Only candidates whose background has been cleared by the police s national security department and the Committee for Safeguarding National Security can take part in any election. - Reuters
HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): Changes to the laws on the electoral system in the territory are expected to kick in before the end of May, setting the stage for three key polls which critics expect will mean a reduced opposition presence.
Draft bills on the amendments were tabled in the Legislative Council (Legco) on Wednesday (April 14), where they were read for the first and second time.
Pro-establishment caucus leader Martin Liao told the media after the readings that he hoped the Bills Committee could wrap up the review of the draft laws by mid-May.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A former deputy lead at the Ministry of Health (MOH) was charged on Wednesday (April 14) with allegedly leaking Singapore's daily Covid-19 case numbers 22 times last year.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Singapore economy grew by 0.2 per cent on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter of 2021, a turnaround from the 2.4 per cent contraction recorded in the previous quarter, according to advance estimates released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on Wednesday (April 14).
The
Friends reunion is finally happening.
Actor Matthew Perry, 51, one of the six stars of the hit sitcom which ran from 1994 to 2004, posted a photo of himself in a make-up chair on Instagram last Friday (April 9), with the caption: Seconds before eating a make-up brush. Not to mention reuniting with my Friends.
However, the photo was quickly removed, but not before some of his 7.3 million followers had noticed it.
Several jubilant fans managed to capture screen shots of the post before it was taken down and the news of the reunion went viral.
The
Friends special was supposed to have been taped last year but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It would have been a rare reunion of the entire main cast, including Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc.
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