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DPM Lawrence Wong to take over from PM Lee on May 15
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May 15, 2024
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DPM Lawrence Wong to take over from PM Lee on May 15
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May 01, 2024
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Sinkie bu seen twerking non-stop whilst riding escalator - is she mentally unsound or what?
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Six-vehicle pile-up at junction of Tampines Ave 1 & Ave 4; two dead and others injured
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Apr 26, 2024
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Elderly man died in shop house, corpse discovered only after bodily fluids seeped through floor and into the unit below
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Apr 12, 2024
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Japan Food Town shuttered on Feb 29, lease terminated by landlord Isetan for 'non-payment of certain sums'
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Mar 03, 2024
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Here's irrefutable proof why South Asians are smarter than us.
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Mar 02, 2024
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[GPGT] Kaoz did the Incredible Hulk do this?
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SimplyGo SIMPLY FAILED!!!!! App unresponsive, notifications for transactions not reflected and website not accessible by some!!!!!
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A little girl living in the Gaza Strip has written her will
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coolmyth
Feb 15, 2024
From Gaza to Geneva: Swiss doctor evacuates injured children GENEVA: When Swiss doctor Raouf Salti realized he could not go to Gaza to help injured children, he decided he would do everything he could to get them to Geneva to receive medical care. After dealing with swathes of red tape, Salti got permission to have four children, including a 16-year-old who lost a kidney and has already had his leg amputated, cross into Egypt from Gaza and then fly to Switzerland on Monday. Salti, who went to Egypt to pick them up, waved as he was greeted by his team at Geneva airport with Zeina, a wide-eyed 17-month-old who was rescued from under the rubble in Gaza, in his arms. “When I saw that the situation kept getting worse, I decided that my mission this time would be to go there and bring them here,” said Salti, who has taken part in several international humanitarian trips to Gaza as well as other parts of the Middle East and Africa over the past 14 years. Salti, a urological surgeon and himself a descendant of Palestinian refugees, had been scheduled to travel to Gaza on Oct. 19 to carry out operations including a planned kidney surgery on a toddler. But his humanitarian mission, part of his work as founder of an NGO called Children’s Right for Healthcare, was called off due to the Israeli offensive launched in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas gunmen. The four children who arrived in Geneva on Monday are the second group that Salti has managed to evacuate to Switzerland, bringing their total number to eight. The children have been granted 90-day visas to receive medical care. “What is important is giving them a normal life, with people, calm, peace and love. A child’s life,” Salti said after arriving at his office with the children and their mothers. The four were chosen with help from his contacts in Gaza on the basis that they were well enough to travel and that they could be helped in Switzerland. Sixteen-year-old Yussef, who lost his left leg and had his kidney crushed in an Israeli attack, is emaciated, weighing less than 30 kg (66 pounds). Doctors in Gaza amputated the remainder of the leg that had been blown off, but he still needs to gain strength and ultimately be given a prosthetic. Zeina, the 17-month-old, was initially treated at Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest facility in the Gaza Strip, which was raided by Israeli forces in November. Her tiny left arm, supported by a sling, sustained several fractures that doctors attempted to repair using an external fixation but the structure had to be removed due to an infection. “You can’t talk about sterile (equipment) there anymore, it doesn’t exist,” Salti said. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2459326/world
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Elderly man died in shop house, corpse discovered only after bodily fluids seeped through floor and into the unit below
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Happy CNY 2024! PAP thanks Sinkies for allowing it to huat until buay lin chu at our expense!
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Gaza before and after: Satellite images show destruction following Israeli airstrikes
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coolmyth
Jan 23, 2024
Israel said to offer two-month pause in Gaza fighting for staged release of hostages Report says proposal does not heed demand by Hamas to end war but appears to go further than past Israeli offers, including significant reduction in IDF ops once fighting resumes Israel has reportedly submitted a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that would see it agree to pause its military offensive against Hamas for as long as two months, in exchange for a phased release of the remaining 136 hostages in Gaza. The proposal does not heed the Hamas demand for Israel to end the war completely, but does appear to go further than Israel has gone in previous offers, according to the Axios news site, which cited two Israeli officials. The offer was publicized as White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk was in the region for meetings with Egyptian and Qatari counterparts aimed at advancing a hostage deal, a US official told The Times of Israel. Israel is now waiting for Hamas’s response to the new proposal and is cautiously optimistic about the chance for progress in the coming days, the Israeli officials said to Axios. The Israeli proposal reported by the news site would see the remaining children, women, men over the age of 60 and critically ill hostages released during the first stage. Subsequent stages would see female soldiers and men under the age of 60 who are not soldiers, followed by male soldiers and the bodies of hostages. The Israeli offer states that Israel and Hamas would agree in advance as to how many security prisoners would be released by Jerusalem in each stage, before holding separate negotiations on the names of these convicts. The offer would also include a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the main population centers in the Gaza Strip and the gradual return of Palestinians to the enclave’s north, from which they were ordered to evacuate. The offer stipulates that Israel will not agree to end the war completely, nor release all 6,000 Palestinian security prisoners, but Israeli officials told Axios that they were willing to release a significant number. If implemented, IDF operations in Gaza would be significantly smaller in scope after the pause concludes, Axios reported. The offer is relatively similar to ones that have reportedly been pressed since the seven-day truce ended nearly two months ago. Hamas has insisted that it will not agree to release any hostages unless the fighting in Gaza ceases completely — a non-starter for Israel, as it would leave those who orchestrated the October 7 massacre in power, and with parts of the Hamas war machine intact. The report followed a meeting Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held with the families of hostages. He told them that “contrary to what has been said, there is no real Hamas proposal,” according to a statement released by his office. “I tell you this as clearly as I can, because there are so many untrue [claims] that must be torturing you,” the statement quoted Netanyahu as saying. “On the other hand, we have an [Israel] initiative, and I will not elaborate,” Netanyahu added. Channel 12 later published a recording from the meeting, in which Netanyahu could be heard saying: “There is a proposal of mine, which I also passed in the war cabinet. We conveyed it and now there is, as they say, a tug of war. “I can’t elaborate here, but our proposal is something we have passed on to the mediators.” More at https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-offer-two-month-pause-in-gaza-fighting-for-staged-release-of-hostages/
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Engineer turned hawker reportedly tendered insane bid of $6500/month for stall
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