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‘I’m not striving for world domination!’: Adolf Hitler namesake wins Namibia election LONDON: A politician named after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has won a regional election in Namibia. The councillor, whose father named him after the National Socialist leader, won 85 per cent of the vote in the country’s Oshana…

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has pledged around HK$600 million of additional support to help the city's tourism sector, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. In her annual Policy Address, Lam described tourism as "one of Hong Kong’s four pillar industries" that employs nearly 260,000 people. "With cross-border…

Sometimes you just have to ask. Take Melbourne songwriter Hachiku - at one point she was the office intern for Australian label Milk! Records, hurling herself into the daily tasks. Writing her own material on the side, a unique turn of events found Hachiku signing to the label she once…

The promise of a greener data centre leads today’s real estate news as Facebook signs a deal that promises to power its Singapore bit barn through solar panels on top of the city’s omnipresent apartment blocks. Also seeking some sustainability dividends is BlackRock, which has signed up to acquire a…

A worker tends to a rooftop farming patch atop the Raffles City mall in Singapore On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas and papayas stand in colourful contrast to the grey skyscrapers of the city-state's business district. The 10,000 square-foot (930 square-metre)…

In early May, after eight weeks in quarantine, Italy embarked on fase 2 of its coronavirus response and, step by step, relaxed its restrictions. From that day, families were once again allowed to meet one another, and restaurants could reopen, if only for takeout. Most shops, bars, and museums reopened…

MALACCA: The Malacca state government has identified a new site for a Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) station which was previously planned for Ayer Keroh. According to Public Works, Transport, Public Amenities and Infrastructure Committee chairman, Datuk Roslan Ahmad, it will be located near the Green City, and between Mukim…

Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 22 Jul 2020 5:31PM · The KL-Singapore HSR will have a 60km track crossing through Malacca. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 22, 2020. THE Malacca government has identified a new site for a Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) station, which was…

Most people will agree on at least one thing: 2020 is a dumpster fire. From the coronavirus to economic meltdowns to wrenching clashes over police brutality and systemic racism, we now live in a world that can feel, with every headline, impossible to stomach.  In science fiction works like “Ready…

For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,…