Athletics: Jamaica’s Nesta Carter tests positive, faces disciplinary hearing

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (REUTERS) – Jamaica’s Olympic and world championship medallist Nesta Carter, whose positive doping test caused Usain Bolt to be stripped of his Beijing 2008 Olympic 4×100 metres relay gold, has tested positive again and faces an anti-doping hearing next week. Confirmation of the now-retired Carter’s positive test came from the Chairman of the... » read more

Top lawyer no stranger to high stakes cross-border disputes

SINGAPORE – When an Internet shutdown in Teheran derailed a key Iranian witness from getting his visa application cleared for an arbitration hearing in Singapore, he was flown to Turkish city Istanbul instead and testified via video link. The scramble to meet the scheduled hearing deadline included getting a Farsi-English translator and also someone from... » read more

Children with hearing loss to get dedicated support at MOE kindergarten
Children with hearing loss to get dedicated support at MOE kindergarten

SINGAPORE – Children with hearing loss will get dedicated support for the first time at a pre-school run by the Ministry of Education (MOE). The kindergarten, which starts operations next year, will teach sign language to children with moderate to profound hearing loss. The aim is for them to build basic language proficiency in Singapore... » read more