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I know we expected better results in “Singapore VS Iran” Asian Cup qualifiers, but Singapore did their best.
Singapore captain Mohamed Alam Shah pulled a goal back for the home side before halftime but substitute Gholamreza Rezaei broke away to seal the win in the 63rd minute for Iran with a delightful chip. [click to continue…]
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Adrian Lee Yang Kwang with four other friends had been playing volleyball that afternoon around 2pm before they decided to take a dip in the sea.
Lifeguards found him 10 minutes later, about seven metres from shore and dragged him to safety. They tried to revived the unconscious man by giving him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, but to no avail. He had been in coma since at the SGH.
Adrian Lee Yang Kwang nearly drowned at Siloso Beach on Christmas Day and died on New Year’s Day, after a week in coma in the Intensive Care Unit at the Singapore General Hospital.
Although Mr Lee, a former dragon boat rower who worked for the OCBC Bank, was known to be a competent swimmer and had rowed for the National University of Singapore’s team , it is believed that he suffered a seizure in the water – as he had a history of suffering from fits.
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via CNA,
Electricity tariffs for households are going up by 5.4 per cent or 1.18 cents per kWh for the first quarter of next year.
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Cao Cao
According to Xinhua news, the tomb of Cao Cao, a renowned warlord and politician in the third century, was unearthed in Anyang City of central China’s Henan Province, archaeologists said Sunday.
Cao Cao (155-220 A.D.), who built the strongest and most prosperous state during the Three Kingdom period (208-280 A.D.), is remembered for his outstanding military and political talents.
Cao Cao is also known for his poems that reflected his strong character. Some of the poems are included in China’s middle school textbooks. [click to continue…]
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Singaporean student Ram Tiwary, found guilty of murdering two of his flatmates in Australia, has been sentenced to a maximum of 48 years in jail (25 years for the murder of Tay Chow Lyang & 30 years for the death of Tony Tan Poh Chuan). The latter sentence will start from 2012.
Ram Tiwary was on a scholarship awarded to him by the Singapore Armed Forces.
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In SEA Games 2009 football, The Singapore-Laos match was shifted to the bigger 20,000 capacity main stadium of the National Sports Complex.
Singapore and Laos played to a goalless draw, putting the teams on five points each. Both Singapore and Laos teams make it to the semi-finals.
Their opponents in the last four will only be known when Group A plays their last matches today.
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Singapore jumped three spots from a year ago to become the ninth priciest Asian city in the latest cost of living ranking by human resource company ECA International.
It beat Taiwan’s Taipei and China’s Shenzhen and Guangzhou, but remained cheaper than Japan’s Tokyo and Yokohama, and China’s Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Source: Malaysian Insider
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Singapore marathon 2009 results
Standard chartered singapore marathon 2009 was a great event in Singapore; I know you can’t wait to know the results.
Reigning Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) champion Luke Kibet has won the full marathon category race for the second year running.
It was an exciting climax to the 42km race as Johnstone Chepkwony mounted a late surge to pressure Kibet all the way to the finish line. Kenyan runner Kibet prevailed however, to finish first with a winning time of 2:11:24, which was just eight seconds ahead of Chepkwony (2:11:32) and 2 mins 37 seconds short of the 2:13:01 course record he set last year. [click to continue…]
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From today, listeners can enjoy the audio fare from MediaCorp Radio 987 FM, Class 95 FM, Lush 99.5 FM and Y.E.S. 93.3 FM via “live” broadcasts online.
Simulcasts of free-to-air radio broadcasts online were suspended in March due to changes to the law which made such streams subject to copyright licensing.
MediaCorp Radio also has the option to expand such simulcasts to more of its radio stations in future.
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The 2009 H1N1 vaccine is now ready to be rolled out to children and young adults aged 10 years through 18 years.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) have reviewed the safety of CSL Limited Panvax H1N1 Vaccine in children aged 10 years to 18 years and are satisfied with the safety profile of the product in this age-group. The use of Panvax in children younger than 10 years of age is currently under review and a recommendation would be made soon. [click to continue…]
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