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Maintenance orders: Most applicants are wives

Figures released for the first time by the Family Justice Courts (FJC) show that the bulk of applicants seeking maintenance orders are women still married to their husbands. In fact, two in three of the 1,315 applications filed, on average, each year between 2016 and 2018 were by wives against their husbands for financial support […]

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Nearly half of Singapore’s butterfly species are extinct: Study

Almost half of Singapore’s native butterfly species have disappeared over the past 160 years, with the loss of specific plants and deforestation being key drivers of the local extinctions. Of the 236 butterfly species thought to be locally extinct, 132 are known species such as the green dragontail and chocolate tiger butterflies. There are 413 […]

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China reports first death from mystery Wuhan virus

BEIJING • Health authorities in central China yesterday reported the first death from a mysterious pneumonia outbreak, blamed on a new strain of virus from the same family that causes Sars. The death comes just as many people in the country begin returning home for the Chinese New Year. The victim was a 61-year-old man […]

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‘Everything is going on normally’- Wuhan’s curious nonchalance to virus outbreak

With less than two weeks to go to the Chinese New Year, the Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market should be busy, but on Friday, the metal shutters were pulled down, with bubbling but empty fish tanks standing guard at corners. Spread across two complexes and divided by a road, the usually bustling market has been […]

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US, Japan congratulate Tsai as HK visitors laud island’s elections

WASHINGTON • The United States congratulated Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen for her re-election yesterday, hailing it as a demonstration of the self-ruled island’s “robust democratic system”. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Ms Tsai for developing a strong partnership with Washington and for her “commitment to maintaining cross-strait stability in the face of unrelenting […]

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Cross-strait ties set for period of uncertainty after Tsai Ing-wen’s re-election

Cross-strait ties will remain chilly at best or even worsen as Beijing is unlikely to change its current hardline stance on Taiwan after the re-election of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, analysts said. Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to continue with his current policy and even tighten it, although the election results have proven it […]

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Iranian diaspora in Canada grief-stricken

EDMONTON • The fume hoods in the laboratory set up by Ms Saba Saadat were silent on Friday, the lab’s computers and microscopes switched off. Sobs occasionally punctuated the silence. Professor Meghan Riddell, the leader of the cell biology lab, comforted a weeping student while two teary-eyed technicians stood by. Ms Saadat, a biology student, […]

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Soleimani’s killing a tactical win, but a strategic error

Few in the United States are mourning Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the feared commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force who had extended Iran’s often lethal tentacles across a swathe of the Middle East and beyond. But many are worrying about what it may have unleashed. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading […]

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Rouhani blames downing of jet on US ‘threats and bullying’

TEHERAN • Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has blamed his country’s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in part on “threats and bullying” by the United States after the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in an American air strike in Baghdad. A military statement carried by state media yesterday said the plane was mistaken […]

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Ukraine International Airlines plane crash: Iranians slam government over plane’s downing

DUBAI • Anger is mounting among Iranians who have slammed the authorities for not shutting down Iran’s main international airport and its airspace during a period of heightened tensions with the United States last week, which they said could have prevented the downing of a civilian plane by mistake on Wednesday. After days of denial, […]

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Woodlands station on Thomson-East Coast Line also serves as civil defence shelter

Besides functioning as an MRT station, the Woodlands station on the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) can also be used as a shelter during times of emergency. Located between Woodlands Square and Woodlands Avenue 2, the station is 330m long, 30m wide and 24m below ground. It can house almost 9,000 people during bomb and chemical […]

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3 Thomson-East Coast Line stations open for preview

The Woodlands North MRT station, meant to connect to the delayed cross-border Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link between Singapore and Johor Baru, welcomed visitors yesterday as Singapore’s new MRT line opened for preview. The MRT station will be adjacent to the RTS Link station “if and when” it materialises, said Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan […]

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Iran mistook Ukraine plane for a missile

TEHERAN • An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has revealed that he had suspected all along that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner last week, which killed all 176 on board including 82 Iranians, saying “I wish I could die” when he first learnt about the air tragedy. The dramatic reversal by Iran yesterday came after […]

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Tsai wins second term as Taiwan’s president

President Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) called on China to abandon its threats of force against Taiwan after she won a second term in the election yesterday, saying the result was a clear signal that the Taiwanese people reject the “one country, two systems” formula. Speaking shortly after her closest rival […]

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First Full Moon Of 2020 Is A Striking Celestial Sight

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Iran Admits It Shot Down Ukrainian Plane By Mistake

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6,000 Dead From Measles Outbreak In Congo, WHO Says

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Iranian Foreign Minister Says Iran Will Respond ‘Proportionately’ To Soleimani Assassination

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