The following two stories were front page news in the Strait Times,
Hairstylist dies after choking on biscuits
HUNGRY after a late-night chat, a hairstylist helped herself to biscuits, only to choke on them fatally.
Huang Yan Ping, 33, was in the Jurong East flat she shared with two others at around 11.30pm on Tuesday when she started choking, reported Shin Min Daily News on Wednesday.
Her flatmates tried to force the biscuits out of her mouth, but Ms Huang died after a burst of coughs.
She was taken to the National University Hospital by ambulance but was pronounced dead after arrival.
Ms Huang, who came here from Johor 10 years ago, was married with two children, her friend, Ms Zhou, told Shin Min.
Man collapses and dies after dancing
HE LOVED swinging to the beat of arcade dance machines, and went dancing there thrice a week. But on Tuesday, Zhang Wei Ming, 23, danced for the last time when he collapsed and died after dancing for about half an hour.
Mr Zhang, who helped in his father's contractor business, was at an arcade at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station at around 8pm when he suddenly passed out.
Nobody knew how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR.
He was found dead after he was taken to the Singapore General Hospital.
His family told the Chinese evening dailies that he smoked heavily, kept late nights and had Thalassemia, a type of blood disorder.
Don't get me wrong choking on a biscuit and dancing yourself to death are very sad but front page news??? Where's the real crime, governor sex scandals, and Colombian drug cartels??
Actually these are better than the series of stories last week about a crack down on the cosmetic surgery industry...What are Singaporeans to do without skin whitening?? Big news!
Good thing I can get the real news, NY Post, online :).
NY Post..best front page headline ever..(talking about workers stealing stuff from the rubble after 9/11)... ASH HOLES. So clever!
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I'd love to see what is on the cover of the Gay Times.
I've given this some thought, and I do think death by dancing is quite a fine way to go out....
PS - I miss exciting real NY style news as well, the front page in San Diego lead with a story about Kids' Summer Camps Getting Sophisticated....a real page turner...
where's the murder, scaffold / crane collapses, and a random subway attack or two?
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