Taxis vanish in rain as Singapore gets congested
(20 Sep) - At 6 a.m. one weekday morning, 64-year-old taxi driver Koh Chia Hock set out to ply Singapore’s roads when it started raining. So he turned around and went home. “If I go and fetch a customer, it’s very risky,” said Koh, as the heavy traffic raises the chance of an accident that could leave him without earnings...
What’s the big idea?
(17 Sep) - By a remarkable and entirely appropriate coincidence, September 16th marks both the date of Singapore’s full independence from Britain in 1963 and the birthday of Lee Kuan Yew, who has just turned 90. Mr Lee, Singapore’s prime minister at the time and until 1990, remained in the cabinet until 2011, is still a...
Australia: Indian doc guilty of ‘digital’ rape
"There was no medical reason to conduct the vaginal examination at all." Photo: Angela Wylie/File photo (18 Sep) - An Indian doctor has been found guilty of raping two women during consultations. Manu Maimbilly Gopal, 39, was accused of digitally penetrating two women for his own sexual gratification after telling...
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