Daily Archives: April 12, 2014

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced skeptical lawmakers in Washington over the company's alleged ties to the Chinese government. The video-sharing app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is under pressure from Western countries to cut ties with China or face a ban. Chew, a 40-year-old Singaporean, assured lawmakers that ByteDance is not an agent of China and that TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government. However, several pieces of legislation are already paving the way for a potential ban of the app.

China's military tracked and warned a US warship to leave waters claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, despite overlapping claims by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei. The US sends naval vessels through the region to assert freedom of navigation in international waters, while China has built artificial islands with military facilities and runways.

TikTok content creators protested against a potential ban on the app at the US Capitol, arguing that the platform is no more prone to data breaches than other apps. A group of around a dozen teenagers, teachers, and business owners rallied at Congress to draw attention to the benefits of TikTok on their lives and livelihoods.

Foreign students deliver a petition to the British PM Rishi Sunak, requesting the revocation of an "unjust" visa revocation order. The order was issued in response to a decade-old English test scandal undercovered by BBC.

How relevant was the disclosure of the police investigation against Karl Liew to the disclosure of Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Suet Fern by Mr Teo Chee Hean?

Thai police shot dead a gunman who killed three people and wounded three others, a senior officer said Thursday, after a 15-hour standoff.

An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people are afflicted with chronic rare diseases in Singapore and the Rare Disease Fund (RDF) has supported nine patients, which represents about 0.4% of Singaporeans with rare diseases, since its establishment in 2019.