China hit by flood again, 3rd time this year.

Dykes of the Yellow River breached, causing the 3rd flood of 2021 for China. Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, that are in the Yellow River basin are hit by severe flooding. More than 120,000 people had been evacuated thus far just in Shanxi alone. It is said to be the largest flood in nearly 40 years…

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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…

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Entire 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…

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Tough 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…

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Rohingya 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…

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REGEN-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…

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Indonesia 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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PLA Navy to build anime-inspired aircraft?

According to Georgio Zagkas (@GZakas) on twitter, an aircraft concept of China’s People Liberation Army – Navy (PLAN) is revealed at Zhuhai 2021 / Airshow China 2021. In the tweet, it explains that the aircraft is meant to replace the Shenyang J-15, a reverse-engineered Su-33. However, for fans of Japanese anime/manga/games, especially those interested in…

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