SEOUL – NORTH Korea this month publicly executed two of its citizens for handling propaganda leaflets floated across the border by South Korean groups, one of the activists said on Monday. An army officer who pocketed dollar bills enclosed with the leaflets was shot along with a 45-year-old woman who concealed one of the flyers, …
SINGAPORE : National water agency PUB said road-raising works, a flood-preventive measure, for Orchard Road are eight per cent completed. It added that it is still on track to meet the completion deadline in June. It is business as usual along Orchard Road in the daytime, but when the shopping district goes to sleep, roadworks …
AN 18-YEAR-OLD girl was slashed 18 times with a pen knife during a botched robbery at her home in Kota Baru, Malaysia, reported Harian Metro. Ainal Mardiah Mahmud said that during the 2.30pm incident, she had just reached home after visiting her grandmother when she found two men in the living room. ‘They looked shocked …
VIENNA – A MAN who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama has struck again, Austrian police said on Friday. The disguised thief robbed a bank in the town of Handenberg in Upper Austria just before the bank closed at 6pm (1700 GMT, 1am Singapore time), police said in statement. Police …
Guidelines made public last Friday that restrict devotees to singing – no music or drums to be played – have drawn varied reactions. The Hindu Endowments Board (HEB), which announced the guidelines, said it has received a “handful” of queries from devotees seeking clarification. A Facebook page, Bring The Thaipusam Beat Back, was set up …
SEVENTEEN employment agencies are reportedly raising the monthly salaries of Indonesian domestic helpers from $380 to $450, starting this week. Nation Employment, Best Home Employment Agency and Java Maids are among the agencies planning the wage increase. Mr Desmond Chin, group director of Nation Employment, told The Straits Times that the companies believe doing so …
INFORMATION technology technician Derek Li is left with a crushed foot and had to have three of his toes amputated after the front wheel of an off-duty SBS Transit bus crushed his foot in an accident outside Hougang Plaza on Nov 29 last year. Mr Li, 27, was crossing a road junction when the traffic …
UNUSUALLY large numbers of people are falling ill with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea – numbers large enough to classify the infections as an epidemic. Last week, polyclinics saw more than 20,000 patients with such problems – an indication that the infections have passed the epidemic threshold and are now spreading rapidly …
WELLINGTON – A NEW ZEALAND woman was temporarily partially paralysed by a ‘love bite’ on her neck from her amorous partner, doctors reported in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The 44-year-old woman went to the emergency department of Middlemore Hospital in Auckland last year after experiencing loss of movement in her left arm while watching …
WASHINGTON – A US woman was reunited on Thursday with doctors who gave her a new larynx and restored her ability to speak after a rare voicebox transplant surgery, only the second ever successfully performed. Ms Brenda Jensen, 52, a lifelong diabetes sufferer, lost her voice after she was hospitalised in 1998 for kidney failure. …