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Some enhancements will be made to the new on-board unit (OBU) for the ERP 2.0 system, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Thursday (May 2).

Motorists will also be given the choice of where they want to install their processing unit and touchscreen display.

LTA's recommendation is for the processing unit to be installed at either the driver's or the front passenger's footwell.

Last week, a TikTok video showing a driver struggling to reach the processing unit placed under the glove box of the passenger seat went viral.

SEOUL — South Korea's National Assembly voted on Thursday (May 2) to approve a bill backed by the ruling and opposition parties to launch a fresh probe into the deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital Seoul in 2022.

A spokesperson for Yoon on Wednesday welcomed the agreement reached between the ruling and opposition parties on the bill as indicating a return to co-operation in politics.

In January, South Korean prosecutors indicted the former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency​, charging him with contributing through negligence to the crush.

No senior government figures, including the interior and safety minister, have resigned or been sacked so far over the crush.

TAIPEI — It will be hard for Taiwan to attend this year's World Health Organisation annual assembly, and it hopes more countries will support its presence, the island's foreign minister said on Thursday after the United States pressed for an invite.

Taiwan is excluded from most international organisations because of objections by China, which considers the democratically governed island its own territory.

Taiwan attended the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer from 2009 to 2016 under the administration of then-President Ma Ying-jeou, who signed landmark trade and tourism agreements with China.

Taiwan, which is allowed to attend some technical WHO meetings, says its exclusion hindered efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape US public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted as Washington moves closer to potentially banning the Chinese-owned short-video app.

Republicans were more likely than Democrats to see China as using the app to affect US opinions.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found 50 per cent of Americans supported banning TikTok, while 32 per cent opposed a ban and the rest were unsure.

A majority of Americans, 60 per cent, said it was inappropriate for US political candidates to use TikTok to promote their campaigns.

A collapse of an expressway section in China's Guangdong province caused vehicles to plunge and killed 36 people while injuring another 30, state media reported on Thursday (May 2), as millions in the country travel for the May Day holiday break.

The collapse, triggered by heavy rain, occurred at around 2.10 am on Wednesday on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway, Xinhua news agency reported, adding that the collapsed section was 17.9 metres in length and caused 23 vehicles to plunge.

Meizhou is one of the areas in southern China's Guangdong that has been badly hit by heavy rain and hail since late April which set off dangerous mudslides, inundated homes and destroyed bridges.

Task forces from the central and local governments have been dispatched for the rescue work, the report added.

Her job as a university professor was to teach and mentor her students.

She was accused of abusing her power by 15 of her students in a 23-page open letter that was shared online on April 9, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

Students were even forced to take exams for Zheng's daughter and participate in competitions on her behalf, local media reported.

More things unrelated to academic research are taking up our time, accompanied by endless insults and verbal abuse," the open letter said.

It was then that I decided to record my mother's recipes," said Siew Li.

Whenever there was time, Siew Li would sit with Esther to note down the recipe and cooking methods of their favourite dishes.

On May 1, St Luke's hospital launched a fundraising campaign named 'Legacy of Love', featuring the cookbook.

Siew Li revealed to Shin Min that her dad, who died in 2009, was from Shanghai.

The company last week said that about 20 more workers had been fired for protesting the contract while in the office.

In a statement on Tuesday, Google said the workers' conduct was "completely unacceptable" and made other employees feel threatened and unsafe.

Google has said the Nimbus contract "is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.".

Zelda Montes, a former Google employee who was arrested during a protest of Project Nimbus, said Google fired workers to suppress organising and send a message to its workforce that dissent would not be tolerated.

Analysts on average see iPhone sales, which account for about half of Apple's revenue, falling 10.4 per cent in the first three months of 2024, according to LSEG.

The year-ago iPhone revenue that the 10.4 per cent iPhone sales drop is measured against was unusually high as Apple satisfied pent-up demand after the Covid pandemic, company executives previously noted.

That would be Apple's biggest revenue decline since the December 2022 quarter, when revenue fell 5.5 per cent.

Apple shares closed down 0.6 per cent at US$169.30 on Wednesday.

In one post, an empty GetGo car is shown parked in front of an up-going ramp at a multistorey car park.

A separate post on the same day shared photos of a BlueSG car parked, against the flow of traffic, right outside the exit of a multistorey car park in Tampines.

Many netizens called out the driver of the GetGo car, accusing the person of being irresponsible and inconsiderate.

As it turned out, the GetGo car did indeed run out of juice.