Wednesday #sgroundup: NSP’s Nicole Seah moves to Thailand for work
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NSP’s Nicole Seah moves to Thailand for work
Opposition politician Nicole Seah on Tuesday night announced that she will be relocating to Bangkok.
In a status update on her public Facebook page, she called it “a difficult decision”, but said she will be going there to further her career in advertising.
The move, reported Mumbrella Asia, will be from her employer IPG Mediabrands’s Singapore branch to its Thai office, where she will take a role as a digital manager in Bangkok. In Singapore, she has held the position of senior account manager at the agency since November last year.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/nsp-s-nicole-seah-shifts-to-thailand-for-work-031141125.html
Search for MH370 focusing on Andaman Sea, Vietnam stops air operations
The international search for the missing Malaysia Airlines B777-200ER has been expanded into the Andaman Sea, hundreds of kilometres to the northwest of the original search radius as Vietnam suspended air operations in its waters.
The multinational search for flight MH370 which vanished last Saturday involves more than 40 ships and three dozen aircraft combing an area from the Andaman Sea to the South China Sea.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/search-mh370-focusing-andaman-sea-vietnam-stops-air-031811311.html
Flight MH370 sent engine data before vanishing, says magazine
The missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane sent at least two bursts of technical data back to the airline before it disappeared, according to the New Scientist magazine.
The data may help investigators understand what went wrong with the aircraft, no trace of which has yet been found since it disappeared early Saturday morning, the magazine reported yesterday.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/flight-mh370-sent-engine-data-vanishing-says-magazine-230312419.html
Tiny tropical state joins the extreme weather club
Singapore registered its driest month in February since 1869, according to the country's National Environment Agency, and the dry spell that began in January is expected to last until at least mid-March.
Adding to the dry weather is a haze - a fog with a smoky smell resulting from farmers in Indonesia setting fires to clear land. It drifts over Singapore as wind direction changes.
Economists say the dry spell, also impacting neighboring Malaysia, threatens to push up food prices and slow economic activity.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-grapples-extreme-weather-045609163.html
COMMENT: Will Singaporeans live in economic ghettoes?
As Singapore becomes increasingly fractured along economic lines, we should worry about the emergence of economic ghettoes. As it is, many Singaporeans can no longer afford to consume anything in the Marina Bay area, says a writer.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singaporeans-live-economic-ghettoes-064718251.html
