Singapore has admitted information from its Covid contact tracing programme can be accessed by police, reversing earlier privateness assurances. Officers had beforehand explicitly dominated out the info can be used for something aside from the virus monitoring. However parliament was advised on Monday it is also used “for the aim …

Pakistan says a 2019 air raid by India was a “false flag” operation carried out by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP)​ for electoral features and urged the world neighborhood to cease its long-time rival’s “reckless, militarist agenda”. In a collection of tweets on Monday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran …

A girl in Singapore who hid her conferences with a male pal from coronavirus contact tracing has been sentenced to 5 months in jail. Oh Bee Hiok, 65, was apprehensive her household would suppose she was having an affair if she disclosed the meet-ups. Officers found the outings after reviewing …

Guatemalan safety forces used batons and tear gasoline to beat again a big migrant caravan certain for america. A big part of the caravan clashed early on Sunday with Guatemalan safety officers, some 3,000 of whom had mustered by the village of Vado Hondo, 55km (34 miles) from the borders …

It’s onerous to overlook the 2 little homes sitting defiantly in the midst of the Singapore constructing web site. It is immediately harking back to the award-winning cartoon Up, the Pixar movie which tells the story of an outdated man who refuses to maneuver from his residence as towering blocks …

A South Korean courtroom has sentenced Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee to two-and-a-half years in jail, with implications for the path of the expertise big and the way Koreans view huge enterprise. With Monday’s verdict, Lee shall be sidelined from key decision-making at Samsung Electronics because it strives …

Razer is already a quoted firm that’s now answerable to shareholders who will decide its efficiency on conventional metrics, says David Kuo. SINGAPORE: Should you thought a pc mouse was only a moulded-plastic handheld pointing gadget linked to a pc to maneuver a cursor round a display screen, then you …

Afghanistan has launched a nationwide marketing campaign to manage the polio vaccine to almost 10 million kids beneath the age of 5, the nation’s Public Well being Ministry introduced. Some 65,000 well being staff will implement the marketing campaign over a five-day interval, a public relations officer for the anti-polio …

Alexey Navalny has been arrested at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the nation from Germany, the place he had spent 5 months recovering from an alleged nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. The Kremlin critic’s detention on Sunday at passport management in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo …

SINGAPORE: The Financial Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday (Jan 18) issued revised tips for monetary establishments to raised mitigate cyber dangers, which incorporates requiring them to have robust oversight of their third-party service suppliers and expertise distributors. The brand new tips apply to banks, cost providers corporations, in addition …