Author: Awni Nizaam

SINGAPORE: Is one of your New Year resolutions to follow your doctor’s advice to eat more healthily and do more exercise? The start of the year is a great time to make a change, but how long we sustain those efforts is a different story. Educating the public about why and how we should lead a healthy lifestyle is essential to health promotion – but it isn’t enough for healthy behaviours to last. The recent Healthier SG White Paper outlined a proactive, preventative approach to reducing the incidence of chronic disease in Singapore. Singaporeans can also choose to enrol with…

SINGAPORE: China’s reopening of borders is unlikely to lead to a severe wave of COVID-19 infections in Singapore even as more tourists are expected to visit, according to infectious diseases experts. The virus strains circulating in China are already present in Singapore, said Professor Paul Tambyah, president of the International Society of Infectious Diseases. “It is unlikely that there will be a spike in cases in Singapore related to visitor arrivals from China,” he told CNA. Even if infections increase, the population in Singapore is relatively protected because of high vaccination rates, said Professor Dale Fisher of the National University…

Petra Jaya member of parliament Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof created history as the first East Malaysian to be appointed deputy prime minister. Fadillah was born in a Malay village in Sibu in central Sarawak. He is the son of the late Yusof Merais, the man who fought side by side with Rosli Dhoby in resisting Sarawak’s surrender to the British in 1946. For the late Yusof, it was a struggle between life and death for the nation but for Fadillah the struggle is different. The next stage of the struggle was to ensure that Sarawak remains on the right track…