🇨🇳📚 China announces policy to ease academic pressure on students

Measures include banning schools from assigning excess homework and encroaching on student break time.

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🧊 Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level amid unprecedented global heat records

Arctic sea ice levels, especially in the summer, are crucial to Earth's climate because without the ice reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans.

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🤩 Celine Dion set to perform in Paris 2 years after triumphant Olympics appearance

Near, far, wherever she is… Celine Dion is heading back to Paris!

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😮 Australia LNG disruptions continue after Narelle, thousands without power https://asia1.news/4dRgqap

😔 Israeli airstrike kills 3 Lebanese journalists, Israel says it targeted 1 https://asia1.news/4ccvBtz

🧐 Analysis: 1 month into Iran war, only hard choices for Trump https://asia1.news/4uZFdiN

2 new police vehicles to strengthen public order management and incident response

#ICYMI: These new "ang chias" allow the officers from the police's Special Operations Command to respond from a distance during public order incidents.

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😮‍💨 4 years post-cancer: Baey Yam Keng relieved 'everything is clear' after discovering abnormality on nose

Four years after his nose cancer diagnosis, Minister of State for Transport Baey Yam Keng says he is grateful that he is in good health, especially after a recent scare. 

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😨 Elon Musk 'needed' her to save his business, Singapore woman who lost $600k to scammers told daughters

Her daughters realised their mother had been fooled by scammers who used artificial intelligence to impersonate Musk to talk to her. She lost $600k over three years.⁠

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🚌 SBS Transit apologises after video surfaces of bus travelling with cracked windows

The incident onboard bus service 57 was posted on social media last Friday (March 27).⁠

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😶‍🌫 Around 20 Singapore residents found with vapes at checkpoints in past week

They make up about 48 per cent of the 42 cases detected during stepped-up checks at Singapore's land, air, and sea checkpoints between March 24 and 27.⁠

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🏍️ Motorcyclist dies after accident in Yishun, driver arrested for allegedly driving under influence of drugs

An e-vaporiser and a pod were seized from the male car driver.

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😠 Man arrested for careless driving after pedestrian, 74, dies in Ang Mo Kio accident

The pedestrian was conveyed unconscious to the hospital, where she later died.

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🚙 Heavy traffic expected at land checkpoints over upcoming Qing Ming Festival and Good Friday long weekend

Remember, errant motorists caught queue cutting will be made to requeue.

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🚌 SBS Transit bus catches fire along TPE, no injuries reported

The fire involved the engine compartment of a bus and was extinguished using a water jet.

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📚A Singaporean teen learnt to speak more than 10 languages, with help from Harry Potter

By reading Harry Potter in different languages!⁠

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😋 Jeju-style omakase, Peranakan food: New restaurants, cafes and bars in Singapore this March

Looking for new restaurants just opened in Singapore this March? This month's lineup goes beyond openings, with notable menu refreshes and short-term residencies adding to the mix!

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💸Thief strikes Woodlands stall, grabs $1,000 worth of necklaces during owner's 5-minute toilet break

Gone in 300s: A 58-year-old man is now assisting with ongoing police investigations.

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🥵 MPs' heat-beating plans for Singapore: Microforests, sheltered walkways, and more outreach

Singapore has over the past week been grappling with drier than usual weather, which has resulted in higher temperatures.⁠

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😱 Singapore tourists allegedly extorted up to $250 by Batam immigration officers; authorities investigating

Riau Islands regional immigration office head Ujo Sutojo said his office has identified an employee, along with a third-party individual, as suspects in the scheme. 

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Taiwan's opposition leader to visit China next month, ahead of Trump

Cheng Li-wun, leader of Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), will visit China in April after being invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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😱 'JD or Marco?': Iran war raises 2028 stakes as Trump weighs Vance vs Rubio

Vance has taken a cautious approach, reflecting his skepticism toward prolonged U.S. military involvement, while Rubio has aligned himself closely with Trump’s hawkish stance and emerged as one of the ‌administration’s most vocal defenders of the campaign.

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🇨🇳 China protests US alert over security rules change in Hong Kong

China's top diplomat in ​Hong Kong has met the senior U.S. ‌diplomat in the city to protest against a U.S. public alert over new security rules in Hong Kong, ​the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

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