Singapore Corporate Access (CorpPass), which will be launched on Sep 15, will make it more convenient for businesses and other entities to transact with multiple Government agencies, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore said.
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PM Lee kicks off visit to Chongqing and Hangzhou on Friday
SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will kick off a four-day trip to China on Friday (Sept 2), during which he will make a working visit to Chongqing to follow up on the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (CCI) launched last year, and attend the G20…
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Wet conditions expected in the next fortnight
SINGAPORE – Singapore is to experience wet conditions in the first fortnight of September, the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) said in a statement.
Over the next two weeks, Singapore can expect five to seven days of short-duration thundery showers…
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Selena Gomez cuts short tour to treat lupus effects
NEW YORK – Teen television star turned singer Selena Gomez has cut short a world tour as she handles the after-effects of lupus.
The 24-year-old revealed a year ago that she had secretly undergone chemotherapy to treat lupus, a chronic disease in which the body’s immune system fights healthy tissue.
“I’ve discovered that anxiety, panic attacks and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges,” she said in a statement posted Wednesday (Aug 31) on sites of concert venues where she had been due to perform.
“I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off,” she said.
She told fans that she needed to “face this head on to ensure I am doing everything possible to be my best.”
“I know I am not alone by sharing this, I hope others will be encouraged to address their own issues,” she said.
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People magazine, which first reported her statement, quoted an unnamed source saying Gomez “hadn’t felt like herself” in the past couple of months and decided to “clear her calendar for the year.”
Gomez last performed Aug 13 in Auckland, New Zealand at the end of an Asian tour leg and has since gone quiet on social media.
She had been due to resume her Revival tour next week in North America, ending on Dec 18 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gomez, who rose to fame starring in the Disney series Wizards Of Waverly Place, also cut short a tour in late 2013.
Tabloids at the time speculated that she was heartbroken over her breakup with fellow young star Justin Bieber.
She revealed only two years later that she was being treated for lupus and criticised the media frenzy around her.
Lupus is estimated to strike some five million people around the world, disproportionately women of childbearing age, according to the Lupus Foundation of America.
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HSA issues alert on health products sold in Malaysia
Four Singapore residents have been hospitalised for serious conditions after consuming these products, says the Health Sciences Authority.
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Flying pigs and prisms: Pink Floyd expo to open at London's Victori
LONDON – A pink inflatable pig the size of a bus floated above London’s venerable Victoria and Albert Museum on Wednesday (Aug 31), but unlike an infamous outing above Battersea Power Station in 1976 it did not break free and ground planes at Heathrow.
Instead, it perhaps slowed traffic a bit, but most certainly caused passers-by to exclaim: “The pig!”
One of the many globally recognisable emblems of Pink Floyd, along with prisms and marching hammers, the pig was flying to mark the launch of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, a retrospective to be hosted at the museum next May.
That date marks 50 years since the band released their first single Arnold Layne. They then went on to massive worldwide acclaim, including two of the most successful albums of all time, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall.
The exhibition is designed to celebrate that, along with Pink Floyd’s achievements in graphics, design, architecture, staging, lighting, film and photography.
Nick Mason, drummer and a founding member, said that the exhibition is really a paean to the band’s longevity. “It’s the fact that we still sort of exist and we still seem to interest people after 50 years in an industry that was seen as entirely ephemeral by all of us when we first started,” he said at the launch.
“I’m fond of reminding people that Ringo thought that he’d open a chain of hairdressers when the Beatles came to an end. I don’t think we saw any 50 years ahead of us when we kicked off.”
The V&A is promising an immersive experience when the exhibition opens, with concert footage not seen before, a laser light show designed for the event, new stage designs, 350 different objects plus some items from the museum’s own collection.
It will be the museum’s third recent foray into the rock world. It held a critically acclaimed exhibition on David Bowie in 2013 and opens You Say You Want A Revolution? Records And Rebels 1966-1970 in September.
All three shows relate to a period of unprecedented creativity in music, which some people believe will never be matched.
Mason said he did not know how people could make it in today’s music business where songs are shared for free and there are so many people trying to make it big.
When asked if Pink Floyd could succeed if it were starting out today, he replied: “I don’t think we’d even get on The X Factor.”
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China steps up health screenings of travellers arriving from Singapore
BEIJING – China’s quarantine authorities said on Thursday (Sept 1) they have been increasing health screenings of travellers arriving from Singapore amid an outbreak of Zika in the country.
China is also increasing inspections of shipments arriving from…
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Mixed reactions among Bedok residents on potential new Zika cluster
While some are “not in the least concerned” about the possible new Zika cluster, others say they will take precautions.
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17 unaccounted for in typhoon-hit northern Japan
TOKYO – 17 people were unaccounted for in Japan Thursday after Typhoon Lionrock tore through the north of the country, leaving 11 people dead and some 1,600 cut off in isolated communities, officials said.
Ten died in the town of Iwaizumi after it was hit by surging river water and mud, with nine of them perishing in a care home for the elderly.
The typhoon, which packed wind gusts of over 160 kilometres (100 miles) an hour landed on Japan’s northern Pacific coast on Tuesday evening.
It tore through the region, dumping torrential rain over a wide area, stranding communities, with roads and bridges destroyed or blocked, authorities said.
“We have 17 people who cannot be reached nor their safety confirmed,” town official Yasuyuki Ishiguro told AFP, adding the number includes those who have been reported as missing, though he did not provide a breakdown.
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“We believe many of the 17 are in communities isolated after roads and communications were cut off,” he added.
“A wide area of the town remains inundated with mud and rubble.” he said.
Nine of the town’s 10 dead were found on Wednesday morning buried inside a building of the elderly care facility after water, mud, trees and rubble gushed into it.
Another body was discovered not far from the care home, while another person died in the city of Kuji.
Iwaizumi, with a population of about 10,000, failed to issue an evacuation advisory near the care home, according to the Iwate prefectural government.
The elderly care facility had also failed to draw up an evacuation plan in the case of flooding, the mass-circulation Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.
Lionrock also caused devastation on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands, flooding vast areas on the heavily agricultural region, leaving at least three people missing, according to the government.
The magnitude of the damage that washed away houses and overturned vehicles rekindled scenes from the aftermath of the March 2011 monster tsunami that devastated the Pacific coast.
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Singapore ranked 5th in region for fostering women entrepreneurship: Mastercard
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