SINGAPORE: Analysts have said that both the People’s Action Party and Workers’ Party candidates will have to be careful in the way they approach their by-election campaigns. But from the onset, both parties have also set very different agendas. The ruling PAP has couched this by-election as a local contest. Its candidate Desmond Choo is ...

WASHINGTON: US mobile carrier Sprint said Wednesday it was delaying the introduction of an Android smartphone from Taiwan’s HTC after the devices were blocked by US customs. The move appeared to mark the first enforcement of a win in a trade complaint by Apple, which claimed Android devices infringed on its patents for one-tap screen ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s economy grew 1.6 per cent on-year in the first quarter, compared to 3.6 per cent growth in the preceding quarter. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, Singapore’s economy grew by 10 per cent, reversing the 2.5 per cent contraction in the previous quarter. The figure was slightly higher than the 9.9 percent reported in Advance ...

LONDON: Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish was sacked as manager of the club on Wednesday in a dramatic move by the club’s owners following a disappointing Premier League campaign. The 61-year-old Scot, who had returned for a second stint as manager at Anfield in January last year, paid the price for a dismal season which saw ...

After 12 years, the wait for fans was finally over as Diablo III, the popular action role-playing game was launched yesterday afternoon at Funan Digitalife Mall. The highly-anticipated launch saw lines form from as early at 6am, snaking outside the building by the afternoon. The first version of the game was released in 1996, and ...

YANGON: Myanmar will hold its first ever gay pride celebrations Thursday, organisers said, as social attitudes liberalise in tandem with political reforms in the formerly army-ruled nation. Same-sex relations are criminalised under the nation’s colonial penal code, and although it is not strictly enforced, activists say the law is still used by authorities to …

SINGAPORE – Speaking exclusively to Today, Workers’ Party member Poh Lee Guan called himself the party’s “unofficial spare candidate” for Nomination Day. “The party didn’t know about it,” he admitted, hinting that the leadership did not agree with this view. “It was a unilateral move.” He added: “I’m a …

SINGAPORE: Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a way to kill cancer cells – by ‘starving̵ 7; them of energy. NUS said on Thursday that the discovery paves the way for more effective cancer treatment. The research revolves around a drug-led compound, BPTES. The scientists, who are from the Department of Biological ...

SINGAPORE – The Workers’ Party (WP) secretary-general Low Thia Khiang today addressed the situation surrounding Dr Poh Lee Guan, saying while “embarrassing& #8221;, it does not indicate a rift in the party. It emerged yesterday that Dr Poh, a WP member, had been issued a political donation certificate for the Hougang by-election. It caught observers and ...

Published on May 16, 2012 SMRT will be replacing, with immediate effect, the power-supplying third rail at locations where hairline cracks on some parts of third rail joints are visible, a press statement from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said. — PHOTO: SMRT SMRT will be replacing, with immediate effect, the power-supplying third rail at ...