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Police national serviceman injured in misfiring incident at training camp By Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 26 September 2008 1633 hrs SINGAPORE: A police national serviceman was injured in the groin when a fellow officer accidentally discharged a round from his sub-machine gun while the two were on guard duty. The incident happened on Monday night at the Police Key Installation Protection Training Camp along Ulu Pandan Road. In a statement, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said the injured officer was sent to hospital immediately and is now in a stable condition. It added that his family has also been contacted by a senior police officer to render any help they may need. SPF added that there was no danger posed to public in the vicinity at the time of the incident and it's now investigating the incident. - CNA/vm http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../378581/1/.html otoh.. mebbe not tua kee.

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July 15, 2008 Ren Ci case: Arrest comes after five-month probe At issue are loans made by the hospital amounting to several million dollars By Chong Chee Kin PUBLIC FACE OF REN CI: Venrable Ming Yi is also an abbot at a Geylang monastery as well as several temples in Malaysia and Hong Kong. -- ST FILE PHOTO THE long-time head of Ren Ci Hospital, the Venerable Ming Yi, was arrested yesterday and stepped down from all his positions at the charity. He posted police bail of $200,000 last night and left the Commercial Affairs Department at the Police Cantonment Complex at about 11pm after giving his statement. He was wearing his monk robes. His arrest means that both the former chiefs of Singapore's two biggest charities - Ren Ci and the National Kidney Foundation - have been implicated in financial irregularities in recent years. The arrest of the face of Ren Ci comes five months after he went on long leave when the police were asked to probe the charity's finances. The Health Ministry found 'possible irregularities' in Ren Ci's books after an audit. At the heart of the issue were questionable loans made by the hospital, amounting to several million dollars. Some of these loans were allegedly given to companies with links to the Venerable Ming Yi. There were also loans given to a helper with the charity as well as investments made over the years in his name. As a result of the probe, Ren Ci lost the right to grant its supporters tax exemption for donations. Contacted yesterday, the monk's lawyers, Senior Counsel Andre Yeap and Mr Hamidul Haq from law firm Rajah & Tann, told The Straits Times that their client has cooperated fully with the authorities. The Straits Times understands that while Venerable Ming Yi has surrendered his passport to the police, he was told he would be allowed to travel, subject to conditions. His assets were not frozen. It is understood that Venerable Ming Yi, who is also an abbot at a Geylang monastery as well as several temples in Malaysia and Hong Kong, was arrested for criminal breach of trust. Mr Yeap said: 'His current intention is to seek vindication and it looks as though this can only be achieved by defending these charges in court vigorously. 'None of the offences related to matters which involved any allegations of personal gain...Some of the matters have already been approved by the board of Ren Ci previously.' In light of his arrest, Venerable Ming Yi has informed Ren Ci's board that he will step down from all his positions - including his present post as honorary chief executive - 'pending the resolution of the current investigations'. The 46-year-old shot to fame with his daredevil stunt of abseiling down the 45-storey Suntec Tower Two in the charity's maiden TV fund-raiser in 2003. The show raised more than $7 million in each of its last two runs. He has been the chief of the charity, which takes care of chronically sick patients, since its inception in 1994. Ren Ci is the second-largest charity under MOH with reserves of about $33.5 million. It raised about $30 million last year. It runs two medical after-care facilities, one at Buangkok View and the other at Moulmein with over 444 beds. A third hospital, being built near Tan Tock Seng Hospital, is due to be completed in September. [email protected] http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_257701.html

M'sia's pirated disc-sniffing dog dies: report Manny (above) and another dog Paddy were the latest additions to the world's first anti-piracy canine unit. -- PHOTO: AFP KUALA LUMPUR - A DOG trained to sniff out pirated discs, from a Malaysian unit which criminals have made threats against, has been found dead in the undisclosed location where it was kept, a report said on Sunday. The New Straits Times said that Manny, a one-year-old golden Labrador which arrived in Malaysia in February, died about a week ago and that authorities were trying to determine the cause of death. 'We have sent Manny's body to University Putra Malaysia for a post-mortem,' said Roslan Mahayuddin, the enforcement director of the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry. 'He had not started work yet so I doubt that there was anyone who wanted to harm him,' Mr Roslan said, according to the newspaper. Manny and another dog Paddy were the latest additions to the world's first anti-piracy canine unit. The first dogs in the unit, another pair of Labradors named Lucky and Flo, made headlines last year after uncovering huge stashes of pirated CDs, doing serious damage to the lucrative illegal industry. During a five-month stint during which they sniffed out 1.6 million CDs, leading counterfeiters placed bounties on their heads. Paddy and Manny, donated by the US-based Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), began work in April after spending some time getting used to the climate. The MPAA had reportedly spent 74,500 ringgit (S$31,800) to buy the dogs from Northern Ireland. The dogs are trained to freeze or sit down when they detect polycarbonate and other chemicals used in manufacturing optical discs. Paddy, a black labrador, had been found badly abused by an animal shelter before he was trained. -- AFP http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...20.html?vgnmr=1

Investor Jim Rogers says Singapore to lose money on US banks INVESTMENT guru Jim Rogers believes that US bank stocks could fall further and predicts that Singapore's state investors will lose money on their multi-billion dollar investments in Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. 'I'm shorting investment banks on Wall Street,' the long-time commodities bull told reporters on Wednesday at a launch event for ABN AMRO certificates linked to commodities. 'It grieves me to see what Singapore is doing. They are going to lose money,' he added, referring to investments by Government of Singapore Investment Corp and Temasek in Citigroup, Switzerland's UBS and Merrill Lynch. Mr Rogers, an American who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire George Soros in the 1970s, now lives in Singapore as he wants to raise his four-year-old daughter in an environment where she can learn Mandarin Chinese. Mr Rogers, who also writes investment books, said Wall Street had to work off 10 years of excesses and predicted that losses linked to risky mortgages will eventually spread to credit card bills, student loans and other debt. -- REUTERS http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2...ry_213576.html looks like 10% GST and more gantry soon...

US fleet commander's Singapore visit enhances ties between two Navies By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 03 December 2007 1212 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Robert Willard (L) calls on Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean SINGAPORE: The Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Robert Willard, is in Singapore for an official introductory visit from December 2-4. He called on Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean and Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Desmond Kuek on Monday morning. As part of his visit programme, Admiral Willard also called on the Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Chew Men Leong, and visited the Tuas Naval Base. The Ministry of Defence said Admiral Willard's visit underscores the excellent defence relationship between the United States and Singapore, and the long-standing co-operation between the US Pacific Fleet and the Republic of Singapore Navy. Both sides interact extensively through visits, bilateral and multilateral exercises, and professional exchanges. These interactions have served to enhance interoperability between the two Navies, as well as the professional rapport and friendship between their personnel. - CNA/ac http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../315185/1/.html --------- after being kicked outta HK port 3 times in a month... we are really friendly lot to them..

150 million on its investment in Barclays in the space of a month. The state-backed fund took a 2.1 per cent interest in the bank in late July as part of an equity refinancing to support Barclays

Looking for a place to get it replaced. Any bros here can recommend a shop to visit? Not intending to add alot of ICE, just change speakers. Thx.

Tuesday October 18, 6:34 PM Reuters Toyota to recall record 1.4 mln cars globally TOKYO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. , Japan's biggest auto maker, said on Tuesday it would recall about 1.41 million cars globally -- its biggest ever -- including the Corolla and 15 other models due to trouble with their headlight switching systems. The recall, filed with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, was the biggest for a Japanese auto maker and beat Toyota's previous record recall of 797,707 vehicles in 1999, a spokesman said. Toyota played down the recall's impact on its earnings, while declining to disclose the specific recall cost. "The part to be replaced, the headlight switch, is not that expensive," the spokesman said. "So we don't expect any major impact on our earnings." Toyota has said it would try in the year to March 2006 to match last year's record net profit of 1.17 trillion yen. Toyota said it would recall about 1.27 million vehicles in Japan in addition to another roughly 140,000 vehicles exported overseas, including about 70,000 cars in Australia, 19,000 cars in Singapore and 17,000 cars in Thailand. Toyota said the vehicles to be recalled were manufactured between May 2000 and August 2002. Shares in Toyota closed up 0.38 percent at 5,300 yen, compared with a 0.36 percent fall in the Nikkei share average . http://sg.news.yahoo.com/051018/3/3vqam.html

Carmaker admits that it failed to act on defects for up to 3 years TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors, responsible for one of the global auto industry's largest product recalls, has said it will take back 274,635 cars in Japan to fix defects that it failed to act on for up to three years. Mitsubishi Motors will recall its Colt compact cars and the Galant, Aspire and Legnum sedans to repair defective ignition systems and air conditioner fans, according to the Tokyo-based carmaker's applications filed Tuesday to the Transport Ministry. The recall is the latest hurdle for Mitsubishi Motors, which is seeking to restore its brand image after it admitted to having hidden defects twice in five years. Sales by Mitsubishi Motors, Japan's fifth-largest carmaker, fell 32 percent in March and have slumped for 15 months. "An incident like this would give a bad impression" to investors, said Shigeo Kikuchi, a Takagi Securities equity manager in Tokyo. "Mitsubishi Motors hasn't been able to change its corporate culture and has a long way to go to revive itself." The company, Japan's sole unprofitable carmaker, has been surviving on funds injected by shareholders, receiving almost