CSA and IMDA noted that the two StarHub broadband service outages came ‘on the heels of Friday’s attack against the US-based domain name system service provider, Dyn.’
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Appeals for traffic offences to be done via police e-Appeals portal from November
SINGAPORE – Starting next Tuesday (Nov 1), those who wish to appeal against their traffic offences will have to do so via the Singapore Police Force’s Traffic e-Appeals Portal.
The traffic police will also no longer accept walk-in appeals as well as appeals…
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Appeals for traffic offences must be made online from Nov 1
With the launch of the Traffic e-Appeals Portal, Traffic Police will no longer accept walk-in appeals or those sent via fax, email or post, the authorities said in a news release.
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Broadband service outage due to 'spike in data traffic': StarHub
The telco says initial investigations pointed to similarities between the two outages it suffered in two days.
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Canadian chef's upscale version of Hainan chicken rice outrages Asians
Heavily tattooed Canadian chef Matty Matheson has come to be known for his “how to” recipe hacks for hapless amateur cooks.
But meddle with Hainanese chicken rice and you’re asking for trouble with Singaporeans and Malaysians, where the meal has achieved national dish status.
Just days after Vice published Matheson’s recipe, chicken rice fans are taking apart his version on Facebook. One of their main contentions? His use of ingredients not typically found in the dish, such as anise hyssop and Szechuan buttons.
The recipe also calls for a garnish of edible flowers – a fancy touch seen in upscale restaurants perhaps, but never in the thousands of chicken rice shops across Southeast Asia which serve up Hainanese chicken rice daily.
The Hainan chicken rice recipe was brought to Singapore and Malaysia in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants from the Hainan province. The dish has been adapted over the years to become something the locals call their own, and is available across street hawker outlets to fancy restaurants.
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Islamist militants kill 60 in Pakistan police attack
Pakistan – Heavily-armed Islamist militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest extremist attacks this year.
Three gunmen from a Pakistani Taliban-linked group burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters that are home to some 700 recruits, sending terrified young men fleeing.
“I saw three men in camouflage whose faces were hidden carrying Kalashnikovs,” one cadet told reporters. “They started firing and entered the dormitory but I managed to escape over a wall.”
The attack on the Balochistan Police College, around 20 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta, began at around 11:10 pm (1810 GMT) Monday, with gunfire continuing to ring out at the site for several hours.
Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Balochistan province, told reporters there had been three attackers.
“They first targeted the watch tower sentry, and after exchanging fire, killed him and were able to enter the academy grounds,” he said.
Balochistan’s provincial government spokesman Anwarullah Kakar told AFP that 60 people had died in the attack, with 118 injured, mostly minor wounds.
The head of the local hospital, doctor Fareed Sumalani, confirmed that their morgue had received at least 60 bodies.
Security was tight outside the academy Tuesday morning, with media kept out of the building as a large contingent of security forces swept the area.
Weeping relatives arrived at the academy and were sent to the main hospital, where authorities were starting to prepare for funerals.
Major General Sher Afgan, chief of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Balochistan, which led the counter-operation, said “the attack was over in around three hours after we arrived”.
He added that communications intercepts showed the militants belonged to the Al-Alimi faction of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group – which is affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban.
“They were in communication with operatives in Afghanistan,” he said. The group itself has not claimed the attack.
Bugti said the compound was home to some 700 recruits, hundreds of whom were rescued.
The area was plunged into darkness when the counter-offensive was launched, while security personnel threw up a cordon and ambulances zoomed in and out, taking the injured to hospitals. Military helicopters circled overhead.
Mineral-rich but impoverished Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province, is beset by sectarian strife, Islamist violence and an on-off separatist insurgency that has lasted for decades.
The army has also repeatedly been accused by international rights groups of abuses in Balochistan, particularly against nationalists demanding autonomy and a greater share of the region’s resources.
In August, a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital claimed by the Islamic State group and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban killed 73 people, including many of the city’s lawyer community who had gone there to mourn the fatal shooting of a colleague.
Pakistan has been battling an Islamist insurgency since shortly after it decided to ally with the US following its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Violence has declined in recent years following a series of military offensives in the northwest border areas as well as concerted efforts to block the militants’ sources of funding.
But the remnants of militant groups are still able to carry out periodic bloody attacks, particularly in the northwest.
Monday night’s attack also came a day after separatist gunmen for the Baloch Liberation Army on a motorcycle shot dead two coast guards and a civilian and wounded a shopkeeper in a remote southwest coastal town in the same province.
Balochistan is also a key region for China’s ambitious $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project linking its western province of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan.
Security problems have mired CPEC in the past with numerous separatist attacks, but China has said it is confident the Pakistani military is in control.
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Blogger Qiu Qiu slammed for asking for help with legal fees
She poured her heart out on her blog, asking netizens to help her pay her legal fees.
What she got instead was abuse on her crowdfunding page, with one person even asking her to miscarry or abort her unborn baby.
Local blogger Bong QiuQiu, whose real name is Ang Chiew Ting, said she faced up to $250,000 in legal fees in her ongoing dispute with a social media advertising network.
The network claimed two months ago that she had breached her contract with it by entering into commercial agreements with other brands and companies without its knowledge or approval, leading to a loss in fees for the network.
Ang counter-sued, denying entering into the commercial agreements and saying the company had defamed her by posting about the suit.
She also said she was no longer under contract with the company and that the latter had failed to promote her website, resulting in losses for her.
Now, the 28-year-old expectant mother is taking heat from netizens.
Ang wrote a lengthy blog post last week, asking her followers for help.
“There’s no good way to put it but I am going to need your help with my legal fees,” she wrote on her blog and on the GIVEasia crowdfunding site.
She said she had used up her personal savings and also received some monetary help from family and friends, but she was unwilling to take more from them because “some are bleeding themselves so that I can survive this lawsuit”.
Ang, who is three months’ pregnant, told The New Paper last Friday: “My friends shoved money into my bag but I returned it when I still had savings.
“But it has come to a point where I am no longer able to keep up.”
She also mentioned on her blog that both her sisters took out their savings to help her, especially when she needed to pay a deposit after being served the writ of summons.
Ang declined to reveal the exact amount provided by family and friends.
Her husband, Mr Joshua Tan, a 44-year-old commercial photographer, wanted to sell their three-room flat in Punggol, which is being rented out.
But the proceeds from selling their flat may not fully cover the legal fees because of the current market sentiments.
So Ang has turned to crowdfunding on GIVEasia.
“Crowdfunding was something suggested by my friends and readers who know about the case,” she said.
At press time, about 250 people had contributed more than $70,000.
BACKLASH
Before she set up the page, Ang knew that she would face backlash.
She said: “Mean comments are just something that I have to deal with. Not everyone is open to the idea of what I’m doing and I respect that.
“But I would really appreciate a little sensitivity from netizens towards my family.
“Someone left a nasty comment on my blog, asking me to get an abortion or hope for a miscarriage, suggesting it would help lighten my burden.
“This really opened my eyes to how malicious some people can get.”
The comments are so “scary” that Ang avoids looking at her blog and the crowdfunding page.
“The comments can get very scary. If people don’t wish to help, I totally understand,” she said.
“But kicking me when I’m down really casts a dark shadow on how I understand life and humanity.”
Many netizens were quick to attack Ang, questioning her recent trip to Bangkok, which she posted on her Instagram page.
“Travelling to Bangkok was for work. These work trips were planned beforehand, way before I was served (notice),” she said.
“Since I got served, I have not made big purchases or travelling plans other than what was already booked through low cost websites.”
Ang also said on her blog post that the money raised would never be for her own personal expenses, only to pay off the legal fees.
When TNP asked Ang what would be the next step if the crowdfunding goal cannot be reached, she said: “I have no plans, to be honest.
“Once I am able to keep up with the legal fees or once the case is settled, I will immediately take down the page.
“If there’s remaining amount after the case ends, I will donate it to Community Chest.
“I will continue to work, as this is the only thing I know how to do.”
Despite the situation she is in, she said: “I am touched by the kindness of my fans and it’s heartwarming to know I have touched the hearts of many people over the years.”
This article was first published on October 25, 2016.
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Car-Free Sunday will extend to Telok Ayer area when it returns on Oct 30
SINGAPORE – Free rides on a “bike train” around the Padang, free guided tours of one of Singapore’s oldest temple in the historic Telok Ayer area, and a chance to check out the hip cafes along Telok Ayer Street and Amoy Street from 8am are on the cards for…
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Dog hit by car in Pasir Ris should recover from injuries
For about 1½ hours on Sunday, they searched desperately for Sayang, a dog that had bolted into the jungle after a hit-and-run accident in Pasir Ris.
About 10 animal shelter volunteers spread out, covering a nearby forested area and construction site calling out for the injured dog. But when they spotted Sayang in a drain, it ran off again.
The dog finally responded to the call of its close companion, Mr Ong Ren Qin, 27, and returned to the Animal Lovers League (ALL) shelter in Pasir Ris Farmway 3.
Sayang’s saga went viral on Sunday after two Facebook posts made by ALL and its volunteer, Ms Lixin Tan, alleged that the female driver who ran over the dog told another volunteer that “it’s just a dog” and uttered an expletive before driving off.
The posts each gleaned over 4,000 and 15,000 shares.
The accident occurred at around 10.45am, after the unleashed dog slipped through the shelter’s open gate, where volunteers were congregating before their weekly walks with the dogs.
ALL co-founder Cathy Strong told The New Paper “He’s always been very impatient and just couldn’t wait his turn and slipped out unnoticed. He likes leading the pack.”
A witness who wanted to be known as Ms Zheng, 22, said that Sayang wanted to cross the road back to the shelter when it was hit.
Ms Zheng said: “I saw the car slowing down, so Sayang continued crossing but the car did not stop. He was underneath for about 2 to 3 seconds and I shouted for the car to stop.”
When it stopped, Sayang managed to free itself from under the car and dashed towards a nearby construction area.
Ms Zheng gave chase but could only see a glimpse of Sayang running into big pipes.
The driver told a volunteer “it’s just a dog”, before uttering an expletive, said Ms Zheng.
COLLISION
The driver stopped for about a minute before driving off.
Volunteer Perle Ng, 21, said: “The volunteer (who was told off) asked the driver to wait while she got Cathy who was in the shelter. The driver told her she would wait.”
That volunteer crossed the road to Ms Ng’s side, and told her to keep an eye on the car.
But the woman drove off soon after.
Recounting the search, Ms Ng said: “He (Sayang) ran into the bushes where it was cordoned off for some construction work. Someone found Sayang in a drain during the search but he ran away again. It was quite hard because the bushes were tall and thick.”
Mr Ong joined the search at 11.30am but headed back to the shelter after about 40 minutes later.
He said: “I started searching at a construction site beside our shelter. We marched through the tall grass and branches but I had a feeling that Sayang was not in those bushes, so I decided to head back to the shelter as Sayang will definitely be waiting for me if he hears my voice.”
He was plagued with worry during the search.
“He is very close to me. We are like best friends – he will respond to me when I call for him, he will sit beside me if I sit in the shelter, he will be the first to welcome me whenever I visit the shelter. He is a wonderful and clever dog.”
Sayang appeared 10 to 15 metres away from the shelter’s entrance at about 12.15pm.
“I felt relieved when I finally saw him, and he did not appear in a very bad state. I ran after him and he just walked slowly until he sat outside his zone’s gate, waiting for me to open it.”
There were bloodstains around his mouth.
Ms Strong said that after the accident, Sayang appeared visibly traumatised, panting heavily even though it could move about.
Sayang has not been eating and was referred to a veterinarian that night. It is on a drip and will stay there until it starts eating.
Despite that, Ms Strong is confident of Sayang’s recovery.
“He should be okay. He’s a tough boy, and a fat one at that so I think his body mass will prevent too many broken bones.” Police investigations are ongoing.
This article was first published on October 25, 2016.
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