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A hundred wheelchair users soaked up thecharm of Pulau Ubin yesterday in an event toshow how no part of Singapore – including itsislands – should be inaccessible to anyone.
Taking part in Wheels@Ubin were
beneficiaries of the Asian Women’s WelfareAssociation, the Hand-Cycling Association ofSingapore and the Society for the PhysicallyDisabled.
The participants were ferried to the islandby the Republic of Singapore Navy. Landtransport for the wheelchair users wasprovided by SMRT Taxis. ST PHOTO: LEE SIEW YIAN
By ELENA CHONGCOURT CORRESPONDENT
A FORMER senior bank execu-tive was found guilty yesterdayof filming an upskirt video of awoman at an escalator of Mari-na Bay Link Mall in 2013.
Yuen Kum Fai, a45-year-old Singaporean, ap-peared visibly disappointed af-ter he was convicted of insult-ing the woman’s modesty by us-ing his cellphone to take the up-skirt video without her know-ledge on Dec 9 that year.
He was then global head ofpersonal banking and preferredbanking at Standard CharteredBank.
In his oral judgment, Dis-trict Judge John Ng said the is-sues of the three-day trialwere: Did Yuen intrude into the
privacy of the woman, and didhe intend to insult her modestyif there was such an intrusion?
“After a thorough evaluationin this case, I am satisfied thatboth questions are to be an-swered ‘yes’,” he said.
There was incriminatingphysical and oral evidence, henoted. A video clip of the of-fence was found in Yuen’sphone.
The 27-year-old victim’s col-league, who was several stepsbehind Yuen on the escalator,had seen him holding the cam-era phone below the victim’sbuttock and even tilting thephone subsequently. He alertedsecurity officers.
Judge Ng found the col-league to be a truthful witness,although there were some in-consistencies in his testimony
in court.The oral evidence of the se-
curity officers and police offi-cers who responded to the inci-dent showed Yuen “exhibitingbehaviour and demeanour con-sistent with a person who hasbeen caught”, said the judge.
Assistant Public ProsecutorLim Yu Hui had said in her clos-ing submissions that Yuen ap-peared to be nervous and hishands were shaking after hewas caught. He had also apolo-gised for his actions and maderepeated requests to apologiseto the victim.
Yuen’s defence is that he didnot have any intention to takeany upskirt video.
He asserted that he was tak-ing a random video while walk-ing from the carpark to his of-fice at Marina Bay Financial
Centre as he had intended toscreen-grab pictures ofwomen’s clothes for an intend-ed shopping trip to Malaysiawith his colleague.
Yuen’s lawyer, Mr AmarjitSingh Sidhu, will submit a pleain mitigation on July 31. A deci-sion on his two stood-downcharges will be given that day.
The maximum penalty for in-sulting modesty is one year’sjail and a fine.
PULAU UBIN’S NOT A PROBLEMFOR WHEELCHAIR USERS
By DEREK WONG
FOR three years after being di-agnosed with colorectal cancerin 2012, she dreaded seeing thedisappointment on heroncologist’s face each time herscan results were told to her.
But the 65-year-old retiree,who wanted to be known onlyas Madam Theng, is hopefulnow.
In February, she was put ona new oral drug being tested atthe Developmental Therapeu-
tics Unit of the NationalUniversity Cancer Institute,Singapore (NCIS) called Selinex-or.
And already she has shownimprovements, said Dr DavidTan, principal investigator ofthe study and consultant at theDepartment of Haematology-Oncology, Developmental Ther-apeutics Unit of NCIS.
Like Madam Theng, other pa-tients on the drug have alsoshown positive results.
More than half of them with
advanced or metastatic cancershave seen their tumours eithershrink or grow more slowly.
Of the 19 patients evaluatedfor response, 14 have shown en-couraging results.
Two patients have shownpartial response (more than 30per cent shrinkage in their tu-mours), while 12 patients havedisplayed stable disease (tu-mour shrinkage of less than 30per cent or tumour growth ofless than 20 per cent).
The results shown are signifi-
cant, said Dr Tan.Heartened by the results,
the clinical trial is being expand-ed.
An additional 60 patientswill be tested within a year’stime.
“The side effects are tolera-ble,” said Madam Theng, whosuffers slight headaches, fa-tigue and bitterness in her tastebuds.
She is eyeing a US holidaywhen she is better.
Former senior bank executive YuenKum Fai’s phone was found tocontain a video clip of the offence.
Judge finds him guilty of insulting victim’s modesty
Cancer drug shows promise in trial
Former bank exectook upskirt video
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