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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowkytZAVdw After Ford, Hyundai is the next car maker to apologise over a controversial commercial. The video, created by agency, Innocean Europe for Hyundai UK, shows a man trying to attempt suicide in his garage by hooking up the exhaust pipe to the cabin of his Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell. The attempt failed as the ix35 only emits water vapours and not carbon monoxide which blocks the transport of oxygen to the brain, heart, and other vital organs in the body. Hyundai issued an apology statement that read, "Hyundai Motor deeply and sincerely apologises for the offensive viral ad. It runs counter to our values as a company and as members of the community. We are very sorry for any offense or distress the video caused. More to the point, Hyundai apologises to those who have been personally impacted by tragedy." Hyundai has removed the YouTube video after widespread criticism on social media. However, the video has been uploaded by other netizens.

Alledgedly a woman jumped from The Sail condo. Rumoured to be a trader Of course this is a one sided story so lets wait for the condo and the pavement to comment.

Greenland has the most youngster who use suicide as a fashion statement? In Asia, Korea rate is also scary, many are youngster and many due to depression [:(]

[This looks like a Hollywood script. Hope ST will provide updates when available. Doesn't look good on our police and A*Star.] A sensational news report about the death of an American research scientist in Singapore that cast aspersions on two Singapore public institutions prompted responses from both agencies yesterday. In the Financial Times article, the scientist's parents alleged that the police here had not done its job properly in investigating their son's death. But the police say they investigate all unnatural death cases thoroughly and their procedures are of high international standards. More damning were allegations that Singapore's national research agency had plans to strike a deal with a Chinese company suspected of espionage. But Dr Raj Thampuran, managing director of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), told The Sunday Times that the agency does not conduct any military-related research. He added that while the institute had been in talks with Huawei Technologies, the project did not progress beyond talks. On Friday, the Financial Times (FT) published a report casting doubt on the death of Dr Shane Todd, an American who was found hanged in an apparent suicide in his home near Chinatown last June. His parents said they believed their son had been murdered over his work at the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), which is part of A*Star. IME carries out research on microelectronics to help develop the industry in Singapore. Some areas of focus include miniaturised medical devices, sensors and circuits. Dr Todd, who was trained as an engineer, worked for the institute between December 2010 and May last year and, according to the FT, led a team specialising in a next-generation semiconductor material called gallium nitride (GaN). The material can withstand extreme heat and power levels well beyond the more traditionally used silicon. An external hard drive discovered by Dr Todd's parents in his home after his death contained apparent plans between the institute and Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, to develop a device known as a GaN amplifier, which has many commercial uses, the FT said. But the GaN amplifier could also be used in electronic warfare to jam signals and weapons, and to create high-powered radar systems to boost military capabilities, said experts consulted by FT. The involvement of Huawei would be problematic because the firm has been deemed a security risk by governments, the FT said. Last year, a United States government intelligence committee said, after an 11-month investigation, that it suspected communications equipment made by Huawei could be used for spying. The committee's report cited analysts' concerns that Huawei has links to and is influenced by the Chinese government, despite it claiming to be a private company. Huawei has denied these suspicions, although it admitted in a US government report that an internal Communist Party committee does exist within the company, as required by law. The committee also found that Huawei "did not fully cooperate with the investigation and was unwilling to explain its relationship with the Chinese government or Chinese Communist Party". Australia has banned Huawei from bidding for projects for its high-speed broadband network, citing security concerns. Britain has also just finished a review of "the whole presence of Huawei" in its national infrastructure and is expected to publish a report soon. According to FT, Dr Todd's parents said that their son had seemed increasingly stressed in the months before his death. "I am being asked to do things with a Chinese company that make me uncomfortable," Mrs Todd recalled her son saying. "He said he felt he was being asked to compromise American security," she added. The institute's executive director, Professor Kwong Dim-Lee, confirmed that Dr Todd resigned last May and planned to return to the United States. But when asked about the nature of Dr Todd's work at the institute, Prof Kwong declined to provide details, citing the ongoing police investigation of the death. In an e-mail statement to The Sunday Times, he would say only that "Shane performed well... and was thought of highly by his supervisor and peers. He left the institute on cordial terms." According to his professional LinkedIn profile, Dr Todd was a project leader in the institute's gallium nitride-on-silicon power electronics programme. The programme aims to combine gallium nitride and silicon for use in power and radio frequency applications, according to the institute's website. "The outcomes from these projects will contribute to specific industrial applications," it said. The FT report said that besides wanting to know the nature of their son's work at the institute, the Todds also cast a damning light on the Singapore police's investigation of his death. They told FT that they had seen no signs of an investigation, such as crime scene tape or smudges from fingerprint searches, at their son's apartment. The report said that they even disputed basic facts. They said they were told by the police that Dr Todd had drilled holes into his bathroom wall, bolted in a pulley, then slipped a black strap through the pulley and wrapped it around the toilet several times. He killed himself by tethering the strap to his neck and jumping from a chair. But when they visited the apartment soon after his death, the bathroom walls had no holes in them, there were no bolts or screws and the toilet was not even where the police had said it was, they claimed. When The Sunday Times visited the area yesterday, a woman who claimed to be the owner of the shophouse where Dr Todd lived said he mostly kept to himself and did not interact with his neighbours. "We do not know what happened. As far as I am concerned, this matter is over because the police told us investigations have closed," said the woman who declined to be named. She said the unit occupied by Dr Todd had been rented out to someone else. Two neighbours living across from Dr Todd's apartment added that the police had not interviewed them about his death. When asked, the police said their procedures for investigating cases, particularly those involving deaths, are of high international standards. A spokesman added: "All crime scene locations which have the potential for recovery of evidence are handled with care and are protected from interference of any kind so as to preserve any trace evidence. "The conditions and items found at the crime scene are carefully recorded in great detail, as well as conserved and removed for subsequent laboratory analysis." The family can also question witnesses and the relevant reports during the coroner's inquiry, he said. The inquiry will take place next month, said the FT. Mr Eric Watnik, public affairs counsellor at the US Embassy in Singapore, told The Sunday Times that a consular officer accompanied the Todds to all of their meetings with the Singapore authorities. He added: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to follow the case closely, but it does not have jurisdiction outside the United States and must be invited by a foreign government before doing any investigations overseas. "The United States has offered FBI assistance to the Government of Singapore on the Shane Todd case and has engaged in frequent discussion with the Government of Singapore regarding Shane's death."

http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/08/...sing-in-brunei/ Whats happening?

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/tony-sc...s-say-1.3914803 News broke today, Sg time. I really liked many of his movies - not great art, but great blockbusters. Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, True Romance. Wonder why he did it? Maybe he couldn't stand to live in the shadow of his critically-acclaimed brother (Ridley Scott) anymore - but why would he do it after Ridley just released a critically-panned stinker (Prometheus)? And why would he do it when he's got his most eagerly awaited film project (the Top Gun sequel) in the works?

U dun come SG let me console???

22yrs old. What a honest True love story. Died for love, aww.....so heart warming and touching man. The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Jun 05, 2012 Malaysia Nanban reported that a man committed suicide after he allegedly saw his wife in a compromising position with another man. However, the wife claimed that her husband misunderstood the situation as the man was molesting her. On Saturday evening, Puran Sahoo, 22, hanged himself in the servant's quarters of a bungalow in Bangalore. Police said that Sahoo and his wife Manju were working as servants in the bungalow and that Shiv was a fellow employee. Sahoo had entered the quarters at about 9pm and found Manju and Shiv in a compromising position in the bathroom. An enraged Sahoo slapped his wife twice while Shiv ran away. Sahoo then locked himself inside the kitchen. Manju told police that she had repeatedly knocked on the door but Sahoo did not respond. By the time she called her employer and broke open the kitchen door, Sahoo had hanged himself. She told police that Shiv had gagged her and forcibly taken her into the bathroom.

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/eat-drin...ng-3628742.html Police tentage covered body; Blk 118B Jalan membina (Tiong Bahru/Jln Bukit Merah area)

A woman has been hospitalised after she jumped off an expressway flyover yesterday. The woman from Myanmar is believed to be in Singapore to work as a maid. She had run away from a maid agency in Katong Shopping Centre before ending up at the flyover, located at the intersection between the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway, the Pan-Island Expressway and Sims Drive. Witnesses say that she had stood on a flowerbed on the ledge of the flyover with her arms spread, before jumping 4.5m to the road below. She was luckily not run over by any vehicles despite busy traffic at the stretch of road. A taxi has passed by as the woman jumped. The shocked driver pulled over at the road shoulder to notify the police about the incident. The woman was said to have landed partially on a small tree, breaking its branches which appeared to have absorbed the impact of her fall. She landed on the road shoulder and broke her right arm and left leg. She was conscious but in pain when she was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital She is currently in a high dependency ward and confined to bed. Prior to the incident, she was said to have told other maids that she wanted to kill herself but it is unknown why she wanted to do so.

Hope the sacrifice wake this cruel world up.. http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Teary-Mother-Bea...king-True-Story

Bishan double tragedy: jumper "appeared normal" Posted: 15 September 2011 1600 hrs SINGAPORE: Forty-eight-year-old Ng Sock Luan, who jumped from a height at a Bishan apartment block early this year and landed on another woman, was known to have had a history of harbouring suicidal thoughts. Coroner's inquest into her death however revealed that she appeared normal and did not seem to be in any form of distress just hours before her fatal leap on January 10. Her 21-year-old daughter noticed that the administrative assistant had changed into her work attire and seemed to be preparing to go to work at around 7.30am that day. Madam Ng, who was diagnosed with anxiety-depression, had told her loved ones on several occasions that she wanted to commit suicide. As a result of this, her family members had never left her alone since December last year. But she decided to jump from Block 179 Bishan Street 13 at around 11am on the one day they left her alone. Madam Ng landed on 54-year-old Lau Fong Kien who happened to be walking at the ground floor near the block of flats, killing herself and the older woman. State Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid said Ms Lau was a breast cancer survivor with a strong desire to live having beaten the cancer two years ago. He said that she was a "tragic victim" in the incident and did not see Ms Lau as someone with suicidal tendencies. But Coroner Imran said that Madam Ng was the "exact opposite" and her "balance of mind was disturbed" when she decided to make the fatal fall. Both women succumbed to multiple injuries. State Counsel Agnes Chan pointed out that injuries suffered by Madam Ng were consistent with a fall from height. Ms Chan also told the court that Ms Lau's injuries were similar to those sustained by individuals hit by falling objects. Paramedics who arrived at the scene pronounced both women dead within minutes of each other. - CNA/ck

Hi guys, I got to now that a ex colleague committed suicide recently.. due to either gambling debts.. only age 34/35.. I personal feels that the recent opening of Casinos in singapore are breaking families. You now of anyone that is in serious trouble due to gambling issues at the 2 local casinos?

DJ laosai 500+ and has not found the support yet. Looks gloomy going forward for the next 6-9 mths. STI sure laosai today and I see short term support of DJ at 10500, once breached, possibility of 9900 before one can cherry pick. Think contrarian STI, my take is 2800 and 2500 before I cherry pick timing of the laosai cud not be better cos brylcreem hair will say, vote for the 'safe choice'.... Your views folks....oh and those with the 400k, and talk girls and is a farking tiko, not welcome here....start your own farking thread :angry:

1 in a million indeed. The woman is suspected to have jumped, crashed through the manhole cover and landed inside the longkang

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1123174/1/.html A gutsy 23 year old man to fight Ah Loong. At least this will keep Ah Loong busy. Pls gv this man and his team a tiger.

What is the rationale behind making suicide illegal? Is it true that the body of a suicide case will be handcuffed? If the suicide is successful, will the person's family have to pay the fine?

SP student jumped from 13th floor after quarrel with sec sch girlfriend. Deceased came over to S'pore from China 10 yrs ago. Parents selll noodles at school canteen. Neighbours say deceased is polite, handsome and tall (ta ma de ... like this still commit suicide?)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp...1106655/1/.html MOSCOW - A suspected suicide bombing Monday killed at least 31 people and wounded over 100 at Moscow's Domodedovo international airport in an attack described by investigators as an act of terror. Eyewitnesses who spoke to Russian radio described a scene of carnage after the blast ripped through the baggage claims section of the arrivals hall at Russia's largest airport. "Today at 4:32pm (1332 GMT) an explosion went off in the international arrivals hall of Domodedovo airport," the Russian investigative committee said in a statement. The spokesman for the committee, Vladimir Markin, said that a criminal inquiry had been opened into an "act of terror". An official with the investigators, Tatyana Morozova, told the Interfax news agency that the blast happened in the baggage claim area. At least 31 people were killed and 130 wounded in the blast, Interfax said, quoting an official with the health ministry. "According to preliminary information, the explosive device was set off by a suicide bomber in the international departures hall," the news agency quoted an unnamed security source as saying. "Burned people are running about.. they are carrying pieces of flesh on stretchers," said one eyewitness, named as Andrei, who was standing near the information stand at the airport. "Something terrible is happening there. Tens of people are being dragged out on stretchers, on trolleys," he told City FM radio. "People are on stretchers, some being carried, there are wounded, people covered in blood," a passenger named as Nadezhda told the radio. "You can't tell the living from the dead. I was meeting someone. We are not protected in this country," another witness, Alexei, told the radio. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been informed of the incident, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax. Moscow police on Monday stepped up security across the city after the blast, Interfax quoted law enforcement officials as saying. Domodedovo Airport is Russia's largest airport in terms of passenger traffic. The Russian capital has been repeatedly rocked by attacks over the last years blamed on militants from its overwhelmingly Muslim Northern Caucasus region. Double bombings carried out by two female suicide bombers on the Moscow metro on March 29, 2010 killed 40 and wounded more than 100. Russia is battling an Islamist insurgency in the Caucasus and deadly attacks on government and police officials in Dagestan as well as neighbouring Chechnya and Ingushetia are an almost daily occurrence. The Kremlin fought two wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya in the 1990s but the insurgency has now become more Islamist in tone and has spread to neighbouring Ingushetia and Dagestan. However officials have repeatedly warned of the risk of attacks in Russia's heartland. Meanwhile, Singapore Airlines says both its flights out of the Domodedovo airport have departed without incident. SQ62, bound for Houston, Texas in the US, departed Moscow at 10.15am local time. SQ61 left Moscow for Singapore direct at 2.25pm local time. - AFP/CNA/ir Down to Terrorists!

yo guys, Am at sin ming auto care centre, one guy just jumped down sia, body landed at the small road when u enter the building complex whoever that guy is, RIP man

saw it on EDMW photos are there too http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2973595

http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/07/09/tw...uicide-tragedy/ In what a state coroner describes as a