They are among the powerhouses of the sport on the continent, but have been missing from the podium at the Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships in Hong Kong, until yesterday.
Singapore’s women’s team of five – Jasmine Yeong-…
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Is the United Nations still relevant today?
Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh, a former ambassador to the UN, speaks to Channel NewsAsia’s Dawn Tan on the relevance of the United Nations and what impact Singapore can make, despite being a small nation.
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Singapore 'disappointed' with 'irresponsible report' by Global Times on NAM Summit: MFA
In a letter to the Global Times’ editor-in-chief, Ambassador Stanley Loh refuted the newspaper’s report, stating that it “attributed actions and words to Singapore which are false and unfounded”.
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UN 'essential to the survival of small states': Singapore Foreign Minister
Small states have made “significant contributions” to the international community by building consensus and finding solutions on key global issues, said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, adding that such states can play an even greater role, provided they work together.
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HDB to look into whether reinforcement bars were in place for fallen sunbreaker
HDB is carrying out “detailed checks” with Tampines Town Council in three other neighbouring blocks with similar sunbreakers. They are Blocks 201A, 201B and 201D.
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Uber launches features to help the hearing-impaired work as drivers
Uber says that it currently has 20 hearing impaired drivers in Singapore and plans to recruit more.
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HDB to look into whether steel bars were in place for fallen sunbreaker
Meanwhile, HDB is carrying out “detailed checks” with Tampines Town Council in three other neighbouring blocks with similar sunbreakers. They are Blocks 201A, 201B and 201D.
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Japanese viral ditty Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen touted as 'next Gangnam Style'
A new fruity music video is taking over the Internet and, as usual, no one has any idea what the catchy song means.
Japanese comedian and DJ Kosaka Daimaou’s Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen YouTube video, PPAP for short, has all the classic hallmarks of a viral craze.
It is upbeat, there are quirky dance moves, the lyrics are nonsensical, and it makes you laugh, reminiscent of recent hits like Singapore actor Chen Tianwen’s “Unbelievable – I so stunned like vegetable” music video.
(Perhaps involving agricultural produce has something to do with it.)
If you haven’t seen the video, do spend 1min 8sec watching it, or 10 minutes watching it 10 times, as some people claim to have done.
Already, the video that was uploaded on Aug 25 and watched more than 2.4 million times is being heralded as the “next Gangnam Style”.
Daimaou began posting videos to YouTube a month ago as Piko-Taro, a “singer-songwriter” dressed in mixed animal prints.
The character was created by Daimaou, 43, for his stand-up performances, and became very popular, said a Japanese entertainment site.
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen was the first video the comedian posted on the channel. A month later, it has spread beyond Japan to many other territories.
Various spoofs and remixes of the video have already surfaced online.
Of course, it still has some way to go to catch up to Gangnam Style by Korean rapper Psy. In the four years it has been on YouTube, the official video has chalked up 2.6 billion views, and is the most-watched video on the site of all time.
Chen’s “Unbelievable” has 2.5 million views on YouTube.
This article was first published on Sept 26, 2016.
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SMRT convenes panel to review appeal by workers sacked over fatal accident
The panel comprises senior management from business units other than its Trains Group, SMRT said. It added that the panel’s findings would not prejudice the ongoing investigations by the various authorities.
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Bangladeshi baby dies twice
She died twice since her birth three days ago.
First she was declared dead by a doctor in a Faridpur hospital moments after she was born, four months prematurely, on Thursday.
But the baby girl cried out when family members were about to bury her. She was then flown to Dhaka for treatment at Square Hospitals, where she died around 11:45pm yesterday.
Aftab Yusuf Raj, a consultant at the Neonatal Incentive Care Unit (NICU) of the hospital, confirmed her death to The Daily Star.
The 23-week-old baby, who was named Galiba Hayat, weighed only 450 grams and had heart problems and infections, he said, adding that doctors tried their best to save her.
Earlier in the day, the physician said it was a miracle that the baby, bleeding from different parts of her body, was still alive.
The baby was under his care at the Square Hospital, where she was admitted around 7:30pm on Saturday, after being flown by a helicopter chartered with funds received from an anonymous donor in Hungary.
During the day, the girl’s father Nazmul Huda Mithu said: “Allah has brought my daughter back from the jaws of death. Insha Allah, she will survive … I wish to take her home well.”
He also blamed Rejia Alom, the doctor in Faridpur hospital who declared the baby dead, for his daughter’s infections.
“Why wasn’t she kept under observation?” Nazmul said.
After the incident, Rejia told The Daily Star that the kid was born premature and that she did not find its pulse and heartbeat during examination. That’s why she declared her dead.
The kid was then kept in a carton on the hospital floor, her grandfather Abul Kalam Mia had earlier alleged.
Kalam then took the kid to Faridpur Municipality Graveyard for burial around 3:00am on Thursday. As it was still dark, an employee asked him to wait till morning. Kalam obliged, keeping the carton beside a concrete grave.
In the morning, while reciting from the Quran the imam asked Kalam to open the carton. It was then that the baby cried out.
The management of Jahid Memorial Child Hospital where the baby was born formed a committee to investigate the incident.
