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Follow us on Telegram for the latest updates: https://t.me/mothershipsg Loof, a pioneer in the rooftop bar scene here, will be closing down in Feb. 2022. The bar broke the news to its Facebook and Instagram followers on Dec. 1, explaining that the impending closure was due to construction work at Odeon Towers, which it said would take "over two years". This work is scheduled to begin in Mar. 2022, and thus, Loof's last day of operations will be Feb. 27, 2022. Earlier this year, property developers UOL unveiled a plan to enlarge Odeon Towers (331 North Bridge Road) after having purchased the adjacent space (333 North Bridge Road) in Dec. 2019, according to OfficeFinder . Loof's posts included a selection of photos of staff and patrons of the bar, even as it looked back on how it was "conceived as the place to celebrate local culture in all its wonderful idiosyncrasies", some 17 years ago. The post also featured the bar's iconic "风和日丽" (a Chinese idiom ... » Learn More about Loof rooftop bar closing in Feb. 2022 after 17 years due to Odeon Towers reno, seeking new location

Spend six days on a beautiful island with some fellow celebrities and play some games, they say. Of course things wouldn't be that simple. Korean singer-host Hee-chul told AsiaOne in a recent interview to promote the new Netflix original series New World: "The producer told me that we would be getting our dream houses and playing games with the cast, so that was what I thought at first. "But just like a cliche movie, when you go somewhere with your friends, something bad happens, right?" And from what we heard, the 38-year-old had it the worst. According to singer-actor Lee Seung-gi, Hee-chul lost a lot of money in the games because he was "very naive and gullible". "In New World, if someone comes to you and says, 'Trust me', never trust them. If someone comes and tells you, 'I'm not interested in money', definitely don't believe them," Hee-chul added in a separate press conference that we attended. Besides the two, cast members Eun Ji-won, Cho Bo-ah, Park Na-rae and Kai, ... » Learn More about Hee-chul, Lee Seung-gi, Kai got punked in Netflix’s reality game show New World?

When a popular character dies in a soap opera, it often causes a stir with its audience, but in the case of the Chinese streaming series Marvelous Women, it was the demise of a cat that upset viewers, in part because they were not convinced the feline survived the ordeal. The offending scene aired in late November and showed a character’s pet cat accidentally eating poisoned food before falling off a table and dying on the floor. Blood spilled from the cat’s mouth and its leg began twitching at the end, leading online fans to claim the death was “too realistic” to have been faked. As soon as the episode ended, a debate raged on social media about whether the cat had been hurt during filming, and viewers levied accusations of animal cruelty against the show. Pet lovers demanded that the show prove that the cat was still alive and well, mainland media reported. The show’s production company made a statement clarifying its animal star, named Mimi, was not killed or injured ... » Learn More about Death scene for cat forces Chinese period drama to prove they had not killed it for real

Table of Contents (Quick Navigation) On Tuesday, Twitter Inc. announced new rules that prohibit users from sharing private images without their prior consent. It comes just one day after the Social Media Giant changed CEOs in a move that tightens its policy. People who aren’t public figures can now ask Twitter to remove images or videos posted of them without their permission under the updated rules. According to Twitter, media content and accompanying tweets shared by public figures or individuals do not fall under this policy. “Whenever possible, we will assess the context within which the content is shared and, if appropriate, may allow the images or videos to remain online,” the company said. For years, there has been debate about internet users’ rights to sue platforms when images or data about them are posted by third parties, especially for malicious purposes. Twitter already prohibits publishing private information, such as a person’s phone number ... » Learn More about New Twitter CEO Bans the Sharing of Images Without Consent

(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday released its new top-tier smartphone chip aimed at premium-priced Android phones with features like sharper photos and graphics than handsets using chips from rivals. The San Diego, California-based company is the biggest supplier of the chips at the heart of many Android phones, competing against rivals such as Taiwan's MediaTek Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which uses Qualcomm chips in some of its phones but self-supplies chips for some models. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip released Tuesday will have similar computing cores to rivals like MediaTek, which this month announced a chip aimed at premium phones. But almost every other part of the chip are custom designed by Qualcomm, including those playing a role in the visual quality of photos and graphics-intensive apps like games. Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile, compute and infrastructure for Qualcomm, said the company has been crafting software ... » Learn More about Qualcomm leans into cameras, gaming with new flagship smartphone chip

Highlights: 139 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today 132 people recovered and were released from medical care 1 new death T he Chonburi Department of Public Health announced 139 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 today with one new death, December 2ืnd . This makes a total of 107,976 cases of Covid-19 in the current round of infections, with 2,116 people still under medical care/supervision, and with a total of 762 recorded deaths in Chonburi since the start of this recent round of infections in early April. Only two cases out of 2,116 were listed as being in serious condition in Chonburi currently, either on a ventilator or pneumonia. The one new death was a 47-year-old man who was an alcoholic and had personal health problems and was not vaccinated. In total, 1,842,297 people in Pattaya and Chonburi have received their first dose of a Covid -19 vaccine which is 79.10 percent of the total Chonburi population. Of ... » Learn More about Chonburi announces 139 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and one new death

KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a pre-registration of automatic voters (SPPA) check from Oct 1 to 31 to allow 5.8 million prospective voters to check and verify their records. EC secretary Datuk Ikmalrudin Ishak said during that period, Malaysian citizens aged 18 and above who had not been registered as voters could verify their details or file an objection before their automatic registration. The checks can be done via two methods through the MySPR SPPA application at https://mysprsppa.spr.gov.my or by scanning the QR Code of the parliamentary constituencies at the 604 SPPA verification centres nationwide. Among the centres are the state election headquarters or office, post office, district office, land office, district council, municipal council, multipurpose hall, Rukun Tetangga and penghulu’s office. For more information, the public can contact state election offices, the EC hotline at 03-8892 7018 or browse the www.spr.my.gov website. Malaysia is ... » Learn More about Chance to check new voter registration

BAGHDAD — “More morphine!” Malak’s mother cried, her 20-year-old daughter hospitalized after a marital dispute left her severely burned — the latest victim of domestic violence exacerbated by confinement in Iraq. The nationwide lockdown since mid-March is meant to keep coronavirus cases down in the country, but it has led to a spike in another sad statistic: domestic violence. The head of Iraq’s community police, Brigadier General Ghalib Atiyah, told AFP that its log of domestic violence cases has increased by an average of 30 percent since the curfew came into force — with some areas seeing as high as a 50-percent spike. In a single week, the United Nations in Iraq (UNAMI) reported: “The rape of a woman with special needs, spousal abuse, immolation and self-immolation as well as self-inflicted injuries due to spousal abuse, sexual harassment of minors, and suicide due to domestic abuse among other crimes.” In the southern province of Wasit, a 58-year-old doctor killed his wife ... » Learn More about Locked in by virus, Iraq hit with new pandemic: domestic abuse

LISBON, Portugal: Portugal’s new law on working from home makes the European Union country sound like a workers’ paradise. Companies can’t attempt to contact their staff outside working hours. They must help staff pay for their home gas, electric and Internet bills. Bosses are forbidden from using digital software to track what their teleworkers are doing. There’s just one problem: the law might not work. Critics say the new rules are half-baked, short on detail and unfeasible. And they may even backfire by making companies reluctant to allow working from home at all. “The law is badly written and doesn’t meet anybody’s needs,” says José Pedro Anacoreta, an employment attorney at PLMJ, one of Portugal’s main law firms. “It’s no good for anyone.... It doesn’t make any sense.” In many places around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a prior trend toward the digitalisation of work and more flexible work arrangements. Amid such a sudden and massive shift in the ... » Learn More about Workers’ paradise? Portugal’s new teleworking law takes flak

Senior citizens in Ilocos Norte receive their vaccines at a COVID-19 vaccination facility. The provincial government is expecting to ramp up its vaccination drive to achieve herd immunity. (Photo courtesy of Ilocos Norte provincial government) MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) hopes that the celebration of this year’s National Human Rights Consciousness Week will highlight the need to address several long-standing inequalities that were exposed even more by the COVID-19 pandemic. During a program on Wednesday, various CHR officials noted the importance of looking at the health crisis from a human rights lens, especially with the pandemic creating inequalities such as in the delivery of healthcare services and vaccines. “Our survival as human beings is dependent on the preservation of human rights,” CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit said in her message. “In the midst of the current pandemic, issues of equality have come to the fore and underlying ... » Learn More about CHR hopes inequalities exposed by COVID-19 pandemic are addressed