KATHMANDU – Nepal has asked foreign countries to wrap up search and rescue operations nine days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 7,200 people, now there is no hope of finding people alive in the rubble. Dozens of countries…
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Nepal’s utter inability to effectively respond to the catastrophic earthquake that rattled the small Himalayan nation on April 25 can be perhaps best explained by the fact that its army has only one big helicopter to its name. The massive earthquake—followed by…
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There is devastation in Nepal as it was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake yesterday. More than 1,000 lives have been lost, many more are missing and trapped under the rubble. Singapore is responding to assist, including the SAF. Our…
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When Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Tan Kok Beng received complaints about an elderly woman cluttering a common corridor with junk in March last year, he doggedly visited her Housing and Development Board (HDB) unit in Yishun every week for a month…
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