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Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009


Saving sister's life


He readily offers his liver for transplant; both are out of hospital and well
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent

Mr Timothy Chua with his sister Hwee Sian and transplant surgeon Jeyaraj Prema Raj at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, after the surgery in April that saw her receive part of her brother's liver. Despite the risks to his health, Mr Chua did not hesitate to be a donor.

It started as a case of jaundice, in late March. Within a week, Madam Chua Hwee Sian, 43, started slipping into a coma.


Tests showed that the accountant's liver was severely damaged.


On April 4, liver expert Dr Lui Hock Foong and transplant surgeon Dr Jeyaraj Prema Raj were called in.


They told her husband, Mr Ng Aik Sun, that her only hope was to get a liver transplant.


But her liver failed completely within a day and she had to be put on dialysis, which can sustain a patient for just two to three days, unlike for kidney failure where regular dialysis lets patients live for years.


Saving people's life was always my biggest dream. That is why my ambition is to be a doctor. Life is precious because we only have ONE life. We should cherish it by taking care of ourselves. I hope that one day, i would get to meet Mr Timothy Chua and thank him for saving his sister's life and hope to be just like him by donating an organ. :)


Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

NZ man cleared of murder

WELLINGTON - A NEW Zealand man was on Friday found not guilty of murdering five members of his family in a retrial described by his lawyer as the most extraordinary case in the country's history.

David Bain, 37, was in tears after being found not guilty of murdering his parents, two sisters and a brother in their home in the southern city of Dunedin in a case which has gripped New Zealand for the last decade and a half.

Bain spent 12 years in prison after first being found guilty in 1995 of shooting his family with a rifle, but he was released in 2007 after the Privy Council in London said there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice.

The defence had argued the family was killed by David's father Robin Bain, who they say turned the rifle on himself after killing the rest of the family while David was out delivering newspapers.
During the trial witnesses said David's sister Laniet had told them she had been having an incestuous relationship with her father and was preparing to tell the rest of the family.

An emotional and exhausted Bain found it difficult to speak to the media and supporters after the verdict, but was quick to praise former All Black Joe Karam who led the fight to free him.

'All I can say is that without Joe and his solid strength, without the love of the people that have supported me since day one, I wouldn't have made it through this far,' Bain told cheering supporters.

'Joe has been there through everything for me.'


I still do not understand why some people like to kill people. My father says that it is because there is something wrong with their mind. I wonder if that is true. They know very clearly that murdering is an offence but they still committed it. I hope that they would wake up one day and turn over a new leaf.


Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

Flu death toll rises to 106

MEXICO CITY - MEXICO'S swine flu death toll rose by three to 106, the health ministry said on Thursday, adding that the number of confirmed infections rose to 5,611.

Of the dead to date, 52.8 per cent were women between the ages of 20 and 54, officials said.

All of Mexico's 32 states have registered swine flu cases, with most in the sprawling capital Mexico City.

More than 70 per cent of the deceased were aged between 20 and 54 years, the health ministry said in an earlier statement.

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Monday that the country at the epicenter of the global epidemic might lift its swine flu alert in mid-June, insisting the virus was on the wane.

A(H1N1) flu has now spread to 66 countries with 19,273 people known to have been infected since the disease was first uncovered in April, according to the most recent data from the World Health Organization out on Wednesday.

The WHO is now only updating its tally three times a week, rather than daily.


H1Ni is getting worser and worser day by day... 19273 people are infected! Singapore has also confirmed that many are infected. HWS is very serious about the H1N1 flu. We have been taking our temperatures to be sure that everyone is healthy. I hope that thre will not be anymore people being infected. Keep yourself healthy! :)


Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

US boy dies of plague

ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico) - AN 8-YEAR-OLD New Mexico boy has died and his 10-year-old sister was hospitalised after both contracted bubonic plague, the first recorded human plague cases in the United States so far this year.

New Mexico health officials did not immediately say on Thursday how the brother and sister contracted the infectious disease, but they are conducting an investigation at the family's residence to determine if there is any risk to other people.

Plague is generally transmitted to humans through the bites of infected fleas, but also can be transmitted by direct contact with infected animals, including rodents, rabbits and pets.

Symptoms of the bubonic form of the plague in humans include fever, chills, headaches, vomiting, diarrhoea and swollen lymph nodes in the groin, armpit or neck areas. Pneumonic plague, which is an infection of the lungs, can include severe cough, difficulty breathing and spitting blood.

The Health Department, citing privacy concerns, would not release the name of the siblings or give a location for their home, other than saying it was in Santa Fe County. Spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer said the boy died in the last couple of days but she declined to be more specific.

Fleas collected from the area are being sent to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for testing. Health workers also canvassed the neighbourhood to tell other residents that plague had been confirmed in the area.

The CDC says an average of 10 to 15 persons contract the plague each year in the United States. Modern antibiotics are an effective treatment.

Another life lost...This is the first time that i knew about plague. Plague is very dangerous. When infected with plague, there are many symptoms as stated above. Now that i know about plague, i will NEVER get close to any rodents, rabbits and pets. Take care, everyone!



Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

AIR FRANCE CRASH - Crash mystery deepens

FERNANDO DE NORONHA (Brazil) - THE mystery surrounding the crash of an Air France plane off the coast of Brazil deepened on Friday after Brazilian officials said items they had pulled from the sea were not in fact debris from the downed Airbus.

The search by ships for wreckage from Air France flight AF 477, which came down early Monday as it was flying from Rio to Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on board, continued in a zone where confirmed items from the plane had been spotted earlier in the week.

'Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered,' Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, director of Brazilian air traffic control, told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife late on Thursday.

That contradicted a statement Cardoso made earlier Thursday when he said a palette and two buoys plucked from the Atlantic by navy crews were the first pieces of the Air France crash.

In fact, Cardoso admitted later, they were nothing more than sea 'trash,' probably from a ship, as was a big oil patch originally described as a fuel slick from the French jet.

Several Brazilian navy vessels are looking for debris from the plane, including a seat and a big chunk of what appeared to be fuselage, sighted by air force aircraft on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Defense Minister Nelson Jobim has said there was 'no doubt' that the debris spotted from the air came from flight AF 477, and that they marked the area close to where the plane hit the ocean.

The French government, which is in charge of the probe into the crash, has sent investigators to Brazil to inspect any debris that could be recovered from the zone, around 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) off-shore, and take them back to France.

Speculation over what caused the accident has ranged from a massive, lightning-packed storm in the area at the time, to turbulence, to pilot error or a combination of factors.


I feel SO sorry for the people on the plane. Innocoent lives are always killed... Is it because they are unlucky, or is it that God is unfair? Even if the plane is found, the passengers might have died already as it has been many days since they had food to eat.


Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

11 bodies found in car

MEXICO CITY - MEXICAN police found 11 bodies inside an abandoned car in the border state of Sonora on Thursday, and prosecutors attributed the killings to drug traffickers battling for control of the region.

Sonora's state prosecutors said in a statement that the men had been shot to death and nine of them had their legs and arms cut off.

They were found inside a sport utility vehicle, which had been stolen in neighbouring Arizona, on a road between the towns of Caborca and Sonoyta.

A threatening message was left with the bodies but prosecutors didn't say what the message said.

Prosecutors said the bodies have not been identified and the killings are linked to a fight between local drug traffickers and another group trying to move in.

Police are investigating whether the killings are tied to an attack on the village of Plutarco Elias Calles where four people were abducted and assailants opened fire on the police station Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, federal police said Thursday they have captured two of 53 inmates who escaped from a prison in northern Mexico last month as its guards apparently stood by.

Marcos Espinoza and Osvaldo Garcia were detained Wednesday in Mexico's central state of Hidalgo along with six alleged members of the Zetas, a gang of hit men tied to the Gulf cartel, federal police intelligence coordinator Luis Cardenas told reporters.

Security camera footage shows that guards at the Cieneguillas prison in Zacatecas state stood by as an armed gang walked out with the 53 inmates on May 16. About a dozen of the fugitives are drug cartel suspects.

The prison director and all 44 guards on duty have been jailed pending an investigation into their possible complicity. Mexican drug gangs often buy off or blackmail guards and police.


Some people are unbelivable, especially prisoners. They could escape from a prison just like Mas Selamat. I wonder if there were guards when the prisoners escaped as there should be. Mas Selamat has been caught and i hope the other 53 prisoners who escaped would be caught soon.


Friday, June 05, 2009

June 5, 2009

Man killed wife on honeymoon

SYDNEY - AN AMERICAN salesman pleaded guilty Friday to the manslaughter of his bride while scuba diving on their honeymoon on Australia's Great Barrier Reef more than five years ago.

Bubble wrap salesman David Gabriel Watson, known as Gabe, admitted to the charge during a court hearing in the eastern city of Brisbane in connection with the October 2003 death of his new wife Christina, 26.

Ms Watson, 32, was on honeymoon with his new wife when she drowned during their diving trip at a shipwreck off the city of Townsville 11 days after their wedding in the United States.

A dive instructor found novice scuba diver Ms Tina Watson lying on the bottom of the ocean after Gabe, an experienced diver trained in rescuing panicked divers, had surfaced.

An inquest into her death heard earlier that a fellow diver saw Gabe Watson bear-hugging his wife underwater before he re-surfaced while she sank to the ocean floor.

In mid-2008 a coroner found it was likely Watson killed his wife by holding her underwater and turning off her air supply.

He was later charged with murder but told the court he would plead guilty to manslaughter. Prosecutor Brendan Campbell accepted the plea.

Mr Campbell told the court the manslaughter plea had been accepted on the basis that Watson had failed in his duty as her dive buddy by failing to give her emergency oxygen when she needed it.

Watson allowed Ms Tina to sink to the ocean floor without making any serious attempt to rescue her and also failed to inflate her buoyancy vest or remove weights from her belt to allow her to surface, Mr Campbell said.

Watson told police his new wife had knocked his mask off and then sank too quickly for him to save her. Prosecutors rejected that argument saying it would not have been possible for her to have sunk so rapidly.

Prosecutors sought a five-year jail term for Watson, with the possibility of parole after 18 months. He was due to be sentenced later Friday.



I feel that Mr Watson is unreasonable because if he just married Ms Tina, why would he kill her?At first, when i read this article, i could not accept that Mr Watson killed Ms Tina on their honeymoon but then, i thought of some possible reasons:

1) They just fought over something
2) Ms Tina did something and hurt Mr Watson
3)Mr Watson hates Ms Tina for some unknown reasons


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