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TL;DR - Domino's Pizza delivery bike plays real-life game of dodge the NV200 at a discretionary right turn Pizza delivery gone wrong. Watch this 40 second clip of the collision. What Happened? A Nissan NV200 collided with a Domino's Pizza delivery bike at the discretionary right turn junction on Pioneer North Road in Singapore, under the PIE Flyover. The incident caused damage to both vehicles and raised concerns about road safety for delivery drivers. According to eyewitnesses, the Domino's Pizza delivery bike was traveling straight on Pioneer North Road when the Nissan NV200 made a right turn without signaling, causing the collision. The delivery driver was thrown from his bike and sustained minor injuries, while the NV200 suffered significant damage to its front end. Online Chat Amongst the hundreds of comments, the majority of them were pinpointing that this road is extremely dangerous. Hello @LTA? So please have more patience for people who are delivering your food, they’re delivering more than just your pizza - it comes with a side of risk. Nissan NV200 driver and the rider must have forgotten they're not playing Mario Kart… Takeaway The incident highlights the importance of road safety, especially at discretionary right turns where accidents are usually most seen at such junctions. Delivery riders, who are often required to navigate busy roads and make multiple stops in a short amount of time, make them the ones that are most at risk of such accidents. Above all, all drivers should practice cautiousness on the road and be extra vigilant - treat all junctions as accident black-spot zones and ride expecting the unexpected. ========= Be the first to get the latest road/ COE news and get first dibs on exclusive promos and giveaways in our Telegram SGCM Community. Join us today!

NTU scientists devise cost-effective way to combine prawn shells & fruit source: https://mothership.sg/2020/06/ntu-prawn-shell-fruit-waste-packaging/ Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have devised a way to create biodegradable food packaging using a completely organic process and materials. Organic process with minimal ingredients This method involves the combination of two unlikely but common sources of waste—prawn shells and fruit peels. Professor William Chen, director of NTU's Food Science and Technology programme and his team discovered that sugar in the fruit waste helps kickstart the fermentation process. Chen and his team tested 10 different types of fruit waste including white and red grape skin, mango peels and apple cores. They found that grape skin was the most effective in the fermentation process. This process breaks down the prawn shells into chitin, an organic biopolymer. Chitin is a compound abundant in nature, and is a component in the shells of crustaceans and insects. However, it is not commonly used in food packaging as it is not soluble in water, Chen told Mothership. Nevertheless, chitin can be converted into its derivative, chitosan, through further stages of fermentation. Unlike chitin, chitosan is anti-microbial and more water soluble, and can thus be used to make biodegradable food-grade packaging, replacing the ubiquitous and notoriously unsustainable plastic packaging. This entire fermentation process takes five days, and the result is a thin, translucent layer of packaging made from prawn shells and fruit peels. A more sustainable and cost efficient process Although it is uncertain how much food waste is required to produce one layer of food packaging, Chen's innovative method could potentially be scaled up to industry level and commercialised, which could reduce Singapore's massive production of food waste and green the supply chain as well. Food waste is one of the biggest food streams in the country, with 744 million kg of food waste generated in 2019. And despite the increasing awareness of food waste after the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources' campaigning efforts during the Year Towards Zero Waste in 2019, only 18 per cent of this amount was recycled. Not only could Chen's method help fight food waste, it is a more sustainable approach of extracting chitin from marine waste like prawn shells. Current approaches that chemically extract chitin—which is also used in food processing as food thickeners and in cosmetics and skincare products—are costly and consume large amounts of energy. Additionally, the chemical process involves strong acidic and alkaline solutions, to remove the minerals and proteins from prawn shells, Chen said. This produces environmentally unfriendly by-products like chemical waste. Chen's method is thus a more sustainable alternative, and as it only requires three things—prawn shells, fruit waste and water—is much more cost effective as well. Six to eight million tons of crustacean waste are generated annually around the world, with 45 to 60 per cent of shrimp shells discarded as by-products during the extraction process. And with demand for seafood growing in Singapore and around the world, Chen's method could prove the next big solution for food and marine waste.

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Not HDB, but NTU lecture hall ceiling collapses. http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/ceiling-collapses-ntu-lecture-theatre

Looks like with the previous president (local chinese) replaced by Angmo, 华文 is really on the way out from NTU. http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/request-to-remove-chinese-signs-at-foodcourt-a-misunderstanding Pity because I thought cultural diversity and tolerance is Singapore's strengths.

source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/cobra-and-python-spotted/2080362.html a contributor from another forum even speculated that this KING cobra vs python fight forecast the upcoming GE results quoted: ''SG IS BORN IN THE YR OF THE SNAKE ITS AN OMEN THE LARGER SNAKE ESCAPED N THEN THE SMALLER SNAKE TAKE THE LIMELIGHT I HOPE YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN REMEMBER THE SEA EAGLE WHICH WAS FOUND OUTSIDE A WINDOW?? I WAS THE 1ST IN THIS FORUM TO SAY THE DEATH OF THE SEA EAGLE MEANS THE DEATH OF SOMEONE.... I HAD BEEN PROVEN RIGHT LAST TIME'' SINGAPORECobra and python spotted 'fighting' on NTU campus Witnesses saw the python constricting itself around the head of the cobra around noon on Thursday (Aug 27). The python was taken away by pest control, but the cobra was only caught hours later. POSTED: 27 Aug 2015 21:15 UPDATED: 27 Aug 2015 22:45 PHOTOS Two snakes were seen duelling at the NTU campus on Thursday (Aug 27). (Photo: Abhishek Ambede) ENLARGE CAPTION 3716 15 0 Email More A A SINGAPORE: Two snakes, believed to be a reticulated python and a king cobra, were seen "fighting" each other on the street near Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Research Techno Plaza (RTP) at noon on Thursday (Aug 27). PhD student Abhishek Ambede shared pictures of the incident and told Channel NewsAsia the snakes were wrestling on the road beside a forested area. "Some of us working at RTP can see the site from our office. When we spotted the incident, I went down and noticed that the python had constricted around the cobra's head. ADVERTISING The tussle, witnessed by a large crowd, lasted for about 30 minutes before the snakes separated. "The cobra escaped to the bushes, leaving the python moving slowly on its own along the road." Mr Abhishek said he and other bystanders alerted NTU's pest control, as well as the Animal Concerns Research and Society (ACRES). Pest control officers removed the python, but were unable to locate the cobra. After 4pm, the cobra reappeared briefly. "It was about that time that ACRES appeared but by the time they arrived, the snake had disappeared again into one of the drainage holes," Mr Abhishek said. "ACRES told us they could not catch the snake if they could not see it. All we know is that there is no immediate danger. The only worry is that if it reappears on the road, there is a chance it might get run over," he added. Mr Satish Digen, a technical officer at NTU, said pest control officers put sulfur powder down the drains in an attempt to draw it out. The reptile eventually emerged from its hiding place at about 10pm on Thursday and was taken away in a bag by the pest control team. The NTU Graduate Student Council earlier urged those on campus to be on alert for the cobra. "Please be careful when you take the sidewalk near to bushes. Night researchers and night runners, please be extra vigilant," it said in a post on Facebook. - CNA/hs

http://www.weixinyidu.com/n_1423537 How come not reading about it in ST or other MSM?