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SINGAPORE – The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) was left red-faced after it posted the name of an employee who is vacating a position as the job title on major job search sites like Monster and JobsDB.
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Rain dampens turnout slightly but 10,000 still throng 2nd night of Beerfest Asia 2016
SINGAPORE – With the weekend approaching, beer enthusiasts thronged Marina Promenade for the second evening of Beerfest Asia 2016 on Friday (June 17).
The eighth edition of Asia’s largest beer festival, which is being held over four days from June 16 to 19, gives fans the chance to savour a mind-boggling variety of over 500 beers.
It is organised by Beerfest Asia Pte Ltd, owned by Sphere Exhibits, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings and presented by United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB).
Beerfest Asia 2016 festival director Ian Lim said that the as of 10pm, about 7,000 visitors had attended the festival on Friday evening.
According to The Straits Times, about 10,000 partygoers had attended day two of the event by the end of the night.
He added that in total, the organisers were expecting about 34,000 attendees throughout all four days of the festival.
On the festival’s second day, Beerfest-goers can go around the booths to try the 48 different beers that won awards at the Asia Beer Awards 2016, which were announced today.
Over 160 beers across 15 categories were judged based on their appearance, aroma, flavour and body, style and technical quality.
In particular, enthusiasts might want to keep a lookout for the Hertog Jan Grand Prestige, a Belgian strong ale which won the prestigious Best of Festival award, as well as the Red Dot India Pale Ale which walked away with the Best of Singapore award for locally-produced beers.
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Meanwhile on the entertainment side of things, it was a night of tributes, with international bands such as Slippery When Wet, Killer Queen and Major Tom paying tribute to musical legends from David Bowie to Queen and Bon Jovi.
Visitors certainly seemed to be having a good time. “For me it’s a once in a year ‘pilgrimage’ to enjoy the music with friends in a carnival-like atmosphere,” said criminal lawyer Josephus Tan, 36.
For software programmer Shawn Ko, 28, Beerfest is all about the beer. ” It’s a way that we can see the beers of the world without having to leave the country,” he said.
For more information on Beerfest Asia 2016, visit www.beerfestasia.com.
AsiaOne is the official online media partner for Beerfest Asia 2016, for more stories on the event, click here.
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Rain dampens turnout slightly but 7,000 still throng 2nd night of Beerfest Asia 2016
SINGAPORE – With the weekend approaching, beer enthusiasts thronged Marina Promenade for the second evening of Beerfest Asia 2016 on Friday (June 17).
The eighth edition of Asia’s largest beer festival, which is being held over four days from June 16 to 19, gives fans the chance to savour a mind-boggling variety of over 500 beers.
It is organised by Beerfest Asia Pte Ltd, owned by Sphere Exhibits, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings and presented by United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB).
Beerfest Asia 2016 festival director Ian Lim said that the as of 10pm, about 7,000 visitors had attended the festival on Friday evening.
He added that in total, the organisers were expecting about 34,000 attendees throughout all four days of the festival.
On the festival’s second day, Beerfest-goers can go around the booths to try the 48 different beers that won awards at the Asia Beer Awards 2016, which were announced today.
Over 160 beers across 15 categories were judged based on their appearance, aroma, flavour and body, style and technical quality.
In particular, enthusiasts might want to keep a lookout for the Hertog Jan Grand Prestige, a Belgian strong ale which won the prestigious Best of Festival award, as well as the Red Dot India Pale Ale which walked away with the Best of Singapore award for locally-produced beers.
Beerfest Asia 2016
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Meanwhile on the entertainment side of things, it was a night of tributes, with international bands such as Slippery When Wet, Killer Queen and Major Tom paying tribute to musical legends from David Bowie to Queen and Bon Jovi.
Visitors certainly seemed to be having a good time. “For me it’s a once in a year ‘pilgrimage’ to enjoy the music with friends in a carnival-like atmosphere,” said criminal lawyer Josephus Tan, 36.
For software programmer Shawn Ko, 28, Beerfest is all about the beer. ” It’s a way that we can see the beers of the world without having to leave the country,” he said.
For more information on Beerfest Asia 2016, visit www.beerfestasia.com.
AsiaOne is the official online media partner for Beerfest Asia 2016, for more stories on the event, click here.
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The Big Read: Who’s on the frontlines of conservation? A bunch of (expert) amateurs …
SINGAPORE – Whom might you turn to for help to identify a rare spider, stick insect or butterfly in Singapore? Try a retired diplomat, a colorectal surgeon and an architect, respectively.
Mr Joseph Koh, Dr Francis Seow-Choen and Mr Khew Sin Khoon are part of…
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SingCERT contacting firms with hacked servers put up for sale online
There are 743 compromised servers from Singapore listed on xDedic trading platform, which can then be used to target the owners’ infrastructures or as a launchpad for wider attacks, according to Kaspersky Lab.
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Scandal-hit monk Phra Dhammachayo barred from leaving Thailand
Phra Dhammachayo, the controversial abbot of the Dhammakaya Temple, has now been officially on the Immigration Bureau’s blacklist.
At least 14 people are also facing legal actions for trying to shield the abbot from authorities’ attempt to arrest him on Thursday.
“The Immigration Bureau has already blacklisted him. He won’t be able to travel out of the country,” Deputy National Police Commissioner Pol General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said Friday.
On Thursday, thousands of white-clad followers showed up at the Dhammakaya Temple in support of Phra Dhammachayo. Their sheer number thwarted officials’ operation to scour the expansive monastery and nab its abbot.
Hundreds of meditating supporters of an influential Buddhist abbot in Thailand blocked investigators on Thursday aiming to arrest him on corruption charges in his temple north of Bangkok.
The controversy over the abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, 72, in part reflects more than a decade of divisive politics in Thailand, which has permeated all aspects of life, including Buddhism.
The abbot is accused of conspiring to launder money by accepting cash stolen from a credit union.
But many of his supporters suspect he has been targeted because of perceived links to political opponents of the military-dominated establishment.
Officials from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) turning up at the abbot’s Wat Dhammakaya temple complex found rows of followers sitting silently in the rain.
“The temple is being partly cooperative, but when we went inside we were blocked by a group of devotees,” DSI deputy chief Police Major Suriya Singhakamol told reporters.
The DSI is a department of the justice ministry that deals with investigations of high-ranking officials.
The failed bid to enter the wealthy and influential temple was broadcast live on national television.
Scores of riot police, who carried no weapons or batons, waited at a nearby government office but were not deployed.
Suriya said a police search warrant was only valid until 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Thursday.
He said he was “confident” the abbot remained inside the temple.
“This mission is not over,” he said before leaving.
Citing ill health, the abbot failed to appear at a police station to answer graft charges in May. [nL3N18N2HF]
His followers reject the accusations against him saying the charges are politically motivated because of the temple’s perceived links with populist former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
A former telecoms tycoon, Thaksin was overthrown in a 2006 coup and has lived in self-exile since 2008 but remains influential.
The ruling junta, which in 2014 overthrew a government led by Thaksin’s sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has not commented on the attempted raid and appears reluctant to take sides on a religious issue.
Revered Buddhist monks are often seen as untouchable and many Thais would frown upon police entering a temple by force.
But others say the repeated failure to arrest the abbot is further proof of Thailand’s culture of impunity – the ease with which the rich and powerful can get away with nearly anything.
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The clamour for supersubs Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge to start England’s final Group B game against Slovakia next Tuesday has become deafening.
Football pundits Alan Shearer, Jamie Carragher, Harry Redknapp, Alan Smith,…
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About 150 people from affected block in Ang Mo Kio tested for TB
SINGAPORE – About 150 current and former residents of Block 203, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 have been screened for tuberculosis (TB) as of 5pm Friday (June 17), and will be notified of their results within the next two weeks, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in an…
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The Big Read: Gynaecologist goes from observing sea life to watching birds
SINGAPORE – Before he trained his sights on birds, gynaecologist Ng Soon Chye was keener on marine life, heading often to the shores and reefs of Labrador and the Southern Islands to collect specimens.
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