INGAPORE (AFP) – A Singapore-based non-profit organisation proclaimed World Toilet Day on Wednesday, but said it was no laughing matter.
The World Toilet Organisation, founded in 2001, aims to make sanitation a key global issue.
“Each year lack of toilets causes 200 million tons of human waste to go uncollected and untreated around the world, fouling [...]

ONE year in jail — that will be a guide for offences under the new law aimed at busting those who sexually exploit minors.
And a longer imprisonment term may be needed in future, said the judge who imposed the sentence on the first person to be charged with the crime.
Mr Wang Minjiang, 36, had arranged [...]

JOHOR BAHARU, Malaysia: A Japanese tourist was killed and 13 other passengers injured when a tour bus skidded and overturned along Malaysia’s North-South Highway on Tuesday.
Bernama news agency quoted Johor Traffic and Public Order Chief DSP T. Raveendran as saying the incident happened at about 3pm when the bus was heading from Malacca to Desaru [...]

SINGAPORE: Singapore—Malaysia relations will not be affected by outstanding bilateral issues.
Instead, the foreign ministers of both countries said they would work together, especially in light of the global economic downturn.
Malaysian Foreign Minister, Dr Rais Yatim, said: “Let us symbolise the Causeway to be the umbilical cord for the two countries. Let us make a book [...]

Officials stationed at campus entrances every morning to enforce code
ONE of Singapore’s biggest private schools is cracking down on student dress, banning mini-skirts, flip-flops, dyed hair and visible tattoos, among a host of other things.
The decision by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) has upset many of its 12,500 students, [...]

The island republic seeks to free itself from possible blackmail by Malaysia
When Singapore’s newest reservoir was opened this weekend, it was billed as the garden city’s latest leisure hub, designed to attract boaters and picnickers keen to escape the hectic pace of urban life.
But the Marina Reservoir, the 15th to be built in Singapore [...]