Rachel Lim

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Rachel Lim

Singapore The two chicks hatched in April in the recesses of the OCBC Centre. New: You can now listen to articles. SINGAPORE: Singapore’s first peregrine falcon chicks have hatched, after months of efforts to help the species breed in the country. The birds were hatched in April, and both fledged in mid-May, said the National Parks Board (NParks) on Wednesday (May 28).

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Rachel Lim

SINGAPORE: The National University Singapore (NUS) on Wednesday (May 21) apologised for an "operational lapse" in dealing with books from Yale-NUS College, which is shutting this year. Hundreds of books from the Yale-NUS College library were reportedly sent for disposal or recycling on Tuesday, triggering an outcry from its alumni and students. Photos and videos showed books packed into trash bags and loaded onto a truck from a recycling company.

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Rachel Lim

SINGAPORE: For more than a year, Singaporean Malone Lam was purportedly the head of a crime ring in the US that stole more than US$263 million in cryptocurrency, laundering the money and breaking into homes. The 20-year-old, who goes by several monikers online, has already been charged with conducting one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts of an individual in the US. On Monday (May 19), he was accused of orchestrating a wider scheme involving at least 12 other individuals.

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Rachel Lim

SINGAPORE: The current increase in wait times at some hospitals' emergency departments is consistent with a post-public holiday surge, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday (May 16). This comes after some public hospitals said on Wednesday that they were seeing a high volume of patients at their emergency departments. In Facebook posts, Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) advised their patients to expect longer wait times due to the current patient volume.

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Rachel Lim

SINGAPORE: The account details of some Instarem users were revealed on other customers' app on Tuesday (May 13) night, in what the cross-border payments company described as a “technical incident”. In response to CNA’s queries, Instarem said on Wednesday that it was aware that a “limited number” of users had been affected by a “technical incident”.