The Online Citizen

On Friday (31 Mar), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) of Singapore issued a warning to travelers regarding "system slowness" at select passenger clearance...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Bangladesh to halt its plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, citing the risks they would face upon return. A delegation from Myanmar's military regime recently visited Bangladesh to interview potential candidates for return, but HRW warns that any return to Myanmar would put the lives and liberty of refugees "at grave risk" due to the ongoing military junta's massacres around the country.

Huawei's net profit fell almost 69% last year to 35.6 billion yuan ($5.2 billion), due to US sanctions and international economic uncertainty, according to the company. The CFO described the results as a "low point" in the company's history but said the company was moving "back to business as usual" despite US restrictions becoming its "new normal". Huawei has moved to diversify its revenue streams, focusing on consumer tech such as smartwatches and boosting its footprint in the auto sector as a supplier.

Chun Woo-won, the grandson of former South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan, has apologized for a massacre committed in the 1980s, becoming the first member of his family to do so. The crackdown on a democracy uprising killed at least about 200 people. His apology has been hailed as significant and symbolic. Chun Doo-hwan was convicted of treason over the incident in 1996, but his sentence was commuted by a presidential pardon, and he never admitted involvement in or apologized for the killings.

Opinion: Reflection on the loss of multilingualism and cultural diversity in Singapore due to political intervention in favour of Mandarin, Malay and Tamil as "mother tongues.

Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority says immigration clearance at all checkpoints has resumed normalcy after an earlier disruption to its system on Friday

A group of Malaysian doctors has claimed that over 8,000 contract doctors going on strike from 3 to 5 April and advised the public to avoid visiting public hospitals and health clinics for routine treatments during that time as they might expect a long wait. The claim was made via an Instagram account named "Mogok Doktor Malaysia" (Malaysian Doctors on Strike), stating that around 8,000 contract doctors are going on job strike by taking Medical/ Emergency leave, as a protest against the unfair system and low wages.