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Dutch frigate, HNLMS Evertsen’s voyage so far as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21); will arrive in Singapore on 10 October 2021
The Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertsen will arrive in Singapore tomorrow (10 October 2021) in their first deployment of a Royal Dutch Navy vessel to the region under the Indo-Pacific Guidelines, announced by Netherland in late 2020. HNLMS Evertsen is part of the Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) deployment led by the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the…
Read More[ Forbes ] It’s Official: After A 75-Year Gap, The Japanese Navy Has An Aircraft Carrier
On Sunday, a pair of U.S. Marine Corps F-35B jump jets from the Japan-based Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 landed on, then launched from, the Japanese carrier JS Izumo. The proof-of-concept comes just months after the 813-foot Izumo, which the Japanese built as a helicopter carrier, completed the first of two rounds of modification—so far costing around…
Read More[ NBC ] Lawmakers in Japan elect Fumio Kishida as new prime minister
Japan’s parliament on Monday elected Fumio Kishida, a former moderate turned hawk, as prime minister. He’ll face an economy battered by the pandemic, security threats from China and North Korea and leadership of a political party whose popularity is sagging ahead of a fast-approaching crucial national election. With his party and its coalition partner holding a…
Read MoreEntire Facebook Network is Down for 8 hours
At around 11.45pm Singapore Time (GMT+8), the entire Facebook network went offline. This includes all the most popular/used apps like Facebook app, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. It was only until around 45mins later where the official twitter account for the respective apps started announcing that their apps are having issue. Despite the term used…
Read MoreArizona Election Audit Results reporting shows how the media is manipulating the public via misinformation
Don’t you find it odd, or even suffer a little of cognitive dissonance when you read about the Arizona’s Maricopa Election audit results new reportings? The “bogus” and “partisan” election audit, as what the media had been branding the audit as, that is out to manipulate the auditing in order to prove that Trump won…
Read MoreTough Road Ahead for Taliban
The Taliban after much wait has announced its 33-member interim cabinet. This new government is exclusively Taliban, and almost all the ministers are of Pashtun ethnicity. (DPA Notes: The Taliban had since expanded it’s interim cabinet to 50 members on 21 September 2021, with several of them of the 17 from non-Pashtun ethnic groups, like…
Read MoreRohingya Leader Mohibullah assassinated; ARSA is widely believed to be behind the assassination
On September 29, 2021, Mohibullah, 46, chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Mohibullah had served as a leader among the nearly one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, documenting the Myanmar military’s crimes against the Rohingya and advocating…
Read MoreREGEN-COV monoclonal antibody therapy delivery will arrive in Singapore next month
According the Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore largest chinese newspaper/media outlet, a spokesman from the National Center for Infectious Diseases of Singapore (NCID) had confirmed to the Associated Press that the monoclonal antibody cocktail, casirivimab and imdevimab, developed by US drugmaker Regeneron and Swiss pharmaceutical company, Roche, will be expected to arrive in the island state next…
Read MoreHo Ching to handover Temasek Holdings’ top seat for a “second time” on Oct 1 after 17 years of service
Outgoing chief executive of Temasek Holdings, Ho Ching, will be stepping down from the board on Friday (Oct 1). Mdm Ho, who is also the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said she has been “very much” a part of the leadership succession process after being in the company for 17 years. The company…
Read MoreIndonesia give green light to the Singapore-Australia undersea powerline
Indonesia Government has given it’s support behind the Sun Cable’s Australia-Asia Powerlink (AAPowerLink) that would route solar powered electricity through Indonesia water to Singapore directly from Darwin, Australia. On the 23/09/2021 – Sun Cable announced a long term partnership with the Indonesian government which will include investment and jobs, knowledge sharing with academic institutions and…
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