Massive outage hits Google services worldwide
A massive outage knocked Google services including Gmail and video sharing platform YouTube offline across much of the globe Monday. ...
Day: 14 December 2020
‘Reconsider holiday travel’, Japan PM warns, as virus spikes
Japan's prime minister on Monday urged citizens to reconsider their holiday travel plans and suspended a controversial domestic tourism campaign ...
Lawyer M Ravi serves legal notice on Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seeking assistance for S’porean facing execution in China
Human rights lawyer M Ravi has served a legal notice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) seeking assistance on ...
S’pore Health Sciences Authority approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine; first shipment expected by end of December
The Health Sciences Authority of Singapore has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German ...
Borders to inevitably be reopened to avoid S’pore “permanently losing out” as “international hub”; a “calculated risk we have to accept”: PM Lee
While acknowledging that many countries globally are facing "second, third, or even fourth waves of infection" which have prompted international ...
Singapore to enter Phase Three of post-COVID circuit breaker reopening on 28 December
Singapore is set to enter Phase Three of its post-COVID circuit breaker reopening on 28 December, said Prime Minister Lee ...
Local movies ‘Number 1’ and ‘The Diam Diam Era’ draw movie lovers back to cinemas
Golden Horse winner 'Number 1' and Jack Neo’s latest film 'The Diam Diam Era' have crossed Singapore Box Office milestones ...
AWARE cautions against policy implications drawn from MSF study on ‘divorce penalty’ faced by children
While the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF)'s first-of-its-kind study comparing the educational and marital outcomes of children from ...
Red Dot United gives back to society by cleaning up Jurong Lake Gardens beach
Close to 20 members and volunteers of Singapore’s newest political party Red Dot United (RDU) recently made their way to ...
S’pore “chronic“ long-term economic underperformance necessitates strategic reforms, not just “consultative reaffirmation”, says ex-GIC chief economist Yeoh Lam Keong
Singapore’s “chronic“ long-term economic underperformance requires the country to reform its economic strategy rather than just moving through endless existing ...