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By Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 05 July 2009 1459 hrs 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, 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.” During this period, the students may also attend classes online. Large-scale... [read full story]
In the form of hacked e mails and documents: The UK-based Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU), at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is reported to have {suffered} a security breach which has resulted in many confidential...
Catholic nuns look up at a poster of Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas, not seen, after it was unveiled during her beatification mass at the Church of the Annunciation in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth, Sunday, Nov. 22,...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said. Abdelli Faghoul and Terari...
Nov. 22 (UPI) -- An Afghanistan prison warden has contradicted claims of prisoner abuse made last week by a Canadian diplomat, Canwest News Service reported Sunday. Chief warden Col. Abdullah Bawar of Sarpoza Prison in Kandahar...
