare into my pitch-black room. I always set my alarm 30 minutes before class starts so I don’t oversleep. Sometimes I hit the snooze button to get an extra 10...
December 2, 2020
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It might look like chicken. It might taste like chicken. But it doesn’t come from a chicken, it comes from a lab. For chicken lovers in Singapore, this lab-grown chicken will soon be available in nugget form as the country has...
Science
November 30, 2020
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HANOI, VIETNAM – Facebook and Google are becoming “zones without human rights” in Vietnam, Amnesty International warned Tuesday, accusing the tech giants of helping to censor peaceful opposition and political...
September 16, 2020
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The United States has updated its policy on marine scientific research, requiring foreign ships to request permission before entering U.S. waters. It is the latest step by Washington to align U.S. law with the United Nations...
September 15, 2020
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SYDNEY – Marine experts are planning to rescue humpback whales that have been recorded for the first time in crocodile-infested waters in the Kakadu national park in tropical northern Australia. It is thought the giant...
Self Care
January 26, 2021
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GENEVA, Jan 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coronavirus pandemic took a huge toll on global jobs last year, the United Nations said, with the equivalent of more than a quarter of a billion lost. In a fresh study, the UN’s...
January 26, 2021
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VIENTIANE, Jan 26 (NNN-KPL) – Laos conducted 102,017 tests for COVID-19 since Jan, 2020, with 44 of them positive and 41 patients having been discharged from hospitals, Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable...
January 26, 2021
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Indonesia surpassed 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases Tuesday, when the Indonesian Health Ministry reported 13,094 new infections. Meanwhile, deaths are nearing 29,000 in the fourth most populous country in the world. These...