Father donates organs of daughter, 9, who dies of brain damage after accident at school
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A father in China decided to donate the organs of his nine-year-old daughter who died from injuries suffered after she tripped when pushed by a classmate and hit her head on a wall.
The accident happened when the girl, Tongtong, and her classmates were running “excitedly” out of their classroom in a primary school in Qinzhou, in southern China.
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Chee Soon Juan says Orange & Teal could be the ‘nest’ for the next Hemingway or JK Rowling
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Singapore — Opposition leader and now restauranteur Chee Soon Juan was dreaming aloud about the possibilities for his café, Orange & Teal, in his latest Facebook post.
“J K Rowling, TS Elliot and Ernest Hemingway did much of their writing in cafes. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Orange & Teal could be the nest for the next great S’porean writer?,” he wrote on Wednesday (Jan 19).
Public concerned how elderly can tell difference between genuine SMS and messages from scammers
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Singapore — How does one tell the difference between a genuine message and a phishing attempt from a scammer hoping to empty your bank account? The problem only gets more knotty when elderly people are the targets.
There has been a sharp rise in cases of scammers sending out SMS messages to all and sundry, purporting to be from a bank and including links that could hack into banking information and passwords.
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Can the PAP catch its own tigers?
Ong Ye Kung/ Photo from Facebook
Can the PAP continue to bring down corrupted senior officials, who are called “tigers” by Chinese President Xi Jinping in China’s anti-corruption campaign? If Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) can check itself, what about the Workers’ Party (WP), the leading opposition party in Parliament?
A government that has its own set of checks and balances is one that is accountable and functions well, which is why the Singapore Government’s ability to “ownself check ownself” is a virtue, Singapore Health Minister Mr Ong said on Jan 13, as reported in various Singapore media
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