KARACHI: Pakistan’s election body has rejected former prime minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 national elections in two constituencies, officials and his party’s media team said on Saturday (Dec 30). The 71-year-old former cricket star has been embroiled in a tangle of political and legal battles since he was ousted as prime minister … Read more
KYIV (Reuters) – The death toll from Russia’s largest air attack on Ukraine rose to 39 on Saturday as rescuers continued to clear debris and rubble from the bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Russia launched 158 missiles and drones on cities and towns across Ukraine on Friday in what Ukrainian officials described as the worst … Read more
SINGAPORE: Eight crew members of a Chinese fishing boat are missing after it sank following a collision with a Singapore-flagged tanker in China. The incident happened at about 12.10am Singapore time on Dec 26, near Chengshan Jiao, China. The tanker was on its way to Zhoushan from Penglai, China, when the incident happened, said the … Read more
BEIJING: China will simplify visa applications for tourists from the United States from Jan 1, cutting the documents required, according to a notice on Friday (Dec 29) on the website of the Chinese embassy in Washington. The move is the latest by China to revive tourism and boost the world’s second-largest economy following a slump … Read more
KOTA KINABALU: The low supply issue of subsidised diesel faced over the past few days in Sabah should be resolved by now, says Datuk Armizan Ali. The Domestic Trade and Costs of Living Minister said there was no issue of quota reduction for the subsidised diesel and the report the ministry got from the ground … Read more
Heard of DINKWADs? It means Double Income, No Kids, With A Dog – and an evolution of the original Dinkies category, reflecting the contemporary Singaporean dream. Funds once allocated to parenting are now devoted to pampering pets, with DINKWADs favouring pet beds over nurseries, leashes over strollers, and pet couture over onesies. So we’ve curated … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 5, that COVID-19 no longer represented a global health emergency. “Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “I’ve accepted that advice. It’s therefore … Read more
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The head of Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission on Friday said it would meet a Dec. 31 deadline for the release of full provisional presidential results, dismissing opposition calls for a re-run of the disputed vote as the response of “bad losers.” The CENI commission has come under fire for its … Read more
SINGAPORE: Assuming that he was wanted by the police for his involvement in a gang fight, a Singaporean man left for Malaysia. He later got a fake Malaysian passport which he used to visit family in Singapore between 2008 and 2009. Andrew Lu Eng Leong, 58, was sentenced to 20 weeks’ jail on Friday (Dec … Read more
BEIJING: A former vice-chairman of China’s banking regulator has been sentenced to life imprisonment, state media reported on Friday (Dec 29), the latest target in a crackdown on corruption in the second-largest economy’s finance sector. Beijing launched a sprawling campaign to counter graft in 2012, following the ascension of leader Xi Jinping to the top of … Read more
