Tuesday #sgroundup: Tan Tock Seng Hospital fires blogger Roy Ngerng
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Tan Tock Seng Hospital fires blogger Roy Ngerng
Blogger Roy Ngerng, who is being sued by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for defamation, has been fired from his job. It was for “conduct incompatible with the values and standards expected of employees, and for misusing working time, hospital computers and facilities for personal pursuits”, his employer told Yahoo Singapore.
Ngerng, 33, worked as a contract patient co-ordinator at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)’s Communicable Disease Centre. Taking to his Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, he posted a public status update announcing the news.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogger-roy-ngerng-fired-from-job-094224365.html
In second attack, gun battle at Karachi airport academy
A security academy at Karachi's airport came under attack on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after an all-night siege by Taliban gunmen at Pakistan's busiest airport that killed more than 30 people.
"The ASF academy is under attack. There is gunfire," a senior official at the Federal Investigation Agency said, referring to the Airports Security Force.
The army said it had deployed troops to the scene where, according to a Pakistani television report, three militants had been surrounded by security forces.
All flights in and out of the sprawling city of 18 million were suspended, an official said.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pakistani-jets-bomb-militant-hideouts-airport-attack-060521200.html
PM Lee 'cheered' by social worker's letter following CPF protest
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday said he felt “cheered” after reading an email by a Singaporean social worker expressing gratitude for government policies that have helped her family and people in her work.
In the image of the letter that the prime minister posted on his Facebook page, the unnamed social worker said she was prompted to share her thoughts and feelings in light of the “recent contention” with Singapore activists and bloggers such as Roy Ngerng, who wasrecently sued by Lee over alleged defamatory statements.
Singapore charges company over NKorea weapons role
Singapore filed criminal charges Tuesday against a shipping company implicated in a shipment of weapons to North Korea that was seized by Panamanian authorities last year.
Locally registered Chinpo Shipping Company Ltd. was charged with transferring $72,000 to a Panama shipping agent knowing that the funds could be used to contribute to the "nuclear-related, ballistic missile-related, or other weapons of mass destruction-related programs or activities" of North Korea.
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-charges-company-over-nkorea-080121350--finance.html
Australia chooses firm to map sea floor in Malaysia Airlines search
Australia on Tuesday signed a contract with a private company to map the sea floor around where missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to have crashed, a crucial step towards continuing an underwater search later this year.
Months of searches have failed to turn up any trace of the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared on March 8 carrying 239 passengers and crew shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
