Top 5 stories for Monday, 5 August 2013
If you haven’t had the time to read the news, here is today’s round up of top stories.
First three honourees of Yahoo! Singapore 9 revealed
As part of this year’s National Day tribute, Yahoo! Singapore honours nine charities that are making a difference in the lives of the less advantaged. Here are the first three finalists: a charity that provides free therapeutic horse-riding lessons for the physically and intellectually disabled, a centre that improves the employability of the disabled and an organisation that helps ex-convicts transition to a newer, promising future.
Singaporean of the Day: Wayne Toh, photography educator
Wayne Toh tells the inspiring story of how he got back on track after his wife left him and his four children three years ago. Now he juggles between being a “hands-on” father and teaching photography to children.
Radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’
Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to maintain, says the country’s nuclear watchdog. This contaminated groundwater has exceeded legal limits of radioactive discharge and is rising towards the surface.
Video from Asiana crash rescue effort shows girl overlooked
A video obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper shows that the supervisor directing the firefighting effort at the Asiana crash site was not told that a teenage girl was on the ground until after she was mistakenly run over and killed by a fire truck.
Men in black nabbed in bid to take over Malaysia’s Istana Negara
Eight men and two women dressed in black have been detained by the Malaysian police for attempting to take over the administration of Istana Negara. The group claimed that they were the “rightful owners” to the throne.
