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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../421655/1/.html "DBS CEO Richard Stanley dies from leukaemia Posted: 11 April 2009 1149 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Richard Stanley Related News

I knew this was going to happen someday....... Home > Breaking News > Singapore > StoryMarch 17, 2009Man hit by cyclist, dies A 52-YEAR-OLD man died after being hit by a bicycle at an open-air carpark on Monday. He was knocked down by a 14-year-old cyclist in the carpark behind Block 96, Henderson Road at about 7.20 pm. He suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Singapore General Hospital, where he died six hours later. The teen cyclist was unhurt.

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Repossessed ? Write-off ?

Hi all, just to rant, was sending my friends home on a saturday nite. was on the PIE , just passed eunos, headin towards Bedok. it was around 545am in the morning ( was out partying, and i don drink, so no issues) then suddenly, the cars behind me were all flashing like crazy, i tot what the F is going on, then my friend in the front seat was WHAT THE @$#@$# THERE WAS A FREAKING TOYATA RAV 4 DRIVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION ON THE DAM PIE!!! he was on the 3rd lane driving towards traffic. THANK GOD he was not in my lane. I HOPE THIS A$$HOLE either crashes or gets caught. really. CONFIRM he was drunk, cos i mean, HOW DO U END UP IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION ON THE PIE!! i've seen my fair share of stupid drivers, from pple who change lanes without indicating, anyhow cutting, to half drunk drivers swerving from left to right, but this guy takes the cake man driving in the wrong direction on the PIE. anyone else saw this moron?

THE eldest son of the late retail tycoon CK Tang, Mr Tang Wee Cheng, died of natural causes last Saturday. He was 75. Mr Tang passed away peacefully in the presence of his immediate family when he was holidaying in Osaka, Japan. His body was flown back on Friday. He leaves behind his wife, two sons, three daughters and 10 grandchildren. Mr Tang, who joined the family business after school, was best known as the one who built the former Dynasty Hotel and Tangs Plaza. He ran the Tangs department store, which used to close on Sundays, but later sold his share of the family business to his younger brothers Wee Sung and Wee Kit after a dispute. Mr Tang then went on to start a hotel business in New Zealand under the Heritage brand with his two sons. The Tang family spokesperson Ong Wei Ping said Mr Tang was a very humble and very religious man. 'He devoted himself to Christian causes.' Mr Tang's obituary, titled a celebration of life, said he was a faithful servant of Jesus Christ and an exemplary role model who loved the church like his own family. He was also a devoted family man and a compassionate boss at work. where he knew his staff by name and face. http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNew...12.html?vgnmr=1 Anyone went to his funeral service at his house? His house damn swee

My condolences to the family... But isn't 83 a little too old to be driving a monster on the roads?

Hi, All Need help desperately! My ride experiences engine dies-off suddenly while at travel!!! It happened 1 to 2 times earlier this year, but stopped for a long while. It happened again and has become very frequent lately. . . . twice in a roll last week. I was travelling as normal when the engine suddenly dies-off. Yes, there's no acceleration & steering is locked. I immediately press hazard lights, control the steering and access the situation; if its OK, I stop by the side & start engine again at P gear; if not OK, I switch to N gear and crank to start again & move on...... It was rather dangerous as the steering is locked! Anyone can advice what has gone wrong!??? My mechanic shows me his ??? face. Regards, korusawa

The U.S. Senate failed on Thursday night to reach a last-ditch compromise to bail out automakers, effectively killing any chance of congressional action this year. The $14 billion legislation officially died in the Senate late on Thursday after supporters failed to get enough support in a procedural vote. http://www.cnbc.com/id/28185890 More good times ahead......

Hi bros, I was just driving the car slowly (slow traffic) and suddenly I realised the car's not accelerating and "Engine", "Radiator", "Battery" light came on. I realised my RPM was 0. No acceleration. This was while it was on CNG. So I quickly switched on my hazard light and tried to filter to left most lane. Other drivers thought I was trying to let someone alight and started to honk me. My car still had some momentum and so was rolling it. I then restarted the car when I stopped at the road side. It started ok and I continued with no problems (switching to CNG again). I should have tried to engage N gear and crank the engine when I realised the engine was dead, but I just wasn't thinking. Could have continued the journey? But now I'm beginning to worry if it's really ok for me to drive all the way up to Genting. Sekali got problem....mati liao. Can someone advise what could be wrong and caused the engine to die off? Some nonsense in the CNG causing this? ie, I heard ppl pumping CNG and ended up with some impurities or just "air". Heard before ppl said some station in Singapore (don't want to name) and some stations in JB got this problem. My suspicion is that it was an one off incident (ie CNG regulator missed a beat or something).

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Aug 28, 2008 Prof dies in truck accident The truck driver (left), who is in his 50s, talking to a passer-by at the accident scene yesterday. The incident happened at 8.30pm while the professor was walking home. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE View more photos A TRUCK hit an engineering professor on Tuesday evening, killing him. Associate Professor Ooi Ban Leong of the National University of Singapore (NUS), who was taking his usual walk home from the campus, was then crossing the road at the junction of Commonwealth Avenue West and Clementi Road at 8.30pm. He died at the scene from severe head injuries. Prof Ooi, 41, who had taught at the university's department of electrical and computer engineering since 1996, specialised in microwave engineering, said an NUS spokesman. He was said to have been popular with the students. His father, 62-year-old security guard Ooi Chor Seng, was at the mortuary yesterday to claim his body. He told reporters that his son owned a car but preferred to walk between campus and his home in Buona Vista. 'He told me he was tired of always sitting down at the desk, so he enjoyed the exercise he got from his walks. He was always concerned about his health,' said Mr Ooi, as he broke down in tears. Prof Ooi leaves behind his wife, a housewife aged 38, and an eight-year-old daughter. His father said the family did not wish for any apology or for the truck driver to attend the funeral. He said: 'Even if he apologises, it won't change the situation. It doesn't matter whether or not the truck driver had the right of way. The pedestrian's safety should always come first.' The truck driver, an unidentified man in his 50s, is helping the police in investigations. KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Breaking%...ory_272763.html

RIP.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080807/wl_nm/...farina_death_dc MILAN (Reuters) - Andrea Pininfarina, head of the company which designs Ferraris, Fiats and the Ford Focus, died in a road crash in the early hours of Thursday near the Italian city of Turin, riding his Vespa scooter. Pininfarina, 51, was chairman and chief executive of the company founded in 1930. He was the grandson of founder Battista "Pinin" Farina and his death prompted speculation that the entrance of new investors will speed up, sending its shares sharply higher. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a statement Pininfarina was "the representative of a dynasty that helped bring the story of 'made in Italy' to the world." Fiat and Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo praised his business acumen. "Italy, Turin and the Fiat group have lost a business figure who knew how to follow and develop the work of his grandfather Pinin and his father Sergio," Montezemolo said in a statement. The driver of the car, 78-year-old Giuliano Salmi, was taken to hospital suffering from shock. "I didn't see him, I was going slowly and I really didn't see him," Salmi said, according to local news agency Ansa. Andrea Pininfarina was born in Turin, the centre of Italy's car industry, on June 26, 1957 and joined the family business in 1983 after gaining a degree in mechanical engineering. He was married to Italian aristocrat Cristina Maddalena Pellion di Persano and they had three children. ART AND DESIGN Pininfarina SpA, which designed Ferraris such as the Dino and Testarossa, boasts of "Experience, Creativity, Innovation" on its Website www.pininfarina.com, where it says it is a company of "art, design, innovation. The cars of kings." News of the chief executive's death prompted market speculation that its ownership -- currently in the hands of the family with a 55 percent stake -- could quickly change. The shares jumped so high they had to be suspended in Milan for excessive gains and were indicated up over 13 percent pending a resumption of trade. "The market thinks that ownership change will speed up," said one trader. The family had already planned to cut its stake to around 30 percent through a sale of shares, which the company hopes will raise 100 million euros ($155 million) to be used to develop a new electric car to be launched in 2009. French financier Vincent Bollore could take part, investing up to 30 million euros. Other potential investors include the son of Ferrari's founder and Indian industrialist Ratan Tata. Pininfarina agreed a deal with its creditor banks last week which temporarily exempted it from repayments on 600 million euros of debt while it restructures its finances. It has tried to cut costs as the economic downturn hits car makers and narrowed its loss to 9.7 million euros in the first quarter, from 9.9 million in the same period a year ago. (Additional reporting by Francesca Piscioneri in Rome and Alessandra Farina in Milan; Editing by Greg Mahlich and David Holmes)

MILAN, Italy (AP) 7 Aug 2008 [/color] Andrea Pininfarina, the chief executive of the Italian car design firm founded by his grandfather that counts Ferraris and Alfa Romeos among its creations, died Thursday in a road accident near the northern Italian city of Turin. Pininfarina, 51, was the third generation to run Pininfarina SpA, founded in 1930 by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina -- who combined his nickname and last name to create the company's name and new family name. Pininfarina SpA has designed cars for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Cadillac and Volvo, among many others, but is perhaps most closely associated with Ferrari, designing nearly all of Ferrari's models since the 1950s. They include the convertibles California Spider and Daytona Spider. Andrea Pininfarina took over as CEO in 2001, and in 2006 also became chairman of the board of directors, a position previously held by his father, Sergio Pininfarina, who is a senator for life in the Italian parliament. Andrea Pininfarina studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin and started his career in the United States with Freuhauf Corp. in 1982, before returning to the family business a year later. According to Italian media reports, Pininfarina is survived by his wife and three children Pininfarina was driving a scooter along a provincial highway when he struck a car whose driver failed to stop at an intersection. Andrea Pininfarina (1957-2008) Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina (2006) Maserati GranTurismo (design by Pininfarina, 2008)http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/eu...infarina.ap.jpg

Twin separated in marathon operation dies: newspaper AFP - Wednesday, July 30SINGAPORE, July 30, 2008 (AFP) - One of two conjoined Nepalese twins separated in a marathon operation in Singapore seven years ago has died in their homeland, a newspaper reported Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Ganga Shrestha, eight, died after admission to hospital on Monday with meningitis, The Straits Times reported. "I will always remember her feisty spirit... At least now, her spirit is free of her disabled body," Singaporean neurosurgeon Keith Goh was quoted as saying by the newspaper. He was one of the lead surgeons on the team which separated Ganga and her twin sister, Jamuna, during a 97-hour operation in 2001, the paper said. The children were joined at the head when they were born. Singaporeans raised more than 660,000 dollars (now 484,000 US) to help the babies, and the surgeons waived their charges. The operation left Ganga with brain damage and Jamuna unable to walk, the newspaper said, adding that three years ago they returned to Singapore for additional treatment. Then they returned to Nepal. Jamuna drags herself around on her arms. Schools in Kathmandu have refused to enrol her because part of her brain is still unprotected by bone, the newspaper reported. It quoted her grandfather as saying she finds it hard to accept the death of her sister, and cannot stop crying.

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Another Army boy dies during training... sibe jialat... die 2 in 2 days. Minister declare REST 3 days! http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...0612-70514.html STATEMENT FROM MINISTER OF DEFENCE TEO CHEE HEAN Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean said: "I would like to express my deep condolences to the families of the late Rec Andrew Cheah Wei Siong and the late OCT Clifton Lam Jia Hao. I am saddened by the loss of two young and precious sons of Singapore. I support the decision of the SAF to take a time-out on physical and endurance training for 3 days. This will allow the SAF to review and refocus on such activities to ensure that proper procedures are in place and being followed, before such training resumes. While the SAF needs to carry out realistic training, this will be done without compromise to safety."

Raise the son until 21 years old but go army barely 5 days nia... die. The parents must be dammed sad...... http://www.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%...0611-70116.html

No online article which I can find yet... This is from HWZ... Courtesy from http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1967043 Sibei 冤枉 (innocent)... ... ========== * Man chase woman driver to her house after minor car collision.. * Scolds, shout at her even as she's carried to the ambulance * Woman suffers stroke & dies... It was a minor collision between a BMW and a Mercedes-Benz. But it led to car chase,screaming rage from the driver and the death of other after a stroke... The Mercedes driver, who believe to be around 20+, allegedly shouted yulgarities, and he insisted on being compensated even as the BMW driver, Mdm lee bee huat, 56, was being carried on the stretcher into an ambulance. She died from a brain haemorrhage 2 weeks later. The damage to the car? Just 1 broken wing mirror each. According to the Mdm lee 's family.. the Mercedes driver chased mdm lee 's car through Lentor estate, off Yio chu kang road, for at least half a Kilometre.... She finally reached her house on Lentor street and stopped, sounding her horn... Her son-in-law, Mr edwin Han, 36, sales manager, rushed outta the house and saw her seated in the car. with 1 young man standing close by... Said Mr han :" I opened her car door... and asked if she okay... but she could not really speak." Mr han say mdm lee appeared to be confused, frightened and unable to get out of the car herself... During this time, the Mercedes driver allegedly kept yelling that "SHE KNOCKED MY CAR!!" "i carried my mother-in-law out of the car, but the young man din stop yelling..." say Mr han. Mdm lee 's 2 daughters also came out to help their mother... while Mr han go check with the guy wat happened... "He kept shouting that my mother-in-law was drunk. i told him she doesn't drink... but he refuse to listen!! He had making such a din outside our house that the neighbours started to come out and BEO..." Mr Han say... Mr han looked at the man 's Mercedes, and saw only its right mirror was damaged and offered to pay full damage.... He then wanted to go back to his house and check on mdm lee... but the young man shouted at him repeatedly :" YOU DUN MOVE!!! CHIU STAND THER!!! " Mr han ignored him.. cos he worry abt mdm lee... as he walked back... the young guy started to YELL yulgarities non-stop..." ----- Quick summary due to many text... Young man yelled non-stop.. from the time Mdm lee carried into the house.. until ambulance come... and she pushed to the ambulance.. and even After ambulance drove off.. still din stop..... Mr han make a police report... police say they will look into it....

Lydia Sum dies at 60 Posted: 19 February 2008 1123 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Lydia Sum HONG KONG: Actress Lydia Sum has passed away in hospital, according to Hong Kong media reports. She was 60-years-old. The popular celebrity had been suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. She was admitted into hospital in August last year for an operation. Sum used to star in a show in Mediacorp

Carolyn Quek Mon, Jan 21, 2008 The Straits Times Teen dies after being flung from car in crash A LATE-NIGHT crash between two cars along Mandai Road was so horrific that one of the vehicles was crushed beyond recognition and broke in two. An hour later, at 1am on Saturday, front-seat passenger Kalkieswaran Elangowan was dead. The 18-year-old had just completed his 'O' levels and planned to study marine engineering at a polytechnic here. His driver, 19, was uninjured, but the 17-year-old sitting in the back seat fractured his left leg. The woman driving the other car, a 24-year-old, suffered scratches on her chest. A 52-year-old bus driver who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang saw the accident and told Shin Min Daily News that both vehicles were speeding towards Woodlands Road at the time. The first car, which Mr Elangowan was in, mounted a kerb before hitting the tree, he said. The car behind crashed into it before slamming into the tree as well. Both passengers of the first car were apparently flung out on impact, Mr Ang said. Mr Elangowan's distraught family members were there to identify his body at the mortuary on Sunday morning. He had an older brother a younger sister, and lived with his family at Petir Road in Bukit Panjang. They said that they did not know who he was out with and where he was before the accident. In a separate traffic accident on Saturday, a 38-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car along Boon Lay Way on Saturday evening. Details of the accident are not clear but according to the police, Mr Yin Xiu Jian, a China national, suffered head injuries, scratches on his right elbow and a fractured right shin. He was taken to the National University Hospital but was pronounced dead at about 10.10pm. The driver, a Turkish man in his late 20s, is helping police with investigations.

WELLINGTON (AFP) - - Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88. The plain-speaking former New Zealand beekeeper became a household name after he and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, standing atop a peak that had defied mountaineers for decades. "Well, we knocked the bxxxxxd off," he said on the way back down. News of the British led expedition's historic achievement was announced in London the day young Elizabeth II was crowned queen, only adding to the patriotic fervour of Coronation Day. Hillary was always modest about his achievements and fame. "I have moderate abilities but I combine these with a good deal of determination and I rather like to succeed," he said. Hillary was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, and as a youth showed no hint of the strength and skill that would make him one of the most famous mountaineers and explorers in the world. On seeing a scrawny Hillary in his first year of high school, his physical education teacher muttered in despair: "What will they send me next?" "I never got over this sense of physical inferiority," Hillary admitted in his autobiography. He was never meant to be the first to the top of Everest. Other team members got the first crack at the 8,848-metre (29,028-foot) summit but were thwarted several hundred feet short, hampered by fatigue and low on oxygen. After a night of little rest, Hillary and Tenzing made their second try, and the lanky New Zealander led the tricky trek up to the summit. To get around controversy, they said they had reached the top together. It was many years before Tenzing revealed that Hillary had actually got there first. "So there it is," Tenzing wrote in his book, "the answer to the great mystery." "The names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes," Jan Morris, the British historian and journalist who accompanied the expedition, wrote in Time magazine. "Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing," she said. Hillary was the only living New Zealander ever to appear on the country's currency, a national and worldwide hero who could have made a fortune from his historic ascent. Instead, he devoted much of his energy to his Himalayan Trust, which helped build schools, hospitals and clinics for the impoverished country of Nepal, which remained close to his heart. Alexa Johnston, who wrote Sir Edmund Hillary - An Extraordinary Life, said Hillary was complex but his defining characteristics were incredible persistence and generosity to others. "He's hard on himself and he can demand a lot from people but he is also not vindictive and he is able to forgive people if they don't measure up. "He's a driven man and he's been ambitious but he's also been incredibly ambitious for other people and particularly for the well-being of Sherpas and of course a commitment to human rights and social justice have been core to his approach to life as well." New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said his humility and modesty represented something very important to New Zealanders. Hillary remained a restless adventurer who re-affirmed his ambitious streak four years later in 1957, when he joined the trans-Antarctic expedition of British explorer Vivien Fuchs. As Fuchs set off from one side of the continent, a group led by Hillary set off on tractors from the opposite side to set up supply depots and map the terrain for the second half of Fuchs' crossing. Hillary instead stole his thunder by defying the Briton's wishes and heading to the South Pole, becoming the leader of the first expedition to reach the pole by vehicle. In 1960, he led another Himalayan adventure, this time in search of proof of the mythical yeti or abominable snowman -- a topic of great interest since Tenzing had said his father had twice seen one. Among the sherpa community, tales of the yeti were common but Hillary had no success. He got sick mid-way through the expedition -- possibly due to some uncertain fishcakes prepared by his friend Peter Mulgrew -- and pulled out. In 1975, Hillary's wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu while flying to join him on a Himalayan Trust project. Four years later in 1979, Mulgrew also died when a sightseeing plane crashed in Antarctica. Mulgrew's wife June travelled with Hillary to New Delhi when he was appointed New Zealand's ambassador to India in 1984 and they married five years later. Hillary always had strong views about Everest, which has seen more than 2,000 people reach the summit after his historic success more than half a century ago. "Having people pay 65,000 dollars and then be led up the mountain by a couple of experienced guides, I personally think, is far less attractive," he told the BBC in 2003. "It isn't really mountaineering at all." http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080111/tts-...ry-c1b2fc3.html

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../320318/1/.html SAF logistics officer dies after 1.2km run Posted: 02 January 2008 1730 hrs SINGAPORE: Major (MAJ) Tan Yit Guan, a SAF logistics officer, collapsed at 8.20am at Kranji Camp on Wednesday morning. MAJ Tan was talking with his colleagues after completing a 1.2km self-paced run when he suddenly collapsed. He was given prompt medical attention and sent to the National University Hospital at about 8.45am. Efforts by the SAF medical team to resuscitate him en route were unsuccessful. MAJ Tan was pronounced dead at 9.30am. MINDEF and the SAF extend their deepest condolences to MAJ Tan's family, and will be assisting them in their time of grief. MINDEF is investigating the incident. CNA/so

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sp...icle2461339.ecehttp://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sp...icle2461339.ece Another one from the 90's era ..... after richard burns ..... R.I.P .....