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An event about the little-known art of rope bondage that was organised by a group of students at the National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Tembusu College has been shut down following an online petition.
The petition’s author and the over 7,600 people who signed the petition believed that the student community, called tFreedom, had been “promoting violent sex” at the institution.
According to its profile on the Tembusu College website, tFreedom is an LGBTQIA+ affirming community that advocates for diversity and inclusivity through educational events about gender and sexuality. Within the community is a wing called Let’s Talk About Sex (LTAS), which is a safe space for consenting individuals to discuss and clarify their questions and opinions on things related to, well, sex.
SINGAPORE – Employers should view Singaporeans favourably when hiring and retain citizens over foreigners if retrenchment cannot be avoided, said Minister of State for Manpower and Education Gan Siow Huang.
Having a strong Singaporean presence in a company also enhances the resilience of the business in times when border controls can have an impact of the supply of foreign workers, she added.
Speaking in Parliament on Monday (Aug 31) during the debate on the President’s Address, Ms Gan said: “In the current crisis, where there are not enough jobs for locals, we need to work with employers so that Singaporean job seekers will be viewed favourably when applying for jobs, especially given the government incentives.”
Looking after Singaporean employees also strengthens trust between them and the employer, she added.
Ms Gan also provided an update on the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Programme. As of July, the Government and tripartite partners helped 25,000 people link up with new opportunities, she said.
Of the remaining places available, there are over 47,000 jobs, 16,000 traineeships, and more than 10,000 training places, she added.
Before we know it, we are more than halfway past 2020 and the year is drawing to a close.
And honestly, this year hasn’t been all that great.
Travel plans have been thwarted due to the coronavirus and things like putting on a mask before going out, have become the norm.
When we look back at pre-Covid-19 times, we realise how there are many things that we took for granted, things that we wish we could do again once this entire situation blows over.
Walking into shops without SafeEntry PHOTO: Lianhe ZaobaoIn the past, we didn’t give much thought to simply walking into a shopping mall without having to whip out our phones or NRICs.
A disheartened mother who witnessed her daughter getting bullied by other kids at a playground recently took to Instagram to air grievances over what she believed was an instance of racism.
On Monday (Aug 31), her husband shared her Instagram Stories in a Facebook post that has since gone viral.
The mother had recounted an incident that took place while her 19-month-old daughter was playing at a playground, where the toddler apparently “had her first encounter of discrimination”.
According to the parent, there were two older Chinese girls and another Chinese girl who was younger than her daughter, who is of Indian-Muslim descent. PHOTO: Screengrab/FacebookEventually, all four of the kids went to play on a four-seater spring rocker. When the Indian child got on one of the rockers, the mother noted that the two older Chinese kids “immediately got off” and “started snickering to one another”. One of them was said to have gotten close to her daughter and said “I don’t like you” with a smile.
SINGAPORE: Even though community transmission of COVID-19 has been low in recent weeks, Singapore will have to be prepared for a second wave of infection.
The good news is that a vaccine is in development in Singapore. Human clinical trials started last month as volunteers got dosed. But can this race to develop a vaccine be won ahead of the second wave?
According to Ooi Eng Eong, deputy director of the Duke-NUS Medical School’s emerging infectious diseases programme, there is a “major advantage” now that the clinical trial has begun.
“If the next wave hits during our phase III trial, then we might be able to get a faster answer as to whether the vaccine works,” he said.
“And the sooner we get it, the sooner we can get the vaccine available to everyone.”
A look at how the vaccine trials are being conducted.
To find out how far along Singapore is with the vaccine — and whether it can mitigate a second wave of COVID-19 — the programme Talking Point gets exclusive access to SingHealth’s Investigational Medicine Unit, where the trials are conducted. (Watch the episode here.)
Having human trials done in Singapore guarantees that the Republic can get its hands on a COVID-19 vaccine once it is ready to be released.
The vaccine being tested here is called Lunar-Cov19 and is jointly developed by Duke-NUS Medical School and United States pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. It has already shown promising responses in mice.
Typically, clinical trials of vaccines involve three phases, with only a small number of volunteers in phase I, usually fewer than 100.
The Lunar-Cov19 is in its early-stage clinical trial.
In the second phase, the number of volunteers increases to several hundreds, while the final phase usually involves thousands of people to find out the vaccine’s efficacy.
To expedite the development of Lunar-Cov19, the researchers have combined phases I and II.
Around 100 people have received the vaccine candidate. They were selected from the 250-plus people who volunteered, as not just anyone can be a volunteer, noted Lunar-Cov19 trial co-investigator Shirin Kalimuddin.
“It’s the first time (this investigational vaccine) is being given in humans. So we need to make sure that the volunteers are healthy, and whatever medical conditions they have are well controlled,” she said.
“This allows us then to study and better understand the safety of the vaccine.”
The first cohort of volunteers had to pass all the screening tests including electrocardiograms and various blood tests before they could take part in the trial.
One volunteer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, hopes that by joining this clinical research, he can help doctors to understand more about the virus and speed up the process.
On the risks involved in participating in the trial, he felt that “there’s nothing at all to be afraid of”.
“Even if we were to mop the floor at home, there’s a risk. If you were to drive a car, there are risks also,” he said.
WATCH: Will COVID-19 vaccine trials be done before second wave hits Singapore? (4:45)
OBSERVING FOR SIDE EFFECTS
During this phase I of the trial, the researchers must ascertain the highest dose of the vaccine that can be given safely to the volunteers before any side effects become “a bit intolerable”, said Ooi.
“When you increase the dose, then side effects start to become more common. We’re just trying to find that sweet spot, so that we get the best response possible without all the unnecessary side effects,” he said.
The researchers think four doses would be “within that range”, with the aim of administering all four by now.
“Ideally, you’d want to give as much vaccine as you can so that the immune system has a chance of making a good and strong response to protect … against the (virus),” he added.
Researchers will be analysing the results in the coming months.
Ooi’s team is in charge of analysing the results of the current trial, which is expected to last until October. During this time, they will be observing the volunteers for side effects and their immune response.
While there are concerns over the unprecedented pace of vaccine development for COVID-19 — what normally takes 10 to 15 years is being compressed into a very short time frame — he thinks the pandemic can spark a change in that regard.
“Today, we have far better ways of assessing safety in humans than to go through the kind of animal studies that we’ve done in the past,” he said.
Still, he added that there is “no way we can promise” that the vaccine can be made publicly available before a second wave hits Singapore, or can stop the wave before phase III of the trial.
Professor Ooi Eng Eong, one of the founders of Tychan. The local biotechnology company developed the world’s first Zika antibody in a record nine months. (Photo: Tychan)
COOLER MONTHS, HIGHER RISK
In Asia, places like Hong Kong, Australia and South Korea are now confronting a second wave of COVID-19 cases.
Jeremy Lim, co-director of global health at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said Singapore’s second wave is most likely to occur during the northern hemisphere winter months of December, January and February.
The virus can survive longer in colder conditions and is more likely to spread when people spend time indoors. So there is a chance of Singapore’s next wave coming in the form of imported cases from temperate countries.
Lim, who was involved in modelling potential pandemic responses when COVID-19 first hit, warned that imported cases could easily raise the infection numbers even though community cases here are under control now.
“We’re a very porous country, and our economy depends on this porosity, on travellers coming in to do business, to do trade. So, inevitably, we’ll see cases come in,” he said.
The challenge is that COVID-19 is an “exponential disease”, which means “one case becomes two, two becomes four, eight, 16, 32, and before you know it, it’s completely out of control”.
“We just need one case to slip through this very tight net that the Singapore government has wrapped around Singapore, and we’ll (have) the second wave,” he added.
Watch this episode of Talking Point here. New episodes on Channel 5 every Thursday at 9pm.
SINGAPORE: A 64-year-old driver was charged on Wednesday (Sep 2) over a car crash at Lucky Plaza shopping centre that killed two Filipino women and injured four others in December last year.
Chong Kim Hoe was charged under the Road Traffic Act for dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing grievous hurt and dangerous driving causing hurt.
The four injured were Ms Laila Flores Laudencia, Ms Arceli Picar Nucos – who is Ms Arlyn’s sister – and cousins Egnal Layugan Limbauan and Demet Limbauan Limbauan.
All six were domestic helpers from the Philippines working in Singapore.
Flowers and candles have been left by people in remembrance of accident victims who died in a car crash at Lucky Plaza on Dec 29, 2019. (Photo: Try Sutrisno Foo)
Shortly after StarHub launched its 5G trial network, Singtel is also here with its trial 5G. In Singtel’s version, they’re offering up to 1Gbps real-world speeds and higher in just several areas in Singapore such as Harbourfront, Bugis, and Dhoby Ghaut and more :-
Singtel’s 5G trial is available to 10,000 existing Singtel Combo and XO customers with compatible 5G handsets. Another 10,000 Singtel customers who purchase a 5G phone will also get to try the 5G speeds for free.
Beyond these 20,000 customers, other users can try the 5G network out for $10/month (down from $15/month). The trial lasts for three months.
This is a different approach from StarHub’s, where they chose significantly wider coverage and free trials until February 2021 for all StarHub’s Mobile+ and Biz+ plan users. Conversely, StarHub’s 5G trial network sees 300Mbps speeds for the time being, while Singtel’s coming in fast with 1Gbps at trial launch.
Still, that’s a theoretical figure and we’ll be glad to put that to the test soon.
SINGAPORE – Ailing cruise operator Genting Hong Kong has sold the Zouk Group, which operates the popular nightclub, for $14 million as part of efforts to offload non-core assets and generate liquidity for the cash-strapped firm.
Malaysian firm Tulipa is buying the Singapore-based group, according to a filing on the Hong Kong Exchange on Tuesday (Sept 1) night.
Tulipa is owned by Mr Lim Keong Hui, the son of Genting Hong Kong’s controlling shareholder.
Mr Lim resigned from the Genting Hong Kong board last week.
The cash sale is expected to result in a gain of about HK$6.7 million (S$1.2 million), which will be used as working capital, the filing said.
Concerns were raised over Genting’s finances in July after it disclosed that it had suspended all payments to creditors.
The firm said then that cash flow had been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and funds would have to be channelled to services critical to the company’s operations.
Genting Hong Kong owns the Star, Dream and Crystal Cruises brands, operates shipyards and has a stake in Resorts World Manila.
