SINGAPORE – Trading in the shares of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) was halted on Monday morning (July 18) to clarify a news report.
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Kudos to Nathan Hartono for his impressive performance during his audition at Sing China!
“I am realistic. I know I can sing, but I expected almost nothing, maybe some exposure. After all, it’s China, with a gigantic amount of talent,” Singaporean singer Nathan Hartono, 25, tells The Straits Times.
Golf: Life begins at 40 for Open champion Stenson
UNITED KINGDOM – At the age of 40, Henrik Stenson is hoping his long-awaited first major victory at the British Open on Sunday proves to be just the beginning.
Stenson had long been considered one of the best players on tour never to have won a major but he put that right in the most spectacular fashion at Royal Troon on Scotland’s west coast.
His major championship record-equalling low round of 63, featuring 10 birdies, on Sunday saw him beat American Phil Mickelson by three strokes with an overall score of 20 under par, the lowest ever total at The Open.
“We’re only just getting started, aren’t we? You never know once you open the floodgates what might happen,” Stenson said later as he spoke to the media alongside the famous Claret Jug.
The Swede said he had a feeling this would be his turn to win a major after seven previous top-four finishes, including as the runner-up to Mickelson in the British Open at Muirfield in 2013.
Forty “is the new 30”, he told Sky, and there was certainly something about the week for the older guard, with Mickelson, at 46, coming so close to being the oldest Open winner in nearly 150 years.
Meanwhile, the 49-year-old American Steve Stricker finished in fourth.
In contrast, the so-called ‘Big Four’ of Dustin Johnson, 32, and twenty-somethings Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy never really challenged in Troon, even if the latter ended up in a tie for fifth.
Asked what he put that down to, Stenson replied: “I think the experience and the way links golf plays.” He also recalled Tom Watson’s near miss at the age of 59 down the Ayrshire coast at Turnberry in 2009.
“So even a few guys that are a little bit older than I am have had success at the majors and at The Open Championship.
“But experience definitely plays a big part of it. Yeah, it was quite an old leaderboard for a change, I guess.”
It wasn’t just Stenson’s long overdue first major victory, it was a first ever for a Swedish men’s player after some painful failures in past years.
Jesper Parnevik was the last top player to come out of the Scandinavian country prior to Stenson but his bogey at the last at Turnberry on the final day in 1994 cost him glory and he blew the lead on the Sunday at Troon three years later.
“Very impressive and congrats @henrikstenson, Sweden doesn’t have to wait no more!!,” Parnevik tweeted on Sunday.
“I feel very privileged to be the one to hold this trophy,” Stenson added.
“There’s been many great players from my country who have tried in past years and decades and there’s been a couple of really close calls. Jesper in particular twice.
“He sent me a message, ‘Go out and finish what I didn’t manage to finish,’ and I’m really proud to have done that, and it’s going to be massive for golf in Sweden with this win.”
Stenson acknowledged that it will take some time for his victory to sink in, not least because of the manner of it. But he cannot relax for long.
The final major of the season, the US PGA Championship at Baltusrol in New Jersey, begins earlier than usual this year, starting on July 28.
That is because of the Olympics in Rio in August. And unlike the ‘Big Four’ and numerous other leading golfers who withdrew citing concerns about the Zika virus, Stenson will be at the Games.
“I’m just happy to be part of it. It’s going to be quite an experience, I think,” he said last week.
“I hope I can perform well, and hopefully get one of the medals, and hopefully the best one to bring home. I think it would be pretty cool to have that next to some of the other nice trophies I’ve managed to win.”
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Chou ignores 'weird' posts on Internet
POP superstar Jay Chou showed his high emotional quotient when he light-heartedly agreed that
the songs he wrote are all “chaotic jumbles” after that snide remark appeared in an official website in China, which has since been deleted.
“My songs have always been jumbles,” the 37-year-old Taiwanese, who is dubbed King of Asian Pop, told the media at an outdoor event on Saturday in Taipei, reported the local United Daily News.
“There are so many such weird stories in the Internet. Forget it. We would be responding no end if we
were to do so,” he added.
Last Wednesday, the post appeared in the microblog site of a court in north-western China’s Gansu province.
Besides calling Chou’s works ” chaotic jumbles”,
it also labelled him “a mongrel bred by Japanese”, the Hong Kong Economic Times reported.
The post drew protests from members of Jay2U, Chou’s international fan club, which apparently was what caused the post to be quickly deleted, said the newspaper.
Apologising to Chou and his fans, the court of Hezheng county, which is outside the provincial capital of Lanzhou, said on Thursday that the
post was due to “improper management” by its
website administrators.
Chou’s musical style of mish-mashing cultural genres and singing with slurred enunciation have won him many fans but he has also been widely criticised.
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Bastille Day pulled after attack in Nice
French production company StudioCanal has requested for its action film Bastille Day to be removed from cinemas in France in the wake of last Thursday’s terror attack in Nice, out of respect for the victims and their families.
Foreign suspects arrested over $3.4m ATM cyber robbery in Taiwan
TAIPEI – Police in Taiwan said on Sunday they had arrested three out of 16 foreign suspects they believe hacked into the cash machines of a major local bank, withdrawing more than US$2 million.
They are accused of targeting First Bank’s ATMs last week, using malware to withdraw more than T$80 million (S$3.4 million) from dozens of machines.
A policeman recognised one of the suspects, a Latvian, while he was eating in a restaurant in the northeastern city of Yilan.
Police arrested him later, an official of the Taipei City Police Department told a news briefing.
Two other suspects, who are from Romania, were arrested in Taipei, police said, adding they had found more than T$50 million of the stolen money in a hotel room.
“This is the first time that an international team of ATM thieves has committed a crime in Taiwan,” Lee Wen-chang, chief commander of the Criminal Investigation Division, told reporters.
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Authorities are still investigating exactly how the crime was carried out, he said.
The remaining 13 suspects, including two from Russia, have left Taiwan, police said, adding they had alerted authorities overseas.
The suspects may have used a cellphone to target 41 First Bank ATMs, investigators said on Wednesday.
In May, a gang stole $13 million from Japanese ATMs in a three-hour spree.
Since discovering the Taiwan theft last Monday, Taiwan’s major state-run banks have frozen withdrawals from nearly 1,000 ATMs of the kind targeted in the heist, which are supplied by Germany’s Wincor Nixdorf.
About 4 per cent of Taiwan’s national ATM network of 27,200 machines are affected.
Investigators have identified three different malware programmes that were used to trigger withdrawals.
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Over 10k domestic workers pick up skills
DOMESTIC helper Asih yesterday graduated from a six-month sewing course, in which she learnt how to make dresses and scarves.
The 34-year-old Indonesian, who goes by one name, was among 268 students to graduate from the Mujahidah Learning Centre, which celebrated its 10th anniversary since its first graduation year.
“Since young, I’ve always wanted to learn this,” said Ms Asih. “But I didn’t get the opportunity because I never had the money to do so.”
The centre was set up by the Mujahidin Mosque in 2005 to train domestic workers from countries such as Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
While it started with just 35 students, it has now trained more than 10,000. It runs five courses: English, sewing, cooking and baking, grooming and hairdressing and computing.
Students attend classes every Sunday for two hours and each course lasts six months.
Adviser to the Mujahidah Learning Centre Sarimah Ta-lip said some workers have since returned home to set up salons and spas in places like Bali and Batam in Indonesia.
“It makes me shed tears when I hear of such examples,” she added.
“It’s good for them to attend such courses because they are working here in Singapore and can contribute positively back to their society.”
Feedback from employers has also been positive.
The English classes, for instance, have helped domestic workers to better communicate with their employers.
In the case of Ms Asih, it was her employer Jane Jacobs, an urban studies professor at Yale-NUS College, who paid for her course and encouraged her to pick up new skills.
Attending the classes gives her the opportunity to socialise too.
“I thought she could be a bit isolated because she’s the only Bahasa-speaking helper in our neighbourhood,” said Prof Jacobs. “This gave her the opportunity to be connected to the community.”
To mark the centre’s anniversary, the centre also launched a commemorative magazine yesterday to showcase its progress.
The book features accounts from foreign domestic workers who have attended the course.
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Eyewitnesses wanted for cycling accident at Keppel
THE family of an aircraft technician who sustained head injuries in an accident while cycling to work last Wednesday are appealing for eyewitnesses to come forward.
Wang Weizong, 36, was cycling to work in the Loyang area when the accident occurred at about 3.30pm at the junction of Keppel Road towards Shenton Way and Kampong Bahru Road.
Mr Wang’s wife, Guo Shuyu, a 34-year-old safety assessor, told Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News in a report yesterday that a passer-by found her husband lying on the left-most lane and called the police for help.
Mr Wang suffered head injuries and his helmet was split open, Shin Min reported.
He remains in the intensive care unit, and while the bleeding in his brain shows no sign of spreading, he has difficulty speaking and cannot say his own name.
Ms Guo told Shin Min that her husband is an avid cyclist and would often cycle with his friends.
He would also pedal from their home in Woodlands to his workplace at Loyang, either alone or with friends, a practice he began about three years ago.
A friend of Mr Wang’s said large lorries often drive along the stretch of road where the accident occurred.
The path is also not captured by closed-circuit television cameras so the family hope that any eyewitnesses with information could step forward.
The police confirmed the incident and added that a 36-year-old male cyclist was taken to hospital while conscious.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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Singapore exports down 2.3% in June after May rebound
Non-oil domestic exports fell a disappointing 2.3 per cent last month, after a surprise rebound in May which saw exports rising by 11.6 per cent.
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June NODX reverses previous month’s gain to fall 2.3% year-on-year
SINGAPORE – The Republic’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) fell in June, reversing the huge gain registered in the previous month as shipments of both electronic and non-electronic goods to overseas markets declined.
NODX contracted by 2.3 per cent…
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