Tag: locally-transmitted

  • Zika concerns could test Singapore’s efforts to boost birth rate

    “I really love kids and want to have one of my own,” the 37-year-old who declined to give her full name said after a procedure at the fertility clinic of KK Women's and Children's Hospital, the largest facility for women's health in Singapore. “I'm not postponing my pregnancy plans but I'm taking all precautions I…

  • Russia frees Crimean dissident from psychiatric clinic

    Ilmi Umerov, deputy head of the Crimean Tatars' semi-official Mejlis legislature, which was suspended by Moscow after it annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, was committed to compulsory psychiatric testing by local authorities in August. Western countries, including Britain and the United States, had called for Umerov's release, and rights activists had accused Russia…