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Thursday #sgroundup: Body found of boy who made first call from Korea ferry: report

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Body found of boy who made first call from Korea ferry: report


The body of a high school student who made the first distress call from a sinking South Korean ferry was recovered from the submerged vessel on Thursday, news reports said.

The student, identified by his surname Choi, had called the emergency 119 number at 8:52am on Wednesday last week, three minutes before the crew of the 6,825 tonne Sewol sent their first distress signal.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/body-found-boy-made-first-call-korea-ferry-035828727.html
 
Camilla's brother dies in NY of head injury


The Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, are "utterly devastated" by the death of her brother, who fell outside a hotel bar and suffered a head injury.

Mark Shand, chairman of an elephant conservation charity, was in New York for a charity auction at Sotheby's.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/camillas-brother-dies-ny-head-injury-051812359.html
 
Waste oil collector struggles after STOMP posts, receives help from kind souls


After being photographed at work in Jurong pooling used oil near coffee shops, 50-year-old Valerie Sim has been struggling to keep her family afloat.

Web portals STOMP and The Real Singapore published pictures of her in February, triggering a witch hunt for others like her and comments from readers like “Who knows if they’ll use it as cooking oil?” Some readers also said they filed police reports against her and other people they believed were doing the same thing she was.

Actually, according to a report by The New Paper early last month, she was simply collecting waste oil to sell to licensed general waste collector Sky-Land (Oils and Fats), which would process the grease to turn into biodiesel.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/waste-oil-collector-struggles-after-stomp-posts--receives-help-from-kind-souls-022024778.html
 
3 in 10 redundant workers in Singapore failed to get re-employed


According to a release by the Ministry of Manpower, about 3 in 10 employees, or 32%, made redundant in the first three quarters of 2013 failed to get re-employed by December of the same year.

Meanwhile, two-thirds (66%) of residents made redundant in the first three quarters of 2013 re-entered employment by December 2013, within 12 months of redundancy. This was slightly lower than the rate experienced by the preceding cohort in 2012.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/3-10-redundant-workers-failed-034500483.html
 
Australia rules out link between debris and Malaysian plane


Authorities ruled out any link between debris picked up on an Australian beach and a missing Malaysian jetliner on Thursday as a tropical cyclone again threatened to hamper a 26-nation air, surface and underwater search of the Indian Ocean.

The debris, found on Wednesday on a beach at the southern tip of Western Australia state, was seen as the first lead since 4 April when authorities detected what they believed was a signal from the black box of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-rules-between-debris-malaysian-plane-045147277.html