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Morning Digest, Dec 17

CPR instructor exposed woman’s breasts to male colleagues in the class, feels humiliated, asks if she should quit her job

 

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Singapore — A woman wrote to the NUS Whispers Facebook page on Tuesday (Dec 14) wondering if she should quit her newly-acquired job as an event’s organiser after her firm had her attend a CPR+AED course with three other new hires.

The woman wrote that toward the end of the session, “the male instructor wanted to demonstrate how males can perform CPR and AED on females. I was 1 of only 3 girls present out of the 15 people in the class so he selected me.”

Read more here.


 

Netizens starting to say, Committee of Privileges hearing: ‘Enough, lah!’

 

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Singapore  — In the beginning, it was so new and compelling. That’s when Raeesah Khan was being questioned by Parliament’s Committee of Privileges.

The committee, COP for short, had called up the former Workers’ Party MP after she admitted lying to Parliament in a speech on Aug 3, and subsequently.

Read more here.


 

Gilbert Goh ‘prefers jail to paying fine’ for protest against flights from India

 

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Singapore — Activist Gilbert Goh claims he was not being racist when he staged a protest calling for flights from India to be banned.

He had held up a sign to this effect when he stood outside the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) building earlier this year. For this protest, he was charged on Wednesday with taking part in a public assembly without a permit.

Read more here.


 

OMICRON: Fully vaccinated couple who dined at 4 restaurants among 3 new cases preliminarily positive for the variant

 

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Singapore — The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that three more Covid-19 cases have tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron variant, including a couple who dined at four restaurants.

In a press release on Wednesday (Dec 15), MOH said all three cases are fully vaccinated, with mild or no symptoms.

Read more here.


Jurong’s stray cats lose their best friend who cared for them for 25 years, cat lovers pay tribute to her

 

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Photo: FB screengrab/Siau Li Chao

Singapore — Cat lovers are paying tribute to a woman who died recently after a quarter-century of dedicating herself to caring for stray cats in Jurong.

Madam Tan Chen Tai, 75, was one of the selfless community cat caretakers who visited her furry friends every day and inspired others to follow in her footsteps. She would walk a distance equivalent to about six bus stops to attend to the strays.

Read more here.


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