Monday #sgroundup: Inmarsat to provide free tracking service after missing MH370

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Inmarsat to provide free tracking service after missing MH370

Staff at satellite communications company Inmarsat work in front of a screen showing subscribers using their service …

British satellite tracking firm Inmarsat, whose satellites helped track the final route of the still-missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, said on Monday that it will offer a free, basic tracking service to passenger airlines globally.

It said its service will be offered to all 11,000 commercial passenger aircraft which are already equipped with Inmarsat satellite connection -- this makes up nearly all of the world's long-haul commercial fleet. It will also make free data transfers available for a position reporting service, it said at its results announcement last week.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/inmarsat-free-tracking-missing-mh370-064054020.html

South Korea says North Korea 'must disappear soon'

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed during …

In the latest in an intensifying exchange of words between North and South Korea, a South Korean official has said the North "must disappear soon".

The country's defence ministry spokesperson told reporters at a briefing in Seoul that North Korea has no human rights or public freedoms, and is not a real country -- also that it exists for the benefit of only one person, a reference to Kim Jong Un.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/south-korea-says-north-korea-must-disappear-soon-065805445.html

Singapore's OCBC Bank now lets you transfer money via Facebook, email, SMS

Screengrabs of the OCBC Pay Anyone app, now available for iPhone users. (Tech in Asia screengrabs)

OCBC Bank has drastically revamped its online consumer banking service to allow its users to transfer money via Facebook, email or text within Singapore.

The feature, called "Pay Anyone", allows a sender to wire money to a recipient without needing his or her bank account details, just their contact information, but our Tech in Asia reviewer feels the hassle is now passed from sender to receiver.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-ocbc-bank-now-lets-071002083.html

Interim Thai PM hopeful he can lead country to new election

An anti-government protester holds a placard against ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as she waits with …

Thai interim Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan said on Monday he hopes he can lead the country to a successful election, after anti-government protesters disrupted a poll in February. The poll was later annulled by the Constitutional Court.

Protesters are now calling for a "neutral" prime minister to oversee electoral reforms aimed at keeping the Shinawatras (ousted Yingluck and her brother Thaksin) out of power, and have said they will scupper any vote that takes place before these changes are put in place.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/thai-senate-draft-crisis-road-map-protesters-urge-074516598.html

One body, two faces: rare twins born in Sydney

Illustration photo shows a new born baby on September 17, 2013 at the Lens hospital, northern France

An Australian woman has given birth to conjoined twins who have separate brains and identical faces but share a body, a report said on Monday.

Sydney couple Renee Young and Simon Howie learned at their 19-week ultrasound that their babies would be born with a rare condition called diprosopus, and last Thursday, Young gave birth to Hope and Faith by emergency caesarean, six weeks early.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/one-body-two-faces-rare-twins-born-sydney-093226282.html

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