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Honor’s new 600 Lite ($399 in Singapore) is aggressively practical.

For the price, you know for sure it’s not trying to win you over with cutting-edge AI wizardry or breakthrough camera innovation.

But in a market saturated at every price point, Honor has managed to stand out: a budget phone that checks all the boxes for everyday use: think of the 600 Lite as a ‘conversion-driven SKU’ — the kind of phone designed to move volume by focusing on what matters most: battery life, RAM/storage for perceived longevity, and a price that doesn’t make you flinch.

If there’s one genuinely standout feature here, it’s the 6,520mAh battery paired with 45W wired charging (plus 6W reverse). That’s unusually high for this price tier, where most mid-rangers in this segment are dancing around 5,000–5,500mAh.

The sister of a man who was missing since March 27 after a boat collision off the Southern Islands mourned his passing in a social media post, as news that his body was found in Indonesian waters broke on Sunday (April 5).

Police said in a statement on the same day that they were alerted by Indonesian authorities to a case of a body found floating off the sea of Karimun, to the southwest of Singapore, at about 3pm on March 30.

"The body, believed to be the missing person from the collision between a pleasure craft and supply vessel off the Southern Islands on March 27, was found motionless and subsequently retrieved from the waters," they added.

A 49-year-old man has been arrested for rash navigation of a vessel, police said.

The Defender (Defender has been spun off into its own brand) has long shed its rugged, agricultural image when it was reinvented some time back in 2020 — becoming a family car for pretty much every terrain.

That's to say the iconic Landie hasn't lost its incredible off-road ability.

The car you see here on this lovely page is the updated model, and it comes with a new edition dubbed the Trophy Edition that celebrates the iconic Camel Trophy challenge where participants travelled the world in sand yellow Defenders to prove that they were as tough as the car — all done in good taste to drive impactful environmental and community efforts.

Speaking of good taste, the regular Defender comes with a few mild changes that require a keen eye to spot.

Residents in Indonesia's Lampung and Banten on Saturday (April 4) reported seeing a "mysterious glowing object" streaking across the skies, with some speculating that it may have been a meteor shower.

The video of the object with trailing flames went viral on social media.

Some expressed concern, fearing that the object could be a missile or military projectile due to the accompanying loud, rambling sound.

In a statement published on Sunday, the Indonesian National Police (INP) said the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has confirmed that it was space debris re-entering the atmosphere and not a natural celestial body or military munitions.

There’s an old adage about thin-and-light laptops: If you want to play modern games, they have to be thicker and heavier.

If you wanted battery life, it had to be heavier, or performance had to take a hit.

Most thin and light laptops prioritise portability and battery life, with more powerful models for users who would sacrifice the above for more processing power.

On paper, the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 looks like more of the same: Better CPU and integrated graphics, an upgraded Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and improved efficiency.

A 37-year-old mother of four watched in horror as a bag of rubbish — filled with used party ware and glass bottles — fell in front of three of her children and two nieces on Saturday (April 4) night.

The incident purportedly happened at about 11.30pm at Block 656 Choa Chu Kang Crescent.

Speaking to AsiaOne on Sunday, the woman, who only wished to be known only as Wani, said her family was visiting her brother who lives there.

"It happened when they were walking out from the void deck," she added.

WASHINGTON - Scientists created virtual replicas of patients' diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital "twins" showed doctors how to better treat the real thing.

One of the first clinical trials of these custom models suggests it might improve care for ventricular tachycardia, a notoriously difficult-to-treat arrhythmia that is a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest, blamed for about 300,000 US deaths a year.

The study, by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, was a small first step. The Food and Drug Administration allowed the digital twin technology to guide treatment for just 10 patients, and much larger studies will be needed.

But the results reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine come as doctors increasingly are exploring how a technology long used in aerospace and other industries might be harnessed for better health, too.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence continues.

Not only has the conflict cut off vital shipping routes, creating a global energy crisis, it's also disrupting supply chains for aid groups, forcing them to use costlier, more time-consuming routes.

Key pathways such as the Strait of Hormuz have been effectively shuttered and routes from strategic hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi have also been impacted.

Transport costs have spiked with higher fuel and insurance rates, meaning less supplies can be delivered with the same amount of money.

A 53-year-old man was arrested on Saturday (April 4) for his alleged involvement in a case of vandalism against a police vehicle.

The incident happened at about 7.40pm on April 2 at Block 83 Redhill Close.

Police said they received a report from a member of public that he had allegedly used an object to scratch a police vehicle parked there.

He left the scene before police officers arrived at the scene, but was identified and arrested by officers from Clementi Police Division through extensive ground enquiries and follow-up investigations.

Freehold landed properties are a unique segment of the Singapore property market. As a caveat, analysing these properties tends to be harder to generalise given the relatively scarce set of transaction data available. Unlike typical condos, where units are more similar and cater to a defined buyer profile, properties in landed areas are highly individual. Each unit comes with its own set of characteristics, trade-offs, and buyer appeal.

Condo developments in landed enclaves also tend to see fewer nearby launches, and big changes to infrastructure are less frequent. Moreover, given the prices commanded by these properties, there’s also invariably a smaller pool of potential buyers.

That raises some important questions around long-term demand, and how easy it will be to exit down the road. To better understand this, we'll look at how freehold condos in landed enclaves have historically performed, who tends to buy them, and the main factors driving resale demand.

A practical way to approach this is to use a street-based approach, and hunt down freehold condos sitting within landed enclaves.