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SINGAPORE: Before the heavens opened to unleash a torrent on Sunday afternoon, Thailand let loose a red and blue storm of their own on Kazakhstan at the Asian Youth Games beach volleyball competition.
Both the boys' and girls' finals at Sentosa's Siloso Beach pitted Thais against Kazakhs, and the Southeast Asian nation took gold in both categories with dominating performances that won the crowd over.
Kitted out in red tops, the Thai girls' Aunchalee Yunsuwan and Prateep Kambut triumphed 21-14, 21-12 over Bakhtygul Samalikova and Lyubov Bogatu, who seemed cowered by their opponents' war-cries, which came after each point won.
SINGAPORE: While the inaugural Asian Youth Games is still in progress, the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2009 Asian Championships drew to a close at Suntec Singapore on Sunday evening.
Singapore finished a tied-third with Malaysia as both garnered a silver and a bronze in the three-day competition that saw national champions from 14 countries across Asia battle it out. Vietnam returned home as the WCG 2009 Asian champion with two golds out of three.
Vietnam's first gold came at the FIFA Soccer 2009 (PC) game, when To Trung Hieu took on South Korea's Lee Won Kuk with an aggregate score of 10-4.
SINGAPORE: More of Singapore's youths would volunteer, if their friends did so as well.
A survey by the National University of Singapore's NUS Volunteer Network and the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy found that more than seven in 10 of the 3,143 undergraduates surveyed would take part in volunteering opportunities in NUS if more friends took part too.
Most volunteers also usually volunteer with friends, or with fellow volunteers they meet through the activity.
SINGAPORE: English-educated Nicholas Soh's curiosity in Chinese history was piqued after watching his then-primary school daughter study Chinese proverbs.
Fast-forward 20 years, and Mr Soh, now 57, beat competitors such as a Chinese-language teacher and a Chinese magazine editor, to take home the grand prize of more than S$10,000 from The Chinese Challenge Grand Final television show. The prize included S$5,000 worth of NTUC vouchers and S$4,000 cash.
The two-hour challenge, which is part of this year's Speak Mandarin Campaign, aired on MediaCorp's Channel 8 on Sunday night. It was launched on March 30 with a 12-week online quiz to showcase Chinese language and culture. Six of the top 100 contestants were selected for Sunday's final. A total of 15,000 people participated online.
SINGAPORE: Masrezwan Masturi celebrated his first home appearance in Bedok Stadium for the S.League season with a goal as his team overcame Balestier Khalsa 2-0.
Captain Noor Ali opened the scoring for Geylang United at the 5th minute before Masrezwan added another at the stroke of half time, as the Eagles picked up their first S.League win in over a month.
On a waterlogged pitch which saw the kickoff delayed by almost 25 minutes due to wet weather, Masrezwan, who had just recovered from an anterior cruciate ligament injury which kept him away from action for nearly ten months, had the first shot of the game as he sent the ball over the bar.
SINGAPORE: Since the discovery of an H1N1 flu cluster at a boarding school here, other schools with boarding facilities have taken steps to minimise the spread of the virus.
At Dunman High School, 30 boarders who have been quarantined due to the H1N1 flu are housed in isolation rooms. Another 20 have been moved to a separate hostel, as there is a lack of space at its Tanjong Rhu campus.
Principal of Dunman High School, Sng Chern Wei, said: "By providing services like meal services, laundry services and by having washing facilities inside the hostel quarantine rooms, they need not step outside the hostel quarantine rooms at all throughout the seven days.”
SINGAPORE: Singapore came close to winning a bronze in table tennis on Sunday.
But Isabelle Li lost in the quarter-finals of the girls' singles event.
Li, who had helped Singapore win a bronze in the mixed table tennis team event, was hoping for a second bronze when she took on North Korea's Kim Song I.
SINGAPORE: Up to 90 per cent of the patients at the Singapore General Hospital's (SGH’s) Pain Management Centre are seeking treatment for back and shoulder pain. And the hospital has come up with a new method for treating such ailments.
Long hours at work can lead to chronic pain, but those aches in the legs and arms may be symptoms of a bigger problem.
Doctors say the most common cause of such symptoms is pressure on the nerves in the spine and neck. They say this often leads to shooting pain felt in the arms and lower back, and may even affect the legs.
SINGAPORE: Singapore has confirmed 52 new cases of H1N1 flu, bringing the total to 1,055 so far. Investigations are ongoing for these 52 cases.
Of the 69 cases investigated on Sunday, 50 were local cases while 19 were imported ones.
Of the cumulative number of 1,003 cases investigated thus far, 591 were local cases and 412 were imported ones.
SINGAPORE: Singapore added a fifth gold medal to its tally at the Asian Youth Games on Sunday.
The latest gold came from sailing, courtesy of 15-year-old Sports School student, Darren Choy.
Getting off to a good start from race one, Choy maintained his lead for 9 races in the Boys' Byte CII Class event.
SINGAPORE: Passengers of an Air India Express flight have been made to wait for nearly 15 hours before flying off to their destination.
Flight IX681 to Tiruchirappalli and Chennai was supposed to take off at 6.30am on Sunday from Changi Airport Terminal 2.
But passengers were only allowed to board the plane at 8.30am, according to a MediaCorp hotline caller, Mr Arasu, who is one of the affected passengers.
SINGAPORE: Law Minister K Shanmugam has said Singapore will not decriminalise gay sex but the courts have the power to decide how the law, Section 377, is applied. Section 377A of the Penal Code deems sex between men a crime.
A recent ruling by the New Delhi High Court legalising gay sex between consenting adults in India raised questions on whether Singapore might go the same way. Both countries share the same Penal Code, inherited from the colonial British.
In a dialogue with Punggol residents on Sunday, Mr Shanmugam said Section 377 will remain as homosexuality is still not accepted by most Singaporeans.
SINGAPORE: Singapore's swimmers won one gold, one silver and one bronze at the Asian Youth Games on Sunday.
Quah Ting Wen and Amanda Lim Xing Qi led a 1-2 finish in the 50-metre freestyle at the Singapore Sports School. The quartet of Rainer Ng, Lionel Khoo, Mohd Kamal Dzulhali and Clement Lim won the bronze in the boys' 4x100m medley relay.
Quah had a great start to the 50m freestyle race, and only team-mate Amanda Lim Xing Qi was in contention for the title after the half-way mark. But Quah emerged the winner, finishing in 25.43 seconds, far ahead of Amanda who clocked 25.68 seconds. Stephanie Au Hoi Shun of Hong Kong was third at 26.22 seconds.
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Singapore won't repeal homosexual law