Court grants permission for City Harvest member to travel overseas

SINGAPORE: The Subordinate Courts has granted permission for a senior member of City Harvest Church to travel overseas.Chew Eng Han, an investment manager for the church, made the application in a pre-trial conference on Thursday.In August, he had also applied for and was granted permission to go overseas. His bail remains at S$1 million. Chew will be back in court on 10 January next year....

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My Best Tech Gift Ever: Beatles catalog on a USB key

This USB key brimming with Beatles songs made CNET editor Dan Ackerman very happy.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)Every day this week, a different CNET writer or editor will recall a tech or geek-centric present that left a mark. Read past stories by Eric Mack, Jeff Sparkman, and Jay Greene, and look for another installment tomorrow at midnight PT.Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by this stuff every day,...

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A 2020 Rover Return to Mars?

NASA is so delighted with Curiosity's Mars mission that the agency wants to do it all again in 2020, with the possibility of identifying and storing some rocks for a future sample return to Earth.The formal announcement, made at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting, represents a triumph for the NASA Mars program, which had fallen on hard times due to steep budget cuts....

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Guatemala Could Deport McAfee to Belize

Software anti virus pioneer John McAfee is in the process of being deported to Belize after he was arrested in Guatemala for entering the country illegally, his attorney told ABC News early Thursday.ABC News has learned that John McAfee is scheduled to be deported to Belize later this morning. But a judge could stay the ruling if it is determined McAfee's life is threatened...

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When is a baby too premature to save?

It was never easy, but trying to decide whether to save extremely premature babies just got harder. A study called EPICure compared the fates of babies born 22 to 26 weeks into pregnancy in the UK in 1995 with similar babies born in 2006. In...

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New framework to improve safety of working at heights to be launched

SINGAPORE: New guidelines to improve the safety of working at heights will be launched early next year.Co-developed by the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council and Manpower Ministry (MOM), it is the first safety and health competency framework developed in Singapore, for a specific area of work.Working at heights is the leading cause of workplace death.More than 100 workers have died...

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Dropbox plans Windows 8 touch support

Aditya Agarwal, Dropbox's vice president of engineering(Credit:Stephen Shankland/CNET)PARIS -- Dropbox plans to launch a version of its software that will letWindows 8 customers use the file-sharing service on the Microsoft's new operating system."We are going to be launching our client app for Windows 8," said Aditya Agarwal, Dropbox's vice president of engineering, speaking at the LeWeb conference...

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Scientific Results From Challenger Deep

Jane J. Lee The spotlight is shining once again on the deepest ecosystems in the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (map) and the New Britain Trench near Papua New Guinea. At a presentation today at the American Geophysical Union's conference in San Francisco, attendees got a glimpse into these mysterious ecosystems nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) down, the former visited by filmmaker...

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Subway Push Murder Suspect Implicated Self: Police

A suspect believed to be responsible for throwing a man into the path of an oncoming New York City subway train who was taken into custody today has made statements implicating himself, police said.According to Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne, the suspect has been questioned by police since at least early afternoon and while the suspect is in police custody,...

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Green shoots are growing in oil-rich Texas

Continue reading page |1 |2 Texas has a reputation as the fossil fuel and climate change denial capital of the US, but things are quietly changing CHRISTINA ESCOBAR cast a nervous eye at the spiral of smoke on the horizon as she set off to buy groceries. By the time she returned an hour later the police...

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