Best of our wild blogs: 8 Jul 09

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12 Jul (Sun): FREE Drop-off and Collection of IT equipment at the Really Really Free Market on facebook Massive Ex Northstar VII on Sentosa...

Idyllic getaways at home

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Lee Siew Hua, Straits Times 8 Jul 09 on AsiaOne It is so very crowded in microscopic Singapore. I often feel like escaping for a few hours. ...

Singapore is 10th most expensive city for expats

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Mercer survey also lists S'pore as fifth most expensive in Asia-Pacific Teh Shi Ning, Business Times 8 Jul 09; SINGAPORE has become the...

When disasters can help development

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Euston Quah & Suman Kumari Sharma, Straits Times 8 Jul 09; DISASTER events cause losses in infrastructure, physical injuries and fatali...

US$2.5m donation to help keep Straits of Malacca safe

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Vincent Wee, Business Times 8 Jul 09; (SINGAPORE) Safety, security and the environment in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore will be boos...

Another case of malaria reported

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Eighth case, a foreign worker, on Jurong Island brings total infections since May to 22 Salma Khalik, Straits Times 8 Jul 09; MALARIA is st...

Shouldn't we pay less for consuming water?

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Straits Times Forum 8 Jul 09; LAST Thursday's report, ' Forget bottled water, tap water as good as it gets ' by Professor Tommy...

Australian town set to ban bottled water

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Yahoo News 8 Jul 09; SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian town is set to ban bottled water over concerns about its environmental impact, in what is...

Reef in the Pacific bounces back from injury

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James Cook University, ScienceAlert 8 Jul 09; Hope some of the world’s corals may be able to escape destruction under climate change has em...

Fishy tale: one man's fight to save tuna

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Sydney Morning Herald 7 Jul 09; Hagen Stehr was at home in Adelaide, on March 12 when his company's chief scientist called with news th...

New Long-Tailed Monkey Discovered in Amazon

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livescience.com 7 Jul 09; A new monkey subspecies with quite a long tail has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil. Th...

Aquatic Asian mousedeer and ancient whales

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Matt Walker, BBC News 7 Jul 09; If you startled a deer, you might not expect it to jump into the nearest pond and submerge itself for minut...