SINGAPORE: Would you be so cruel as to abuse your maid by asking her to drink water laced with detergent? A Singaporean woman was found guilty yesterday of abusing her Myanmar maid, including forcing her to pour hot water onto herself and to drink water laced with floor cleaner. The
BEIJING: China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in 2018, analysts in an AFP poll said, as the government struggles to contain ballooning debt and a bruising trade war with the United States. And in a sign of the battle Beijing faces in getting things back
LOS ANGELES: Manny Pacquiao is aiming to offer fresh evidence that life begins at 40 when the Filipino veteran takes on Adrien Broner on Saturday in his first fight in Las Vegas for more than two years. Pacquiao, who celebrated his 40th birthday last month with a lavish birthday party
SHANGHAI: When Brazilian star Alexandre Pato jetted out of China for his holidays he played for Tianjin Quanjian. Two months and a dozen arrests later, the club as he knew it is gone. In its place is a new incarnation, although whether Pato is still there when the Chinese Super
LONDON: Northern Ireland’s former two-weight world boxing champion Carl Frampton grew up as a boy watching the riots that flared up between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, but now he is banging the drum for both communities to come together. The 31-year-old – the only Northern Irish boxer to hold
BRISBANE, Australia: Fuming Sydney Thunder coach Shane Bond has urged a review of the rules after farcical scenes in Australia’s Big Bash League when a game was abandoned after the lights went out. The Thunder had plundered 186 for four against Brisbane Heat in the competition on Thursday evening, anchored
MELBOURNE: India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (pic) captured the best figures by any bowler in one-day cricket in Australia to restrict the home side to just 230 in the third and deciding game in Melbourne on Friday. Chahal, playing in his first match in the series after coming in for Test
LOS ANGELES: Pascal Siakam banked in the winning shot at the final buzzer as the Toronto Raptors won their eighth consecutive home game with a 111-109 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday. Siakam’s basket, which was upheld by a video review, bounced off the backboard and went in after
SINGAPORE: A former stalwart of Singapore’s long-ruling government and ex-presidential candidate said yesterday he is seeking to form a new party ahead of elections expected as early as this year. Analysts said the move by Tan Cheng Bock, who almost beat the ruling party’s de facto candidate in the 2011
BOGOTA: Colombia’ s government declared three days of mourning after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded – the worst such incident in the city in 16 years. Authorities said they identified the bomber and that he
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