#Singapore Airlines turbulence: some SQ321 flight passengers need spinal operations, Bangkok hospital says.
There are 20 passengers in intensive care. 100 were injured. #tootsea#thailand
For Singaporeans in the US who need a new passport, you can apply online normally at https://ica.gov.sg, and opt for passport collection from DC, New York City or San Francisco.
I just did mine for San Francisco and it's ready for collection within exactly 14 days of applying. The online info says 6 weeks but I've checked with most Singaporeans and it's been around 14 days!
The passenger station & #train depot will function as assembly, repair, maintenance & operational center for long-delayed & anticipated – #FirstEver#RailLine of its kind in the southern metropolis.
The series provides an #InDepthAnalysis of the idea that human rights violations, armed conflict & #war cause #psychological & #psychiatric outcomes, using the Kingdom’s tragic past to explore themes.
Charismatic #MakeUpArtist Sapphire Shen is passionate about her career. The 31 yr old #HongKong resident describes her work as an art form that can enhance a person’s facial features to accentuate an outfit and look & boost their self-confidence.
For more than a decade, Shen has lived with #lupus, a chronic #autoimmune#disease that mostly affects women & afflicts an estimated 7,000 people in Hong Kong and 5 million worldwide.
#Singapore’s private #homes again ranked as the #MostExpensive in #AsiaPacific with a median price of $1.32 million in 2023, after an influx of #WealthyImmigrants helped push that figure up 9.6% from the previous year, according to the Urban Land Institute’s 2024 ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index published Tuesday.
Homes in #HongKong ranked as the 2nd most expensive in the region with a median price of $1.16 million..
#Malaysia has become a hotspot for global #electronics & #semiconductor investment, with country's electrical & electronics export seeing a sharp increase of 54.2%. However, the surge of electronics & semiconductor investment in Malaysia is sharply contrasted with low #unionization; only 6% of all #Malaysian#workers are #unionized, the majority in the public sector.
The push is being led by the #InvestmentMinister, Bahlil Lahadalia, who faces allegations of self-dealing & #corruption in the revocation & reissuance of #MiningPermits, according to reporting by #InvestigativeNews outlet Tempo. The proposed handouts are more of the same, critics say: payback to religious orgs for their support of President Joko Widodo’s preferred candidate in February’s election.
Tien is head of policy & legal affairs at the #Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and director of the Institute for #Workers & Trade #Unions, the group said.
In the latest cause for concern, police in #Hanoi have arrested a #reformist labor ministry official, Nguyen Van Binh, 51, and charged him with disclosure of state secrets. Mr. Binh had advocated #LaborReform as director general of the legal department at the ministry, especially ratification of International Labor Organization Convention 87, which would guarantee #Vietnamese#workers the right to form independent trade #unions.
#Vietnamese#Actor Hoa Xuande stars in the new espionage thriller “The Sympathizer” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the #VietnamWar. On Wednesday, May 22 at 3:00 p.m. ET, the breakout star joins The Post’s Jonathan Capehart to talk about playing a double agent in the miniseries, exploring the #VietnamesePerspective of the war and his journey from #Australia to #Hollywood.
When I saw this web story about ‘terraforming Singapore’ I was floored. What a great use of the web to tell a story about a country, land use, sand, environmental degradation, and the price of ‘progress’. Singapore’s success, skyscrapers, comes at the cost of literally mining and eroding some of our poorest neighbors’.
This story is so important and had to be told. Oh and it also won some awards! Proud of the friends who put this together
Feminist org in Singapore is looking for volunteers who can speak and transcribe Vietnamese.
They’re doing a study on coercive control. Singapore has a large trans-national marriage rate, largely between citizen men and non-citizen wives from countries like Vietnam.