A DISASTER THAT SHOCKED THE NATION Ferry services between Incheon and Jeju Island were immediately suspended following the tragedy. It took seven years before operations resumed. However, this was short-lived – services halted again in April last year. Mr Lee Sung-no, who runs a convenience store at Incheon port terminal, believes South…
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SINGAPORE: A third man linked to the S$3 billion (US$2.2 billion) money-laundering probe that led to the arrests of 10 people was sentenced to 13 months’ jail on Tuesday (Apr 16). Wang Baosen, a 32-year-old Chinese national, pleaded guilty to one charge each of possessing almost S$600,000 in illegal proceeds in his wife’s bank account and for laundering another S$1.48 million to buy a luxury Park Nova apartment in Tomlinson Road. Six other charges were…
SINGAPORE — Claiming that he had a “spiritual connection” with a knife that he found…
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SINGAPORE — A 42-year-old man decided to pose as a pimp to obtain free or discounted sexual services from two social escorts under the guise of putting them through a “trial” or “interview”. Chen Zelin, who is married with a young child, also took intimate pictures of his girlfriend by threatening…
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Three of the four Bills Johnson suggested would cover Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific. The makeup of the fourth was not immediately clear. Backers had insisted the broad foreign aid measure passed with 70 per cent support in the Senate would have received similar support in the House. However, Johnson…
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HONG KONG: China’s Baidu said on Tuesday (Apr 16) its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China’s most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition. Robin Li, CEO of the Chinese internet company, revealed the new milestone at a…
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WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SUGGEST? 1. Blood sugar control In the early 2000s, Dr Johnston, who had been studying how certain diets could help manage Type 2 diabetes, came across a study from 1988 showing that acetic acid could lower blood sugar spikes in rats after they were given a…
