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Local actor Dai Peng passed away two days ago (May 12) at the age of 75. He had been diagnosed with lymphoma two weeks ago, the same cancer that fellow veteran Huang Wenyong had also suffered from. About a month ago, Dai Peng, whose real name is Dai Dexin, told his son Dai Li Yao, 36, that he felt strange and lethargic, reported Shin Min Daily News. Two weeks later, hospital tests on his bone marrow came back with his diagnosis: Lymphoma. The doctor also told them the prognosis was not optimistic, and chemotherapy had to be done as soon as possible. However, Dai Peng experienced side effects to the chemotherapy drugs, so treatment was stopped upon recommendation by the doctor. Dai Peng had starred in MediaCorp dramas Kopi-O II and Driven By A Car, amongst others. Mediacorp veteran Huang Wenyong had passed away earlier of the same cancer. He was 60 years old. Source : http://www.lollipop.sg/stomp/lollipop/the_...assed_away.html

Watch online as an asteroid passes Earth Michael Bakich Wed, Sep 12 2012 3:31 PM On August 26, the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona discovered a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) that now has the designation 2012 QG42. This space rock measures approximately 1,000 feet (300 meters) across. Astronomers classify any asteroid as a PHA if it has a diameter greater than 100 meters and approaches to within 0.05 astronomical units (4.65 million miles [7.5 million kilometers]) of Earth. One astronomical unit equals the average Earth-Sun distance, about 93 million miles (149.7 million km). This asteroid meets both criteria for being a PHA because on September 14 at 5h10m UT (9:10 a.m. EDT), it will pass 1.74 million miles (2.8 million km) from Earth. That distance equates to only 7.43 times the average distance between our planet and the Moon. During the next few days of its near-Earth encounter, 2012 QG42 will brighten enough so that amateur astronomers can spot it through 10-inch or larger telescopes from a dark site. But you may not have that size scope or be able to get to a proper location. Never fear! The Internet is here. The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 will host a free, real-time online broadcast of the asteroid starting today (September 12) at 22h UT (September 13 at 2 a.m. EDT). Members will be imaging the asteroid through a 17-inch telescope. To view the passage, just log in to the Project

Korean passes driving test on 960th try You could know South Korea for a long time without knowing Wanju, an obscure county 112 miles south of Seoul. And, at least until recently, you could know a lot about Wanju without having ever heard of Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in the mountain-ringed village of Sinchon. Now, however, Cha is an unlikely national celebrity. This diminutive woman, now known nationwide as

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http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Onl...ory_345448.html When it comes to jobs, S'poreans must come first IT IS important that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) enforces stricter rules for employers that hire foreigners. I wonder if many people know that companies can also hire foreigners living here on dependants' passes by simply obtaining a Letter of Consent (LOC) from MOM. With such a letter, there is no set quota and no foreign worker levy nor CPF contribution to be paid. Some employers can take advantage of the LOC to hire foreigners instead of locals for positions that can be easily filled by Singaporeans. Shouldn't MOM look into quotas and levies for foreigners applying for work under the LOC category? Your article on tighter S-pass rules ("Does restricting foreign talent help Singaporeans?") on Saturday cites employers' comments such as Singaporeans not wanting to work for 10 to 12 hours on their feet while foreigners are willing to do so. First and foremost, should employers make their staff work for 10 to 12 hours on their feet each day? If the business operates such long hours, then there should be two shifts so that all staff work a decent eight-hour shift. Instead, the employers are exploiting foreigners who are so desperate to work here that they are willing to work for 10 to 12 hours, and without overtime pay too. We certainly do not want to eliminate foreign talent; we just want to make sure that Singaporeans are given priority when jobs become available. In order to do this, the Government must ensure that hiring foreigners doesn't become so easy that employers bypass Singaporeans when looking for employees. --- I also strongly feel that the Government should not give Jobs Credit wage subsidies to companies that employ more foreigners than Singaporeans, especially if they have retrenched their local employees while keeping their foreign workers. We must send out a clear message to employers that Singaporeans should come first. Koh Guek Choo (Ms)

June 25, 2008 JUNIOR DOC IN 2006 DRUG STING He becomes doctor, then dies suddenly After 8-month jail term, he was given chance to complete his housemanship; but he dies in hospital after short illness By Teh Joo Lin & Judith Tan A YOUNG doctor embroiled in a high-profile drug bust two years ago died on Friday, months after he looked to have turned his life around. Dr Adrian Yeo See Seng, 29, was thrust into the limelight in 2006 when he walked into a drug sting at a Bencoolen Street hotel and was caught with methamphetamine, or Ice. In the court case that followed, the then-medical houseman claimed that he was only experimenting with the drug. He was jailed for eight months. When he finished his sentence, he vowed to clean up his life, become a physician and volunteer overseas. 'He was a good man - one who had a hard life and who, despite all the setbacks, achieved his dream of becoming a practising doctor,' a fellow physician wrote on his blog. According to the blogger, Dr Yeo began vomiting blood at home earlier this month and was taken to the intensive care unit at a hospital. He had been nursing a nagging cough from a viral chest infection that worsened in the past six weeks. The blogger, who had befriended Dr Yeo when he was a houseman at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), wrote that he may have been suffering from an 'intractable' form of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). The condition hinders the ability of blood to clot and can cause sufferers to bleed to death. He never regained consciousness. Lawyer Kertar Singh, who represented Dr Yeo in court, said his late client had harboured dreams of becoming a physician and being 'useful to society and mankind' following his release from prison. The two had met over dinner after he was freed. 'He told me that, given the opportunity, he would go abroad and do volunteer service to help those in dire need: people in disaster- and epidemic-hit places,' Mr Singh told The Straits Times. Dr Yeo was given that chance in March last year, when the Singapore Medical Council allowed him to continue his housemanship after he was released from prison. The council said that he had been an active volunteer since his release and cited glowing testimonials from his peers and doctors. Dr Yeo was a taxi driver's son who made good. He finished his housemanship at SingHealth hospitals at the end of last year. He worked at SGH between January and April this year before he was posted to the emergency department at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital last month. Other colleagues expressed their feelings about the late Dr Yeo in their personal blogs. His family members, who had stood by him throughout his ordeal, declined to speak to reporters. http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Sto...7.html?vgnmr=1 RIP

For those lao-jiao here, this beautiful song will strike a deep chord in our hearts R.I.P, Dan Fogelberg.