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https://my.news.yahoo.com/singapore-wont-digest-video-shoot-102803240.html Singapore won't digest such video shootSingapore, Dec 10 (IANS) The law in Singapore found it hard to swallow what the man did, and to his peril he cannot digest his crime either and must cool his heels in jail. The man, a 25-year-old Malaysian electrician, used his mobile phone to take up-skirt video of a woman and swallowed the memory card. Koo Kiat Boon has been jailed for three months for insulting the modesty of a 28-year-old woman and destroying the evidence. Investigations showed that Koo took an up-skirt video of the woman standing in front of him on board a bus in the city Sep 3 this year, Xinhua reported citing the prosecutors. Another commuter saw what he was doing and grabbed his hand. Koo smashed his phone repeatedly against the floor, hoping to damage it to conceal the evidence of his crime. He removed the memory card from the phone, which was bent in half with the back exposed, and placed it inside his mouth. The bus driver honked at police officers on duty for help and Koo was arrested later. Koo's lawyer said he had committed the offences impulsively in a moment of folly. District Judge Hamidah said destroying evidence to avoid prosecution was far more serious than insulting the modesty of a woman. Koo could have been jailed for up to one year and fined for insulting modesty, and up to two years and fined for destroying an electronic record.

Anyone knows what the lucky draw or sweep stake is all about.

recently i had receive Reader's Digest Sweepstakes, as i had never register any of their reader diest before. just wondering does any1 receive this sweeptakes?

Hey guys, I have been receiving this reader digest big sweep ticket stuff that gives u chance to win $$$ even without purchase. Thing is, its getting annoying they keep sending and sending non stop the tickets and they CLAIM that only 3% of Singaporeans are lucky enough to receive the tickets. Now i m running a poll to check how many of us in MCF are in that lucky 3% At the same time, did anyone of that 3% really win anything

Read all about it Chapter 11 plan cedes Reader's Digest to lenders By ANDREW VANACORE,AP Business Writer AP - Tuesday, August 18NEW YORK - The publisher of Reader's Digest, the country's most popular general interest magazine, said Monday it will file for Chapter 11 protection with a plan to swap a portion of its debt for ownership of the company. Reader's Digest Association Inc., which also markets books and publishes dozens of other magazines and Web sites, said it has reached an agreement in principle with a majority of lenders to erase a portion of $1.6 billion in senior secured notes. The lenders will get ownership in return. Already, this year's advertising declines have prompted the shuttering of several high-profile magazines, including Conde Nast's Portfolio, Domino and Blender. Reader's Digest CEO Mary Berner insisted, though, that the company's U.S. magazines remain strong, with the number of ad pages down less than 6 percent through the September editions. She said Reader's Digest titles rely less on luxury brands and high-income tastes, giving them an added appeal in a recession that has clobbered much of the print media industry. "Our brands are home and heartland. Our brands have a very, very Midwestern sensibility _ a back-to-basics sensibility," she said in an interview. "Reader's Digest has actually done quite well." She said some additions for the company, including the magazine Everyday with Rachael Ray and cooking site AllRecipes.com, have succeeded as well. Instead, Berner blamed two underperforming properties the company agreed to sell off last year: Books Are Fun Ltd., a company that sells books at events and book fairs, and QSP, which assists with fundraising for schools and youth groups. Even so, Reader's Digest, the iconic monthly magazine founded in 1922 as a collection of condensed articles from other publications, has been searching for a new niche as the Internet upends the magazine industry's traditional business models. In June, the magazine announced it would cut the circulation guarantee it makes to advertisers to 5.5 million, from 8 million and lower its frequency to 10 issues a year from 12. In the second half of last year, the U.S. edition of Reader's Digest had circulation of 8.2 million, down from a peak of roughly 17 million in the 1970s. The planned bankruptcy filing, which does not include operations outside the United States, marks the latest stage in a long evolution for the company. Reader's Digest went public in 1990 and was initially controlled by a charitable foundation set up by the company's founders, DeWitt and Lila Wallace. The company bought out the foundation's shares in 2002. Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a New York private equity firm, led a consortium of investors in a $1.6 billion buyout that took the company private in 2007. Those investors include GoldenTree Asset Management, GSO Capital Partners, Merrill Lynch Capital Corp., J. Rothschild Group and Magnetar Capital. In a statement Monday, Berner said the decision to file for Chapter 11 follows "months of intensive strategic review of our balance-sheet issues." The company said it will skip a $27 million interest payment on its 9 percent notes due in 2017 while it looks to build support among lenders for its restructuring plans. The agreement includes $150 million in "Debtor-in-Possession" loans to finance the company during bankruptcy protection. Overall, the company plans to shrink its debt from $2.2 billion to $550 million following Chapter 11. It said the "vast majority" of suppliers will be paid in full under the bankruptcy plan. The company said it will seek further agreements from lenders and other stakeholders before making a formal bankruptcy filing within a month. Its largest debt holders, led by J.P. Morgan Chase, include GE Capital, Aries Management, DK Partners, Regiment Capital and Merrill Lynch. The company expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection 45 to 90 days after the filing. Aside from Berner, all of the company's board members who have served since Ripplewood's $1.6 billion acquisition of the company in 2007 have resigned. Two members who recently joined will continue to serve. Sad! I've read it since young and now Bye bye

ok, just want to learn something here on how to understand am i making monmey or loosing big time after 1 year..... seriously, after spending 30mins, i still cannot understand how those charts work or what it tells?... call me a dodo if u want but im engineering trained .... ok, first area: The chart. how to understand the chart and how to understand the data of Price indexed, and percent change. it's gained or losed? then the performance on bid-bid %: i guees the 3M, 6M, 1Y, are just the mothns and year but the -ve value or +ve value means gain or lose over the mths?...

A few weeks ago, my father received this letter from Reader's Digest stating that he has been shortlisted for some Reader's Digest Sweepstake and he has to reply to get a place in the sweepstakes and so on... Because of greed and naivety (I have to insist that this is an overstatement), he replied to the mail through some some fancy ways which were required, like some sticker pasting thing, returning this envelope with this piece of paper inside saying that he wants to take part in the sweepstake and you know lah.. Then he did not read some of the terms which were stated as every mail would come with many different pieces of paper (letter of 'congratulation', paper needed to be submitted such that he gets a place in the sweepstake, etc.) though it is still carelessness on his part which led to this. Then came the first Reader's Digest mag. Then the second. At first we thought that it was a scam and didn't bother to foot the bill of 57 bucks. To our surprise, a cd of Mozart's music was found in our mailbox a few days ago. But still we didn't bother. Today, this parcel with some glass ornament and some rather thick book was found in the mailbox.. So I got a bit worried and went to the actualy Reader's Digest website to check if my father's subscription account stated in the bill existed.. And it does exist. So I went through the mails and read whatever sh!t that he had to pay for and they were as follows: -$57 for Reader's Digest magazine subscription -$9.90 for that thick book -$56 for every other thick book which they will send to my house every 10 weeks (the thick books belong to some Select Editions thing) There are maybe more that I am unsure of at this point in time. This is the email that I sent to them not too long ago.. Good day, I represent my father, Leong - - (subscriber of Account Number x-xxx-xxx-xxx-x) in this email and this email is typed from Leong - -'s perspective. However and regardless of my position as a minor, any allegation or criticism will still be born by me. I am one of those customers whom somehow signed up for Reader's Digest unknowingly for having misunderstood the terms and conditions laid by Reader's Digest (or rather attributed to the ambiguity of the terms and conditions which were buried within the heaps of letters which seriously gave me false alarms of me having won this particular incredible prize). But anyway, let's get to the main purpose of this email. 1. I would like to terminate my subscription to the Select Editions, as long as no conditions and penalties are attached to this action. Judging from the words as quoted from the letter of 'Closing notice for Golden Number issued above and transfer of S$10,000' - 'We will send you a new volume approximately every ten weeks for just S$56 with FREE postage and handling. If you ever decide that they're not a superb way of staying well-read (and well-informed) - just drop us a line to say so.' - I believe that I am not obliged to stay as a subscriber or the Select Editions. Hence, I will certainly appreciate the effort on Reader's Digest's part in terminating my subscription to the Select Editions - as long as I do not breach any of the terms set forth by Reader's Digest. 2. Questions on the billing of returned products. a. Will I be entirely spared from the bill of the product if I were to return the same product (reflected in the bill) to Reader's Digest? b. Are there any terms and conditions attached to the returning of products? (I.e. Penalty, return of Reader's Digest free gifts) c. What does the word 'products' encompass? Does it represent anything that is mailed to me by Reader's Digest - books, free gifts, magazines?) d. If I have the liberty to return products to Reader's Digest and have the bill for the products cancelled with no other conditions attached, can I do so with the postage costs paid by Reader's Digest, and how? (You know, postage costs are really unbearable nowadays especially for those from humble backgrounds.) These are all of the questions I have at this point in time. I hope none of them sound too atrocious or reflect my naivety and poor articulation as a teenager. Your effort to provide answers/explanations in accordance to the format above will certainly be appreciated. I am looking forward to a quick and concise reply. Thank you and have a good day! Yours truly, Leong - - Dunno if my way of inquiry sounds too childish.. First time sending this kind of email lah[laugh] The purpose of this thread is not to criticize Reader's Digest's marketing strategy or degrade their products by making them seem so unwanted (fact is that my family speaks Chinese at home and we don't really need the magazines and books), but just to send out a gentle reminder to fellow forummers to think and read thrice before taking any actions. Have a good day ahead