TAGULANDANG: Indonesian authorities were on alert on Friday (Apr 19) for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this week, as nearby residents began clearing debris after molten rocks rained down on their villages. Mount Ruang erupted nearly half a dozen times in 24 hours beginning…
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SINGAPORE — A teenager turned on his younger sister and raped her when she refused to have sex with him as a condition for playing games on the computer in his room. On Friday (April 19), the teenager, now 18 years old, was given four weeks to engage a lawyer after he was found suitable for either probation or reformative training as a punishment. He had pleaded guilty to one charge of rape earlier. A similar…
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PLUGGING THE GAPS Among the practical skills that nurses could be better equipped with are caring for a dying patient, managing a patient with complex needs such as tracheostomy and assisting in resuscitation. These events, however, do not happen frequently, Ms Ang noted. “Nonetheless, our newly graduated nurses are supported…
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THE VALUE OF MISSILE DEFENCE It is a straightforward enough statement to make that “the world is becoming a more dangerous place”. But one of the big lessons from so many of the world’s hotspots – from Ukraine and Russia to the Korean Peninsula and to Israel and Iran -…
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NEW YORK: Meta Platforms on Thursday (Apr 18) released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real-time while users type prompts, as it races to catch up to generative AI market leader OpenAI. The models will be integrated into…
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If you think nothing of working out before heading to the office, you deserve serious respect for your superhuman dedication to fitness. But for us mere mortals who sometimes need that extra push to hit the gym, blasting our favorite tunes can provide the added motivation we need. When scouting…
