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BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya: A joint operation by the Cagayan provincial and Solana municipal police has led to the arrest of local government unit (LGU) employees and teachers for illegal gambling in Solana. Col. Ariel Quilang, Cagayan Provincial Police Office chief, said some of those caught gambling in Solana hold high positions in the LGU and teachers under the supervision of the Department of Education. Quilang said among the nine suspects were a municipal administrator, a barangay councilman, some teachers and senior citizens. He said police operatives raided the gambling den in Barangay Andarayan South in Solana after the Cagayan provincial intelligence unit gave them the go-signal. “The joint police operative responded to a report coming from the Cagayan provincial intelligence unit and found nine suspects in the house in one of the suspects who is a teacher by profession,” Quilang said. He said the raid was based on the complaints of some residents in the area that ... » Learn More about LGU employees, teachers arrested for gambling

Find out what's on this weekend! 1. 3D jelly art pillar/roll & champagne glass In this five hour workshop, try your hands at designing and creating your own Pillar or Roll Jelly Cake and creating floral designs in a champagne glass. Hosted by The Vanilla Bean SG, learn jelly art techniques like creating floral designs via the injection technique, as well how to troubleshoot messes and fix them! Here's what you get to take home: one Jelly Roll of your own creation, two champagne glasses with floral, one basic recipe, one bonus recipe, one set of PM mini floral tool and one cylindrical container. 3D Jelly Art Pillar/Roll & Champagne Glass here ! 2. Absolute beginners swing dance and lindy hop Always wanted to learn how to dance? Try the absolutely beginner-friendly Swing Dance and Lindy Hop dance classes! [[nid:521373]] No dance experience is needed; learn all the basics you need to get yourself dancing on the social dance floor in one series of six ... » Learn More about What’s on this weekend in Singapore: April 16 – 18, 2021

So, the tickets for the Singapore-Hong Kong flights are in limbo again or cost a small fortune (probably your entire year’s coffee’s worth ). But, as they say, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Chinese New Year is around the corner, and there’s definitely going to be less visiting this year no thanks to the daily a cap of eight unique visitors per household per day. If you ever find yourself finishing up your CNY visitations early, here’s showing you the many things to do in our beautiful island country, as you make your bookings on the right credit card and earn rewards, points and cashback, instead of stuffing yourself with pineapple tarts at home. In this article, we aim to capture the best activities in Singapore every month, so you can mark your calendar and plan your week around them. We will try to cover a range of our recommended options for the outdoorsy, the adventurous, the artsy, the closet food connoisseur, and the leisure-loving souls. At the risk of quoting ... » Learn More about Things to do in Singapore that get you the most bang for your buck (Feb 2021)

For those of us who grew up in the 1980s on a diet of SBC dramas like Strange Encounters and On The Fringe, her name is one that brings back nostalgic memories. After marrying a Panamanian diplomat in the late 1990s, local actress Zheng Wanling quit showbiz, moved out of Singapore, and dropped out of the limelight, appearing only in a smattering of Mediacorp shows through the years. But she's popped up again recently on Instagram. Over the last two days, local veteran actresses Aileen Tan and Xiang Yun both posted photos of themselves with Wanling and her daughter Monique, celebrating the latter's 21st birthday. Wanling, who's in her 50s, also turned up in a gathering in January with old friends like actress Jin Yinji and comedian Mark Lee's wife Catherine. Monique, who looks very much like her mum, is currently a Graphics Communication student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. According to an interview Wanling did with Lianhe Zaobao in 2018 , both of them moved ... » Learn More about Remember her? Former Singapore actress Zheng Wanling pops up on Instagram with daughter

OUAGADOUGOU/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in attacks in northern Burkina Faso and central Mali on Wednesday and Thursday, government and security sources said. Attacks by militants with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State are common in the two West African countries, where Islamists have expanded their reach in recent years despite the presence of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers and 5,100 French troops. This week Chad announced it would deploy 1,200 troops to the area to complement France's Barkhane counter-terrorism force, as leaders of the five Sahel countries and their allies met to assess the security situation. The attack in Burkina Faso happened on Thursday morning between the towns of Markoye and Tokabangou, where residents were ambushed on their way to a market across the nearby border in Dolbel, Niger, government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said in a statement. Eight people died and nine were wounded, he said. A security source said that ... » Learn More about At least 18 killed in attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali

Chonburi – A young teenage driver has been pronounced dead at the scene after he crashed his motorbike into a power pole in Mueang Chonburi. The Don Hualor Police was notified of the accident in the early morning on Sunday, April 11th near a local Buddhist temple. They and The Pattaya News arrived at the scene to find the body of the driver who was identified as Mr. Teerapong Sonla, 19, from Sakhon Nakhon. He had sustained severe head injuries and had not been wearing a helmet. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Nearby, rescue workers found his damaged motorbike and the power pole. Local residents nearby told The Pattaya News they saw the teenager was driving at high speed before losing control and crashing into the power pole at a curve. There were several accidents at this curve before recently with two deaths in the last year, notes The Pattaya News. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter and get all our news delivered to you in one ... » Learn More about Teenage driver dies after he crashes his motorbike into Chonburi power pole

This French town made Facebook's algorithm blush STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - The French town of Bitche celebrated its return to Facebook on Tuesday, three weeks after censors took down its page, believing the name to be an insult. The mayor of the northeastern town of 5,000 inhabitants, near the border with Germany, said that Facebook took down the page on March 19 on the basis that Bitche was a "violation of the conditions applying to Facebook pages". "Our town's name seems to be have been misinterpreted," mayor Benoit Kieffer said in a statement, suggesting it had been mistaken for the derogatory English term. Bitche, famous for its 17th-century citadel, promptly appealed the ban but its pleas to have its page, which has more than 2,350 followers, reinstated went unanswered for weeks. Desperate to reconnect with residents, the municipality set up another page with the more unobtrusive name of "Mairie 57320" (townhall 57320), after its postal code. The town's campaign to clear ... » Learn More about Life’s a Bitche for French town censored by Facebook

Anti-coup demonstrators, many with signs showing support for a civilian-formed federal army, hold candles and sing protest songs as they sit in the streets of Yangon, Myanmar, on April 3, 2021. (New York Times photos) Late last month, foreign officials in army regalia toasted their hosts in Naypyitaw, the bunkered capital built by Myanmar’s military. Ice clinked in frosted glasses. A lavish spread had been laid out for the foreign dignitaries in honor of Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day. That very day, the military, which had seized power Feb 1, gunned down more than 100 of its own citizens. Far from publicly condemning the brutality, the military representatives from neighbouring countries — India, China, Thailand and Vietnam among them — posed grinning with the generals, legitimizing their putsch. The coup in Myanmar feels like a relic of a Southeast Asian past, when men in uniform roamed a vast dictators’ playground. But it also brings home how a region once celebrated for its ... » Learn More about Myanmar coup puts seal on autocracy’s rise in SE Asia

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said Manchester United were sparked into life by the injustice of seeing Edinson Cavani's opening goal controversially ruled out as the Red Devils roared back to beat Tottenham 3-1 on Sunday. United came from behind to win for the ninth time in the league this season as second-half goals from Fred, Cavani and Mason Greenwood cancelled out Son Heung-min's opener. However, Solskjaer still took aim at Son for his role in the goal United had ruled out. Paul Pogba and Cavani combined brilliantly for the Uruguayan to drill the ball low between the legs of Hugo Lloris on 36 minutes. But a VAR review by referee Chris Kavanagh resulted in a Tottenham free-kick for a foul by Scott McTominay on Son in the build-up. The Scottish international made minimal contact with Son's face as he swatted the South Korean aside. "The game is absolutely gone if that's a clear and obvious error," said Solskjaer. "It was a perfectly good goal. I think that kickstarted us, the ... » Learn More about Solskjaer ‘not conned’ by Son as Man Utd gain revenge on Spurs

State weather forecasters ssay that the tropical depression outside the Philippines’ area of responsibility will strengthen into a typhoon by this weekend. From Himawari IR1 via Pagasa MANILA, Philippines — The tropical depression outside the Philippines’ area of responsibility strengthened on Tuesday, with state weather meteorologists predicting that it will become a typhoon by the weekend. Latest updates from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) showed that the tropical depression was last spotted 1,290 kilometers east of Mindanao. It had maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 70 kph.  It is moving west at a speed of 20 kph. Even though it is currently moving westward, Pagasa said that it is likely to move to the north by Wednesday, by which time it would have become a tropical storm. After Wednesday afternoon, it may move northeast and become a severe tropical storm by Friday ... » Learn More about Storm outside PAR strengthens; may intensify into typhoon by weekend