On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced the Resilience Budget which commits an additional $48.4 billion to deal with the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This is on top of the $6.4 billion set aside in the 2020 Singapore Budget announced a month ago.…

LOCUSTS THREATEN LIVELIHOOD At least 20 million lives are at risk as locust swarms threaten food security across East Africa and South Asia. Locusts are the world’s oldest and most destructive migratory pests. An average swarm, which contains up to 40 million locusts, just…

Police Investigation On Friday (Mar 20), the Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed that it received numerous complaints regarding an offensive post on NUS Atheist Society Facebook page. The police were informed and are investigating the case.   The Post The post featured a photo…

The Launch of TraceTogether app Can’t remember where you have visited the day before? Don’t worry, the Singapore government has got you covered (literally)! Singapore has launched a new app known as TraceTogether, which keeps track of which other users you have had close…

AS THE RICH GET TESTED, SO DOES US-CHINA RELATIONSHIP China has declared that it will expel US nationals working for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), effective immediately from 17 March. In an additional twist, China imposed…

Indonesia In spite of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, more than 8,000 Muslim pilgrims from across Asia gathered for a religious gathering in Gowa, a town in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province, on Wednesday.  “We are more afraid of God,” said one of the organisers, Mustari…

Hackerman Tee Chin Yue, an NTU computer engineering student, was convicted last week for hacking Kopitiam cards and using them for profit. Tee, a Malaysian studying in Singapore with an ASEAN scholarship, started his hacking career in 2015 while staying at an NTU hostel.…

Mosque Closed In response to two Singaporeans being diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending a religious gathering in Malaysia, all 70 mosques in Singapore have been closed since 13 March. Although initially slated to be closed for five days, the closures are now extended to…

White Giraffes Killed in Kenya Two of the three white giraffes in a nature conservancy in Ijara, northeastern Kenya have been killed. Their skeletal remains were found on 10 March. They belonged to a female giraffe and her seven month old calf, likely to…