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President Trump and his legal team declared victory Thursday as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report was released -- with the president repeating his "no collusion" mantra and saying “this should never happen to another president again.” “I’m having a good day, too, it’s called ‘no collusion, no obstruction,’” he said in remarks for the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride, at the White House. “There never was by the way, and there never will be.” READ THE ROBERT MUELLER REPORT “This should never happen to another president again, this hoax, it should never happen to another president again,” he added. He also promised “to get to the bottom of these things,” hinting at calls for the origins of the two-year investigation to be reviewed. Mueller’s report dropped at 11 a.m., spanning over 400 pages. Attorney General William Barr, who had issued a four-page summary of its findings last month, held a press conference Thursday morning and repeated his conclusions that the investigation found no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign officials in the 2016 presidential election. The report itself said: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” As for allegations of obstruction of justice, the report recounts 10 episodes involving Trump and, Barr said, “discusses potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense.” But Barr said the White House “fully cooperated” with the investigation, and that he concluded that the evidence is not sufficient to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense by Trump. Trump and his allies have repeatedly declared victory even as Democrats have indicated that they intend to continue their own investigations, and are seeking to question Mueller and to challenge the decision by the Department of Justice to redact parts of the report. EX-FBI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON MUELLER REPORT: 'WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THIS STARTED' Trump himself tweeted that it was “game over” for his political opponents on Thursday, while his legal team issued a lengthy statement, describing the report as a “total victory for the President.” “The report underscores what we have argued from the very beginning -- there was no collusion -- there was no obstruction. After a 17-month investigation, testimony from some 500 witnesses, the issuance of 2,800 subpoenas, the execution of nearly 500 search warrants, early morning raids, the examination of more than 1.4 million pages of documents, and the unprecedented cooperation of the President, it is clear there was no criminal wrongdoing," the statement said. "This vindication of the President is an important step forward for the country and a strong reminder that this type of abuse must never be permitted to occur again," it said. Rudy Giuliani, one of the members of that team, appeared on "America's Newsroom" and brushed off questions about obstruction, saying that "the big victory is no collusion with the Russians." “You’re not going to find a darn thing [in the report] that President Trump or anyone on his campaign had anything to do with whatever the Russians were doing," he said. Fox News' Shannon Bream contributed to this report. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-declares-victory-mueller-report

SHANGHAI, China – Amazon is planning to close down online retail operations catering to consumers in China, in an apparent admission of defeat to local e-commerce rivals such as Alibaba, a report said on Thursday, April 18. The US e-commerce pioneer will maintain other operations in China such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kindle e-books and cross-border teams that help ship goods from Chinese merchants to customers abroad, Bloomberg News said, citing unidentified people familiar with the plans. Although dominant in the United States and some other markets, Amazon has struggled to compete in China with the likes of Alibaba and JD.com, who are hugely popular in the country. This comes despite Amazon's investment in logistics in China and its acquisition in 2004 of Chinese online book seller Joyo. An Amazon spokesperson did not explicitly confirm the pull-out plans, but said the company was looking to focus more on cross-border sales. "Over the past few years, we have been evolving our China online retail business to increasingly emphasize cross-border sales, and in return we’ve seen very strong response from Chinese customers," the spokesperson said in a statement emailed to Agence France-Presse. The company was making "operational adjustments to focus our efforts on cross-border sales in China," the statement said. It added that "we will continue to invest and grow in China across Amazon Global Store, Global Selling, AWS, Kindle devices and content." Bloomberg called the move the latest sign that Amazon, due to the difficulty competing with Chinese rivals, would focus its overseas attention on India's growing market. – Rappler.com

A Californian family has been left devastated after their daughter died following an allergic reaction to toothpaste. The parents of Denise Saldate, from West Covina in California, told Yahoo Lifestyle the toothpaste was supposed to strengthen their daughter's enamel, as she had white spots on her teeth. The toothpaste, however, contained recaldent - a milk-derived protein, and the family did not see the warnings printed on both sides of the tube, Yahoo reports. Denise was diagnosed with a milk allergy when she was younger after having trouble consuming breast milk, dairy and soy. She ran from the bathroom crying on April 4 after brushing her teeth. Altamirano told Yahoo Lifestyle her daughter said she couldn't breathe, and her lips turned blue. She died that night. "I cried each time I left Denise in someone else's care because some people don't take allergies seriously," mother Monique Latamirano told Yahoo Lifestyle. "We can't bring Denise back but we can help others in her name." To cover Denise's funeral services, a GoFundMe page was created by her uncle, Moises Saldate, and has raised more than US$17,000. "She could light up a room and make you smile even when you're down," the page says. "As her uncle, I'm helping my brother and her family raise money to help cover the cost of funeral services." https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/11yo-girl-dies-from-allergic-reaction-to-toothpaste/ar-BBW3xHL?li

SINGAPORE: Starting 2020, the list of overseas medical schools whose graduates can practise in Singapore will shrink from 160 to 103. This comes after the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) reviewed the overseas medical schools with registrable basic medical qualifications, it said in a joint press release with the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (Apr 18). The changes come as the need to recruit overseas-trained doctors abates, with total annual intakes from local medical schools rising from 300 in 2010 to about 500 in 2018. "The impact of the increase in local medical school intake will be fully realised from 2023, when these students graduate," said MOH and SMC. Responding to CNA's queries, MOH and SMC said that in recent years, it registered about 120 doctors annually who had trained at the affected medical schools. Of those, about 30 were Singaporean or Permanent Residents. Comparatively, the local medical school intake rose by about 200 students over the same period. "As we now train more doctors locally, the number of overseas medical schools with registrable basic medical qualifications can thus be moderated down," they said. UNIVERSITIES TO BE EXCLUDED ARE FROM 20 COUNTRIES Factors such as the international and national rankings of overseas universities and performance of conditionally registered doctors from these universities were taken into consideration during the review. Universities that will be excluded come from 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, China and India. Some of the schools that have been cut include The Flinders University of South Australia's School of Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine. Singaporean and permanent resident students who have secured places in medical programmes from schools that are no longer on the list or who are studying in the dropped schools before Jan 1, 2020 will not be affected by the change. They will still be considered for medical registration with the SMC, provided they fulfil the prevailing requirements, which are subject to an offer of employment with a healthcare institution approved by the council upon graduation. The council said that the list will continue to be reviewed regularly, to meet the evolving needs of Singapore's healthcare system and ensure the quality of overseas-trained doctors in Singapore. There have been six rounds of reviews since 2003, with the most recent amendment to the list made in 2009. Here are the 57 overseas medical schools that will be excluded from Jan 1, 2020: AUSTRALIA School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Faculty of Health Science, University of Tasmania AUSTRIA University of Innsbruck CANADA Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University FRANCE Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur (ULP) Strasbourg GERMANY Fachbereich Medizin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe‑Universität Frankfurt am Main INDIA Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi Grant Medical College, Mumbai St John’s Medical College, Bangalore Madras Medical College, Chennai IRELAND Faculty of Medicine, National University of Ireland, University College Cork Faculty of Medicine, National University of Ireland, University College Dublin Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (National University of Ireland) ISRAEL Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University ITALY Prima e Seconda Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Sapienza Università di Roma Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Firenze JAPAN School of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine (Tokyo), Keio University Faculty of Medicine, Nagoya University Faculty of Medicine (Fukuoka), Kyushu University Tokyo Women’s Medical University NORWAY Det Medisinske Fakultet, Universitetet I Oslo PAKISTAN The Aga Khan University Medical College PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Sun Yat-Sen College of Medical Science (Guangdong), Sun Yat-Sen University Zhejiang University School of Medicine School of Medicine, Wuhan University The West China College of Medicine, Sichuan University SOUTH KOREA College of Medicine (Seoul), Korea University SPAIN Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid SRI LANKA Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo SWITZERLAND Faculté de Médecine, Université de Lausanne (UNIL) TAIWAN College of Medicine (Taoyuan), Chang Gung University UNITED KINGDOM Faculty of Medicine and Medical Science, University of Aberdeen College of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Queens University of Belfast School of Medicine, University of Leeds Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, University of St Andrews College of Medicine, University of Wales (merged with Cardiff University) USA University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Roy J & Lucille A Carver College of Medicine at University of Iowa School of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine The revised list can be found in full on the council's website. Source: CNA/nh/mi(hm)

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SINGAPORE — An elderly patient at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital died last year after he choked on his dinner, a coroner’s court heard. Simon Lee alias Lee Chwee Koon, 67, had three of his teeth removed the day before, and was eating with his remaining nine teeth. His dentist had prescribed a soft diet, but this wasn’t adhered to. Instead, he was given three meals based on a regular diet plan. Following resuscitation efforts, food residue had to be cleared from his airways and lungs. At the State Courts on Thursday (18 April), State Coroner Marvin Bay found Lee’s death to be “a most unfortunate misadventure”. The coroner said, “it will not be possible for this inquiry to conclusively attribute Lee’s choking to be from the failure to provide him with a soft diet, as Mr Lee had a number of known serious and chronic maladies including a previous stroke, past cardiac events and persistent coughing episodes”. He noted that Lee had also eaten three “regular” meals on the evening of 16 January last year, when he had his teeth extracted, and the next day on 17 January, before he choked during dinner that day. However, the coroner added that it was “deeply concerning” that the dietary advice given by the dentist, Dr Bertrand Chew, was not implemented by the hospital immediately. The dentist’s advice for a soft diet had been recorded in the hospital’s system. Food given to those on a soft diet would have a soft texture and be moist. The reason for the non-compliance by the hospital with the dietary advice? It was pending a review by a dietician, and the short time lead was insufficient notice for the kitchen to change Lee’s meal from a regular meal to a soft diet. Coroner Bay noted that Ng Teng Fong General Hospital has since used Lee’s case “as a teaching example to show the importance of precise and speedy implementation of specialist advice”. At the department level, the hospital also improved its doctor-patient ratio to allow faster processing of notes and orders following the incident. What happened at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital Lee was admitted to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital on 11 January last year after having lower-back pains. He was found to have degeneration of the spine and bacteria in the blood, and had a dry cough, among other things. He was also suffering from diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and other conditions. Investigations of his back pain revealed degenerative disc disease, and he was treated for the bacterial infection of the blood. The infection was suspected to have a dental cause as Lee had advanced tooth decay. Dr Chew, a consultant dentist, saw Lee on 16 January and noted his poor oral health. He had multiple teeth caries and decayed tooth stumps. The dentist decided to immediately extract three teeth from the left upper jaw, in order to prevent possible infection. Following the procedure, Dr Chew asked Lee to be put on a soft diet, to reduce trauma to the sockets of his gums and jaw. Although Lee could still chew on his right side of his mouth – he had four teeth left on the front upper jaw and five scattered on the lower jaw – the diet prescription was meant to make it easier for the patient. Back in his ward, Lee called his wife, who was undergoing home dialysis, to tell her about his condition and that his gums were painful. That evening, just after his procedure, he was given a regular diet dinner of rice noodles, seafood and chicken hor fun, green stir fried spinach with mock abalone, tofu and red dates soup, and fruit. The next morning, he was given breakfast again on a regular diet – scrambled eggs, grilled tomato, wholemeal bread and tea. Lee again complained to his wife that morning that his gums were painful. She advised him to tell his doctor if it was still painful. This was the last time that the couple spoke to each other. For lunch, Lee was given chicken stew in brown sauce, sauteed potatoes, a bread roll, wholemeal bun, sauteed cabbage with thyme, minestrone soup and fruit. Later that day, he was served mock meat, mock Sezchuan style chicken, steamed rice, stir fried bitter gourd with black bean, cabbage and wolfberry soup, and fruit. But during dinner, a nurse heard Lee coughing vigorously. She went to ask if he was fine but didn’t receive a reply. She didn’t notice any signs of choking and tried to move him onto the bed but was unable to do so. A doctor found Lee unresponsive and in a near collapsed state on his bed. Chest compressions were done on Lee, and suction was conducted on his airway to remove food particles. Lee was revived after being in a flatline state for 17 minutes. At the intensive care unit later, a bronchoscopy revealed a large amount of food residue in both lungs. The residue was flushed out. Lee did not recover from the choking incident. Brain scans confirmed that he had suffered brain injury from a lack of oxygen after he collapsed. He died on 18 February last year. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/elderly-man-dies-choking-food-ng-teng-fong-general-hospital-113224688.html

An inconsiderate kid laying down on a subway seat who was way too immersed in whatever was going on with his cell phone got a rude awakening from a passenger who wasn't having it. Ask any commuter who's used to the daily grind of getting on and off of trains and buses, and they will have more than their fair share of stories about rude passengers who clearly don't care about anyone other than themselves. Whether it's that person who refuses to give up their seats, or put their bags on chairs beside them and makes no effort to move them when they see you walking around looking for a seat — or even that nerd who doesn't silence their cell phone notifications, despite the fact they're staring at the thing and are clearly in an active text conversation for the whole ride. The utter lack of spatial awareness, or that they're OK with hogging up an entire seat or aisle to themselves, is downright unpleasant. Often, it's not worth it to start a fight with someone who clearly doesn't care about whether or not they're inconveniencing people or forcing them to stand because they won't move their backpack or purse or iced coffee off the seat next to them. But there's a person who's even worse than that: the "lay downer," like this kid in the image below. SOURCE: TWITTER The image was tweeted out by @da_drought_3, who was just as offended by the fact he was taking up three seating spaces on the subway by probably everyone else in the car at that time. What she ended up documenting, however, will go down in the annals of commuting history forever. An unsung hero, out of nowhere, decided to sit down on his legs, and it became clear that the kid had no idea someone would step to him like that. SOURCE: TWITTER His mother (or what I'm assuming based on a video the twitter user took), the woman with the headphones sitting to his left, was blisfully unaware of her surroundings. I'd like to think she was pumping some 21 Savage and trying to forget the fact that she helped raise a space-wasting monster. Please, delight in the young man's facial reactions along with the rest of Twitter. SOURCE: TWITTER This is the look of a child whose entire world is crumbling down. This is the face of a boy who has never been told, 'No, you can't put your feet up there.' The man who sat on his leg knew there was no reasoning. No reckoning. He taught this young man a very valuable lesson that day, and it's painted on the kid's countenance. Simply put, it's beautiful. This is what justice looks like. SOURCE: TWITTER The woman beside him didn't even say anything to the young man, who we discover is named Joe, until she realizes that she missed her stop because of him. Was he supposed to be keeping his eye out for the stop while she listened to the musical stylings of whoever, blocking out the rest of the world with her sunglasses? The mortified look on his face in the video says it all, and Twitter just couldn't get enough of the justice. First, he gets schooled by a complete stranger who dressed like some kind of emotionless goth super hero, then, his mother. Or maybe she's his aunt or guardian or relative. Whoever the cheetah pants wearing woman was, she's not happy. more here https://www.distractify.com/p/rude-subway-kid-legs

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Amid record levels of consumer discontent with Hong Kong’s taxis and an industry-led, government-supported campaign against the ride-hailing service Uber, Hong Kong authorities have unveiled a new plan to improve point-to-point transportation in the city: make it more expensive. The government announced yesterday that it would be formally moving forward with a plan to introduce 600 “franchised taxis,” run by private operators, and charging higher fares, to meet “new demand for personalized and point-to-point public transport services of higher quality and with online hailing features.” The announcement goes on to say that the government itself will set and enforce service standards, penalizing franchisees who fail to comply. It did not, however, explain how the government would enforce something so nebulous as a “service level” when it’s currently unable to prevent cabbies from breaking the law outright on a near-daily basis. The South China Morning Post reports that the franchise taxi service is meant to increase competition in the sector — something the industry has fought against tooth and nail in the case of Uber — in the hopes that it will also bring about improved service among normal taxis. However, the city’s Competition Commission has already slammed the proposal in startlingly frank terms, questioning the very basis of the government’s rationale that consumers are clamoring for higher-priced cabs. “While there are likely to be some consumers less sensitive about the fare they pay, it makes no economic or common sense to assume they will demand higher fares,” it said. The government’s reasoning appears to be based on a survey that found that 9 percent of respondents would be willing to pay a higher fare for better service — which, if anything, sounds more like an expression of desperation at the current state of affairs than of an actual desire for pricier cabs. The commission went on to accuse the government of artificially setting prices for the new taxi services, which “is clearly not in the overall interest of consumers.” Indeed, the overall interest of consumers seems to have barely crossed the government’s mind. Complaints about taxis reached an all-time high last year, according to statistics released last month, more than doubling over the past 15 years to 11,000 in 2018, the SCMP reports. The taxi industry, meanwhile, sought to explain away the surge in dissatisfaction as the result of mere miscommunication between drivers and passengers. (And we guess it was just a miscommunication last week when a cabbie asked us for HK$200 for what would have likely been a HK$50 trip.) All of this, meanwhile, is playing out against the backdrop of the taxi industry’s rabid assault on its only major competition in decades, Uber, which is technically illegal under Hong Kong’s car-hire licensing laws, but which nonetheless enjoys broad public support. A survey commissioned by Uber and conducted by Hong Kong University found that 74 percent of respondents supported legalizing the service, while 64 percent agreed with the statement that “the government overprotects existing industries and vested interests.”

SINGAPORE - The Singapore Food Agency and fast-food chain McDonald's are investigating a customer's claim that his "Classic Angus Cheese" burger came with a not-so-classic ingredient which left him throwing up in the toilet. The customer, Mr Christopher Koh, told The Straits Times on Wednesday (April 17) that he bit into a piece of plastic while eating his burger from McDonald's Jurong Bowl outlet last week. He subsequently vomited and visited Jurong Polyclinic the next day, where he was given two days of medical leave. He has since lodged a police report. The police confirmed that a report was lodged. Mr Koh, 46, said that he had bought the $12.65 meal which included an iced latte from the branch at 1 Yuan Ching Road at about 6.25pm last Monday. "It was such a large piece of plastic, and it was completely melted onto the burger," said the hydraulic excavator operator. Photos provided to citizen journalism site Stomp show a sizeable piece of transparent plastic wedged into a burger being shown to staff at the outlet. In a video provided to The Straits Times, an audibly irate Mr Koh can be heard complaining that he was "not happy" with finding the plastic piece inside his food. The outlet refunded him and gave him a new burger. A McDonald's spokesman said it was aware of the incident and is currently in contact with the customer. "Upon being alerted, our quality assurance team took immediate action with further investigation," the spokesman said on Wednesday. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man-chews-on-plastic-allegedly-in-burger-lodges-police-report-mcdonalds-investigating

SINGAPORE - JTC Corporation has cordoned off an area near Seletar Aerospace Heights after a Grab delivery rider collided with an unmarked kerb and broke two bones in his right arm. The incident occurred around 4.30am on Tuesday morning, when 29-year-old Muhammad Iskandar Shah was riding his e-scooter home after finishing his deliveries. While making a right turn and crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing along Seletar Aerospace Heights, however, he failed to notice a kerb and crashed into it. Mr Iskandar told The Straits Times that the kerb was the same colour as the pavement, making it difficult to spot even though the front light on his e-scooter was turned on. Although he said he was travelling within speed limits at the time of the accident, the impact of the crash flung him off his e-scooter headfirst. He stuck out his arm to try and break his fall, but ended up landing hard on it instead. When he tried to pick himself up, he felt an intense pain in his right arm. He also noticed an odd lump along the side of his arm. This was in fact his bone pressing against the skin of his arm, which he would later learn he had broken. Mr Iskandar managed to contact his cousin, Mr Indra Khai Rezan, who rushed down to the scene and took Mr Iskandar to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. Mr Iskandar was subsequently given 36 days of medical leave. Though he worked for Grab on an ad-hoc basis, the accident has left him worried about the future as the job was his sole source of income. He lives with and is responsible for supporting his parents, who are in their 60s and unemployed. "I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills," he said. He added that he has qualifications in the logistics sector, but as the industry requires him to do heavy lifting, employers would likely not hire someone who had previously broken their arm. Mr Indra, 37, later uploaded photos of Mr Iskandar's injuries, as well as of the accident spot, on Facebook. "What if instead of (Mr Iskandar), someone else knocked into the kerb - for example, a handicapped person? The kerb should be painted black and white," he said, adding that he had contacted the Land Transport Authority (LTA) about it. ST understands, however, that area where the accident took place is managed by JTC Corporation and not LTA. JTC and the National Parks Board said in a joint statement that the accident site is part of the area where works for the Round Island Route are taking place, and they are investigating the matter together. Both organisations said they are sorry to hear of the incident. A Grab spokesman told ST that the company is in touch with Mr Iskandar and is supporting him with his insurance claims. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/grab-delivery-rider-breaks-arm-after-hitting-unmarked-kerb-jtc-investigating

SINGAPORE - The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) are investigating after five students from Prince George's Park House, a student residence, developed symptoms of gastroenteritis. This incident, which occurred on April 12, is the second one this month. On April 4, 22 students at Ridge View Residential College, another student residence at NUS, came down with similar symptoms. An NUS spokesman on Wednesday (April 17) said that the university conducted preliminary checks after being informed about the latest outbreak on Monday. It found that these students had consumed food from a stall at the air-conditioned canteen at Prince George's Park Residence. Some had also consumed food at off-campus dining outlets prior to falling ill. University staff subsequently inspected all the stalls in the canteen on Monday and suspended the food stall which the students had consumed food from for one week pending further investigation. As a precaution, all stalls in the canteen were also instructed to close early that day so that a thorough cleaning of the premises could be conducted. The spokesman added that NUS takes a serious view of food safety and is monitoring the situation closely. He said that regular hygiene audits are conducted for all dining facilities serving NUS' on-campus accommodations, as well as food and beverage outlets within the Kent Ridge and Bukit Timah campuses. In addition, on Wednesday, NUS initiated an independent audit of these dining areas, which is expected to be completed within a month. A spokesman for SFA said that as of noon on Wednesday, the five affected students had recovered. None of them were hospitalised. He added that gastroenteritis, which causes diarrhoea or vomiting, can be caused by viruses, bacteria or bacterial toxins. People can develop gastroenteritis through eating or drinking contaminated food or having direct contact with someone who is infected. Individuals who touch contaminated surfaces and then put their unwashed hands in their mouths can also fall ill with it. The spokesman said that it is important for people who are affected to rehydrate by drinking plenty of fluids, and seek medical attention if necessary. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/food-stall-suspended-nus-orders-audit-after-5-students-develop-gastroenteritis-symptoms-in

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SYDNEY: Physical activity feels good and it’s great for your health. It can reduce your risk of developing chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes, strengthen your bones, muscles and joints, and can even help with certain mental health conditions, such as depression. While exercise has clear benefits, it can cause problems if your love of working out crosses over into an addiction. If you contantly cancel activities with friends or family in favour of exercise – so you plan your life around your gym workouts – you might have a problem. If you exercise in spite of pain or injury, and feel obsessively guilty when you miss a session, it could be that you’re addicted to exercise. And it’s likely our increasingly image-focused culture may be partly to blame. Exercise addiction is not a clinically recognised mental disorder, but researchers have developed a variety of questionnaires and other tools to get an idea of its prevalence and who might be at risk. Around one in 200 people in the general population have an exercise addiction. But our new research shows among people who exercise regularly, factors including their attitudes towards exercise and perceptions of themselves mean more than one in ten could be at risk of becoming addicted. COMMITTED OR ADDICTED? The concept of exercise addiction is fairly novel and still requires more evidence to define its specific characteristics. Whether exercise becomes an addiction can be related to the amount and frequency of training, appropriate nutrition, and motivation for exercising. Over time, researchers have proposed several diagnostic criteria for primary exercise addiction. These include: Constant preoccupation with exercise, with significant withdrawal symptoms in the absence of exercise (mood swings, irritability and insomnia). This preoccupation causes clinically significant distress or impairment in one’s physical, social, occupational or other areas of functioning. This is also not better accounted for by another mental disorder (such as a means of losing weight or controlling calorie intake as part of an eating disorder). Secondary exercise addiction may come as part of another disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. EXERCISE ADDICTION Estimates of prevalence vary according to the population studied, the type of physical activity, the level of competition (whether participants are professional, amateur or recreational athletes), and the tools used to measure exercise addiction. For example, the prevalence of exercise addiction in the general population has been found to be around just 0.3 to 0.5 per cent (3 to 5 per 1,000 people). But on the more extreme end of the scale, recent research among elite Australian athletes classified 34 per cent as having an exercise addiction. Since exercise addiction is not an official mental health disorder and is not listed yet in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it’s difficult to know exactly how common it is. But even if we don’t know how many people are addicted to exercise, we know many people who exercise are at risk of becoming addicted. Our Keep Fit study, looked at 1,711 gym users across Europe. We found 11.7 per cent of the exercising population are at risk of exercise addiction. To measure this, we used what’s called the Exercise Addiction Inventory, as well as Rosenberg’s Self-esteem Scale and the Appearance Anxiety Inventory to measure related disorders. Participants who scored above certain markers on these scales were classified as “at risk”. #FITSPIRATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA Millions of images posted every day on social media promote a visual representation of “perfect” bodies – pictures of muscular, “ripped” men and slim, toned women. This “fitspirational” trend generates unrealistic expectations, often leaving the most vulnerable with a deep sense of personal dissatisfaction. This puts them at risk of adopting unhealthy strategies to reach their training goals. Such an environment is a fertile breeding ground for the development of exercise addiction, alongside other appearance-related disorders. An example is body dysmorphic disorder, a psychological disorder where a person becomes obsessed with imaginary defects in their appearance. In our study, those scoring highly on exercise addiction also reported increased image anxiety and low self-esteem. Some 38.5 per cent of overall participants were found to be at risk of body dysmorphic disorder, especially females (47 per cent). PERFORMANCE AND IMAGE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES Our study also showed exercise addiction was a strong predictor for the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs, especially among men. Some 39.8 per cent of respondents claimed to use a range of fitness-enhancing products, and this cohort scored three times higher on the exercise addiction scale. While sports supplements such as protein, vitamins and amino acids are considered relatively safe, the use of prescription drugs – without medical consultation in the vast majority of cases (96 per cent) – is more concerning. Our participants used steroids (5.9 per cent), diuretics (4.9 per cent), and growth hormones (1.8 per cent). The use of sibutramine (1.1 per cent), an appetite suppressant that has been withdrawn from most markets because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, was particularly alarming. Participants also used other illicit drugs, such as amphetamines (2.3 per cent). Although more research is needed, it’s possible people perceive these enhancement substances as acceptable and necessary in the pursuit of body and fitness ideals. At the same time, they’re likely to disregard the potential health harms associated with these products. IT'S GOOD TO BE FIT Don’t panic if you go to the gym every day to stay fit. That alone doesn’t mean you’re addicted to exercise. There’s also nothing wrong with incorporating some #fitspiration into your daily decisions to be active. But problems arise when the pursuit of these training goals starts taking over; when you start losing friends because you’re not engaging in social activities, or when you miss out on work opportunities. Essentially, if your workout schedule dictates your life, you may have a problem and need to seek help. For our part, further research, and discussions around officially classifying exercise addiction as a mental health disorder, will pave the way to better guide people who find themselves in this situation. Katinka van de Ven is research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Ornella Corazza is a reader in substance addictions at the University of Hertfordshire. A version of this commentary first appeared on The Conversation. Source: CNA/nr(sl)

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The era of folding smartphones is off to a rocky start. After debuting a $1,980 folding smartphone that unfurls into a tablet at Mobile World Congress (but not letting anyone actually touch it), Samsung finally let reviewers get their hands on its Galaxy Fold devices this week. It hasn't gone well. Within minutes of each other this afternoon, a slew of tech journalists and gadget reviewers who snagged a Galaxy Fold began reporting flickering or malfunctioning screens on various display panels after less than two days of use. Let's take a look at the greatest hits so far: The Verge's Dieter Bohn found a bulge in his OLED screen distorting the area around the Galaxy Fold's hinge. CNBC's Steve Kovach encountered a flickering, unusable screen on half of his unfolded device. Several users ran into problems after removing a protective layer of film on the devices. CNBC was not among them, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee both inadvertently removed the film—which appears deceptively easy to do—and thus rendered their devices functionally useless. Samsung purportedly instructed reviewers not to peel off the film. Yet for an almost $2,000 device to be laid waste by peeling back a thin layer that most consumers would take as a harmless screen protector, the speed at which the folding phones are breaking is laughable. And after the Note 7 fiasco, it's an unwelcome headache for Samsung. Plenty of other journalists have thus far reported no problems with their Galaxy Fold review units; PCMag did not encounter any problems during our hands-on demo. But we'll keep our eyes peeled for any more widespread malfunctions. Flexible displays may well be the next big thing in connected devices, but for now the technology still has a lot of kinks to iron out. https://www.pcmag.com/news/367849/samsungs-galaxy-fold-phones-are-already-breaking

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Here’s a shop in Ang Mo Kio to get your favourite 80s snacks and biscuits at wholesale prices. The shop name is called Cookies Talk and they are located in one of the ground floor shops at 625 Ang Mo Kio Ave 9, beside Yio Chu Kang Community Club. They are selling familiar old school snacks and biscuits with prices as low as $1 per pack. According to Singapore Atrium Sale who first spotted the shop: Inside, the shop is filled with tins that contain the snacks. Fish Ball and Potato snacks that look like wheels. Also: Here's how to enjoy 1-for-1 Pearly Taro Soya Milk from Mr Bean for only S$2.80 till May 14 Remember those crunchy durian-flavoured biscuits you just can’t stop eating? Or the Melt-in-your-mouth Milk Cookies. An assortment of branded cookies and biscuits from Khong Guan, Apollo and Julie’s. There’s even Yam Cookies up for grabs at $1.50 per 100g bag. So worth it. You have to go inside to discover the biscuit and cookie wonderland. Hope still got stock by the time we reach there. CookiesTalk Address: 625, Ang Mo Kio Ave 9 #01-116, Singapore 560625 (near YCK MRT Station) Opening Hours: 9.30am – 6.30pm from Mon – Sat (Closed on Sunday) H/T: All photos from Singapore Atrium Sale.