Interesting pictures :)

Goodness! I 'd rather hold it!

Police hard at work:

How does one feels when stepping into a toilet like that?

Uniform for workers in Coca-Cola Japan:

Would you want to drink from this glass?

我国政府

I received this sms this morning and would like to share it with all bloggers...

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每年分钱国人花，

国人领钱笑哈哈，

人人当他是老爸，

个个投票支持他，

政府此计可不差，

利用钱财买傻瓜，

还受傻瓜到处夸。

After 40 hours of search....

My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families on the demise of the 5 dragon boat paddlers. I know that no words can console the affected families now, may wounds heal with time....

From channelnewsasia.com

SINGAPORE: The bodies of the five Singaporean rowers who died in a dragon boat accident in Cambodia will be brought home by a military plane on Monday evening.

The dead are 20-year-old Chee Wei Cheng, 24-year-old Jeremy Goh Tze Xiong, 31-year-old Stephen Loh Soon Ann, 23-year-old Reuben Kee En Rui and 27-year-old Poh Boon San.

Their bodies were found on Sunday morning, two days after their dragon boat capsized in the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh during the annual Cambodia-ASEAN Traditional Boat Race.

Singapore Ambassador to Cambodia Tan Yee Woan said some family members of the five victims will also be on the plane.

As for the rest of the family members, they will be back on a SilkAir flight on Monday night.

The 17 members of the dragon boat team who were rescued in the accident would fly back on a commercial flight in the afternoon, together with the president of the Dragon Boat Association, Kwek Siew Jin.

At about 7.45am, en route to the airport, they stopped at the accident site to offer prayers. Some family members of the five victims were also there to perform rites

First time since 1965

These students took the opportunity to express their concern, anger and determination during the current ASEAN Leaders' Summit in Singapore. Although they could not make it to the venue of the meeting, Shangrila Hotel, hopefully the message that they had wanted to send and conveyed had been taken into consideration.

From Asia-Pacific News
Students defy police, march along Singapore's premier boulevard

Singapore - International students defied police and marched along Singapore's premier boulevard on Monday, calling for 'peace, justice and democracy' in Myanmar.

Two groups of National University of Singapore students, coming from Britain, Canada and the Netherlands, donned red T-shirts with the message 'Peace, Justice and Democracy for Burma.'

They held lit candles as they walked from Orchard Road in an unsuccessful bid to reach the Shangri-La Hotel, the venue of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders' Summit.

Police have repeatedly warned protests would not be tolerated under Singapore's laws during the summit.

'When we reached the corner near the Shangri-La, the police confronted us and warned us that we will be in danger of breaking the law if we push on,' said Pia Muzaffar, one of the protesters.

'We hope that this will catch the attention of the leaders and they will hopefully take it into account,' she said. 'We also hope that more people will come out and show solidarity with Burma.'

The students dispersed after the police warning.

Myanmar has become the focus of protests worldwide after a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in September in Yangon, killing at least 14 people.

Various human rights and democracy groups are calling on ASEAN leaders to expel or suspend Myanmar for the violent suppression of the monks and students.

But ASEAN has refused either option, and told the international community that it was dealing with Myanmar's problems within the 10-member grouping's 'family.'

ASEAN groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

ASEAN leaders are set to sign a landmark charter on Tuesday, upholding democracy and human rights in addition to paving the way for an European Union-style community in 2015.

A group of Singapore activists called on ASEAN on Sunday to remove the section on human rights from the charter, viewed as the group's constitution, and make it a treaty.

Critics have noted that the charter does not have enough 'teeth' to enforce the human rights provisions.

PSLE's cheating case

The culprit is pretty bold to have change the answers in such a short time span.

Cheating is a serious offence in major examinations like that and its even more so for a teacher!

So what could have made the culprit took such a great risk?

And who exactly was the person who called in? Did he/ she saw witness something?

From channelnewsasia:

SINGAPORE: Baffled and shocked - these were the reactions when teachers heard about Mother Tongue (Tamil language) papers that were allegedly tampered with in this year's Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE).

The incident, said to involve a teacher making changes to answers in three exam scripts - after they were submitted by the pupils - would be the first time PSLE scripts are known to have been altered.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is not revealing the name of the school yet as it has called in the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, and investigations are in progress.

A media report on Monday placed the school as being in the north, after an anonymous call was received.

The report said that answers in a pupil's composition paper had been altered and some answers in the fill-in-the-blanks section were cancelled and replaced with other answers. Similar changes were found in a section of the scripts of two other pupils.

The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) said it could not provide details of its operations during the PSLE, but teachers who have invigilated the exam said there is "almost no way" to alter the papers.

"The security is very tight," a primary school Tamil language teacher with 10 years of experience told Today.

"The collection of papers is done very, very quickly and they are sent to the examination centre almost immediately."

"There would be two other exam officers present."

Another primary school teacher said that internal invigilators from a school usually do not oversee the exams of the subjects they teach - at least in his school.

"If a candidate has a question about the paper, the invigilator will call someone over from the collection point. They leave nothing to chance," he said.

"After collecting the papers, you take them to the central collection point which is either a room next door or one level below the exam venue where they would be sealed.

"It's a very short window period - I'd say barely a minute, because if you don't turn up at the collection point promptly, the people there will suspect (that something is amiss)."

The altered answers, which were discovered during the centralised marking of the PSLE papers from 16 to 19 Oct, had reportedly been scribbled in haste, in a different colour and in different handwriting.

The SEAB's chief examiner for Tamil language has since marked the scripts based on the pupils' answers, which were still visible.

The MOE said it "takes a serious view of this matter" and that any MOE staff member "involved in compromising the integrity of the examination system will have to face disciplinary action".

The news comes the week PSLE results are being released. The MOE announced on Monday that pupils may collect their result slips from noon on Thursday.