COLOMBO – A SirLankan Airlines flight enroute to Colombo was instructed to return to Changi Airport after it departed because of “security reasons,” according to a statement from the airline on Friday (April 15).
Flight UL309 departed from Changi on…
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SriLankan Airlines flight turns back to Changi for security reasons
More programmes leverage tech for treatment beyond the hospital
This is part of ongoing efforts by institutions to spare patients the hassle of travelling unnecessarily, and move care back into the community.
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MFA expresses condolences to families of Japan quake victims
No Singaporeans have been affected by the earthquake thus far, Singapore’s foreign affairs ministry says.
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All S’poreans in Japan are safe: MFA
SINGAPORE – No Singaporeans were affected by the massive earthquake that struck Japan’s south-western island of Kyushu, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). It said the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo has contacted most of the registered Singaporeans in the…
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'Zero chance of last year's haze happening again this year': Indonesian agency
The head of Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency says determination from the government, palm oil and pulp and paper companies, as well as the community will see that fires do not break out on peatlands this year.
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More COEs available for May to July period
There will be an increase of COEs across all vehicle categories, according to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).
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Rugby: Singapore reach finals of inaugural Southeast Asia Sevens
Both the men’s and women’s teams top their groups to meet Thailand in the finals at the National Stadium on Saturday.
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Train services at 13 stations to start from 7am on Sundays from June 5
SINGAPORE – From June 5 to Dec 18, train services at 13 stations along the North-South and East-West Lines will start an hour later on Sundays, except on public holidays.
Train services will start by 7am instead of the usual 6am.
SMRT said in a statement on Friday (April 15) that this is to enable project teams, track patrol teams and maintenance teams to gain the equivalent of 29 additional maintenance nights over the six-month period.
Currently, they have about three to four hours of engineering hours each night to carry out works to renew and upgrade the system, in addition to carrying out regular maintenance needed for daily train operations.
Managing Director of SMRT Trains, Mr Lee Ling Wee said that the company’s priority is to ensure rail renewal works are carried out safely and in the shortest time possible to improve rail reliability.
“Extending our limited engineering hours by an additional hour once a week allows our engineers to gain additional track access to work on their respective projects and carry out maintenance work,” Mr Lee said.
“We seek the understanding and patience of commuters and the general public as we do our very best to complete the various renewal programmes with minimal impact to our train services,” he added.
Commuters are encouraged to plan their travel from 7am on Sunday mornings, where possible.
For commuters who must travel before 7am, they can use the existing bus services to get to other train stations; or use the Circle Line and Downtown Line to get to the city.
A new parallel bus service will also ply the route from Joo Koon to Bukit Gombak in both directions, said SMRT.
More information of the new parallel bus service and fares will be made available within the next few weeks.
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President accepts 2016 Budget
SINGAPORE – Calling the 2016 Budget a “responsible, prudent and balanced” one, President Tony Tan said he has given his assent to the Supply Bill, which authorises the Government’s expenditures set out in the budget.
Noting that an overall budget surplus of…
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Review: Descendants Of The Sun finale is ho-hum, with less drama than romcom filler
DESCENDANTS OF THE SUN FINALE
3 STARS
Special forces soldiers Yoo Si Jin (Song Joong Ki) and Seo Dae Yeong (Jin Goo), presumed dead for a year, come back alive for teary reunions with their doctor girlfriends (Song Hye Kyo and Kim Ji Won) at the beginning of Episode 16 of Descendants Of The Sun.
Soon the guys are back at the South Korean military headquarters, brainstorming – actually, it is more accurate to call it “braindrizzling” – what to write in their reports on their capture and torture by a foreign militia.
“At this point, I think anything we write will go. What we need is a perfect balance of reality and drama,” Captain Yoo says, as he suggests a movie they can copy from.
It’s the finale. Captain Yoo is in one piece, his face and sense of humour intact, after a series of close shaves and ominous forewarnings. What more do K-drama fans around the world want?
This is also the point where writer Kim Eun Sook gives herself a free pass and dispenses a ho-hum episode that has less drama than romcom filler in it, as the guys and girls go on working, dating, squabbling, joking and planning holidays – like regular adults. Much of the finale is sugary and flat, like a fizzy drink that has been left open too long.
Then again, as K-romances go, Descendants Of The Sun has always been a more grown-up fantasy than, say, My Love From The Star (2013).
These actors are scorching hot, thanks to Descendants of the Sun
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My Love had a super boyfriend, an alien with superhuman powers and zero interest in saving anyone who isn’t his girlfriend.
Descendants doesn’t. As wonderful as Captain Yoo may seem, he can be a rather real and rather awful boyfriend.
The giddy romance of the show is driven by how far Captain Yoo – intensity, hard-edged masculinity and special forces training in a baby-faced package – will go to impress Dr Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo), chase her and save her.
The realism and the emotional weight come in her understanding that he isn’t her personal superhero. He is a hero, and sometimes, just a guy.
Sure, he takes a bullet for her in Episode 12. A couple of episodes later, he also takes several bullets for some North Korean soldier he barely knows. He is then sent to her hospital, covered in blood, and now she has to save his life.
She also walks in on him in his ward afterwards, when he is trying to undress and change back into a patient’s uniform. She has been worried about him, but he is already sneaking out for yet another hush-hush assignment. He is cheating on her with their country, essentially, but she can’t really complain.
Although the soundtrack suggests otherwise, with songs such as You Are My Everything, she isn’t his everything. Nor is he hers.
They are adults with lives of their own and jobs they are good at. And so it is apt that the show ends not when a character, at a wedding attended by the soldiers and the doctors, turns to the camera and declares: “The end”, but when an emergency strikes during the event.
What’s a red-letter day for our restless heroes and heroines without some action?
Descendants Of The Sun Episode 16 is available on Viu, the app and website, and will be on KBS World (StarHub TV Channel 815 or Singtel TV Channel 606) on April 21, at 8.50pm.
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This article was first published on April 15, 2016.
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