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good to see SG, Indo and MY cooperating to search for the missing men... S'pore in search and rescue mission for 2 missing men near Pedra Branca http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-search-and-rescue-mission-2-missing-men-near-pedra-branca

Chance upon this documentary in Youtube. Very impressive and bold rescue mission by the IDF! Enjoy! Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976.[3] A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Israeli passengers, except one French citizen, were released.

A construction worker has been rescued from a burning building in Houston, Texas moments before it collapsed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJX5qHISWd0

Anyone caught this docu on National Geographic recently? Very intense and interesting to see how the US PJ works in the war zone...

See the video on rescue of a baby elephant ..... Nice to see they rather destroy the well to save the baby elephant ... from yahoo : Baby elephant rescued from well in Thailand A baby elephant has a lucky escape after falling down a well in Thailand. Images of the rescue of the elephant. video : http://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/baby-elepha...-082825143.html

There was no video attached here but the footage which I saw on the news a few days ago was really really [sweatdrop] Bros who have toddlers inside your car better belt them up in child seats or restraints and make sure you activated the child lock as well as locking all 4 doors whenever you are on the move. You do not really want your kid to be another road statistic in TP/LTA records... From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...save_child.html Posted on 14 May 2012 Best dad ever -- he puts daughter before his car and even his own life When his four-year-old daughter fell out of his moving car, this man did not hesitate for a second -- he leapt out of his vehicle to save her, leaving his driverless car to smash into a tree. STOMPer minzy said: "This father was really brave to jump out of his car like that. "Especially in the middle of such a huge junction with cars. "I really applaud him, because most people would've panicked in the moment and been frozen."

Respect the Chile authorites and their ppl there trying all means to rescue the miners, and they never give up. I hope Singapore will learn a lesson from them... we must never give up & avoid covering "big hole" with cement and pushing blames. currently how many holes???

Has anyone subscribe to this when you travel to MY....care to give your feed back. Thanks in advance.

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All Singaporeans..you can sleep easy...LHL made the right choice in going against his old man. Clap Clap Clap for having such a good foresighted PM. F1 has proven its usefullness in Delaying an impending recession for Singapore. Whats next? Maybe Casino effect could be the next reason for the next quarter's justification of continuing good economy. http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...0708-75309.html S'pore Q2 GDP may shrink, but F1 to prevent recession: poll Tue, Jul 08, 2008 Reuters * What: Singapore advance Q2 GDP estimate * When: Thursday, July 10 at 8.00am * Q2 GDP may have shrunk on decline in drugs, electronics SINGAPORE'S economy probably shrank in the second quarter, but activity surrounding the island's first Grand Prix in September will prevent the contraction turning into a recession, a Reuters poll shows. Singapore hosts its first Formula One race on Sept 28. It will be the first night race in F1, requiring specialist construction on the street circuit and is expected to attract a wave of tourists. While a slump in drugs and electronics output is expected to have prompted a contraction in the trade-driven economy in the April-to-June period, the motor racing event will provide a tonic for gross domestic product in the July-to-September quarter, analysts said. That means no recession - usually defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction. 'It is unlikely we will see a negative print in the third quarter because we will have the F1 race,' said Ms Selena Ling, an economist at OCBC. The economy expanded at a seasonally adjusted and annualised rate of 14.6 per cent in the first quarter, the strongest growth in almost three years. The median forecast of 10 economists polled by Reuters showed GDP was expected to have shrank 0.95 per cent on an annualised, seasonally adjusted basis in the second quarter. The advance data, largely reflecting the first two months of the quarter, is due on Thursday at 8.00am. From a year ago, the economy is expected to have grown 3.1 per cent in the second quarter, slowing down from 6.7 per cent in the previous quarter. Published data shows output from Singapore's manufacturing sector, which generates about a quarter of the economy's activity, unexpectedly declined in April and May as demand for imports eased in the United States and Europe. 'The weakness in global demand has had a certain impact on the pharmaceutical sector,' said Mr Irvin Seah, an economist at DBS. 'A manufacturing-led slowdown in the second and third quarters is certainly on the cards.' Mr Seah said the Singapore government may cut its 2008 growth forecast to 3.5-5.5 per cent from 4-6 per cent on the back of a poor second-quarter performance. Singapore will host the world's first F1 night race in September and is resurfacing roads and putting up floodlights for the event. The race is likely to attract thousands of motor sport fans as the government tries to turn the island - mainly a destination for business travellers - into a tourist hotspot. The government has not said how much it expects the race to contribute to the economy. With Singapore so exposed to the winds of global trade, economists do not expect the central bank to further tighten monetary policy at its next meeting in October even though inflation in Singapore is running at a 26-year high. The central bank had tightened monetary policy in April. The Singapore economy last shrank in the October-to-December period last year, contracting at an annualised rate of 4.8 per cent, also hit by weak drugs and electronics production. A recovery in drugs production helped the economy in the first quarter grow at its strongest pace since the second quarter 2005. Europe and the United States buy nearly a third of Singapore's non-oil exports. -- REUTERS

GIC may invest in more banks THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp may invest in more banks in Europe and the United States if it gets the chance, adding to its stakes in beleaguered bank UBS and Citigroup, its chairman told Bloomberg TV. 'If there are other banks of the quality of the two that we bought into, with the promise and the capabilities and inherent capabilities to recover, we have got the liquidity to meet it, to make such an investment,' GIC Chairman Lee Kuan Yew told Bloomberg TV in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. 'We are buying something that we intend to keep for the next two to three decades and grow with them,' he said, adding that GIC was a long-term investor. GIC, one of the world's largest sovereign funds, invested about US$11 billion (S$15 billion) in UBS and Citigroup after they wrote off billions of dollars in the wake of the credit crisis in the United States. Its sister fund, Temasek Holdings, which is run by Mr Lee's daughter-in-law, pumped US$5 billion into Merrill Lynch. The two Singapore funds have since seen the value of their investments shrink with UBS shares falling about 35 per cent since GIC first announced its plan to inject funds into the Swiss bank by buying mandatory convertible notes. Mr Lee, 84, defended the investments saying Singapore had bought very good franchises and brand names that would recover in time. GIC measured its performance over five to 10 years, he said. 'Will there be another Swiss bank like UBS for wealth management? I doubt it, we doubt it, that is why we invested in it.' Citigroup, he added, had 'an enormous spread worldwide as a retail bank'. Analysts told Bloomberg that GIC's long-term approach to investments are good for the banking industry. 'From a company?s point of view, to know you have an investor providing capital support when you need it, and is a long-term investor, that has to be the preferred investor,' said Mr Kerry Series, head of Asia-Pacific equities at AMP Capital Investors Ltd. GIC says on its website that it manages well above US$100 billion but many analysts estimate the figure is closer to US$300 billion. Morgan Stanley said in February that GIC was the world's third-largest state fund with US$330 billion in assets under management, behind the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority with US$875 billion and Norway's Government Pension Fund with US$380 billion. Temasek manages US$159 billion and is the world's seventh-largest sovereign fund, according to Morgan Stanley. -- REUTERS http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...ory_232623.html Are banks steep in trouble worth buying into? If banks r guud, why bother to sell off stakes in Bank of CHina after fighting tooth and nail to gain them? http://in.reuters.com/article/asiaCompanyA...IN3390620080305 http://www.iesingapore.gov.sg/wps/portal/!...usiness%20Times lesson learnt?

Just receive e-mail from friend in regards to Sin-Car Rescure Care while driving in MY roads. Don't know if it is true. You might read the following extract I got for your information. Quote:

Received a brochure on this several months ago: SIN-CAR RESCUE CARE Providing roadside assistance services specially dedicated for Singaporean motorist driving in Peninsular Malaysia 60, Pemimpim Terrace, Coral Park, Singapore (575967) (65)-91634907 (Sin), (607)-3514216 (M'sia) I did a search online and didnt find any proper website for it. However, google search gives the following links: http://sg.88db.com/sg/Services/Post_Detail.../?PostID=163638 Can also search in mocca using "sin-car rescue". $1.50 per travel day. $12.00 per annum package, Anyone use this service before?