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Formula One: We'll come back stronger in Japan, vows Mercedes boss

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Mercedes are “beating themselves up” about Lewis Hamilton’s dramatic Malaysian Grand Prix engine failure but have vowed to come back stronger in Japan this weekend.

Team principal Toto Wolff was almost lost for words after leader Hamilton’s engine exploded 15 laps from victory on Sunday (Oct 2) at the Sepang International Circuit.

“It’s hard to know how to sum up a day like today,” Wolff said. “I just have no words for what happened to Lewis. We feel his pain.”

Hamilton was close to tears after the dramatic retirement dealt a severe blow to his chances of winning a third drivers’ championship in a row, as his team-mate Nico Rosberg finished third to extend his championship lead to 23 points.

Immediately after the race, won by Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, Hamilton lashed out at his team, accusing them of favouring their German driver Rosberg.

Wolff admitted he did not have any answers. “This is a mechanical sport, with so much technology, but sometimes you get blindsided by situations with no rational explanation,” he said.

“Our guys will get to the bottom of what happened and learn from it. But I want to focus on how Lewis responded in the aftermath. We let him down today and we are beating up ourselves about it.”

Hamilton’s emotional outburst, said Wolff, was in the heat of the moment. But he praised his driver for afterwards making peace with the team and refocusing on the next race on Sunday.

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“What Lewis said, it’s completely understandable. But he came back to the garage and shook the hand of every team member.

“We talked in a small group and we were all really down. Then he stood in front of the team and found the words to lift everybody and help us recover quickly for Japan.

“This is what the great drivers do, the true champions, and I must express my respect for how he conducted himself today.

“One of the greatest qualities of our group is how we come back from defeat even stronger than before. We will do that again now, in time for Japan next weekend.”

Mercedes technical chief Paddy Lowe was more forthright in describing what had befallen Hamilton.

“The word is ‘bollocks’ really,” said Lowe. “This is one of the more difficult races of the year and we approached the weekend knowing it would be tough to get a top result. And so it transpired.

“Lewis was well on track to secure the win. We’re all absolutely devastated for him.”

Lowe refuted any talk of conspiracy theories. “One thing we had made a priority was to ensure an equal competition between the drivers,” Lowe added.

“Unfortunately, we have failed in that objective today in brutal fashion.

“We will go away and analyse what happened today, aiming to arrive in Japan prepared to bounce back in the best way we can.”

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Indian-Pakistan families fear border shutdown

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Mohammad Iftakar waits with sweets and gifts at the Wagah border crossing, a lifeline for families violently separated during the founding of India and Pakistan, fearful of dangerous new divisions as hostilities flare once again.

Like many other Indians, he has extended family on both sides of the frontier and travels regularly between the nations that were divided after independence from Britain in 1947.

He worries authorities might close the main border crossing at Wagah in India’s northern Punjab state, leaving families like his in limbo, after New Delhi said it had conducted military strikes inside Pakistan.

“There are some agencies and jihadi groups in Pakistan that don’t want peace, but all of the other people are like us,” said Iftakar, who was travelling with his wife and two sons and carrying bags loaded with sweets and gifts.

“They (Pakistanis) love us and they too want close relations between our two countries,” he said, before clearing customs and making the short walk to the border crossing.

The wealthy farming state of Punjab was divided between India and Pakistan at partition, becoming the epicentre of the violence in which at least a million people were killed as Hindus fleeing the newly formed Pakistan clashed with Muslims moving the opposite way.

Iftakar, whose wife Aarafa is from Pakistan, nervously remembers when India shut the border in 2001 after Pakistani militants staged a deadly attack on the parliament building in New Delhi.

The Wagah crossing itself is famous for its colourful “flag lowering” ceremony, that draws huge cheering crowds on both sides of the border post each sunset to see the display of military preening and pageantry.

The ceremony was briefly closed to the public on the Indian side after the strikes in disputed Kashmir to the north of Punjab, which have led to a spike in tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

India says it has no desire for a further escalation in the situation, but has nevertheless ordered thousands of villagers to move away from the border in Punjab.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence seven decades ago.

Last week’s strikes followed a deadly assault on one of India’s army bases in Kashmir that Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based militants.

Islamabad has dismissed India’s claim to have conducted surgical strikes across the border as an “illusion”, insisting any such incursions would be impossible.

At the customs hall, not far from India’s Sikh holy city of Amritsar and a short distance from Pakistan’s Lahore, Ghulam Ali said he feared the regional tensions would further delay a reunion with his wife.

“Our families have lived in the same region for generations,” the 40-year-old Muslim told AFP.

Since marrying his Pakistani wife two years ago, he has been trying without success to secure a visa for her to live with him in India’s Rajasthan.

Instead, Ali, who works as a milk supplier, makes frequent visits across the border to see his wife and son.

“What some in Pakistan are doing is wrong of course,” he said.

“But I hope that the governments, particularly our government, ensures that people like us, who have families across the border, don’t have problems travelling and meeting each other.”

“We are the same people.” The road leading to Wagah is normally choked with auto rickshaws and taxis. But it has been largely deserted in recent days, with many tea stalls and other roadside eateries shut.

Mohammad Shahid, whose mother and sister were heading to a relative’s wedding in Lahore, said he too hoped for a quick thawing of hostilities.

“I hope the governments sit and talk with each other,” he said.

“We haven’t experienced such tension between the countries in a while.”

 

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Kim Kardashian robbed in Paris, millions stolen: Police

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PARIS – US reality television star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at a Paris hotel by assailants disguised as police who made off with millions, mainly in jewellery, French authorities and her representative said Monday.

Paris police said the loss amounted to “several million euros, mostly jewellery,” adding that they were still assessing the total amount stolen and had opened an investigation.

A spokesperson for the celebrity had earlier described her as “badly shaken but physically unharmed” after the assault, which occurred late on Sunday.

The spokesperson said that “two armed masked men dressed as police officers” entered Kardashian’s hotel room and held her up at gunpoint.

The representative gave no further details, nor did the person say whether the incident was an attempted robbery or had another motive.

On hearing the news, Kardashian’s husband, rapper Kanye West, abruptly ended a festival appearance in New York citing a “family emergency.”

Kardashian, one of the most identifiable US celebrities, has been appearing prominently at Paris fashion week.

The 35-year-old starlet made headlines at the show for appearing without make-up, a bare look recently adopted by singer Alicia Keys at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Kardashian, who has two children with West, has been a fixture of US celebrity news for more than a decade after an infamous leaked sex tape and the reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

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Also in Paris, Kardashian was last week approached by Vitalii Sediuk, a famous accoster of the stars, who was caught on video attempting to kiss her behind in an apparent social commentary.

Rap superstar West learned about the assault as he headlined a music festival in New York.

One of the biggest draws in live music, West took the stage half an hour late but in dramatic fashion with a fireworks show overhead as he ripped into songs from his latest album “The Life of Pablo.”

However, an hour into his set, West said mid-song, “I’m sorry, show’s over,” and quickly left.

A festival representative took the microphone to declare a 10-minute intermission before quickly returning to say that West had a “family emergency” and had already left the venue.

The festival later issued a statement praising West for a “great show” and said: “Our thoughts are with West and his family.”

West had flown to Paris to appear with his wife and her sister Kourtney Kardashian on Thursday during a one-day break in his North American tour.

Amid an initial lack of details over his swift exit, many fans at the festival were distraught as they poured out of the venue into the parking lot of the New York Mets’ baseball stadium.

Some had waited since early afternoon to be in the front rows for him, while the merchandise stands had special lines exclusively for West merchandise with waits of one hour.

The new, late-season festival was set up by the promoters of New York’s six-year-old Governors Ball who had snagged West for a June performance well ahead of his tour – but were forced to cancel his set due to weather.

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MAS to work with 5 polytechnics to shape curriculum for fintech

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The Monetary Authority of Singapore has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the five local polytechnics to promote the development of skills in financial technology. 

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K-pop history in one night

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ONE ASIA OPENING PERFORMANCE

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Korean pop history class was in the making at last Saturday night’s opening concert of the inaugural Busan One Asia Festival – a massive K-culture affair spanning Korean pop, food and beauty events taking place across Busan this month.

Held at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium, the two-hour-long music extravaganza featured pop acts from the 1990s to present day, interwoven with pre-recorded videos chronicling the Korean wave.

The K-pop 101 theme was befitting of the festival, which is riding on the Hallyu, or Korean wave, in hope of drawing visitors to the nation’s second largest city. The opening show is the first in a series of concerts to be held over the next three weeks as part of the festival.

However, the K-pop acts last Saturday would have been better served if they did not have to perform rapidly one after another, as if providing new fans with a crash course in K-pop 101. Each act performed one to three songs, giving the idols hardly any time to interact with fans.

The 1990s era was represented by boy band Sechs Kies, who made a comeback this year after disbanding in 2000. Five of the original six members are active in show business and performed nostalgia- tinged tunes from their heyday, such as the banger Com’back and the breezy Couple.

The five men in their 30s proved that old was gold. Well, almost gold. When they performed, their fans wearing yellow raincoats, which made up a sizeable portion of the 35,000-strong crowd, held illuminated balloons to form an impressive glittering sea of yellow, the band’s official colour.

Save for the 1990s vibe in Sechs Kies’ tunes, the uninitiated would not have guessed the quintet launched their careers two decades ago.

Wearing trendy outfits and sporting loud hair colours, the singers pulled off dance moves in sync while working the 360-degree stage with the energy and enthusiasm of any teenaged K-popster.

The next wave of acts that took the stage included girl groups I.O.I and Apink and boy bands Infinite and B.A.P.

However, one of the Noughties’ biggest names was K-pop queens Girls’ Generation, who debuted in 2007 and reign to this day.

The leggy octet caught the eye in sparkly blue rompers, performing two songs spanning their career – break-out dance hit Gee and their latest album’s titular soul-pop tune, Lion Heart.

Bangtan Boys, also known as BTS, entered the scene three years ago and already could give the reigning K-pop queens and kings a run for their money.

One could feel the heat emanating from the stage as the six guys executed high-powered moves in tune with the thumping beats of dance hit Fire, surrounded by plumes of fire. A seventh member of the group, Rap Monster, sat out the performance due to health issues.

The screams of their fans were deafening and thousands retweeted posts about BTS’ performance.

While pop music performed by same-gender groups inevitably dominated the night’s programme – a reflection of K-pop fare popular worldwide – the concert organiser shrewdly included a smattering of alternative acts, such as hop-hop trio MFBTY, whose name stands for My Fans Are Better Than Yours.

Comprising Tiger JK, Yoon Mi Rae and Bizzy, they presented rapid-fire rap in the tune, Bang Diggy Bang Bang, and also showcased soulful singing in Angel.

Solo singer Lyn belted out the wistful theme ballad, My Destiny, from megahit K-drama My Love From The Star (2013), with famous scenes from the show playing on the jumbo screen above the stage.

Closing the televised portion of the concert, Psy – a maverick in the K-pop world because of his sheer difference from the plastic-fantastic lookers of the scene – easily brought the house down with the infectious energy that powered his 2012 hit, Gangnam Style, to worldwide ubiquity.

No matter one’s opinion of what is undeniably a wacky dance ditty, it was a no-brainer to use it to telegraph K-pop’s plan to win the world’s attention by any means necessary.

If one had to gallop like a horse, then gallop away.Indeed, Gangnam Style’s atypical K-pop success served as a timely reminder to the industry to spice up its exports with variety.

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Watch the Busan One Asia Festival concerts, within 24 hours of the concert taking place, on Korean entertainment streaming site Viu (www.viu.com). It is also available on the Viu app, which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

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3%-5% of veggies, fruit exceeded pesticide limits

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Some 300 batches of vegetables – mostly leafy greens – and fruit were stopped from being sold in Singapore last year, after pesticide residues found on samples exceeded levels allowed by the authorities.

The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) sampled about 8,000 consignments of imported vegetables and fruit for pesticides last year.

About 3 to 5 per cent were rejected for containing too much pesticides, a rate that has remained constant over the years, said the AVA.

But this does not necessarily mean that they are unsafe, stressed the AVA and food science experts.

While the levels used for food safety inspections – also known as maximum residue limits (MRLs) – are safeguards to protect consumers from toxic levels, they are not absolute food safety limits.

“Detection of MRL violations does not necessarily mean the food is unsafe for consumption as MRLs are set with a large safety margin,” said Dr Wu Yuan Sheng, deputy director of the Pesticide Residues Section at AVA’s Laboratories Group.

This large margin, he explained, is put in place to ensure that even if people consumed multiple types of food with the same pesticide, the levels of toxins ingested will still be safe for the body.

The AVA did not specify the vegetables that failed the inspection, or where they are from.

Amid growing awareness about food safety issues and a burgeoning movement to “go organic”, the AVA has been dogged in its checks.

Each day at its pesticide residues laboratory in Lim Chu Kang, 30 to 40 samples of food products – including fresh vegetables, fruit and grains – are tested for hundreds of pesticides simultaneously. The lab has the machinery to test for over 400 different pesticides.

Food found to have pesticide residue levels above the amount permitted will not be allowed for sale.

“Besides confiscation and destruction of the implicated consignments, importers are also subject to enforcement actions such as fines, suspension or prosecution,” said Dr Wu. But, he added, there have been only a “rare few cases” that posed safety concerns.

Recently, world-renowned food toxicity expert Carl Winter from the University of California, Davis, was in town for the Insights to Emerging Trends in Food Science and Technology conference, where he also drove home the point that consumers should not be overly worried about pesticides.

“It is the dose that makes the poison – it is the amount, not its presence or its absence that determines the potential for harm,” he stressed.

And to determine if a substance is toxic, one needs to consider its dose and length of exposure, he added. “My concern as a food toxicologist is that we tend to be worried about pesticide residues to the extent we are doing ourselves more harm than good by choosing to consume fewer fruit and vegetables.”

Every year, each person here eats about 70 packs of leafy vegetables.

Food science experts also say that organic does not mean pesticide-free. But Professor William Chen, director of Nanyang Technological University’s Food Science and Technology Programme, noted that pesticides on organic food should contain natural biological components instead of synthetic chemicals, making them less toxic to human health.

“Their activity lifetime is also shorter compared to the synthetic pesticides, thus even safer,” he said.

One piece of good news is that the use and type of pesticides are generally getting less toxic.

Prof Chen said that due to the development of better pesticides targeted at insects, the amount of pesticides applied per hectare of crops has fallen from the kilogram to the grams range since the 1990s.

Dr Wu also noted that modern pesticides are more smartly designed such that they target enzyme systems unique to insects and which do not exist in humans.

Traditional pesticides, like organophosphate pesticides which studies have linked to impairment of the nervous system, are being used less frequently.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, many organophosphate pesticides have been banned or their use severely restricted in many countries.


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Changi cuts runway downtime

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With a growing number of flights working the runways harder and rising temperatures that accelerate wear and tear, Changi Airport has turned to new machines and materials to reduce runway downtime.

The aim is to cut repair time as well as strengthen the surfaces so they need less maintenance.

From periods of seven hours a few years ago, its two runways now close for just 51/2 hours each time – twice a week for Runway 1 and five times a week for the second runway.

The longer the runways stay open, the more flights Changi can handle, the airport’s senior vice-president (engineering management and systems planning) Teng Hwee Onn told The Straits Times.

Experts say this is critical for an airport vying with others to become Asia’s key hub for regional and global traffic.

Damaged paint markings on the runway. During runway closure, pavement markings that guide pilots also need to be repainted so that these are clearly visible. Changi Airport is now testing a new machine which can cover double the area in the same time. About 200 litres of paint was used up that night.   Photo: The Straits Times

“Every week, more than 6,800 flights take off and land at Changi Airport’s two runways and the number looks set to increase with growing traffic,” Mr Teng said.

Between January and August, Asian airlines carried 6.5 per cent more international passengers than they did during the same eight months last year, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. To prepare for even more traffic, Changi Airport is building Terminal 4 and Terminal 5, as well as a third runway.

For now, the focus is on working existing resources harder.

Technology has quickened things up and reduced manpower needs, Mr Teng said last Friday, as he gave The Straits Times a rare insight into what happens when the runways are off-limits to planes.

To strengthen the runway to handle heavier loads, the landing and take-off strip is being resurfaced with a new type of asphalt mix jointly developed with the National University of Singapore’s civil engineering department.   Photo: The Straits Times

The task is to repair and clean the 4km-long, 60m-wide strip, battered by hundreds of landings and take-offs, for the next onslaught. At midnight, the work kicked off with a 15-minute safety briefing. It was a massive operation with close to 100 workers and over 50 vehicles. At 12.35am, the all-clear came from the air traffic control tower.

With that, the barrier was lifted and the convoy of vehicles carrying men and machines moved in; headlights and floodlights illuminating the night sky and tarmac.

Different teams tackled different jobs. Resurfacing works were carried out, using a stronger asphalt mix designed to prolong the runway’s lifespan.

A worker using a machine to create trapezoidal grooves along the runway. With increasing inclement weather that poses a skidding risk, Changi Airport has deployed a new technology designed by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States. The idea is to cut the runway with trapezoidal shaped grooves to drain excess water off quickly. Changi is the first airport in Asia to use this method.   Photo: The Straits Times

To prevent aircraft skidding, a growing concern due to inclement weather, workers cut the runway with specially-shaped grooves that drain the excess water away.

Each time the runway closes, airfield lights are serviced and pavement markings that guide pilots are repainted.

Other workers cut 600ha of grass – half the airport’s total land area – to keep birds away. Several sessions are needed.

Debris removal is key, said Mr Teng.

Each time a plane lands, its tyres deposit rubber residue which is removed with a recently purchased vehicle that does more in less time than its predecessor and needs two instead of seven men.

Changi Airport has deployed a new machine that uses the mechanism of ultra high-pressure jet washing to remove rubber deposits left by  aircraft tyres. The machine covers 3,000 sq m in an hour compared with the 2,300 sq m of the previous machine. At least 120kg of  rubber deposit had been collected as the night came to a close.   Photo: The Straits Times

As the night came to a close, at least 120kg of rubber deposit had been collected, more than 50 runway lights replaced and about 200 litres of paint used up.

Mr Teng said: “Half an hour before runway re-opening, all work has to stop so final checks can be done to make sure nothing has been left behind.”

At 6am, the runway was good to go – until the next closure three days later.

 


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New institute to research public understanding of risk

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“When our decisions about risks are based on flawed and erroneous assumptions, we may find ourselves ill-prepared in risk prevention, mitigation, response and recovery,” says National Development Minister Lawrence Wong, pointing to risks such as climate change. 

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Former beach patroller who raped partygoer sentenced to 11 years’ jail and caning

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A former beach patrol officer who raped a drunken partygoer as she lay unconscious on Siloso Beach in May 2012 was sentenced to 11 years and 19 days’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane. 

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Online hiring falls for banking sector, but strong in hospitality, IT

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SINGAPORE – With a slowing economy and the Government warning of a bleak jobs market ahead,  the latest data from an online employment index released on Monday (Oct 3) showed that there was a sharp decline in online job ads for the banking, financial…

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