1. "ISIS shows off 80 year old militant in propaganda video - AsiaOne Jun 06, 2015"
How LOW can you go to achieve your objective? Enough said!!
2. "Efforts in place to locate missing students, teachers: Heng Swee Keat - CNA 06 June 2015
SINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Saturday (Jun 6) that efforts are in place to locate the remaining students and teachers unaccounted for after an earthquake struck near Mount Kinabalu on Friday.
Mr Heng said that a team of Ministry of Education officials landed in Kota Kinabalu early Saturday afternoon and operations are in "full swing" to locate the children and teachers missing. Mr Heng, who was speaking at Changi Airport, where family members were being briefed on the situation, added that the team is in touch with Malaysian authorities.
A total of 29 students and eight teachers were on a leadership trekking trip to Mount Kinabalu. Nineteen students and two teachers, affected by the earthquake in Sabah on Friday, arrived in Singapore at around 3pm.
Mr Heng also confirmed that one girl had died from the accident and her parents had been informed. Additionally, a boy is receiving medical treatment in hospital.
"Until we ascertain the facts, I appreciate that we give the family privacy. It is a very difficult time for everyone and I hope that every Singaporean will continue to support all the affected family members. We will do our utmost, everything we can to assist them and provide support," Mr Heng said.
Many former students from the school also turned up in their Kota Kinabalu t-shirts to support those affected by the disaster."
It happened far away from Singapore YET it affected folks in Singapore as their kids and kin were in Mount KK!!
Lessons for me are:
1. it is a natural disaster. Nobody could have anticipated this;
2. some netizens were questioning the need for 12-year olds to be on such an adventurous Leadership trip might be jumping the gun as the priority is to pray, for those who are religious, and hope for the safety of all the kids and the teachers. The discussion about if the trip should had been made is really irrelevant for now. The fact that many alumni who turned up in the KK-Trip T-Shirt showed that it had been done with no safety issue and they obviously believed they had benefited from such a trip;
3. it is great to see that MOE and the schools are engaging professional help for the returning kids and teachers as it must be traumatic to witness rocks falling on your classmates and you cannot do anything to help them! Hopefully the counsellors can heal any psychological traumas and hurt for those affected. They are still very young and deserve every help to move them on!
I hope the missing kids and the teachers are safe and will be found soon.
How LOW can you go to achieve your objective? Enough said!!
2. "Efforts in place to locate missing students, teachers: Heng Swee Keat - CNA 06 June 2015
SINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Saturday (Jun 6) that efforts are in place to locate the remaining students and teachers unaccounted for after an earthquake struck near Mount Kinabalu on Friday.
Mr Heng said that a team of Ministry of Education officials landed in Kota Kinabalu early Saturday afternoon and operations are in "full swing" to locate the children and teachers missing. Mr Heng, who was speaking at Changi Airport, where family members were being briefed on the situation, added that the team is in touch with Malaysian authorities.
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A total of 29 students and eight teachers were on a leadership trekking trip to Mount Kinabalu. Nineteen students and two teachers, affected by the earthquake in Sabah on Friday, arrived in Singapore at around 3pm.
Mr Heng also confirmed that one girl had died from the accident and her parents had been informed. Additionally, a boy is receiving medical treatment in hospital.
"Until we ascertain the facts, I appreciate that we give the family privacy. It is a very difficult time for everyone and I hope that every Singaporean will continue to support all the affected family members. We will do our utmost, everything we can to assist them and provide support," Mr Heng said.
Many former students from the school also turned up in their Kota Kinabalu t-shirts to support those affected by the disaster."
It happened far away from Singapore YET it affected folks in Singapore as their kids and kin were in Mount KK!!
Lessons for me are:
1. it is a natural disaster. Nobody could have anticipated this;
2. some netizens were questioning the need for 12-year olds to be on such an adventurous Leadership trip might be jumping the gun as the priority is to pray, for those who are religious, and hope for the safety of all the kids and the teachers. The discussion about if the trip should had been made is really irrelevant for now. The fact that many alumni who turned up in the KK-Trip T-Shirt showed that it had been done with no safety issue and they obviously believed they had benefited from such a trip;
3. it is great to see that MOE and the schools are engaging professional help for the returning kids and teachers as it must be traumatic to witness rocks falling on your classmates and you cannot do anything to help them! Hopefully the counsellors can heal any psychological traumas and hurt for those affected. They are still very young and deserve every help to move them on!
I hope the missing kids and the teachers are safe and will be found soon.
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