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Morning Digest, Aug 25
Ong Ye Kung: Fewer COVID cases & hospitalisations are signs ‘our society’s growing resilience with each passing wave’
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Health Minister Ong Ye Kung noted that both Covid-19 case numbers and hospitalisations in Singapore have gone down recently, calling these “encouraging” signs of “our society’s growing resilience with each passing wave.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday (Aug 23) he wrote that the post-weekend spike usually observed during the pandemic did not occur this week.
Read more here...VICTORY! Loh brothers advance to the next round in BWF World Championships; Kean Yew takes another step toward defending his title
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Both Loh Kean Yew, 25, and his brother Loh Kean Hean, 27, saw victories in their respective matches on Wednesday (Aug 24) at the Badminton World Championships in Tokyo.
Kean Yew, currently ranked eighth in the world, breezed past the first round with an easy win against Spain’s Pablo Abian. In Wednesday’s match, he bested world number 40, Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon, in 49 minutes, 21-12, 11-21, 21-12.
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Short men need to earn SGD244,000 more per year to be as desirable as taller men — Study
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Bad news for short guys: you may need to earn almost a quarter of a million dollars more per year to be perceived as desirable as taller men.
A popular Asian-American finance influencer, Vivian, who goes by “Your Rich BFF” on Instagram, asked “How much is six inches worth?” in a clip posted earlier this month.
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Maid says her employer and their sister hit her and squeezed her arms ‘until they became blue black’
Photo: Indah Yosevina (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=430647145771643)[/caption]
A foreign domestic helper who had been working in Singapore for 5 years spoke about the tough times she went through with her employer’s sister.
Indah Yosevina said that she remembers the day very clearly. “Chinese New Year 2019, the first time she hit me because…that day we went and stayed for a few days in her house, then she just straightaway beat me on my back”.
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