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The British pound fell more than 6 per cent to below $1.20 in two minutes on Friday amid concerns over the UK’s exit from the EU. Shortly after currency markets opened in Asia on Friday, the pound lost as much as 6.1 per cent to $1.1841. The sharp nature of the move sparked speculation that it could have been triggered by a mistaken “fat finger” trade or a rogue automated algorithm, exacerbated by thinner liquidity during early Asian trade. It was the currency’s lowest since May 1985 and the biggest intraday drop since the 11.1 per cent plunge on June 24 in the wake of the UK’s voteto leave the EU. https://www.ft.com/content/dfb375be-8c23-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 Pound expected to drop as much as 10% on Brexit 'leave' victory http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/17/british-pound-expected-to-drop-10-on-brexit-leave-victory.html If Britain votes to leave the European Union, the pound is expected to drop as much as 10 percent against the dollar, according to Stacey Gilbert, head of derivative strategy at Susquehanna Financial Group. If there's an exit vote "I would say right now in terms of the pound we're seeing a move to 8 to 10 percent on the downside. That's a huge move in terms of a currency," Gilbert said Thursday on CNBC's Power Lunch.

Delivery in progress, back in 10 minutes I see these words permanently displayed in almost all commercial vehicles. I wonder if a delivery is actually in progress. Does it work to ward off the parking attendant? If it does, they'll save a large amount in parking fees each day. In fact, some trucks even have a nice plastic, commercially made sign displayed. Most do not return to the vehicle in 10 minutes, especially when they are enjoying their cup of kopi or lunch. Might want to get a similar sign to display on my car dashboard too if it works.

Charging your phone battery can be inconvenient and take awhile, but what if you could get a proper power refueling in just a few minutes? Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore say they developed a lithium-ion battery that can go from zero to 70% power capacity in two minutes. Lithium-ion batteries are commonly used in phones and tablets. See also: 7 Ways to Preserve Your Battery Life on iOS 8 Perhaps even more importantly, the battery lasts much longer than the ones we have now, an attribute that could boost the electric car industry, developers said. The new battery is supposed to last for 10,000 cycles, a lifespan estimated at two decades and more than 10 times longer than what we're used to. The new battery is supposed to last for 10,000 cycles, a lifespan estimated at two decades In contrast, Apple says its phone batteries are designed to "retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles." Generally, the more you recharge a battery, the more it loses its luster over time. The breakthrough here is with the battery's anode or negative pole, which traditionally works with graphite. The graphite is replaced with a newly developed gel made from an "abundant, cheap and safe" material called titanium dioxide that's found in soil. It's also an active ingredient in sunscreen. The researchers were able to morph the spherically-shaped titanium dioxide into tubular strands that are 1,000-times thinner than a human hair. The gel speeds up reactions taking place inside the new battery, propelling the hyper-fast recharging. The researchers think the battery's most important impact will be on the electric car industry. Potential adopters can be turned off by the long recharge times and shorter battery lifespans for electric vehicles. With this battery, however, recharging your car — timewise — wouldn't be so far off from filling up a tank a gas. It should take about five minutes to give you enough power to get back on the road and 15 minutes for a full charge, the researchers said in a statement. Replacement batteries for electric cars are costly, too, with some priced at more than $5,000. Another benefit is that it would cut down on waste resulting from battery disposals. When talking about "breakthroughs" for battery technology, expectations can be very high. Don't treat this as consumer reality just yet, but it's good to know that scientists are trying to make batteries more efficient. Developers expect the new batteries to hit the market in the next two years.

3km, 4 minutes, 16 injured, 3 deads.... young men slashed passengers on Taipei MRT this afternoon... 台北地铁砍人事件致3死8伤 醉酒嫌犯被捕(图) 2014年05月21日17:22 中国新闻网 我有话说(708人参与) 收藏本文 取自“中央社”/受伤网友供图 江子翠站入口处/TVBS资料画面 　　中新网5月21日电 据台湾TVBS新闻台报道台北地铁江子翠站21日下午发生随机砍人事件目前已造成3人死亡8人受伤。 　　据报道警方逮到一名浑身酒气的男子但因他意识不清还没办法对案情进行厘清。 (原标题台媒台北地铁随机砍人事件致3死8伤(图))

Singapore yesterday unveiled its first electric taxi prototype at the biennial Tokyo Motor Show in Japan. Plug it in, wait 15 minutes and this electric taxi will be ready to travel up to a distance of 200km. Singapore on Thursday unveiled its first electric taxi prototype at the biennial Tokyo Motor Show in Japan. The sleek, lightweight vehicle took about two years to conceptualise and build. It can zip from 0 to 100kmh in 10 seconds and seat four people, including the driver, comfortably. Among its other features, the front passenger seat can be converted to fit children aged nine months to three years old, and its unique air-conditioning system can cool each seat individually. "This helps to save energy because when the driver is alone, it is not necessary to cool the entire vehicle," said Dr Harry Hoster, scientific director of the TUM-Create electric vehicle and transportation research programme. The programme, which is funded by the National Research Foundation, is a joint effort between Nanyang Technological University and the Technische Universitat Munchen in Germany. The researchers said introducing electric taxis here would help reduce carbon emissions as the vehicles are on the road most of the time. From January to August, a two-shift taxi here travelled almost an average 300km per day while ferrying customers, according to the Land Transport Authority's statistics. The team claimed the taxi would also be cheaper to own and maintain at S$426,000 (US$340,881) over eight years, compared with S$460,000 (US$368,088) for existing diesel versions. The figures include the cost of the vehicle, fuel, tax, maintenance, insurance and others, but the team stressed that these were preliminary estimates. The researchers declined to comment on the prototype's cost or to estimate its commercial price, saying that this would depend on manufacturers. The prototype is also likely to be modified to bring down costs. For example, its shell is made up of light but expensive carbon fibre. Manufacturers may use other, cheaper materials for some parts, said the team. While the car is suitable for Singapore's climate and geographical size, putting it on roads here will require infrastructure such as charging stations for its super-fast charging system. German technology firm Bosch Software Innovations has installed more than 57 charging stations here as part of a government electric vehicle trial, but these cannot be used for the prototype's charging system. "We also need to study how plugging in the vehicles will affect the national grid, among other things," said Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar, executive director of NTU's Energy Research Institute. The Singapore Land Transport Authority and several taxi operators did not respond to queries by press time. Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/cab-can-go-200km-15-minutes-charging-20131122

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Amazing speech...we should all be ashamed.

Frankly reading and trying to understand the maths problem stated in the ST Forum letter already took me 1 1/2 minutes and to solve within another 3 1/2 minutes without using simultaneous equation is beyond my capability. Are you able to solve it within 5 minutes? Just glad that I was born many moons back and not have to face this type of maths question nowadays... Can understand this dad's frustration and hope that I will not pose a similar question to the authorities when my children faces such a situation in the future... From ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Online...ory_710009.html Don't hurt pupils' self-esteem with tough questions Published on Sep 7, 2011 AS A PARENT, I wonder whether some teachers who set exam papers are really interested in gauging the ability of pupils. Sometimes it seems as though they are simply intent on making life miserable for them. Take a look at this maths question in a recently concluded Primary 6 preliminary exam: 'Three halls contained 9,876 chairs altogether. One-fifth of the chairs were transferred from the first hall to the second hall. Then, one-third of the chairs were transferred from the second hall to the third hall and the number of chairs in the third hall doubled. In the end, the number of chairs in the three halls became the same. How many chairs were in the second hall at first?' I challenge readers to solve this problem in five minutes, which is all the time a Primary 6 pupil has to do it. I challenge school principals to do it, without the help of equations, which Primary 6 pupils aren't equipped with yet. Setting such difficult questions serves no educational purpose - it only undermines the pupils' self-esteem. Stephen Lin

Interesting video: http://video.xin.msn.com/watch/video/crew-...nutes/1j8d9ynlr Maybe our OETI training programme should include such a test.

Read this piece of news at ESPN Soccernet : Fergie slams unfit Wiley Sir Alex Ferguson tonight launched a blistering attack on Alan Wiley, accusing the Staffordshire official of "not being fit enough'' to do his job. Wiley, the fourth official for last month's controversial Manchester derby, was in charge at Old Trafford this afternoon as an injury-time own-goal from Anton Ferdinand gave United a point against Sunderland in a 2-2 draw. Ferguson claimed Wiley had not played the correct amount of added time because he had failed to add on an additional minute to the four already signalled once United scored. "I was disappointed with the referee,'' said the United boss. "He didn't add on any time for the goal. He played four minutes and two seconds. He did not get what he expected like he got it against ManCity and he now slam the poor referee............... Smell something Fishy .........

Landing via MAS MH652 at 1225pm on a Sunday. Anyone here with experience to share on how must times is taken, hours or just a few minutes with a trolly bag to collect from belt. to clear immigration at Penang International Airport.

Gone in 10 minutes Expensive cars should be harder to steal because they are equipped with better security features. An investigator from the Royal Malaysian Police explains how car thieves have found a way to de-activate some of these features. -TNP Mon, Aug 11, 2008 The New Paper The recent spate of Honda CRV thefts confirms the trend that sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are still at the top of the shopping list for car thieves. A reformed car smuggler said: "The latest cases bring back old memories for me. It looks like nothing has changed." Mr Mohamed 37, a Singapore car jockey who used to drive stolen Malaysian cars, said car-smuggling syndicates have many channels to move stolen vehicles fast. A car stolen in Kuala Lumpur in the morning could, by mid-afternoon, be parked at a multi-storey carpark in Singapore, he said. Mr Mohamed said: "It's easy money. Just drive one (stolen) car into a container, and I'm $600 richer. I did as many as six cars a night before I was caught." His last "job" was in 2004, and he was later jailed for more than a year for receiving and disposing of stolen property. Local syndicates in Malaysia work together with syndicates in Singapore and Indonesia. Orders are placed for specific cars, particularly luxury cars and SUVs. Mr Mohamed said that the moment a car is stolen in Malaysia, a group of men in Singapore would already be told to "stand by". In the meantime, forged documents are prepared for the collection of the stolen cars when they arrive at their final destinations in Indonesia, South Africa or the Middle East. Some stolen cars are stripped and sold as spare parts overseas. Otherwise, they are adorned with fake licence plates and driven out of Malaysia by the thieves. From past reports and court cases, syndicates have used Singapore as a transit point before shipping the cars overseas. Once in Singapore, carparks in Woodlands, Chua Chu Kang and Geylang Bahru become "holding" points. The Singapore counterpart of the syndicate will then take over. LOADING & SHIPPING Singapore car jockeys would drive the cars away and load them into containers. One Singapore mastermind was Mohd Nasir Mohd Haset, 50. He and his crew had successfully processed and shipped 270 stolen Malaysian cars, with an estimated value of $11.6 million, since 2004. He was finally caught in 2006 when a car jockey revealed Mohd Nasir's identity to the police. Other masterminds, such as Malaysian Nyo Ah Hai, are on the run. He is wanted by Interpol. Dealing in big flashy Japanese cars and European luxury cars, Nyo would ship the stolen cars to Batam. Nyo was said to have smuggled up to 154 cars a day to Batam. Figures released by Malaysian police showed that in the first five months of 2007, a total of 4,907 luxury cars were stolen in Malaysia. Each year, an estimated US$21 billion ($32 billion) worth of luxury vehicles are stolen throughout Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. How to protect your cars SIMPLE as it may seem, the best way to prevent your car from being stolen is to keep it under lock and key. A steering or accelerator lock that comes with a strong reinforced padlock is certainly a good old-fashioned security system that will make it tougher for any thief. A reformed ex-car thief, Mr Mohamed, said: 'When you add security measures like steering locks or gear shifter locks, you're slowing a thief's progress. 'If stealing a car will take a long time, a thief may not even bother. He will look for easier targets.' Anti-theft devices should be regularly serviced to ensure their effectiveness. Always park your car in well-lit areas and report suspicious persons loitering around carparks during the early hours of the morning. 1. DRILLING FROM OUTSIDE To get to the alarm system, thieves drill a small hole in the SUV's body. We are not revealing the location to avoid potential car thefts. The detective said: 'In our latest investigations, we have seen how fast the thieves can steal the cars. They can drive your car away in under 10 minutes. 'Through the hole, they will disarm the alarm. After that's done, it's easy to penetrate the SUV.' 2. BREAKING INTO THE CAR Once the alarm has been cut off, it is easy for thieves to break in without waking up the whole neighbourhood. One method involves punching or tampering the door lock to gain entry. The other method uses a 'slim Jim' - a ruler-like device - which could be inserted through a gap in the window to unlock the door, the Malaysian police officer said. 3. REPROGRAMMING ECU Once inside, thieves target the immobiliser - an electronic device fitted to a car to prevent the engine from running unless the correct key is used - by accessing the SUV's electronic control unit (ECU). The thieves programme the ECU to recognise the new key they are using, he said. This can be done in less than 10 minutes. The police officer added: 'It's baffling to imagine how the whole process works. 'It's more shocking when you see suspects re-enact how they steal cars. It's done skilfully and fast. 'The job is clean. They do not have to break the car's windows or use a tow truck. 'You will not hear any car alarm going off.' 4. ANOTHER TATIC A simpler tactic is used on a bigger and popular Japanese SUV. Car thieves will peel open a part of the car using a flathead screwdriver. Next, they will go for the wires that power the lights, the officer said. 'They will short-circuit the car's wiring system to overcome the car's alarm,' he added. After the alarm has been disarmed, the same methods are applied to get into the SUV and start the engine.

he new line of Phoenix electric vehicles claims to have addressed at least the re-charge side of the problem in a most dramatic way. And if the claimed 10-minute re-charge time is true, then that certainly lessens the concerns over driving range as it becomes possible to quickly re-charge your vehicle at your destination before returning back to where you started.

to a grey SGA???? A4 turning into Tanglin Regency. to silver SDK???? A4 at RedHill Hawker Centre carpark. Encountered both of you yesterday around 1830hrs. Belonging to any bro/sis here ? I was travelling from Tanglin Rd to have dinner at RedHill Hawker ctr, that's why saw both of you. I must say the SDK was quite nicely done up.