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A 58-year-old hiker from Singapore went missing for three days in a mountain range in New York recently. No contact for three days Speaking to news outlet Adirondack Daily Enterprise, forest rangers from the New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said the hiker lived in Singapore, but was from Ireland originally. Besides mentioning that he was a college professor who had left his job recently, the rangers declined to name the man and provide more details that can lead to his identification to protect his identity, Times Union reported. The man's plan for a week The man had planned to spend a week in the Adirondacks, which is in Essex County, New Jersey, a four-hour drive from New York. Image from Visit Adirondacks website. He had given his wife a rough itinerary and kept in constant contact with her through mobile messaging application WhatsApp and mobile fitness tracking application Strava. However, contact dropped off a week into the man's expedition. The couple's last form of communication was on the evening of Jun. 19, the day the man said he was going to hike the range of mountains in the Dix Range. 11-men search and rescue effort His wife alerted American authorities on Jun. 22, after three days of not having contact. Two DEC forest rangers began their search efforts at around 9am on the same day. Nine more rangers joined in the search efforts on the ground, while officers from the New York State Police assisted in a helicopter from above, according to DCE's Jun. 28 press release. Helicopter search. Image from DEC website. Through interviews with other hikers, rangers deduced that the man had likely gone off trail. Many of the hikers who chanced upon the man noted that he looked visibly "whooped", reported Adirondack Daily Enterprise. "One of the most brutal swamps you could get stuck in" Another forest ranger Jason Scott found the man roughly two miles (3.2km) from the trail in the south side of the Dix Pond swamp at about 2:50pm on Jun. 22. Having been stranded in the swamp for the past three days, the man's clothes were "tattered", his boots were falling apart and he had battle scars from trashing through the trees. Times Union reported that the exposed part of the man's skin was covered in bug bites from the black flies that had began to feast on him. He also had hypothermia due to his prolonged exposure to the unforgiving wet and cold weather conditions. Forest rangers who were familiar with the area described the swamp as “one of the most brutal swamps you could get stuck in" and added: “You wouldn’t want to be in there three minutes, never mind three days.” Would not have made it through the night Over the course of the three days, the man rationed his food and drank swamp water to survive. However, this was still not enough as he started hallucinating. He told rangers that he saw buildings, spoke to people and followed trail markers, all of which were non-existent and merely a figment of his imagination while he was wading in the swamp. Adirondack Park. Image by Katy Littlefield/Unsplash. According to Adirondack Daily Enterprise, rangers refer to this mental state as "bonk", where the person has been so deprived of food and water that his or her brain is unable to function properly. While he managed to get brief sleep while in the swamp, he was beyond exhausted and he confessed that he would not have been able to “make it through the night” if the forest ranger did not find and rescue him. Never again The man was ready to drive off as soon as he changed out of his wet clothes, but he remained under the watchful eye of forest rangers who made sure to feed him and give him water so that he was in a fit condition to drive. The rangers and paramedics released him after they gave him a clean bill of health, and they said the man was eager to check into a hotel and get home. The man swore to never visit Dix Range again, according to a ranger who quoted him: "He told his wife that he was never going to hike that mountain range again." Mothership has contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out more about the incident. https://mothership.sg/2022/07/singapore-man-new-york-swamp/

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A woman named Chow Wai-yin, aged 23, was found dead with multiple stabs and cut wounds in one of the rooms in Kowloon West's Ritz Carlton. According to Hong Kong media on.cc, Chow, a yoga instructor, was discovered in the room hours after her mother had reported her missing after she couldn't be contacted. The police located her former boyfriend, Lo, 28, who claimed he did not know where she was. However, officers later found security camera footage of Chow leaving her flat with Lo. According to media reports, Lo had gone to the police station with his lawyer later that day. He was then reported to have handed them the hotel keys before maintaining his silence. The police found signs of a fight and blood in the hotel room. She had been found with over 30 knife wounds. Chow was found in the bathtub submerged in water. According to SCMP, the police laid a holding charge of murder against a 28-year-old man suspected of killing his former girlfriend at a hotel. https://mothership.sg/2022/07/yoga-instructor-23-found-dead-in-bathtub-of-5-star-hotel-ex-boyfriend-arrested/

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SINGAPORE - Researchers at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) have found a strong link between pupils' socio-economic status and their academic performance. In 2019, they analysed data from 875 Primary 6 pupils enrolled in Malay/Muslim self-help group Yayasan Mendaki's tuition scheme and used cluster analysis to group the pupils into two blocs. Cluster analysis is a process which groups subjects with similar traits and characteristics together to form "clusters". The researchers found that the pupils fell into two clusters, with pupils in the first having better PSLE scores, and pupils in the second doing worse. Pupils in the first group also tended to be of a relatively higher socio-economic status, while those with indicators related to having a lower socio-economic platform tended to perform worse. Some of the indicators of socio-economic status that the researchers used were the type of residence, whether or not the pupil lived in a rental block, and the household's per person income. An extension of this pilot study was conducted three years later, also by SUSS, looking at 2,541 primary-level pupils. The pupils fell into three clusters, whose characteristics followed those identified in the first study. Pupils in the first cluster had a higher household per capita income, a lower rate of living in rental housing and a smaller household size. They also did better in literacy and numeracy. Pupils in the second cluster were in the middle in terms of socio-economic status and were also in the middle in terms of academic performance, while those in the third cluster skewed towards a lower socio-economic status and had the worst grades. Link between grades and family finances A pilot study by Mendaki and the Singapore University of Social Sciences looking at students in the Mendaki Tuition Scheme found a strong association between their academic performance in PSLE and their socio-economic background. Table with 3 columns and 7 rows. Currently displaying rows 1 to 7. Higher proportion of high performers’ families Higher proportion of low performers’ families Main applicant (usually a parent) Married Unmarried Household sizes Smaller Larger Children in the Mendaki Tuition Scheme within the household Fewer More Income distribution and mean Higher Lower Housing Non-rental Rental Size of housing Larger Smaller Table: STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS Researchers said this study provides increasing evidence of the link between lower socio-economic status and lower academic achievement. The paper said: "The findings of this study indicate clearly that the issue of the Malay community's underperformance goes beyond school support, with social and income inequalities affecting academic outcomes." Associate Professor Sylvia Chong, who was the principal investigator in both studies, said they provide a baseline for future research. She said: "A longitudinal study - which looks at the same variables over a longer period of time - would be very useful for Mendaki moving forward." Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Defence Zaqy Mohamad, who is deputy chairman of Mendaki, said the findings would help Mendaki make data-driven and informed decisions. He said: "We have better capabilities now to use data to run our programmes, launch new programmes, and fill up the gaps of how we can help the community." https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/study-by-suss-mendaki-finds-strong-link-between-psle-grades-and-socio-economic-status

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