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A private-hire vehicle (PHV) driver has expressed concern about her fellow drivers flouting the rules when it comes to child seats after her encounter with a passenger.

She then told the passenger that she could not accept the ride as she did not have a child seat.

In response to Lin, the passenger said: "There's no such thing as child seat!"

Another netizen said: "Strangely enough, at least from personal experience, whenever I book the 'correct ride', the drivers have never ever taken out the child seat.".

LONDON — Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a US$300 million (S$405 million) partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the research partnership, focused particularly on finding affordable solutions for people in low and middle-income countries, in Denmark on Monday.

A key aim is to "break down barriers between often isolated areas of research", said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, chief executive officer of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has a controlling interest in the drugmaker Novo Nordisk, whose blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy has brought in billions for the foundation since its launch in 2021.

JERUSALEM — Israel's armed forces have begun evacuating Palestinian civilians from Rafah ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, an Israeli broadcaster said on Monday (May 6).

In a statement, the military said posters, text messages, phone calls and media announcements would be used to "encourage.

Seven months into its offencive against Hamas, Israel has said Rafah harbours thousands of the Palestinian Islamist group's fighters and that victory is impossible without taking the city.

But with more than a million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah, the prospect of a high-casualty operation worries Western powers and neighbouring Egypt.

SEOUL — Indonesia has proposed to cut its share of payments for a joint fighter jet development project with South Korea to about one-third of the originally agreed amount, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on May 6.

Indonesia recently suggested to the South Korean government that it would pay about 600 billion won (S$597 million) for the KF-21 joint fighter jet project, Yonhap reported, citing multiple unnamed government sources.

The KF-21 fighter jet, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) in a project partially backed by Indonesia, was designed to be a cheaper, less stealthy alternative to the US-built F-35, on which South Korea relies.

The Indonesian government's latest proposal comes after South Korea police raided KAI's head office in March in connection with two Indonesian nationals accused of leaking technology related to the KF-21 fighter jet project.

SEOUL — For the first time since leader Kim Jong-un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, said a South Korean research institute, amid other steps the country is taking to solidify his rule.

Sand president Choi Kyong-hui told Reuters that North Korea could move to designate Kim's birthday as an official anniversary as soon as 2025.

She noted that while such efforts are not new, they happen in phases over the years, with North Korea visibly accelerating efforts to play up Kim's leadership in certain years.

In April, North Korea released a new song featuring North Koreans of different backgrounds, ranging from children to troops and medical staff, exuberantly belting out lines such as "Let's sing, Kim Jong-un the great leader" and "Let's brag about Kim Jong-un, a friendly father".

They come at a time of escalating tensions between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea.

Several of the drills this year were set in islands and provinces facing Taiwan and the South China Sea.

Other exercises have included simulations of retaking occupied islands and a multilateral sail with France and Australia in the South China Sea, inside the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.

The United States and Philippines also began joint patrols in the South China Sea last year.

Tempers flared at a food centre in Circuit Road when a stall owner and a diner got into a physical altercation over cutlery.

He then asked Liang for a fork and spoon, but got upset when Liang said no.

The owner of the fishball noodle stall, Helen, told Shin Min that she did provide the man with cutlery.

The 62-year-old said he might not have noticed and hence tried to get cutlery from the laksa stall.

"Revamping the area will remove heritage elements of Holland Village that I am trying to preserve by running my store here.

The decision to close was not easy, especially as he has been living in Holland Village since his childhood.

I still have the grit to keep the Holland Village heritage alive," he affirmed.

He aims to keep up his search for a suitable location within Holland Village to reopen Thambi Magazine Store.

He also refuted rumours that said he hails from a chaebol (family-controlled conglomerate) where his relatives are lawyers and doctors.

Sung-hoon was in high school at the time and said that he didn't have any pocket money other than transportation fees.

I called my father later and cried while telling him that I didn't have any money to eat with my friends.".

If you return home, I have to give you some pocket money and I don't have any.'.

Zendaya was driving herself crazy trying to master tennis for Challengers.

"All I really knew of tennis was Venus and Serena [Williams].

"It was terrifying as a challenge to take on because you know you're supposed to be a great tennis player and I've never been a great tennis player.

"That became my entry into looking like a tennis player because I knew I wasn't going to be one, but I could really fake it."