Indonesia is becoming a centre for transnational online gambling and scam operations, according to the National Central Bureau of Interpol Indonesia, as cybercrime networks previously based in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam relocate to the country. Police arrested 321 people, including 228 Vietnamese and 57 Chinese nationals, in a major raid at an office building […] More
Health officials in several countries are conducting contact tracing following a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that has killed three people and confirmed five cases. The Andes virus involved in the outbreak does not spread easily between people, but officials are identifying and monitoring individuals who may have been exposed as the virus can […] More
Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-affected cruise ship MV Hondius began flying home from the Canary Islands on Sunday, with one American passenger testing positive for the virus and a French passenger developing symptoms aboard separate aircraft. The American who tested positive is not showing symptoms, while the French traveler and other French passengers were placed […] More
Iran submitted a response to a US ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators on Sunday, but President Trump immediately rejected it on social media as unacceptable. Iran’s state television reported Tehran rejected the US proposal as amounting to surrender, insisting instead on war reparations, full sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, an end to sanctions, and […] More
Azah Rahman, a Singaporean who moved to Dubai in January 2013 for what was meant to be a two-year stint, has decided to remain there long-term with her family. Rahman works as Head of Academics at MapleBear while her husband Fahmi Latiff runs a ship repair and trading company they founded together. She credits Dubai’s […] More
A male coyote reached Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay by swimming 2 miles from Angel Island, double the initially expected distance from San Francisco. Biologists and wildlife experts were surprised by the achievement, as such long ocean swims by coyotes are extremely rare. Video footage from early January captured the coyote paddling through the […] More
Former local actor Huang Yiliang was caught in a heated argument with a neighbouring hawker stall owner at Circuit Road Hawker Centre on May 6, with a video of the incident shared on Reddit. Yiliang, 64, has been running his seafood stall Old Fisherman since March and also operates a wet market stall at MacPherson […] More
Manpower Minister Dr Tan See Leng assured Parliament on Wednesday that the Government will not leave Singaporeans as “helpless passengers” as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy. He cited early signs of optimism, noting that two in three companies that made AI-driven cuts are already rehiring, and that most firms using AI are augmenting rather than […] More