INTERNATIONAL NEWS

King Salman’s cash bonus to workers to gulp $13.3b

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

A package of handouts to Saudi Arabian citizens announced by King Salam  to compensate them for cost of living increases will cost the government about 50 billion riyals ($13.3 billion) this year, the information minister said. “The allocation of 50 billion riyals for this decree indicates the

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

China completes world’s longest sea bridge

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

China said it has completed the major work of the world’s longest sea bridge on schedule, after its lighting system was installed and tested. It took six years preparation, and eight years to build the 55-kilometre-long bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao. Major work on the bridge consisted of a 22.9-kilometre-long main bridge, a […]

HEALTH INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Doctors cut baby’s skull during emergency Caesarean section

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2018

A hospital has apologised after a baby died when doctors accidentally cut into his skull during a Caesarean section. Carson Allen died three hours after his birth on July 3, 2013 when doctors made a two-inch deep cut into his scalp and skull, causing him to haemorrhage. His mother, Claire Smith, 41, has now had […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Bangkok clinic jammed by men seeking to whiten their manhood

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2018

No fewer than three to four persons a day, about 100 men a month are on the queue at a Bangkok clinic in Thailand to get their manhood whitened. The service has caused a stir in Thailand, with social media users both baffled and alarmed by the phallic fad. The Lelux Hospital, renowned for its […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Police arrest woman hiding two babies in freezer

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2018

A 46-year-old woman was taken into custody in Germany on Wednesday after the police found bodies of two babies in a freezer in an apartment in the town of Benndorf. However, police would not comment on where the infants were discovered. The police said the woman’s ex-partner had notified officials of the babies, adding that […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

BREAKING: North Korea calls South first time in two years

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2018

The history of the “hotline” linking North and South Korea, that reopened Wednesday, reflects the turbulent ties between two countries which have been technically at war for over 60 years. All telephone and other links were cut off when the three-year Korean War broke out in 1950 and sealed the division of the peninsula into […]