The spread of the Zika virus across tropical Southeast Asia is likely to be significantly under-reported as local health authorities fail to conduct adequate screening, regional experts said on Monday.
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Less haze this year, Indonesia promises
Indonesia’s Disaster Agency said it is confident the country’s forest fires and haze of toxic smoke they send over Southeast Asia are unlikely to reach levels seen in 2015 because of favourable weather conditions and a quicker emergency response.
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Two more cases detected at construction site
SINGAPORE – Two more cases of Zika have emerged among foreign workers who work on a Sims Drive construction site linked to 36 confirmed cases.
In a statement released on Monday (Aug 29) night, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said it has completed testing all…
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Worker falls to death at Woodlands Close construction site
The worker fell along with a formwork panel which toppled over the edge of a building under construction.
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EPL Tops & Flops: Scene set for magnificent Manchester showdown
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Eco race raises $27,000 for underprivileged children
SINGAPORE – The fourth edition of the CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) Eco Race this year has raised $27,000 for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF).
The amount will go to STSPMF’s beneficiaries – children from underprivileged families.
More than 370 people gathered in the Central Business District on Saturday (Aug 27), including four teams from the Building Construction Authority (BCA) and two teams from the National Environment Agency.
Finishing first was a team from the Economic Development Board, while teams from JP Morgan and Fitness First jointly clinched second place. The three teams won prizes worth a total of about $8,000.
Started in 2000 by The Straits Times, the SPMF is a registered charity supporting about 14,000 children and youth from low-income families yearly. It has since disbursed almost $50 million, helping more than 140,000 youngsters.
CapitaLand Hope Foundation (CHF), CapitaLand’s philanthropic arm, matched dollar-for-dollar the total registration fees collected from the race participants. In addition, CHF will donate $10 per kilometer per participant, for every team that pledged to complete the race of approximately 6km.
Ms Lynette Leong, Chief Executive Officer of CCT Management Limited, said: “While we provide quality conducive environments for our tenants in our environmentally-sustainable office buildings, CCT is equally committed to promoting the benefits of active, healthy and sustainable living amongst our tenant community. We also provide opportunities for our busy tenants to engage with and give back to the community in meaningful ways.”
Said Ms Tan Bee Heong, General Manager of STSPMF: “The donations will go a long way in providing school pocket money to our children from low-income families. Not only will funds be raised to help our children with their school pocket money, CCT’s kind gesture of fulfilling 650 wishes of beneficiaries this year-end will bring much joy to them during the festive season.”
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How Zika got here could remain a mystery, say experts
SINGAPORE – It could remain a mystery how exactly the Zika virus found its way to Singapore and triggered a local outbreak, experts say, given that existing tests are unreliable for infections that are more than two weeks old.
Nonetheless, the infectious…
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Singapore confirms 15 more local transmission Zika cases: Media
SINGAPORE – Singapore confirmed 15 more cases of locally-transmitted infections with the Zika virus late on Monday (Aug 29), having announced 41 over the weekend, The Straits Times newspaper reported, citing the health ministry.
Thirteen of the new cases were people who lived or worked in the same area where the virus was first detected.
The Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes, was detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas.
It poses a risk to pregnant women because it can cause severe birth defects. It has been linked in Brazil to more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads and brains.
See also: Singapore wages war on mosquitoes as 9 more suspected Zika cases reported
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15 more cases of locally transmitted Zika detected in Singapore
This is on top of 41 cases in the Sims Drive/Aljunied Crescent area announced on Sunday, said MOH and NEA.
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