I have been following the incident of the MRT breakdown from Cambodia. I am especially concerned over the well-being of the people who were reported to be trapped in the trains for an extended period of time before they made their way to safety.
There have been a number of train disruptions in recent days. I do not know if these are isolated incidents or whether there are systemic and more serious underlying issues causing these breakdowns. We will therefore conduct a thorough health check on our train systems, determine how the faults happened and also whether the maintenance, communication and recovery processes were adhered to and can be further improved.
I have asked LTA to assemble a team of relevant experts, including possibly relevant overseas experts to help us in this review.
本地名医林美丽医生，通过动画故事在网上喊冤，把自己称为“苗条医生”，形象犹如灰姑娘。[via HWZ]
她在Youtube以一段13分钟的动画故事，来呈现她打官司的整个经过。
Stop masturbating in hostel toilets, or culprits may be traced through DNA matching, warns this 'NTU circular', which is still circulating online despite having been established earlier as fake. STOMPer Curious thought that it was an obvious prank as well.
An NTU spokesperson had said earlier this year that the letter is an obvious hoax as the phone numbers are wrong.
A pilot and passenger spent more than two hours stuck in a ferris wheel after their plane crashed into the ride at the Old Bar Beach Festival earlier today.
Two children – a nine-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl - were on the fun ride at the time but miraculously escaped injury.
After 90 minutes emergency services safely removed the children.
The pilot of the light Cheetah S200, a 53-year-old Taree man, and his passenger, a 32-year-old Queensland man, were unhurt and were freed from the wreckage about 12.45pm.
A crane is currently being used to extract the plane from the ferris wheel. This is expected to take a few hours.
The road, however, has been re-opened.
Air Safety investigators will examine the circumstances surrounding the crash
大馬兔女郎．滿載夢想到吉隆坡 葉靜儀：一切成真了Felixia Yeap Chin Yee (叶静仪, 枼靜儀) was born in Kuala Lumpur and raised in Ipoh Perak. A former kindergarten teacher who taught the "national language and hip-hop dance to expatriates’ kids for almost two years". The Malaysian model, managed under Velocity Angels, is also actively involved in pageants and TV shows.
大馬首位兔女郎葉靜儀指出，她帶著很多夢想到來吉隆坡，包括升讀關于外語的科系、騎馬、寫作、賽車及升級成國際女模等，如今夢想成真，做了人氣爆燈的兔女郎。
這位25歲俏姑娘去年參加大馬環球小姐選美會時，設立部落格，在網上寫下關于自己的事情，除了文字，也上載小時照片及與母親合照。
部落格以英文書寫，但至去年5月13日停止上載部落格文章，即是環球小姐選美會比賽成績公佈前數天。
葉靜儀（Felixia Yeap）在部落格披露，本身從怡保帶著數個夢想到吉隆坡，希望可在這個城市圓夢。
The outrageous brother of the Sultan of Brunei has finally learned humility — he wants to bar a Manhattan jury from seeing statues that portray him having sex.
Lawyers for Prince Jefri — a notorious high-flying and hard partying playboy — have asked the judge overseeing his upcoming civil trial against his former attorneys to ban the jury from seeing pictures of the "erotic statues" he kept on his $11 million Long Island estate. Mark Cymrot, the lawyer for the British attorneys, said there are four statues in all, which Jefri had commissioned from renowned artist J. Seward Johnson. One depicts the prince, another is of one of his fiances, and the other two are "graphic" depictions of them having sex.
Stanley Ho, the Macau gaming tycoon, is in a Hong Kong hospital, an official said. The Apple Daily reported earlier the 87-year-old billionaire was in intensive care following brain surgery.
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital marketing officer Christine Chow said by telephone today that Ho had been admitted and was still in the hospital. Chow declined to disclose further details, citing patient privacy. Janet Wong, Stanley Ho’s press secretary, couldn’t be reached for comment on her office and mobile phone numbers after several attempts.
SJM Holdings Ltd., Ho’s casino operator, fell 4.6 percent to HK$3.15 at closing. SJM, which operates casinos and hotels in Macau, has almost doubled this year.
On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific OceanAccording to Shanghai Daily, Jinshan City Beach in Shanghai is the best spot to catch the eclipse.
NASA says suburban Shanghai will be one of the best spots in the world to catch Wednesday's astronomical phenomenon, reports Tan Weiyun.
Jinshan City Beach may be the best spot in Shanghai to catch the total solar eclipse next Wednesday.
According to a report from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, one of the better places to catch the eclipse is in Shanghai's suburban Jinshan District, which is along the Hangzhou Bay.
So far the beach's management committee has signed deals with more than 45 international travel agencies and astronomy groups, arranging for more than 1,300 people from 12 countries and regions to see the eclipse on Wednesday.
The US embassy in Rangoon said it is still trying to garner more information to confirm the identity of the American who reportedly swam across the Innya Lake and entered the residence of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma’s state-run newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar, on Thursday reported that a US citizen was arrested on Wednesday after he swam across the Innya Lake, where swimming is prohibited.The newspaper said, during preliminary interrogation, the man, identified as John William Yeattaw, confessed that he swam across the Innya Lake on the night of May 3 and secretly entered the lakeside villa of Aung San Suu Kyi. After staying at the Nobel Peace Laureate’s home for two days, he left the house on the evening of May 5. He was arrested on May 6 while swimming in the lake, the newspaper said.
Law enforcement sources tell us Dakota Culkin was walking on the west side of Los Angeles Tuesday when she stepped off a curb and was struck by a car. The 29-year-old Culkin was taken to the UCLA Medical Center where she died of her injuries yesterday afternoon.
So far no arrests have been made. The case is under investigation by LAPD.
We can officially confirm that the victim is Dakota Culkin. This is a terrible tragic accident. We have no further comment at this time.
His collection which may well be far more than 5000 vehicles is estimated to have cost over $4 billion, filling them all up may be a little expensive at $4 a gallon, that is estimated at a minimum of half a million dollars.[via CodeWolf]
28-year-old Nay Phone Latt (in the photo) was arrested on January 29, 2008, and found guilty by a tribunal set up in the prison of Insein, in Yangon, where he is currently detained; he is accused of publishing a cartoon considered "offensive" toward the head of the military junta, General Than Shwe, on his blog.
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The 8lb gnome appeared on the Stuart-Kelso's doorstep on Thursday last week, some 11 months after disappearing.
A little the worse for wear, the traveller was standing next to a mysterious and tightly-wrapped parcel.
Once unwrapped it revealed a leather-bound photo album containing 48 pictures of the gnome's trip around the globe along with a note putting his impromptu world tour down to 'itchy feet'.
The painstakingly compiled album, complete with index, showed their gnome - renamed Barrington by his travel companions - abseiling down a mountain, standing in a shark's mouth, swimming in the sea, and riding a motorbike. Also with him were immigration stamps for all the shores he had been taken to visit - South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Laos.
A witty note, purporting to be from Barrington, referred to his 'travelling companion' only as The Bear, and told the couple how he attracted unwanted attention from customs officials and took up 25 per cent of the party's luggage allocation.
The only clue, however, to the identity of those companions was a photograph of a group of grinning young men.
Hello! First of all I feel I should explain my prolonged absence. A gnome's life is full of time for reflection, and whilst surveying your garden one summer morning, I began to get itchy feet.
I came to the conclusion that the world is a big place and there is more to life than watching the daily commuter traffic, and allowing passing cats to urinate on you.
So I decided to free myself from the doldrums of the Shire and seek adventure. My travels have taken me across three continents, 12 countries and more time zones than I can possibly remember.
A search is ongoing for a Singapore Management University (SMU) first-year student who fell into the sea off Raffles Marina at Tuas West on Thursday.
He is identified as 22-year-old Levin Angsana, an Indonesian who is a Singapore permanent resident.
Channel NewsAsia understands that a group of five SMU Sailing Club students went out to sea at 1pm on Thursday to train on a 24-footer keel boat. At about 3.30pm, when the spinnaker of the boat fell into the waters and got caught under the boat, Levin went on a prone position to try to retrieve it. That was when he lost his balance and fell overboard. He tried to get near the back of the boat where it was easier to climb back in, but failed.
The skipper, ex-national sailor Renfred Tay, jumped in and managed to get hold of him. But when the boat neared them and they were thrown life jackets, Renfred reached to get a jacket and turned around to find Levin gone. None of the crew were wearing life jackets. The Maritime and Port Authority is conducting the ongoing search, and the police are assisting. Levin's parents also flew into Singapore from Brunei on Friday. He has a sister studying at a polytechnic.
The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft.
Villagers in Kampot said Tuesday that they had heard a loud explosion. Wednesday they told Reuters they had found small chunks of metal near the coastline.
Kung Mony, deputy commander of Cambodia's Air Force, said Tuesday he had been told of a foreign plane crashing in Kampot province, but later backed off his claims of an aircraft accident.
