WHO experts say Chinese jabs show ‘safety’, but data lacking

WHO vaccine experts said Wednesday that an interim analysis of clinical trial…

BioNTech-Pfizer say COVID vaccine 100% effective on 12-15 year olds

BioNTech-Pfizer said Wednesday their vaccine showed 100 percent efficacy against the coronavirus…

BBC reporter leaves China, says ‘too risky to carry on’

A senior BBC correspondent said Wednesday he had left China, after facing…

China deflects questions after WHO chief revives lab leak theory

China deflected questions over an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 on…

Thai activists charged for violence against the queen

Five pro-democracy activists in Thailand were charged Wednesday with the rarely used…

Netizens question the need for domestic workers to clean exterior of windows after Indonesian helper fell to death at Hougang block

An Indonesian national who was working as a domestic helper to a…

Electricity tariffs up by 8.7% for households in April to June 2021; gas tariffs up by 0.84%

For the period from 1 April to 30 June 2021, electricity tariff…

Why China as an authoritarian country can allow protests but not a democratic country like S’pore?

by Teo Soh Lung Read the caption on this photo, taken from…

Dozens of Myanmar refugees make ‘voluntary return’: Thai authorities

Some 50 Myanmar refugees who fled air strikes to neighbouring Thailand “voluntarily”…