::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Dog in critical condition after being tightly taped up to stop its barking
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[Singapore] - Vietnam man fights Vietnam man, one of them falls from 15th floor, and gets beheaded / decapitated / head chopped off, during the fall.
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[Singapore] - Kenneth Jeyaretnam challenges Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam in open letter over Amos Yee
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Uh oh. Bad news for Singapore : the United States Department of Homeland Security has appealed against Amos Yee's asylum approval, which means he could still be sent back to Singapore.
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/amos-yee-still-detained-us-govt-appeals-against-asylum-win
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Uhhh ok, so Singapore has an "#R21 community on blogging app Dayre". Is that so surprising? What's the big deal?
http://mothership.sg/2017/03/theres-a-whole-community-of-r21-stories-on-dayre-that/
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[Singapore] - Foreign female student terrorizes local students at LASALLE
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[India] - Villagers who build a toilet in their own home and use it, have a chance to win a trip to Singapore.
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[Ireland] - Human shit found inside Coca Cola cans
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/police-investigating-human-waste-found-151647773.html
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Review of the spiciest instant noodles you can get in Singapore. Too bad the noodles aren't rated for their spiciness in the review.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/the-spiciest-instant-noodles-you-can-get-in-singapore-042652830.html
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Now that's thinking out of the box and putting Science & Engineering to good use! *clap*clap*
As thousands of Australians seek shelter from a "monster" cyclone battering the country's northern coast, the Tokyo-based engineer believes that his bladeless wind turbine can not only stand up to the raw force of these destructive storms, but also harness that power to generate electricity.
Shimizu's egg-beater shaped creation -- it has three cylinders and a central rod -- responds to wind coming from any direction and doesn't use a propeller to spin.
Instead it takes advantage of the Magnus effect, a force that sees air curve when passing by a spinning object, such as a football.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japan-scientist-eyes-energy-burst-typhoon-turbine-035128094--finance.html
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[USA] - Seattle woman who fought off her rapist becomes folk hero, inspiring thousands of women to take up MMA
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/seattle-woman-fights-off-attacker-self-defense-classes-043217542.html
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[India] - Indian racist attacks against Africans (from all 54 African countries) becoming increasingly violent, several Africans have died
The victims included a Kenyan African woman who was pulled from a rickshaw on Wednesday morning and beaten up by a group of men just because she was African. In Bangalore, a 21-year-old Tanzanian African woman was stripped naked and assaulted by a mob in retaliation for a Sudanese African student accidentally running over a local Indian woman. A 29-year-old Congolese African man was stoned to death by a mob in south Delhi, reportedly after arguing with a group of locals over a rickshaw. In a recent mob violence in Noida, several Nigerian African men were attacked by a violent mob, including Amalcima Amarawa and his brother Endurance, who fled into a shopping centre to escape. A group of at least 10 people found them hiding inside the mall and savagely beat the pair to near death in an attack that was recorded on a smartphone, broadcast and shared across India on Tuesday.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indian-minister-condemns-deplorable-race-121119055.html
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[Assassin's Creed II] - Marco Barbarigo backstabs (thrice in the body, once in the head) Dante Moro to enslave his wife Carlotta for himself. Assassin Creed characters and events are based on real-life historical characters and events.
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[Mexico] - The judge ruled on Monday that the crime had not been proven and one of the 3 men (who sexually assaulted the 17 year old girl) was to be immediately released without charge, explaining that while that man (all 3 men come from wealthy influential families) had indeed touched the 17 year old girl victim and penetrated her vagina with his fingers, the judge ruled that he had acted without intention for full copulation or sexual intercourse to satisfy his sexual needs, and thus, was *not* guilty of committing sexual assault. Case dismissed. The other 2 men (at least one of whom did indeed commit full-on rape of the 17 year old girl) have their cases pending, but they're also sons of wealthy influential millionaires...
https://www.rt.com/news/382681-mexican-rape-no-pleasure/
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-porkys-rape-20170328-story.html
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Asian student trying to quietly use the library, protests against a noisy anti-xenophobic anti-Trump protest held in library, consequently gets xenophobic and Trump-type attitude from the anti-Trump protesters. Epic Irony.
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Read the visitor comments, from both anti-USA and anti-Philippines sides (anti-China would be everyone, so that's moot).
Duterte (who had been telling USA to get the hell out of his Philippines) now says, "You're the almighty USA, why didn't you send an armada of warships to stop China from building on the SouthChinaSea islands? This is all your fault!"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/duterte-us-why-didnt-send-armada-vs-china-105518919.html
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It's incredible he survived for 58 days at sea on a tiny boat with no food supplies (he licked the moss off the side of the tiny boat! and nothing else to eat for 58 days! while Singaporeans routinely dump away their half-eaten and, by comparison, utterly luxurious McDonalds meals, hawker center and restaurant meals) and only occasional rain for water!
"No fewer than four vessels would pass by each day. I would wave at them but they would not stop," the man said.
Did at least some of the ships see him and knew he would die without their help, but chose to turn a blind eye and sail away anyway?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/philippine-fisherman-back-home-58-day-sea-ordeal-165911645.html
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Tremendous respect for the couple (this may have taken place in WW2, but their souls and epic act of compassion live on forever), who had nothing to gain and everything to lose (if found out, they would be tortured in a fate worse than death) for their act of courageous sacrifice, saving over 300 lives from a fate worse than death.
http://www.tnp.sg/entertainment/movies/zooming-couples-heroism
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The visitor comments below the article are more informative of the opinions of people (from both USA and Sg) than the article itself.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-blogger-remains-custody-granted-us-asylum-221902521.html
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[Singapore] - A 40-year-old man is on trial for allegedly abducting a 22-year-old student from the club Zouk under the guise of sending her home, and raping her while she was intoxicated and unconscious.
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It's a dangerous world out there. Caveat emptor!
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/girl-uses-dating-apps-keeps-meeting-weirdos
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Netizens are furiously psychoanalyzing the profound occult meaning of Kong Hee eating peanut butter from a jar.
http://mothership.sg/2017/03/just-a-video-of-kong-hee-eating-peanut-butter-out-of-a-jar/
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http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/all-male-photo-not-white-house-gaffe-but-strategy
That's why Mr Trump's infamous bragging lewd comments (eg. "grab them by the pussy!") about his sexual misconduct with women weren't actually a liability at all. The people those comments offended weren't going to vote for him in the first place, and the people most drawn to Mr Trump liked him because he's an unrepentant male chauvinist, not in spite of it.
For liberal women, this latest all-male photo is a visualisation of our worst fears realised. For all the white male supremacist Trump supporters who voted him in, it's evidence of a promise fulfilled.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/all-male-photo-not-white-house-gaffe-but-strategy
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Poor coal mine work laborer in China marries beautiful Russian woman
In the second half of 2016, Chen, a poor coal mine laborer, met Sophia through a friend and managed to work up the courage to ask her for her WeChat. Afterwards, whenever Chen was done with work he would spend all of his time chatting with Sophia. Since he didn't live downtown, he entrusted his friends and family to give her flowers. Soon, he asked her out and their romance quickly blossomed.
Sophia said that it was love at first sight. After one week of dating, she asked off from work to go visit Chen at the coal mine. Soon, she decided to quit her job altogether to pursue their relationship. For two months, she lived in shabby mining housing with outdoor toilets and baths, and frogs and rats running amok. She said that while that may have been the hardest time of her life, it was also the happiest.
After dating for half of a year, Chen proposed marriage, and Sophia said yes. Currently, the couple has no flat, no car and no savings, but Sophia told reporters that they have something much more precious. "I believe that love is the most important thing. We just need to work hard, and I'm sure that we'll soon be able to buy a home and car," she said.
http://shanghaiist.com/2017/03/30/coal_miner_russian_bride.php
