SINGAPORE – Several lanes and roads near Parliament House will be closed to vehicular traffic from Wednesday 10pm (Aug 24) to Friday, 5pm, the Land Transport Authority and the Singapore Police said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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Traffic arrangements for S R Nathan’s lying in state
Roads around Parliament House to be closed for lying in state of S R Nathan
SINGAPORE – Road and lane closures around Parliament House are expected between tomorrow (Aug 24) and Friday (Aug 26) for the lying in state of former President S R Nathan.
The body of the late Mr Nathan will lie in state from 10am on Thursday (Aug 25) to 12pm on Friday.
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As such, the following roads and lanes will be closed to traffic, starting from 10pm tomorrow to 5pm on Friday:
– Extreme right lane of Parliament Place (between North Bridge Road and The Arts House)
– Parliament Place (between Supreme Court Lane and The Arts House)
– Saint Andrew’s Road
– Coleman Street (between St Andrew’s Road and Supreme Court Lane)
– Connaught Drive
– Fullerton Road (between Esplanade Drive and Connaught Drive)
Eight public bus services plying the affected roads will be temporarily diverted. They are SBS bus services 100, 107, 130, 131 and 195 and SMRT bus services 75, 167 and 961.
The car park at Parliament House will also be closed during the period.
The public can pay their last respects at Parliament House from 10am to 8pm on Thursday. Those who wish to do so can join the queue at the Padang via St Andrew’s Road.
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JAKARTA – Just as the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta opened its doors on Tuesday (Aug 23) for well-wishers to sign a condolence book after Mr SR Nathan’s passing, a small protest was held over the alleged mistreatment of a retired Indonesian senior general in…
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Olympics: Hero's welcome for Indonesian gold medallists
JAKARTA – Indonesian Olympic gold medal winners Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir were given a hero’s welcome Tuesday by hundreds of flag-waving fans as the badminton champions returned home.
They arrived at Jakarta airport to enthusiastic scenes from the waiting crowd, before travelling through the capital in an open-top, double-decker bus.
Ahmad thanked the sports minister and others who supported the players for “helping us achieve this success”.
“Hopefully our success can be repeated by our juniors and other athletes, hopefully this will motivate them,” he said.
At the welcoming ceremony, Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi hailed the players’ victory as “the answer to eight years of yearning for an Olympic gold medal”.
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Ahmad and Natsir were Indonesia’s only gold medal winners in Rio, beating Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying of Malaysia in the badminton mixed doubles.
It was the country’s first Olympic gold since the Beijing games in 2008.
The players will both receive a tax-free bonus of five billion rupiah ($380,000) for winning gold, as well as 20 million rupiah a month for the rest of their lives.
Indonesia pays the second-highest cash bonuses to its athletes who win Olympic gold, with only Singapore giving bigger payouts.
Also present at the welcoming ceremony were Indonesian weightlifters Sri Wahyuni and Eko Yuli Irawan, who both won silver in Rio. Indonesia won a total of three medals.
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South Korea confirms first cholera outbreak in 15 years
SEOUL – The South Korean health authorities said on Tuesday (Aug 23) that the country has confirmed the first case of cholera in 15 years in Gwangju. It is the first time that a local citizen has been infected with the disease without having travelled overseas.
The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said that a 58-year-old man was infected with cholera in the southern city of Gwangju, after he started suffering from diarrhoea on Aug 10.
Eight days after he was hospitalised at a regional medical centre, he was reported to Gwangju’s public health centre as a suspected case of cholera.
On Monday, he was confirmed to have been infected with cholera. He has since been sent home upon recovery, after being quarantined and treated. While his wife, son and daughter do not show any symptoms, the health authorities said that it will conduct an additional investigation to check if they have also been infected.
The health authorities said that it is conducting an epidemiologic investigation into how the man caught cholera without travelling abroad since June last year.
Experts suggested the infection could have been caused by food, which was possibly carrying the cholera bacteria – Vibrio cholera – when it was imported overseas. The infected man reportedly told health authorities that he ate seafood during his trip to the southern coast earlier this month.
Since 2003, all reported cholera cases here were found to have been contracted from abroad.
South Korea saw the highest number of cholera cases in 2001, when there were 162 infected individuals concentrated in Gyeongsang Province. The record was followed by 145 infected people in 1980, 113 in 1991 and 68 in 1995.
Experts said it is not likely that the recent cholera case will develop into an epidemic.
“Since the main route of infection is through contaminated food or water, it is very rare (for it) to become an epidemic in developed countries with decent environment and social infrastructure,” said Professor Choi Jun Yong of the infectious diseases division at Severance Hospital.
During the 19th century, some 400,000 people – about 50 per cent of the entire population of Korea at the time – were killed by the disease, when it had a less developed groundwater pipe system compared with now.
Cholera infection can come from drinking contaminated food or groundwater, such as cholera-contaminated fish, shellfish or water. In rare cases, direct contact with an infected person’s excrement or vomit can also lead to infection.
Cholera normally has an incubation period of two to three days. Symptoms include diarrhoea, nausea, muscle cramps and dehydration, while severe cases can lead to deaths.
The health authorities encouraged citizens to take preventive measures such as consuming safe drinking water, avoiding raw food and washing their hands often for at least 30 seconds each time.
To monitor the outbreak of infectious diseases, the CDC has activated an emergency quarantine control system from May.
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S'poreans laud down-to-earth ways of the late Mr Nathan
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Olympics: Triumphant Brits return home in gold-nosed plane
LONDON – Great Britain’s triumphant Olympic team returned home on Tuesday when a gold-nosed aircraft brought home a host of athletes clutching gold, silver and bronze from the Rio Games.
Great Britain’s most successful Olympic Games in more than a century saw it finish with 67 medals, 27 of them gold, with only the United States ahead in the overall standings in Rio.
Some 320 athletes and support staff travelled back from Brazil in the British Airways Boeing 747 with “victoRIOus” emblazoned on the side.
Some of the medallists’ families – who have themselves given up hours of their time to support their relatives in their sporting ambitions – were present to watch them land at London’s Heathrow Airport and were then ushered into a private lounge.
Also on hand to greet the team was former sports minister Hugh Robertson, who was involved in the delivery of the successful 2012 London Games.
Britain’s performance in Rio was the best by any country that had hosted the immediate preceding Olympics and Robertson, now a vice-president of the British Olympic Association (BOA) said the knock-on effect from London had played a part.
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“One of the objectives was to leave a legacy for UK athletes for generations to come,” he told AFP.
“Rio has surpassed all our expectations,” added Robertson, who flew back from Brazil last Friday.
Cycling saw Britain’s ‘golden couple’ of Jason Kenny and fiancee Laura Trott, triumph in the velodrome.
Kenny matched British cycling great Chris Hoy’s tally of six golds with three wins in Rio, while Trott won two of her own to take her total to four.
Kenny, who returned earlier with Trott, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Tuesday: “It is now sinking in. As we go out for dinner, people are coming up and saying ‘Well done’ and buying us drinks. I don’t think we have bought a single drink since we have come back.”
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Several British competitors defended titles won in London, notably Mo Farah who again took gold in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres and so became the first man since Finland’s Lasse Viren in 1976 to complete Olympic long-distance running’s ‘double double’.
Farah was not alone in being a repeat champion, with boxing’s Nicola Adams and taekwondo’s Jade Jones also repeating their victories of four years ago.
Double gold medal-winning gymnast Max Whitlock and Adams were first off the plane, posing and waving for photographers, before the rest of the team followed to further cheers and applause from airport staff.
Also on the plane were triathlon medal-winning brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee and five-time rowing Olympic medallist Katherine Grainger.
Several athletes posted tweets during the flight back and, after landing, Alastair Brownlee tweeted a selfie at the top of the plane stairs with the caption: “So #goodtobBAck. What a welcome.” France’s Olympic team also landed in Paris on Tuesday after winning 42 medals in Rio, including 10 golds, a postwar record for the overall medal count.
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