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Two British Medical Students Murdered After Pub Quarrel

PETALING JAYA: The identities of the two British medical students stabbed to death by four local men in Kuching have been disclosed in a heartfelt posting on their university’s official Facebook page.

Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, were named by Newcastle University acting vice-chancellor Prof Tony Stevenson in the post which added that the students were on six-week work placement in Kuching.

“Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, were on a six week work placement along with five other medical students to put the skills they had learnt during their time here at the university into practice.

This has come as a huge shock to us all and our thoughts are with their families and friends at this very difficult time,” the posting read.

Stevenson added that two staff members from the university were flying out to Kuching and working with the British High Commissioner to provide support to the other students there, and to arrange for their flights home.

The comments section of the Facebook post were filled with messages of condolences.

Dalton and Brunger were found murdered at 4.15am Wednesday with stab wounds on their chest and back after an early morning quarrel with four local men at Abell Road.

A restaurant worker had alerted the police after witnessing the incident.

A quarrel is alleged to have taken place between the victims and suspects while both parties were drinking at a pub. When the students left the pub on foot, the suspects pursued them in a car and one of the suspects attacked victims.

At 6am, police arrested three of the suspects at their homes and seized the car, a knife, mobile phones. They have been remanded for seven days. The fourth suspect was arrested at 4.45pm and will be remanded today.

The main suspect is a 23-year-old fishmonger. One of the suspects is a 29-year-old mechanic while two others are unemployed, aged 19 and 35. Two of them have previous convictions for a drug-related offence and armed robbery.

Dalton and Brunger arrived in Sarawak in June to undergo a six-week placement at a local hospital there. They were due to complete their placement on Thursday and planned to return to Britain later this month.

Source: http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/08/07/University-discloses-names-of-students/

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August 7, 2014
Boy Injured After a Glass Door at Westgate Mall Fell on Top of Him

A four-year-old boy suffered a cut to the back of his head and neck pains, after a glass door on level 5 of the mall reportedly “detached itself” and fell on top of him.

A member of the public who only wants to be known as “Paul” sent in photos of the aftermath. He says he heard from the boy’s mother that the glass door – about three-metres high – just outside of NTUC’s My First Skool childcare centre and a Fitness First gym, leading to the outdoor area on Level 5, detached and fell on top of the boy just before 6pm.

Mr Paul says the boy’s entire body was pinned down by the door, and that he was lying facedown when he arrived shortly after. The boy’s right cheek appeared to be bruised. There were also traces of blood on the ground.

“Because the glass door is tempered glass, it shattered within,” said Mr Paul. He says two staff members from the nearby Westgate Kids Club brought a first aid kit to tend to the boy, and a doctor from a clinic one level down came up to assist as well.

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The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) confirms it received a call on the incident at 6:05pm, and says the boy suffered a cut to the back of his head and reported having neck pains.

He was sent conscious to the National University Hospital, accompanied by his mother and mall staff.

A spokesperson for Westgate mall says the boy was swinging the glass door the time of the accident. “Our investigations revealed that the boy had over-extended the glass door when he swung it, causing it to hit the door frame and shatter,” said Ms Mandy Chiu, the marketing communications manager for Westgate in a statement to Channel NewsAsia.

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The boy remains in hospital for observation, but is in stable condition. “We wish him a speedy recovery, and continue to extend our help to him and his family,” said Ms Chiu.

The mall’s contractor will be conducting safety checks on its glass doors and panels overnight, to prevent a recurrence of such an incident.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/boy-hurt-by-fallen-glass/1302080.html

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August 7, 2014
Award-winning writer, editor and former lecturer Muhammad Ariff Ahmad

Cikgu Muhammad Ariff Ahmad was awarded Singapore’s highest literary honour, the Cultural Medallion, in 1987 — ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN

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A literary giant in the Malay community in Singapore and the region, Cikgu Muhammad Ariff Ahmad is not letting two accidental falls last year stop him from doing what he loves best: writing.

He uses a wheelchair to get around and is no longer able to write with a pen or type on a computer keyboard. But the 89-year-old taps gently on his iPhone whenever inspiration strikes, storing his ideas in an e-notebook.

An author and poet, Mr Ariff was awarded Singapore’s highest literary honour, the Cultural Medallion, in 1987. Six years later, he took home $5,000 in cash when he won a top Malay literary prize in Singapore, Anugerah Tun Seri Lanang.

He also founded regional Malay language writers’ group Asas 50 and has led many conferences on the Malay language. But it is the almost 40 years he spent in the teaching profession that stand out, as he is widely and affectionately known as Cikgu, or teacher in Malay. He taught Malay in primary and secondary schools for nearly 20 years before moving to lecturing trainee teachers at the then-Institute of Education.He retired in 1979.

His wife Sarinah Haniff, 84, is a retired teacher. They have two sons and two daughters, between the ages of 49 and 60. But only the third child, Ms Shahrulbariah, 51, has followed in her parents’ footsteps. She is a primary school teacher.

Mr Ariff, a grandfather of six, was born in Singapore in 1924. He is the second child among two sons and two daughters of a housewife and odd-job worker. At age 24, he got his teaching diploma in Perak, Malaysia, from what is now known as the Sultan Idris University of Education. It awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2006.

He has written almost 60 children’s books, novels, grammar textbooks as well as articles on culture and literature for magazines and newspapers in the region.

Today, he gives advice on literature, language and culture every week in a column in Berita Minggu, a Sunday Malay newspaper.

Source: http://www.singapolitics.sg/supperclub/celebrated-writer-respected-educator

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August 6, 2014
Yaacob Ibrahim: NLB Akan Melakar Proses Lebih Jelas Untuk Buku Kontroversi

LEMBAGA Perpustakaan Negara (NLB) akan melakar satu proses yang lebih jelas untuk buku-buku yang telah ditarik keluar dari senarai bacaan awam “disebabkan kandungan yang kontroversi”.

Menerusi pendekatan yang dikemaskinikan, NLB tidak akan terus memusnahkan buku-buku yang dianggap tidak sesuai, sebaliknya akan mencari jalan lain untuk mengenepikan buku-buku ini.

Jaminan ini diberikan Menteri Penerangan dan Maklumat, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, yang berkata, NLB tidak akan terus memusnahkan buku-buku yang dianggap tidak sesuai dibaca khalayak umum.

“Untuk buku-buku yang masih berkeadaan baik tetapi telah ditarik keluar disebabkan kandungannya yang kontroversi, NLB akan mempertimbangkan pilihan lain selain memusnahkannya.

“Saya tidak mahu mendahului pertimbangan mereka, tetapi salah satu kemungkinan adalah untuk meletakkan buku-buku ini di bahagian yang lebih sesuai untuk khalayak pembacanya membuat pinjaman, sepertimana yang dilakukan dalam kes ini (kes tiga buku kanak-kanak berbaur homoseksual yang kini ditarik keluar dan dua ditempatkan di bahagian dewasa).

“Kemungkinan lain termasuklah meletakkannya di bahagian rujukan, atau dijual atau didermakan,” kata Dr Yaacob.

Tengkarah tercetus awal bulan lalu menyusuli tindakan NLB menarik keluar tiga buku kanak-kanak berbahasa Inggeris yang berbaur homoseksual – And Tango Makes Three, mengenai dua penguin jantan yang menetaskan telur; The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, yang antara lain memaparkan pasangan lesbian dan ibu tunggal; dan, Who’s In My Family?: All About Our Families, tentang pelbagai struktur keluarga.

Keputusan itu dibuat NLB menyusuli maklum balas awam yang mendapati buku-buku tersebut tidak mencerminkan resam hidup masyarakat di sini yang konservatif.

Sumber: http://beritaharian.sg/setempat/nlb-proses-lebih-jelas-untuk-buku-kontroversi

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August 6, 2014
SPF Award Overseas Scholarship to Hwa Chong Institution Student

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SINGAPORE: The Public Service Commission presented its prestigious Singapore Police Force Overseas Scholarship to only one recipient this year. Last year, five SPF Scholarships were given out.

The PSC awards a selected number of scholarships a year, depending on the calibre of candidates. The scholarship award was presented to Azfer Ali Khan by Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean at the Istana on Tuesday (Aug 5).

Khan scored seven distinctions at the A-level examinations, and was a Humanities scholar at Hwa Chong Institution. He will read law at Cambridge University in the UK in September. Khan was born in Pakistan in 1995, and moved to Singapore in 2007, when he was in primary school.

He told Channel NewsAsia he aspired to join the police force, after applying for the SPF Book Prize in the first year of Junior College. “I was given the opportunity to attend information sessions, and attachments that allowed me to gain further insight to the work of an SPF officer. This allowed me to understand that my dream of becoming a story-teller, tied in very closely with that of an SPF officer, and from then on, I realised that it was something that I really wanted to do.”

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/hwa-chong-institution/1298266.html

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August 6, 2014