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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) has sent an additional tranche of humanitarian aid to provide urgent relief to the communities affected by last month’s earthquake in Myanmar, the organisation said in a news release on Thursday (Apr 10). The latest tranche includes supplies like hygiene kits for families, women’s hygiene kits, jerrycans for the collection and storage of clean water, plastic mats, mosquito nets and tarpaulins. The supplies are expected to support about 8,000 households across the regions affected by the quake, SRC said. The organisation also dispatched about 300 water filters to regions such as Mandalay and Sagaing…

Keegan Bradley traveled to Augusta National Golf Club as the reigning America’s Ryder Cup captain. On Wednesday, the 38-year-old participated in one of the historic course’s annual traditions — the Masters Par 3 Contest. The contest, which dates back to 1960, offers golf pros the opportunity to participate in a lighthearted session shortly before the real competition tees off.Past Masters champions are also invited to play on a nine-hole course. Participants often include their caddies, relatives, and children to play alongside them on the shortened course. Apr 9, 2025; Augusta, Georgia, USA; Keegan Bradley smiles as he walks off no. 9…

New Delhi, India – Addressing a rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked leaders from the state government of the regional Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party. “These ministers from Tamil Nadu talk about pride in their language but always write letters to me and sign off in English. Why don’t they use the Tamil language?” he said, adding “Where is their Tamil pride?” It was no ordinary barb. Modi’s government is locked in a bitter language dispute with the Tamil Nadu government of Chief Minister MK Stalin over accusations that New Delhi…

It was a split screen Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill.One eye on the markets. The other eye on the Senate testimony of U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.”Do you think your remarks will alter the markets in any way?” yours truly asked Greer as he walked to the hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.”I’m just going to respond to the senators. Be candid as I can be,” replied Greer.TRUMP TRADE REP TAKES BIPARTISAN FIRE OVER TARIFFS AS DEM LAUNCHES BID TO HALT THEMThe public has heard a lot about tariffs from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.They’ve heard a lot about…

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday was forced to delay a vote on the Republican budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s domestic agenda, after conservatives balked at a plan that they said would add too much to the nation’s debt.In a dramatic scene on Capitol Hill that laid bare Republican divisions, Mr. Johnson huddled with the holdouts in a room off the House floor for over an hour before the vote was scheduled to begin, grinding activity in the chamber to a halt as the measure’s fate hung in the balance.It has been a tried-and-true tactic for Mr. Johnson, who has…

Dating apps need stronger protections after a study found child sex abusers were prowling the platforms targeting people with kids.

“China has defied Trump on two things,” Mr John Holden, who leads geostrategic consultancy McLarty Associates’ China practice, explained to me. “First, it has not taken the action on fentanyl Trump demanded. Second, it has quickly and defiantly retaliated tit-for-tat against his tariffs”. Dr Taimur Baig, Managing Director and Chief Economist at DBS, agrees that the relief over this postponement could be short-lived, as “more sectoral tariffs, including on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, could be forthcoming”. WILL THE MARKET GUARDRAIL KEEP HOLDING? Now, will other countries follow China’s lead in responding to tariffs in kind or fall for Mr Trump’s trap…

Kim Shin-jo, the only captured member of a team of 31 North Korean commandos who came within striking distance of the South Korean presidential palace ​in central Seoul before they were repelled in 1968, died on Wednesday. He was 82.Mr. Kim’s death ​at a nursing hospital was confirmed on Thursday by his Sungrak Church in Seoul, which cited old age as the cause.In January 1968, Mr. Kim and his colleagues did the unimaginable — slipping undetected through the heavily ​fortified border between North and South Korea and trekking 40 miles into Seoul on a mission to assassinate Park Chung-hee, who…

The Justice Department seeks to drop its criminal case against a Virginia man accused of being the “East Coast leader” of the MS-13 gang, weeks after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his arrest in a nationally televised press conference last month.   Bondi referred to Henrry Villatoro Santos as “one of the top members and head of the East Coast” of the violent MS-13 gang during a March 27 news conference in Manassas, Virginia. She also accused Villatoro Santos of being responsible for “very violent crimes, anything you can associate with MS-13. He was the leader over it — all of…

A Texas man charged with making online threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to remain in jail.Robert King, 35, who was charged with transmitting interstate threats in federal court on Monday, was ordered to stay in detention by U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Toliver after a hearing in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon, Fox News confirmed.Toliver said King is a flight risk and a risk to the community, which solidified her ruling, despite his attorney arguing that he had no prior charges, no weapons and had been…