CNB says it also seized about 315g of heroin, 136g of Ice, 113g of ketamine, 41g of cannabis, 232 Ecstasy tablets and 97 Erimin-5 tablets.
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Robert Downey Jr offers to 'work' as robot butler for Mark Zuckerberg
In January, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said he was building an artificial intelligence (AI) system to control his home, sort of like Jarvis in the “Iron Man” movie series.
Zuckerberg is now looking for someone to voice that AI assistant and Iron Man himself – Robert Downey Jr – answered the call in a rather odd message.
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Paul Bettany voiced Jarvis in the Iron Man movies. Benedict Cumberbatch is a British actor known for his role in the “Sherlock Holmes” television series.
Zuckerberg replied to the message saying, “this just got real”.
Other suggestions surfaced among the more than 36,000 comments including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman.
AI has been a big focus for technology companies with software such as Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant set to play a big part in the way humans interact with devices.
Zuckerberg announced plans to build his robot assistant as part of a New Year’s resolution in January. In the summer, the Facebook chief executive said that his AI assistantcan do simple things such as controlling the lights or changing the temperature of his house.
Read also: Facebook’s Oculus pushes virtual reality with new gear
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Singapore dollar hits 7-month low on lacklustre growth outlook
Analysts expect the Sing dollar to weaken further and possibly hit 1.40 against the US dollar by the end of the year.
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Xiaomi celebrates launch of Lazada e-store with $199 Redmi Note 3 deal from 14 Oct 2016
If you haven’t heard, Xiaomi has launched an authorised official Mi Store on Lazada. Mi Fans can now buy their favourite Mi products such as Redmi 3s, Mi Power Bank, and Mi Band 2
Singapore's cybersecurity skills shortage: Why it matters
Under the Government’s recently announced national cybersecurity strategy, the cybersecurity profession will get a boost with clearer career pathways and industry certification.
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Singapore dollar hits 7-month low on lackluster growth outlook
Analysts expect the Singdollar to weaken further and possibly hit 1.40 against the US dollar by the end of the year.
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Park & Ride scheme to end this December
Over the past few years, monthly take-up rates for the scheme have been “consistently low”, averaging around 40 per cent, or fewer than 2,000 regular users out of more than two million public transport commuters daily, says LTA.
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Buses now less crowded during peak hours: LTA, operators
The number of crowded bus services has fallen by 85 per cent since the launch of the Bus Service Enhancement Programme, according to a joint news release by LTA, SMRT and SBS Transit.
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Lose my respect, reap gallons of curses: Duterte
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has cautioned his critics of dire consequences for condemning his government, particularly his war on illegal drugs.
Known for his verbal assaults, President Rodrigo Duterte warned his critics that they would be at the receiving end of “gallons of curses” if he loses respect for them.
In his speech at the 115th anniversary of the Philippine Coast Guard on Wednesday, Duterte warned his critics for “acting too s*****” and criticising his government, particularly his war on illegal drugs.
“If I don’t respect you anymore, be prepared for the worst because I can give you gallons of gallons of epithets, curses,” he stated while addressing coast guard officers, foreign diplomats, including US coast guard and navy officers.
The president has repeatedly launched tirades against the US, EU, and UN for condemning his no-nonsense crackdown on illegal drugs.
The US is a longstanding ally of the Philippines, while the EU is a trading partner of the country.
“This is how you treat your friends.
You do not go about reprimanding,” he affirmed.
However, Duterte said the country’s allies should not go around reprimanding the government.
The chief executive showed a photograph of a drug rehabilitation centre in Nueva Ecija funded by China.
“If you are a friend, if you are an ally, if you are joined by a Western alliance, you should do this,” he said.
“It’s a dormitory, apartment, bunk houses, and they have built it for us. No announcement.
And it would house 1,600 (people who has surrendered),” he added.
Duterte said the rehabilitation centre being built inside the military camp of Fort Magsaysay would be completed by October 15.
The president has expressed his intentions to sever ties with the US and go to China or Russia.
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Korean conglomerates cash in on EXO's success
Korean conglomerate Lotte Group in March opened a duty-free shop in Tokyo’s luxurious shopping district Ginza, drawing a crowd to its opening ceremony early one morning.
To be more precise, they were there to see the duty-free shop’s spokespersons — EXO, a K-pop boy band under the talent agency S.M. Entertainment.
EXO has sold more than 3 million albums since 2013 and has a large social media reach that includes 2 million followers in total on its Instagram accounts.
In light of such popularity, businesses in Korea have been leveraging on EXO by using them as brand models.
Some of them have launched exclusive products using the idol group’s image.
The Korean media calls this the “EXO effect,” referring to a surge in sales of EXO-related products.
Prior to Lotte’s duty-free shop opening, the souvenir shop SUM Market had opened below S.M. Entertainment’s head office in southern Seoul on March 4.
There, an array of memorabilia including T-shirts, tea and kitchenware are displayed with the K-pop artists’ pictures printed on them.
Even the packaging of instant meals are embellished with the faces of the K-pop idols at the convenience store WithMe in a corner of SUM Market.
Cup noodles such as EXO jajang and EXO jjambong are displayed.
Made in collaboration with the S.M. artists, such food items are selling like hot cakes and they are especially popular with Hallyu fans abroad.
K-pop artist-themed meals account for over 70 per cent of total sales here.
E-mart, a supermarket unit of retailer Shinsegae Group, was behind the collaboration between the K-pop stars and the Korean products was E-mart.
The meals are also available at E-mart and its online shopping platform, E-mart Mall.
The friendship between Shinsegae Group Vice Chairman Chung Yong-jin and S.M. Entertainment head producer and founder Lee Soo-man is said to have been a factor in the creation of such products.
Chung and Lee have common alma maters — Seoul National University and Kyungbok High School.
Building on momentum from the collaboration with S.M. Entertainment, E-mart is looking to increase sales of its private label line in South East Asia, including the supermarket chain’s packaged food brand Peacock.
Meanwhile, another fashion and retailing giant E-Land Group has hit the jackpot from a clothing line in partnership with EXO.
E-Land’s casual wear brand SPAO rolled out 10 types of EXO T-shirts in July last year.
Each of them has EXO’s logo or its members’ names, autographs and zodiac signs. About 30,000 pieces were sold within two months of them going on sale.
E-Land decided to hire EXO to promote SPAO at home and abroad. E-Land Vice Chairman Park Sung-kyung has been pushing SPAO to reach the global market since it was launched in 2009.
He struck a collaboration deal with S.M. Entertainment to promote the brand and attract Hallyu fans abroad.
Besides SPAO, the retail group also has other fashion brands, including MIXXO, which sells womenswear, SHOOPEN, which makes shoes, home goods store Butter and jewelry brand LATEM.
SPAO and MIXXO opened stores in China in 2013, and both entered the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets last year.
E-Land’s affordable brands are expected to ramp up its number of overseas stores to 10,000 by 2020, according to Park.
Park is the younger sister of E-Land founder Park Sung-soo. She studied clothing and textile at Ewha Womans University and later worked as a designer for E-Land’s clothing brands including Hunt, Brentano and Roem.
Park is familiar with the entertainment business as her son, Yoon Choong-keun, was a member of the boy band Eagle Five in the late 1990s.
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