Barely a year into his new job as an engineer, former army officer Robin Chua died last Sunday (April 28) after collapsing at work.  The 43-year-old, who was married with a four-year-old son, left the army in 2023 after 20 years to work at his family's electrical engineering company. His rank was lieutenant colonel.  Chua's sister told Shin Min Daily News that her brother fainted at about 2pm that day. A colleague performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him and was able to revive him.  Others around them called an ambulance to take Chua to the hospital. However, he fell unconscious enroute to the hospital and paramedics were unable to revive him. Chua was pronounced dead upon arrival. His family was told by doctors that his cause of death was cardiac arrest.  «He was a good son and brother. Family was always very important to him, and he would always be the first to help whenever there were problems at home,» said Chua's sister.  She added that their family did not have a history of heart disease, but her brother was a smoker.  Chua's sudden death also came as a shock to his former colleagues in the army. 

In a scathing attack on the Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that the opposition party was subservient to Pakistan. He claimed that the neighboring nation was keen on seeing the Congress leader, whom he called 'shehzada', assume the role of India's next prime minister. The prime minister's comments were made just a day after Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, a former Pakistani minister, shared a video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on social media platforms and expressed admiration for him.

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As vast swathes of east and south India continued to bake under the scorching sun on Thursday, with the mercury in two Telangana districts hitting the 44°C mark; a top scientist with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) held out no hope of an immediate respite for the state, adding that the maximum temperature can reach up to 45°C over the next few days.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna had raped 400 women and made their videos, and sought an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for soliciting votes for him. Addressing an election rally here, he targeted Modi and said he should apologise to the women of India for seeking votes for the «mass rapist».

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A counsellor at the Singapore Embassy in Japan who admitted to secretly filming a boy at a public bath in Tokyo, among other acts of voyeurism, is set to be asked to appear in a Japanese court, the Japanese media reported on May 2. The 55-year-old man, who has not been named, has since left the foreign service. A counsellor is a diplomatic rank for experienced foreign service officers. He was caught using a smartphone to film an undressed male teenager in the men's changing room of a public bath on Feb 27, Asahi Shimbun reported. A security camera at the bathhouse caught the Singaporean pointing his smartphone at another male customer, the Japanese daily reported. The incident was reported to the police by an employee of the bathhouse in Tokyo's Minato ward, where the Singapore embassy is located. The embassy told Asahi Shimbun on May 2 that the counsellor had already returned to Singapore. An embassy spokesman said the man had completed his mission and left Japan on April 12, adding that it was not aware about the filming incident. The embassy did not respond to The Straits Times when contacted.

Two men have been arrested and charged following a robbery case here involving valuables amounting to around $4.34 million.  The Malaysian nationals aged 28 and 32 were charged on Thursday (May 2) for the offence of armed gang robbery, said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in a statement the same day. According to the statement, the police was alerted at about 2am on April 18 that a group of more than four men had robbed 11 victims between the ages of 25 and 45 at a King Albert Park residence. The group was alleged to have stolen an estimated $4.34 million in valuables, which included cash in both local and foreign currencies, cryptocurrency and luxury watches. The identities of the robbers were uncovered through ground enquiries by officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Clementi Police Division. Investigations also found that the group had fled to Malaysia soon after the police was alerted. With the help of the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP), two suspects were arrested in Malaysia on April 27 and 28. They were then handed over to the SPF on April 30.

The majority of flooded residential buildings and household plots remain in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions

The ex-Pentagon adviser Douglas Macgregor also noted the continued Russian advance on the front line

Earlier, Colombian President Gustavo Petro promised to sever diplomatic relations with Israel on May 2

The organization’s experts believe that in 2025 the Russian economy will grow by 1%

The Russian national football team played an away friendly match against Tajikistan on November 17, 2022, ending in a scoreless draw

Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Foreign Affairs Minister, held a meeting with his Somali counterpart, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, on the sidelines of the third session of the Arab Economic and Cooperation Forum with Central Asian Countries and the Republic of Azerbaijan, held today in Doha.

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Beledweyne (HOL) - Hundreds of families fled their homes in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Thursday following five consecutive days of rainfall, which caused flooding.

Internal budget cuts at the Department of National Defence have driven the Canadian Armed Forces to make radical changes to training for fighter pilots and for soldiers destined for Latvia — an overhaul that experts warn could undermine military readiness.

The debate in Parliament about British Columbia’s decriminalization policy was being conducted at extremes even before Pierre Poilievre used the term “wacko.”

It might seem like documentaries are everywhere we look, affecting and influencing how we perceive society and the world at large. But even as audiences clamour for true stories on their screens, the documentarians making them and festivals that feature them are sounding alarm bells about the future of the format.

[VOA] Britain has detained an unspecified number of migrants for deportation to Rwanda under its new immigration policy, government officials said Wednesday.

Dr Ferakh Hamid, a dentist with more than 20 years experience, has revealed the brushing faux par that causes many people to end up with yellow teeth.

As a sports coach, Kat Goh is probably used to an active lifestyle.  But a hit-and-run accident in March has now left her with serious injuries. And the culprit has yet to be found. Frustrated, her brother, Janus Goh, took to Facebook on April 25 to appeal for witnesses to the accident. He wrote: «[She] cannot perform her job and passion as a sports coach because of the incident and suffered multiple injuries that affected her ability to walk. She also suffered scarring on most parts of her body.» He also uploaded photos of his sister in the hospital, which showed her limbs bandaged up.  In his post, Goh said the accident took place on the TPE, near Ikea's Tampines store at about 2pm on March 26. 

The ministry notes that Tehran introduces the sanctions against London «on a reciprocal basis»

Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy for the crimes of the Kiev regime Rodion Miroshnik noted that the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will not conduct this investigation

On Wednesday, Georgia’s parliament passed the second reading of the bill «On the Transparency of Foreign Influence,» which had been opposed by President Salome Zourabichvili, the opposition and Western diplomats

Two groups of aircraft, namely, a flight of Su-27 fighter jets, and Su-25 close support aircraft flew over Moscow’s Red Square, releasing fumes in the colors of the Russian national flag

«The number of victims of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip increased to 34,596, another 77,816 people were injured,» the ministry said in a statement

The landscape in which European Union trade policy operates has changed drastically in recent years. In addition to, and partly in competition with, its traditional objective of economic wellbeing, EU trade policy has become increasingly shaped by two other considerations: geopolitics and concerns over the resilience of supply chains, and climate change. This briefing note examines the emergence of this new landscape, how it has already affected EU trade policy with measures to increase European economic security and complement the European Green Deal, how it might affect EU trade policy in the next five years, and how the new landscape has already impacted and might affect in future the multilateral trading system. EU policymakers should be cautious about the economic and climate costs associated with geopolitical-driven policies, particularly in trade. The note ends with recommendations for EU trade policy, calling for a comprehensive assessment of costs in economic terms and climate objectives to safeguard living standards and maintain opportunities for international cooperation in the current context of heightened economic security concerns. Despite evident internal divisions over the EU's approach to multilateralism, finding a strategic balance between its traditional stance and fostering key trade partnerships is imperative. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

The rise in geopolitical tensions in recent years and the weaponisation of trade links have led to an increased focus on economic security. With its Economic Security Strategy, the European Commission has put EU-level initiatives in this area into an overarching framework. In this in-depth analysis, we discuss the challenges posed by economic security and the approaches to it taken by other large economies. We then analyse the European strategy in this framework. While the EU has been slower than other large economies to focus on economic security, it has learned from its peers and there has been a notable evolution of European measures in this area. However, challenges remain, in particular with regard to the coordination of measures that are still largely national competencies. Furthermore, more could be done to align incentives for both companies and countries to avoid moral hazard risks. Finally, more progress has to be done to align the foreign policies of EU countries to give credibility to economic security instruments. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

A two-week operation by officers from the Central Police Division identified 12 suspects in an extortion scam which involved the use of manipulated obscene pictures. The seven men and five women, aged between 18 and 46, allegedly provided bank information and SIM cards acquired through illegal means, the police said in a statement on Wednesday (May 1). They are also suspected of assisting in unauthorised accessing of Singpass accounts. The suspects were allegedly given or promised commissions, preliminary investigations revealed. At least $115,000 in suspected criminal proceeds — some purportedly linked to other scam cases — were recovered and an array of electronic devices were seized during the operation. A 23-year-old woman is due to be charged in court on Thursday for facilitating unauthorised access to computer material, an offence that carries a jail term of up to two years, a fine, or both. Threatening letters with manipulated photos Over 170 reports involving extortionary letters have been made between March and April, said the police.

Photos of two car-sharing electric vehicles (EVs) that were left behind and parked randomly at different multistorey car parks surfaced on Facebook group SG Road Vigilante this week. In one post, an empty GetGo car is shown parked in front of an up-going ramp at a multistorey car park. The post, put up on Tuesday (April 29), stated that the photo was taken on April 26 but did not name the car park's location. A separate post on the same day shared photos of a BlueSG car parked, against the flow of traffic, right outside the exit of a multistorey car park in Tampines. GetGo and BlueSG are car-sharing platforms that allow users to rent out their vehicles at different rates. Those who use EVs must return their vehicles to designated charging stations.  BlueSG has only EVs for rental. Non-EVs rented from GetGo must be returned at the rental location. 'Anyhow park' or ran out of juice? Many netizens called out the driver of the GetGo car, accusing the person of being irresponsible and inconsiderate. «Yes, they anyhow park,» one commented. «Not their car so they don't care.»

Some enhancements will be made to the new on-board unit (OBU) for the ERP 2.0 system, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Thursday (May 2). This comes after feedback from drivers that placing the processing unit on the left passenger footwell made it difficult for them to reach for the Cepas card (such as Nets FlashPay card, Nets Motoring Card or EZ-Link Motoring Card). In its press release on Thursday, LTA said that since April 19 this year, they have introduced a button on the touchscreen display so that drivers can press on it and deactivate their Cepas card without removing it from the processing unit. This allows them to use their complimentary parking ticket at the car park. If the driver forgets to reactivate the card after leaving the car park, it will not affect their ERP payments as the correct amount will still be deducted from the card balance when the vehicle reaches an active ERP gantry. The installation of the OBU began with a group of early adopters in August 2023, and so far, more than 18,000 vehicles have installed the OBU, said LTA.

Kyle (right) is said to have promised their four-year-old son Kairo (pictured inset) tickets - something he later denied - but now insiders say FA chiefs will go to every length to stop her accessing tickets.