::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Chinese military jets intercept US aircraft: officials
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/chinese-military-planes-intercept-us-aircraft-reports-093711141.html
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69-year-old man assaulted at Hougang Ave 7 by e-scooter rider, daughter seeks help finding suspect
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday China's leaders told him they were prepared to go to war over competing claims in the South China Sea.
Duterte, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing this week, said he was making the threat public in response to domestic criticism he was being too weak with China over the dispute.
"I really said it to their face. That is ours and we intend to drill oil there," Duterte said, revealing his previously unreported plans to explore for natural resources in disputed areas.
"And they told me: 'Well, we're friends. We do not want to quarrel with you. We want to maintain the present warm relationship. But if you force the issue we'll go to war.'"
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/philippines-duterte-china-threatened-war-over-sea-row-133442983.html
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[Singapore] - Said Justice Choo, “You claimed that the woman, whom you had accosted, had died. Clearly, she had not or this would have been the world’s first supernatural trial. I see nothing supernatural, only a traumatised woman who has convinced me that you had committed the offences for which you had been tried.�
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We're talking about millions of human lives that will almost certainly be lost here, as nuclear weapons (from both sides) are involved.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/u-mattis-north-korea-military-solution-tragic-unbelievable-180948667.html
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PM Lee not invited to Belt and Road forum, is S’pore in trouble? What do you think?
http://mothership.sg/2017/05/pm-lee-not-invited-to-belt-and-road-forum-is-spore-in-trouble/
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A battle to the death, literally.
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Prisoners include both men and women.
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Living in Singapore, stressful sia.
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You don't know who to feel more sorry for, the little boy or Robert.
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This is one list you sure as hell don't wanna be on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously#1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously#1990s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously#2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously#2010s
On this reddit page, a list of missing women with their photos (click on each name) side-by-side with Albuquerque Jane (an unidentified dead young woman) :
https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldoe/comments/30z9na/side_by_side_pictures_with_albuquerque_jane/
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This is why you (and your loved ones) should never engage in unreasonably risky activities for fun or other non-reasons (as opposed to say, saving lives). Physical incarnation (even with all its suffering) is invaluably precious.
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[Myanmar] - A widow jailed for pouring 2 full flasks of boiling water over a 14-year-old girl maid, scarring her for life
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/myanmar-widow-jailed-throwing-hot-water-child-servant-091618450.html
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Awwwww sooooooo cute... but never buy a pet unless you're 100% committed to be responsible for it.
http://singapore.locanto.sg/ID_869692275/Rag-doll-Persian-kittens-for-adoption.html
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The artist did this freehand.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/makeup-artist-apos-3-d-182800844.html
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Amos Yee far more traumatized now in US jail than he has ever been in Singapore jail, with no release date in sight :
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This is why Trump became President. To enjoy being treated like a King.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/latest-trump-lands-saudi-arabia-065341311--politics.html
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2 wrongs don't make a right. The Russian may have initiated verbally insulting the Mexicans, but the Mexicans initiated the violence in retaliation, and now a young Mexican man is dead.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/mexican-mob-attacks-russian-man-cancun-over-insults-033859893.html
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Future PM of Singapore : Ong Ye Kung
Ong took time to compliment five Ministers present and past — Khaw Boon Wan, Ng Eng Hen, Lim Swee Say, George Yeo and Mah Bow Tan — and concluded that all were “my mentors�, because he learnt something from “every one of them�:
“First ministry I was posted to was Ministry of Transport with Mr Mah Bow Tan. That was my first exposure to what a minister does. So I learnt about what the job of a minister is like through Mr Mah Bow Tan.
The next minister I worked for was Mr George Yeo, at MTI. What I learnt from him was the importance of having a sense of history. He has a splendidly elastic, ever expanding, and expansive mind, and an ability to understand and draw linkages from different things happening in the world.
Thereafter, I went to Ministry of Manpower and worked with Dr Ng Eng Hen. He was decisive and clear. I suspect this was because of his training as a surgeon. That was when I also understood that skills from seemingly unrelated fields could be portable.
Then I went to NTUC. And there, I worked for Mr Lim Swee Say. He could make complicated policies understandable, and is a master communicator.
Minister Khaw Boon Wan is now my GRC lead. There is a calming zen about him, which in turn gives him a certain clarity and incisiveness of thought to solve tough problems, in healthcare, housing and transport.�
Significantly, we couldn’t help but notice that he left out mentioning the time he spent with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, where he spent six years as Press Secretary (1997-2003) and two, as mentioned earlier, as Principal Private Secretary (2003-2005).
http://mothership.sg/2017/05/4g-minister-ong-ye-kung-wants-spore-to-go-right-left-at-the-same-time/
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Introduction to American culture.
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Mahathir signs petition to free Anwar. “It’s not me who put him in jail, Najib is the one who put him (in jail).�
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/dr-m-signs-petition-free-anwar-052200531.html
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[Video] - Killer Sea Lion drags little China girl into the sea
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[Video] - Romanian solves the Rubik's Cube on Britain's Got Talent... while blindfolded.
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To everyone's shock (and dismay of those who bet money on this), the 12 year old girl defeated the 24 year old woman in a Japan MMA fight. I haven't watched the match, so I can't say if it was scripted or corrupted (eg. if the bookies paid the 24 year old woman to throw the fight). But the match is apparently genuine.
