[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Singapore women’s table tennis team will play against Malaysia for the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games after a 3-0 victory over Australia in the semi-finals on Sunday (Jul 31). At The NEC in Birmingham, England, Zhou Jingyi and Zeng Jian got Singapore off to a solid start with a 3-1 win against…
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Debris From Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Falls Over Southeast Asian Seas
[ad_1] Debris from a large Chinese rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, according to the U.S. Space Command. In an update posted on the social networking site Weibo, the Chinese Manned Space Agency said most of the debris had burned up on re-entry over the Sulu Sea, a…
Why Don’t Many Hotels Install Carbon Monoxide Alarms?
[ad_1] Diagnostic confusion also seemed to have played a role in the Sandals case. The night before they were supposed to check out, two of the people who died, Robbie Phillips, 65, a travel adviser who was actually one of the top sellers for Sandals, and her husband, Michael, 68, visited a medical facility complaining…
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At Parkland Shooting Trial, Families Must Endure Grisly Evidence
[ad_1] FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To shield heartsick families from the most macabre details of how their loved ones were murdered in a mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the court handling the gunman’s sentencing trial has taken an extraordinary step: Graphic videos and photographs are shown only to the jury, so that victims’ relatives…
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Guantánamo Prisoner Said He Was Waterboarded; Agents Omitted It From Memo
[ad_1] GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A prisoner accused of plotting Al Qaeda’s bombing of the U.S.S. Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the C.I.A., an interpreter testified this week. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at…
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Tradenation luxury goods scam: Second man charged with helping fugitive flee Singapore
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A second man was charged Saturday (30 July) with helping a man allegedly involved in the Tradenation luxury goods scam flee Singapore. Malaysian Mohamad Fazli Abdul Rahman, 38, is facing charges of involvement in a conspiracy with truck driver Mohamed Alias to trick Pi Jiapeng into hiding in the container compartment of a…
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Hockey Canada: Former players, advocates react to hearings
[ad_1] Calls continue for a major shakeup at Hockey Canada following recent revelations around how the organization handled past claims of sexual assault. The House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee has been probing the organization’s handling of previous assault allegations, including setting aside a reserve funded by player fees to pay for “uninsured…
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Three Pressing Questions About Monkeypox: Spread, Vaccination, Treatment
[ad_1] Monkeypox, once a relatively obscure virus endemic to Africa, has bloomed into a global threat, infecting more than 20,000 people in 75 countries and forcing the World Health Organization to declare a worldwide health emergency. On Thursday, New York State and San Francisco declared emergencies of their own. But even as the national tally…
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COVID-19: North Korea claims no new fever cases amid data doubts
[ad_1] North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported fatalities…
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App tracks whether employers should be working in the heat
[ad_1] CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Wayne Pierce shut his tow truck’s door and turned on the air conditioner on full blast on Tuesday. It was a hot day out, Pierce said it came with a lot of sweating and trying to stay cool. Pierce is a wrecking operator for ‘Apollo Towing Service’, and on a hot day,…