«Employees are a company's most valuable assets, much like raw jadeite freshly unearthed from the ground. With the right guidance and continuous development, they can be shaped and polished into brilliant, unique, and highly valued gems.,» said Ho Nai Chuen, managing director of On Cheong Jewellery. «I see myself as the tool that helps them unlock their potential, providing the finishing touches so they can truly shine», Ho, who is currently in his 60s, added. On Cheong Jewellery is one of Singapore's oldest jewellers, with a longstanding history of 88 years and counting. The hallmark of On Cheong Jewellery is jadeite, a rare gemstone that can be forged into rings, pendants, and other intricate pieces of jewellery. https://www.facebook.com/asiaonecom/videos/1586645058624763 Ho, who holds a degree in accountancy, first joined the company as a director in charge of On Cheong's HR and finance aspects in 1982.

Alexander Smirnov will also have to pay more than $675,000 to the US Internal Revenue Service, according to documents published in the court's electronic database

According to WAFA, 33 of them in the northern part of the enclave

Earlier on Wednesday, Joe Biden announced the introduction of a large-scale disaster regime in California

According to the authorities, about 40 people have been taken to the hospital

Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that there were no casualties

The building owned by the Church of Latter-day Saints has caught fire in Moscow Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s UN envoy has criticized Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory in the wake of Bashar Assad’s ousting Read Full Article at RT.com

Police stopped a man with a machete and three knives who tried to enter the complex ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s visit Read Full Article at RT.com

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The St Mary police are investigating the murder of a 62-year-old man whose body was found with gunshot wounds near bushes in Enfield. He is George Malcolm, a farmer of Board Villa in Fort Stewart. The discovery was made in an area known as Dry...

They wanted to take a break for the holidays, but so did their luggage - quite literally. A Singapore traveller was shocked to find her sister's luggage severely damaged after a family trip from Singapore to Japan last year, according to a string of Facebook posts between Dec 4, 2024 to Jan 4 this year. User Elizabeth Seah's outrage began in December last year when her family received their luggage in terrible condition after arriving in Osaka. The luggage's outer shell had been smashed apart on both sides with several chunks gone from it, leaving large openings with sharp, plastic edges. Contents of the luggage could be seen moving about within the cloth interior of the bag as they shifted it around; a wheel was also missing, causing the luggage to tilt when placed upright. «My family happily land in Japan only to retrieve such a luggage,» she wrote. «What is this?»

House and Senate Republicans are split on how to advance Donald Trump’s agenda and hoped the president-elect would give Congress marching orders.

Edmundo González, recognized by the U.S. as Venezuela’s president-elect, is on a mission to bolster global support before autocrat Nicolás Maduro is sworn in this week.

«On the F-16 program, we've been co-leading the [international] Air Capability Coalition,» Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said

According to the agency, Nikolay Goltsev «masterminded a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian companies, including Russian military companies»

«They gave it to them for $1 and then they charge more for our ships. It's not going to happen. And China's running the Panama Canal. That's not going to happen either,» he said

«During the day, the enemy lost up to 160 servicemen, a MaxxPro armored fighting vehicle, a Krab howitzer, two FH-70 and D-30 guns, a vehicle, a electronic warfare station, six drone control posts and two fixed-wing drones,» Alexander Gordeyev said

According to TMZ, the actress does not live there permanently

At 88, Sim Kwang Chai is proud of his «perfect» attendance for working out three times a week at the fitness corner just below his flat. «Almost perfect— except when he's unwell,» his daughter-in-law Suzanne countered with a smile, as Sim stood up mid-interview with AsiaOne, playfully challenging the reporter to guess his age. «Just proving I can still stand on my own,» said the octogenarian, who lives with his wife, 90-year-old Mdm Sui. The couple is among the first homeowners — all aged 65 and above — to move into Singapore's first assisted-living flats in Bukit Batok West Avenue 9 last October. Launched for sale in February 2021, Harmony Village @ Bukit Batok is a 15-storey block featuring 169 Community Care Apartments, which the government says aims to «support seniors in aging independently within the community.» This public housing concept is jointly developed by the Ministry of National Development (MND), the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Housing Board (HDB).

Lisa MacLeod is apologizing for a social media post that criticized one of the people vying for her seat — a message Muslim groups say was Islamophobic.

Albert Dalton, a hip-hop artist from Paradise, N.L., expects an average of 1,000 plays on each song. That changed in December when he checked his Spotify statistics and saw hundreds of streams alone concentrated in Helsinki, Finland.

In the notice of appeal, Michael Gordon Jackson stated that the verdict was unreasonable and «cannot be supported by the evidence.» He said there was a miscarriage of justice and that the sentence imposed is «demonstrably unfit in the circumstances.» 

A new study from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., examined the health impacts of pollution from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. The lead author said there's been a lack of research on the topic in Canada.

Power shortages meant households paid around £2million an hour to power up gas-fired power stations yesterday.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, 29, who was left to languish in an Iranian prison for three weeks has returned home amid talk of an exchange deal with an Iranian man arrested on terrorism charges.

Hollywood stars are picking up the pieces after discovering their affluent neighborhood was reduced to ash and rubble when the California wildfires tore though Pacific Palisades.

A new evacuation order came about 6pm on Wednesday local time as a fast-moving fire swept through the Hills, impacting at least 10 acres already near Runyon Canyon.

Britain is set to be engulfed in an icy gip today as parts of the country continue to be battered by blizzardy conditions. The Met Office has issued six separate yellow warning.

An alleged dispute between two secondary one boys led to one allegedly attacking the other with a bottle, causing the latter to suffer a bleeding head wound. The alleged perpetrator is assisting with police investigations into the Tuesday (Jan 7) incident at Admiralty Secondary School and will be disciplined by the school. In a Facebook post that same day, the victim's uncle Jeremy Goh claimed his nephew had been hit multiple times on the head with a water bottle by a classmate on school premises. He said that January 7 was his nephew's fourth day in a new school since he started Secondary 1. The boy suffered a cut of about 5cm long on the back of his head and received stitches for the cut at a hospital. Updating his post on Wednesday, Goh added that his nephew has been discharged from hospital and is on hospitalisation leave until Jan 14. The police told AsiaOne they received a call for assistance at 31 Woodlands Crescent — the address of Admiralty Secondary School — at about 2pm on Tuesday. Singapore Civil Defence Force personnel assessed a 12-year-old boy for injuries.

Robert Fico accused Ukraine of damaging Slovakia's energy security by refusing to extend an agreement on the transit of Russian gas through its territory