It is exploring the feasibility of new farms sharing facilities off Pulau Semakau and Pulau Senang.

The highly contagious bird flu strain H5N1 has been spreading among cows in the US since end-March.

Six of the 10 foreigners arrested were sentenced to between 13 and 15 months' jail.

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Other measures include increased patrols and enhanced checks on travellers.

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Shop theft cases have grown by nearly 50 per cent from 2,652 cases in 2021 to 3,939 in 2023.

Malay community encouraged to support Healthier SG and join Active Ageing Centres

Singapore is on track to meet economic injection estimates of up to $450m due to concerts by Coldplay and Taylor Swift.

According to estimates, the Coldplay and Taylor Swift concerts injected up to $450m into the Singapore economy.

Johnson Wong’s restaurant Gen at Prestige Hotel uses local ingredients like free-range chicken from Balik Pulau, Penang or Sarawak Barrio Salt but cooked using refined modern European techniques he gleaned from his stints abroad.

After the currency hit a 26-year low, is the only way up? The programme Insight finds optimism and doubt in equal measure as it looks at factors behind the ringgit’s fall and the ripple effects.

China, which accounts for 95 per cent of world durian consumption, is known to adopt strict quality control for the fruits imported and will likely halt shipments if supply from Malaysia falls below standards, says an exporter.   

Meesho, TaiDoc Health, DEEPX, and more raised funds this week.

Malaysian police arrested the seven people following Friday’s pre-dawn attack on a police station that killed two cops and injured another.  

CAIRO - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met to discuss Israel's war in Gaza and seek to complete a broad bilateral agreement, the Saudi state news agency reported on Sunday.

Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will not stand for re-election to parliament, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday.

Trump was in Dallas, Texas while Biden was stumping in the key southern state of Georgia.

People were fleeing to areas without water supplies or adequate sanitation.

DUBLIN - Tony O'Reilly, the Irish media tycoon and former H.J. Heinz Co boss who first rose to prominence as a record breaking British and Irish Lions rugby player, died on Saturday at the age of 88.

CARACAS - Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions.

A selection of news stories that happened overnight, May 19, 2024.

TUNIS - Tunisia recovered the bodies of four migrants off the country's coast on Saturday, the national guard said, amid an increase in migrant boats heading from Tunisia toward Italy in recent weeks.

Two top Biden administration officials held indirect talks with Iranian counterparts this week in an effort to avoid escalating regional attacks, Axios reported on Friday.

WASHINGTON - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the U.S. president's policy on the war.