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Singapore: Fire in Yishun HDB Flat Involving Personal Mobility Aid Leaves One Hospitalized, 25 Evacuated
One person was rushed to KK Women's and Children's Hospital for smoke inhalation following a fire incident on Monday, October 20, at a…
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Singapore Authorities Seize Exotic Animals, Including Leopard Tortoise and Monitor Lizard, in Wildlife Trade Crackdown
The National Parks Board (NParks) conducted searches on October 9 in an effort to combat the illicit wildlife trade and seized endangered…
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Wilmar Indonesia unit general manager charged over sugar imports
The unlawful raw sugar imports have allegedly caused state losses amounting to 578 billion rupiah The general manager of Wilmar…
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US: Stocks rise to open big earnings week
WALL Street stocks rose early Monday (Oct 20) as markets looked ahead to a heavy week of corporate earnings and monitored the positioning…
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Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?
People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular online services on Monday…
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Louvre museum to remain shut after spectacular heist as hunt for thieves continues
The Louvre Museum in Paris will remain closed on Monday following a daring robbery in which eight priceless royal jewels were stolen in…
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Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift”
For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a…
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Vietnam stocks slump after state media report on alleged bond irregularities
Vietnam’s main stock index fell to its lowest closing level in a month on Monday (Oct 20) after state media reported the results of a…
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Global companies hit by more than US$35 billion in US tariffs, but outlook stabilising
GLOBAL companies have flagged more than US$35 billion in costs from US tariffs heading into third-quarter earnings, but many are lowering…
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Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining
By dinnertime, the café had been convincingly transformed into a restaurant, with tea lights twinkling beside wildflower arrangements on…
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A Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
The two have sparred before. In 2009, they exchanged public letters in the Guardian, circling a question that nags at many eco-minded…
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Singapore Police Nab 34-Year-Old Man Within 24 Hours Over Loan Shark Harassment Case
A 34-year-old man was arrested on Sunday, October 19, for his suspected involvement in a case of loan shark harassment. The police said…
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Coinbase, Fortnite among services hit by global outage of Amazon’s cloud unit
AMAZON’S cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday (Oct 20), causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world…
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Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage
Crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as games Fortnite and Roblox, were among those affected MANY popular Internet services, from streaming…
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Indonesia president says 40 trillion rupiah lost to illegal tin mining every year
INDONESIA is losing more than US$2 billion dollars every year to illegal tin mining and smuggling, President Prabowo Subianto said Monday…
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Israel awakes to a bittersweet morning of returns and loss
Recent incidents between Israel and Hamas have proven just how fragile the ceasefire remains. Today, Monday, Israel wakes to a bittersweet…
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Stellantis, China’s Pony AI to test robotaxis in Europe
Stellantis plans to team up with Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI to start testing autonomous vans in Luxembourg. The agreement involves…
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Emirates NBD plans to invest US$3 billion in India’s RBL Bank
Emirates NBD bank will invest as much as US$3.1 billion in India’s RBL Bank in the biggest foreign investments in the country’s financial…
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Sara Sommers Wilks and Brian Wilks: Healthcare Boss and Husband Arrested for Leaving 6-Month-Old Sleeping Daughter Alone on Beach
A regional president of a healthcare company and her husband are accused of leaving their 6-month-old baby alone in a tent on the beach…
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United Airlines Makes Emergency Landing After Pilot Is Injured After Mystery Object Smashes Windshield at 36,000 Feet
A United Airlines pilot was injured and had to make an emergency landing after an unidentified object shattered the windshield of a Boeing…
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Gold holds drop as traders focus on US-China trade, credit woes
Gold steadied following a sharp drop for precious metals on Friday (Oct 17), with traders weighing the latest developments in trade…
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Two police officers injured during Haredi protests against draft dodger arrests
Two suspects were reportedly arrested and brought in for questioning. Two police officers were injured during the ongoing haredi protests…
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China's Sany Heavy Industry seeking up to HK$12.4 billion in HK listing
Sany Heavy Industry is seeking to raise as much as HK$12.4 billion (S$2.1 billion) through its Hong Kong listing, a filing showed on…
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Kering agrees to sell beauty division to L’Oreal in partnership
Kering SA agreed to sell its beauty division to L’Oreal SA as part of a long-term strategic alliance, with chief executive Luca de Meo…