The Singapore Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a newborn lion cub via artificial insemination. It’s a first for the park — and a rarity in general, though two cubs were born in South Africa through assisted reproduction in 2018. The three-month-old cub, a male named Simba after the protagonist in Disney’s the Lion King, … Read more
A teenager who was convicted of shouting: ‘I don’t want your coronavirus in my country’ during a racist attack on a Singaporean law student has been ordered to pay his victim £600. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm for the attack on February 24 … Read more
Government warns of worsening chaos at Britain’s ports as lorry traffic returns to normal levels – but Brussels says it won’t help ease backlogs unless Boris abandons his deregulation ambitions Projections from Cabinet Office anticipate Channel traffic’s imminent rise Truckers without requisite customs paperwork or negative test face turn-backs It comes as Brussels says it … Read more
British man, 52, faces six months in jail for sneaking out of his Singapore hotel room to see his fiancée during Covid-19 quarantine Nigel Skea was in 14-day quarantine at the Ritz Carlton Millenia in Singapore Officials claim Skea left his room on three separate occasions in September During one breach, he visited his Singaporean … Read more
A team of WHO experts arrived in Wuhan today on a politically-charged mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, amid fears that China will try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. The 10 scientists, who will be quarantined for two weeks before starting their work, were met by Chinese officials in hazmat suits after arriving from … Read more
A 15-year-old was today convicted of shouting ‘I don’t want your coronavirus in my country’ to a Singapore law student before punching him in the face during a random racist street attack. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm for the attack on February … Read more
Daredevil jumps into RHINO enclosure and does a backflip before leaping back to safety before Singapore Zoo condemns ‘reckless and mindless’ behaviour The risky stunt was caught on video and shared on the young man’s TikTok Luckily, the four enormous rhinos in the enclosure paid no attention to him Police are investigating the incident which … Read more
A huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons is now just 30 miles away from South Georgia – threatening the habitat of millions of penguins. Iceberg A68a – which broke from the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 – slid towards the open ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar … Read more
Conservationists have drafted the first ever global map of bee diversity to help track the distribution of populations of the vital pollinators. There are some 20,000 individual species of bee presently living on Earth — but accurate, compiled data on their distribution had been lacking. Researchers from China, Singapore and the US analysed and validated … Read more
Conservationists have drafted the first ever global map of bee diversity to help track the distribution of populations of the vital pollinators. There are some 20,000 individual species of bee presently living on Earth — but accurate, compiled data on their distribution had been lacking. Researchers from China, Singapore and the US analysed and validated … Read more