Tokyo – Japanese coastguards said Friday they had discovered five bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that capsized after a collision with a Hong Kong oil tanker off the western coast of Japan the previous day.
“We found five bodies inside the ship… we’re still continuing our search-and-rescue operation for the remaining seven,” a Japanese coastguard official told AFP.
Thursday’s collision occurred 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
The Chinese vessel, the 290-ton “Lurong Yuanyu 378”, had 16 crew members in total. Four have already been rescued.
The Hong Kong-flagged ship was identified as “Brightoil Lucky”, a 63,294-ton tanker carrying 21 crew members.
The tanker’s crew were believed to be safe.
Japan has deployed three patrol boats to search for the missing crew, after responding to a plea for help from their Chinese counterparts.
He was standing at the lobby of his hotel in Semarang, Indonesia when he felt “a strong sensation of heat” from his Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos last Saturday (Sept 30).
He also felt something start to shake, MailOnline quoted him as saying.
CCTV footage shows Yulianto reaching for the phone when it suddenly blows up.
He falls to the ground and quickly takes his shirt off with help from an onlooker.
According to MailOnline, Yulianto is said to have left his 2013 phone’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS functions on simultaneously, and this could have contributed to overheating.
SINGAPORE – Seven people were injured and had to be taken to the hospital after a chain collision involving about a dozen vehicles on the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway on Friday (Oct 6) morning.
A photo circulating on social media showed a black car lifted off its rear wheels by the collision with a CityCab taxi, as well as a long line of vehicles involved in the accident.
In this photo circulating on social media, about a dozen vehicles were seen involved in a pile-up on the KPE. Photo: FACEBOOK/Motorist.sg
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the accident at 9.45 am. Three ambulances were sent to the scene.
Of the seven people who were injured, five were taken to the Singapore General Hospital while the other two were sent to Raffles Hospital.
TODAY understands that their injuries were not life-threatening.
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As bots become more intelligent, there are signs that artificial intelligence is learning prejudice. Are they – and we – programmed to hate? Brunch examines the learning curve in the main paper.
Elsewhere, Disrupted showcases a bunch of places that makes Singapore an attractive startup hub, informed by the very founders and disruptors who live here.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix on Thursday said it is bumping up subscription prices in the US and parts of Europe as the leading online streaming service invests in more shows and features.
Shares of the Silicon Valley-based company jumped more than four per cent to $192.44 in trading following news of the relatively small price hike.
“From time to time, Netflix plans and pricing are adjusted as we add more exclusive TV shows and movies, introduce new product features and improve the overall Netflix experience to help members find something great to watch even faster,” the company told AFP in an email.
A basic plan that offers streaming to a single screen will remain $7.99 monthly in the US.
The most popular Netflix plan, which supports high-definition video and allows simultaneous streaming to two screens, was raised a dollar a month to $10.99. A top-level plan that includes super-rich 4k video and watching from four screens at a time got a two-dollar price hike to $13.99 monthly.
The price changes applied immediately to new customers and will roll out in the weeks ahead to current subscribers. The price increase was limited to the US and a handful of European countries including France, Britain and Germany, Netflix said.
The streaming giant last raised prices in the US two years ago. Subscription prices were tweaked in Canada, Latin America and some Nordic countries earlier this year. Netflix subscriptions still came in far cheaper than traditional cable service packages.
The company in July reported that ranks of subscribers to its streaming service grew in the second quarter of this year to 103.95 million.
Most of the subscriber growth came from outside the US, where Netflix has invested heavily in establishing itself as a global television service.
Netflix told investors at the time it was determined to balance boldness and financial discipline as it continued to bolster its programming slate.
The company remained committed to investing in original programming, saying it will release 40 feature productions this year ranging from “big-budget popcorn films to grassroots independent cinema.”
Netflix and rival Amazon Prime have been pumping money into original shows to win fans and set themselves apart in an increasingly competitive bid for viewers’ time.
In the online report on states-news.com, the 39-year-old singer was rushed to hospital after a prop fell on her while she was performing in New York on Tuesday.
The story quoted an audience member who said that while early reports mentioned that Sun had broken her ankle, “official news just broke out the singer died from injuries sustained from the accident”.
Chinese evening newspaper Shin Min Daily News contacted Sun’s representative who rubbished the story and said that the singer is in good health.
The representative added that Sun is in Singapore and preparing for an album launch in November.
Stefanie posted a video to her Facebook page on the same day, wishing her fans a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
A secondary school teacher was found guilty of making two counterfeit Singapore $100 notes and using them to pay for massage services from a Vietnamese woman.
District Judge Terence Tay on Oct 5 found Daniel Wong Mun Meng, 44, guilty of counterfeiting the money and using it as genuine currency.
Wong admitted: “In late July 2015, I photocopied two $100 notes of the same serial number using my home printer and ordinary A4-sized paper. It was an experiment to use it as a teaching tool, to excite and engage the students during my maths class because I believe many of them have not seen a $100 note before.”
He added: “Since it was SG50, I wanted to infuse national education in my subject.”
He brought the fake notes with him when he went to Orchard Towers and negotiated with Ms Nguyen Nhu Trang for her services, reports The Straits Times.
He showed her the counterfeit money before putting it directly inside her handbag while they were sitting in his car.
They checked into a Fragrance Hotel branch in Balestier Road that day and checked out about an hour later.
Wong had earlier told the court: “She provided a full body massage for me and thereafter, we had sex.”
When Ms Trang took the stand, she said that she only gave him an oil massage.
He told Judge Tay that he only realised that he had “mistakenly” given her the fake notes after he dropped her off at Kim Yam Road.
Ms Trang had tried to use the money to buy items at a supermarket and was caught by an alert cashier.
Wong was later arrested by police officers at Bukit Batok Secondary School on Aug 20, 2015.
FIVE SUSPECTS, INCLUDING COURIER, ARE ARRESTED WITHIN TWO DAYS OF THEFT; CASH RECOVERED; TWO SUSPECTS AT LARGE
Police have arrested five suspects over the robbery of 197.96 million yen (S$2.4 million) from employees of a Bangkok jewellery exporter and recovered all of the stolen cash. The arrested suspects include the exporter’s employee who had transported the cash from Japan to Thailand earlier the same night.
Two more suspects are being sought.
The suspects reportedly confessed to carrying out the theft, in part due to personal debt issues, and had met more than 10 times in the past month to plot the robbery, Police Commissioner Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda told a press conference yesterday.
Suspects Narongchai Sawasdiphol, 32, Chawalit Cha-roenpol, 31, Surasak Srithawong, 35, Pongsak Pitasiripan, 31, and Krissada Atthawet, 30, face multiple charges, including armed robbery, assault, possession of guns and ammunitions, transporting guns and ammunition, and possession of stolen property.
A re-enactment of the crime is scheduled for today, said Chakthip, who praised officers for speedily arresting the suspects in just two days after he had told them to wrap up the investigation within a week. City police deputy chief Pol Maj-General Sompong Chingduang, who led the investigation, said formal arrest warrants had been obtained for all seven suspects.
Narongchai, who had been employed by the gold and jewellery exporter Pattharit Taerattanachai to carry the money from Japan, was the first to be arrested on Wednesday night. Two other suspects also worked for Pattharit, while Chawalit and Surasak were former employees.
Police alleged that Narongchai planned the robbery with his brother-in-law Natthapong Thanyatoon, 33, who remains at large.
Photo: The Nation/Asia News Network
Another suspect still at large is Natthapong’s friend and the alleged getaway driver, Sarayuth Ritchainuwat, 31. Sarayuth also allegedly rented a room on September 1 at the condominium where the heist took place.
During Narongchai’s arrest, police found all of the stolen cash still in the same carry-on luggage snatched from Pattharit’s two employees in the Ratchada Pavilion condominium’s parking lot at 11.15pm on Monday.
Police on Wednesday night also retrieved a brand-new pickup truck stolen during the robbery, which was found abandoned at an intersection near the head office of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand in Bangkok’s Huay Kwang district.
After the press conference, Pattharit brought flowers to thank police for their speedy arrest of suspects and retrieval of all the stolen cash and the truck. Meanwhile, Customs Department chief Kulis Sombatsiri said the 197.96 million yen that Narongchai had carried in luggage from Japan through the Suvarnabhumi Airport had been properly declared upon his arrival on Monday.
The officials’ examination of the past year’s records regarding cash brought in by Pattharit’s group also found that it had been properly declared. Kulis said people carrying more than US$15,000 (S$20,437) in cash either in to or out of Thailand must declare it to Customs officials or be fined up to Bt20,000 (S$817).
