After entrepreneur Bertram Yang posted on his social media accounts that he had sold off the shares of his digital advertising firm, he started receiving messages from friends whom he had not talked to for years. “These were National Service buddies and secondary school friends in particular,” the 36-year-old said. “The…
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But the programme was scrapped by the Pakatan Harapan government in August 2018, three months after it came to power, with the then youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman saying it had been misused for the purpose of the indoctrination of certain beliefs. Now, the third iteration of the National Service Training Programme – dubbed PLKN 3.0 – will be back via a pilot project involving 200 people aged between 18 and…
A POLITICAL MIXED BAG The hush money case was widely viewed as less serious than…
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“UTTER LACK OF REMORSE” Addressing the court on Friday, DPP Tan sought a jail term of between two years and three-and-a-half months and two years and five-and-a-half months, six strokes of the cane, and a five-year disqualification from driving all classes of vehicles. DPP Tan said that the consideration for…
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BEIJING: Beijing warned Germany on Friday (Jan 10) to stop “hyping up” spying risks a day after prosecutors there charged three people suspected of supplying technological information to Chinese intelligence. The German federal prosecutor’s office accused three of its citizens, identified only as Herwig F, Ina F and Thomas R, on…
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NEW YORK :The U.S. dollar strengthened for a third straight session on Thursday as Treasury yields dipped but held at elevated levels on concerns over tariffs under the incoming Trump administration, while sterling’s recent weakness persisted. U.S. Treasury yields have been on an uptrend, with the benchmark 10-year note hitting…
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If you’ve never heard of Smart, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. The new EV brand, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and China’s Geely, only launched last year and it’s already fast making waves with its smart cars that look every bit the future of mobility. They’re powered by…
