2015-02-27 Singapore Health

Food supplements crucial to reduce child malnutrition   
Reuters
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The addition of highly nutritious foods and supplements to the diets of poor mothers could help reduce child mortality and malnutrition in Africa and South Asia, food experts said on Thursday. With breastfeeding ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Science

GMA News   

Climate advocates stage mass action to 'welcome' Hollande   
GMA News
Environmental advocates, spearheaded by the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, stage a mass action at Mendiola near Malacañang on Feb. 26, 2015, to "welcome" French president François Hollande during his two-day, climate-change focused state ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Entertainment

Hindustan Times   

Madonna admits she has whiplash from cape fail   
New Zealand Herald
Madonna has got whiplash after she fell off the stage during her "nightmare" BRIT Awards performance. The 56-year-old star was yanked down a small flight of stairs when her dance troupe attempted to remove her huge cape during her performance of Living ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Sports

AsiaOne   

School basketball: Chung Cheng cagers reach B Division final the hard way   
AsiaOne
Chung Cheng point guard Dave Peter Ho (right) shoots as his opponent tries to unsettle him. Print. SINGAPORE - They were expected to beat Geylang Methodist Secondary School, but lost that game. They faced defeat once again against Bedok Green ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Technology

CBS Local   

FCC Votes In Favor Of Net Neutrality; Internet Activists Declare Victory   
CBS Local
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — Internet activists declared victory over the nation's big cable companies Thursday, after the Federal Communications Commission voted to impose the toughest rules yet on broadband service to prevent companies like Comcast, ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Business

AsiaOne   

Budget 2015: SMEs have lot to cheer about   
AsiaOne
Reflecting on Singapore's successes over the last 50 years, the Budget 2015 unveiled a strong platform for achieving sustainable future economic growth and providing greater assurance in terms of social security. This year's Budget heralded the second ...

2015-02-27 Singapore World

New York Post   

It's the ideology, stupid   
New York Post
We're talking about the sinister masked man who appears in ISIS videos of hostage beheadings — and who beheaded some of the victims himself. This week the man behind the mask was revealed to be a British national, Muhammad Emwazi. Contrary to the ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Southeast Asia

Bangkok Post   

Prayut to testify over 2010 red-shirt deaths   
Bangkok Post
Soldiers fire weapons at red shirt protesters during clashes in central Bangkok on April 10, 2010. (Reuters photo). - +. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says he is ready to testify in the malfeasance case brought by the National Anti-Corruption Commission ...

2015-02-27 Singapore Singapore

TODAYonline   

Tougher IPPT standards to come for gold and silver awards   
TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — There will be tougher standards for gold and silver awards for the new three-station Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) when it is fully rolled out from April, said the Defence Ministry (MINDEF) today (Feb 27). Announcing the standards ...