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S’pore can help Myanmar by lending expertise: PM
YANGON – Myanmar needs to catch up with the rest of South-east Asia, as well as play a role in the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), even though its focus now is on domestic issues, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday (June 9).
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Taiwanese allegedly coerced critically ill Singapore businessman to marry her
A Taiwanese woman has been arrested after she allegedly coerced a terminally-ill Singaporean businessman to marry her just 18 days before his death, media reports said.
Huang Kuan-chen, 55, was detained on Tuesday (June 7) and is under investigation by Taiwanese authorities for suspected fraud, Focus Taiwan News reported on Wednesday (June 8).
Her alleged accomplice Liu Wen-pin, a 63-year-old land agent, has also been arrested.
The arrest came more than a year after Huang married businessman Pua Ching Kiong to get at his NT$100 million (S$4.2 million) fortune, Taiwanese media reports said quoting Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).
Mr Pua, 73, who owned Pua Loong Trading Company, met Huang at a religious event 30 years ago, the media, which included Apple Daily and TVBS, said.
They met again in 2014, and she learnt that he was single and was worth millions, Focus Taiwan News quoted Taiwan’s CIB as saying.
Mr Pua was the sole proprieter of Pua Loong Trading which sells Dragon Balm, a liniment for aches and pains.
Huang and Liu asked Mr Pua to move to Taiwan and they offered to help him market dragon balm there.
They also promised to help him get medical treatment for his diabetic condition.
Mr Pua agreed and arrived in Taichung in December 2014. He bought a return ticket, but stayed on in Taiwan beyond his planned date of return.
In early 2015, he was hospitalised several times with diabetes, an enlarged prostate, and other health problems, Focus Taiwan News quoted CIB as saying.
Huang allegedly used fake receipts of more than S$42,000 and asked Pua’s family in Singapore to reimburse her for his medical bills.
On February 24, 2015, Pua’s condition worsened and he sought emergency treatment at the hospital.
That afternoon, sitting in a wheelchair, he registered his marriage with Huang. Reports say that Liu, 63, was the witness.
Less than a month later, on March 13 last year, Pua died and Huang filed a court case in Singapore to obtain his assets, reports said.
Pua’s family too filed a suit in Taichung to declare the marriage between Pua and Huang void.
Mr Pua’s nurse later confessed to the police that she had been bribed to help Huang and Liu, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
She said that Huang guided Mr Pua’s right hand as he signed the marriage certificate.
Some Taiwanese reports, including Apple Daily and TVBS, used the photo of another Singaporean businessman with the same Chinese name as Mr Pua in their articles on the fraud.
The news outlets mistook Mr Pang Chin Keong, 65, Basketball Association of Singapore vice-president, to be the victim.
Mr Pang’s and Mr Pua’s names are written with the same Chinese characters.
However, Mr Pang, alive and well, told Lianhe Zaobao on Thursday (June 9) that he is in Penang but have asked friends in Taiwan to find out why the mistake happened.
This article was first published on June 09, 2016.
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Teachers to continue having Internet access from their computers: MOE
All teachers are already on separate network that is not connected to the Government Enterprise Network, said the Education Ministry.
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80% of households in Asia-Pacific regularly waste food at home: Survey
SINGAPORE – Forgotten leftovers in the refrigerator make up the majority of food wastage in Asia-Pacific, according to a survey by Electrolux.
The home appliance maker polled 4,000 people of ages between 18 and 65 across eight countries in the region, and found that 80 per cent of households waste food regularly at home.
Forgetting they have leftovers in their refrigerators is the most common reason, constituting 49 per cent of the cause.
Households in China make the biggest effort to finish leftovers, eating them three to four times a week. But 77 per cent of the households surveyed throw their refrigerated leftovers often.
The other reasons for food wastage in Asia-Pacific are lack of portion size control (25 per cent) and not showing up for meals (34 per cent).
Asian staples such as cooked rice and noodles are the biggest category of food wasted, particularly in India (72 per cent), Indonesia (70 per cent) and Vietnam (68 per cent).
Electrolux also found that households in Australia waste the least amount of food, with one in four throwing away nothing.
In Asia, one in three households waste one to two plates of food per week.
“While most households view food waste as an important issue, less than half think about it in their own homes,” Electrolux said.
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RWS axes close to 400 jobs as casino business falters
SINGAPORE – Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) is cutting its casino headcount and letting go of close to 400 employees as it struggles against unprecedented headwinds from the retreat of mainly Chinese high rollers due to a combination of a corruption crackdown led…
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Les Miserables in Singapore: Singing the song of impassioned men
The world’s longest running musical and its enduring power is back in Singapore after two decades.
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Woman fractures spine after Bukit Panjang lift shoots up and down several floors
SINGAPORE – A woman fractured her spine in yet another lift accident at an HDB block in Bukit Panjang on Tuesday (June 7), Channel NewsAsia reported.
The news agency quoted the 59-year-old victim’s daughter Tracy Goh as saying that “when the lift reached the first storey, it shot up to the 11th, down to the third and back up to the 12th”.
Ms Goh added that her mother, known only as Mdm Yeo, grabbed the railing but still fractured her spine because of the strong impact. Also, there was a gap between the lift and the floor which made it hard for rescuers to save Mdm Yeo afterwards.
Mdm Yeo, a part-time cleaner, was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and was warded overnight for observation, Channel NewsAsia said. She declined to be interviewed but her daughter said she was told to return for follow-ups and physiotherapy sessions.
According to Channel NewsAsia, Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council has been issued with a notice to suspend the operation of the lift at Block 150 Petir Road, and to appoint an authorised examiner to conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the incident.
The town council also said in a statement that it would continue to offer assistance to Mdm Yeo.
The incident comes less than a month after an elderly man died when his mobility scooter toppled because the lift at the Pasir Ris HDB block where he lived was not level with the lobby floor.
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In March, an Indonesian maid was trapped in a malfunctioning lift at Block 317 Ang Mo Kio Street 31 after it shot up to the 20th floor and stalled.
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In January, months after an elderly woman had her hand severed by the doors of a lift in Jurong, a Punggol resident posted a video of a faulty lift he which continued to move even when one of its inner doors remained open.
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Cutting Internet access necessary to keep Govt data secure: PM Lee
YANGON – Cutting Internet access from the work computers of public servants is “absolutely necessary” to keep Government data secure, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Singapore has seen very sophisticated, determined cyber attacks on its system in the past few years and takes these security threats seriously, he said, explaining the decision to reporters at the end of his official visit to Myanmar on Thursday.
From May next year, all 100,000 computers in use by the public service will be cut off from the Internet.
Web surfing, however, is allowed but only on employees’ personal mobile devices. Also, there will be dedicated computers for employees to access the Internet for work.
Said PM Lee: “We have become completely dependent on our IT systems…and we have to make sure that our system is secure. We can’t get infiltrated, data cannot be stolen, somebody can’t come in and wipe out your data or cause some other mischief.”
He added: “We’ve reached this point. We’ve decided to do it. Are we happy? I don’t think so, because it will slow us down in terms of day-to-day productivity. In terms of security, safety of our systems, safety of our citizens and information concerning them, it’s absolutely necessary.
“Otherwise, one day you find all your NRIC numbers, addresses and income tax returns for sale on the Internet, one package 10 gigabytes. How will the Government explain?”
In fact, he was an early adopter of the new system, after being advised by security experts that it was necessary.
“I said okay, if you’re going to do that, I shall be volunteer number one. Let me try, if I can hack it, then I think there’s a chance it can work, if I can’t hack it then I think it can’t work,” he said.
PM Lee added that he “logged down” from the Internet on his work computer at the beginning of the year (2016).
His assessment? “It’s a nuisance, it takes some getting used to, but you can do it.”
What he has now are two separate systems, one for email and another for Internet browsing, he said.
“So now if I see a link, see an article, what do I do? I go through the trouble of copying down, make a PDF file, send over to the other side, I share it with my colleagues on PDF, so that they don’t have to go through the opposite process, send it all the way back out again and then browse for it.”
He pointed out that other ministries, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministry, already operate in this way.
He added: “It is still possible to work, and for the officers who need to do Internet surfing and need to track what’s happening in the world – MCI (Ministry of Communications and Information) particularly, but others too – they’ll have two computers and they’ll have to work like that.
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Woman suffers spine fracture in 5th lift accident in 8 months
SINGAPORE – For the fifth time in eight months, a lift of a Housing and Development Board block had malfunctioned, causing a woman to suffer a spine fracture after the lift she was in shot up and down erratically twice.
Madam Yeo Choon Tee, 59, said she was…
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