Surely no civilised person could condone the barbaric sentence meted out to Ye Ming Yuen for drug offences in Singapore. The former public schoolboy was given 20 years after being found guilty of selling a small amount of illegal drugs to his friends; an amount that probably would have got him 12 months in a … Read more
Singapore police trial two pilotless drones to help enforce social distancing measures The drones were developed for Singapore police by Israeli company Airobotics The drones weigh 22lb, detect gatherings, & can stream footage to the police Two drones will be used on a three-and-a-half month trial over an industrial estate in the west of the … Read more
Coronavirus lockdowns could have damaged the eyesight of thousands of people, scientists have warned. Another study has discovered spending hours looking at screens can lead to short-sightedness, which causes distant objects to appear blurred. And eye specialists in Singapore, Germany and Japan, behind the research, fear the Covid-19 pandemic may cause rates of the condition … Read more
Air passengers from commercial hotspots like New York, Singapore and Dubai could be made exempt from quarantine in bid to boost economy Government is being urged to approve new ‘test-on-arrival’ scheme at airports Would see all passengers tested and, if negative, avoid 14 days of quarantine Hoped new scheme wold encourage business travel and boost … Read more
A gruesome-looking ‘Darth Vader’ sea cockroach discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean has been identified as belonging to a new species. Researchers from Singapore found the frightful, 14-legged creature during a deep-sea survey off of the coast of Banten, Western Java, Indonesia back in 2018. The animal — whose head and compound eyes … Read more
Traffic noise coming through an open window can be slashed in HALF thanks to a new ‘anti-sound’ device Researchers combat ‘noise with noise’ by playing back inverted sound waves These act to mitigate the noises coming from outside including traffic sounds The team found it helped to cut the volume of traffic noise by up … Read more
Taking a slice of pension in your fifties can boost your health in the short-term, study finds UK, US, Singapore and South Korea have all relaxed rule that you have to wait until retirement age to access pension cash Research of over 7,000 people found 41% of 55-year-olds studied withdrew the equivalent of £13,567 on … Read more
Having just managed to get its coronavirus outbreak under control, Singapore is now facing a record-breaking outbreak of a second, equally deadly virus. Cases of dengue fever, a disease spread by infected mosquitos, are now mounting in the city-state, which has already reported 14,000 of them so far this year. Health officials now believe that … Read more
Thomas Beattie spent years trying to get a recurring thought out of his head and it was a shattered skull that convinced him to leave it be. He remembers everything so clearly — the ball, the bounce, the back of the other guy’s head, the crunch and the hundreds of tiny shards of bone floating … Read more
Last week we had to stay two metres apart. Now it’s one metre. Are they making it up as they go along? The two-metre distancing rule was always an educated guess, given that the virus is new so the data available was limited. The UK was relatively strict in its distancing rules, compared with other … Read more