SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The former chief financial officer of a crude oil products supplier who worked with three others to dupe eight banks into disbursing about US$320 million (S$424 million) in loans was sentenced on Monday (May 3) to nine years' jail.
Several netizens have commented that Gillian Chung has gained a lot of weight, judging by her rounder face and fatter neck in an appearance on a TV show. Photo: Youku
Hong Kong singer-actress Charlene Choi has clarified that her fellow Twins singer Gillian Chung is battling hormonal imbalance, after the latter s latest appearance sparked concerns.
Chung, 40, recently appeared in a trailer for new Chinese reality show
Twinkle Love, in which 10 graduates, who are all 20 years old, take part in a graduation trip.
Chung, who will be one of the regular guests on the show, disclosed in the trailer that her first love was a Japanese and that she would tell her 20-year-old self to be a good person.
Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung acknowledged it is a difficult time to talk about reopening borders. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Some safe opening of air travel in 2021 is possible if governments open up cautiously with regions that have a low number of domestic Covid-19 cases, said Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung.
At the same time, measures should be tightened for places with high infection rates, he added in a speech on Monday (May 3) at a virtual dialogue on reopening borders by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Business Advisory Council.
Making the point that vaccines are working , he said: We are not likely to see a strong V-shaped recovery in aviation this year. But the start of a recovery is possible, and worth working towards.
An estimated 18.9 million people could still head home, despite the ban this year. - Reuters
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia has urged people to avoid the annual exodus to home villages ahead of Hari Raya next month, fearing a surge in coronavirus cases in the nation which already has the highest number of infections in South-east Asia.
In an address on Wednesday (April 28) to provincial governors, mayors and regents, President Joko Widodo said daily new Covid-19 cases almost doubled following last year s Hari Raya, popularly called Idul Fitri, because many flouted the ban on mudik , or the annual return to home villages.