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Daily News… SINGAPORE PULLS ‘CRINGE-WORTHY’ TOURISM VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE Singapore’s tourism board has been forced to remove a YouTube video designed to promote the city-state to the Philippine market, after it was derided as «so bad it will go viral». The three-minute clip depicts a young Filipino couple displaying astonishment as they visit various Singapore sights, including the iconic Marina Bay Sands casino and the Gardens by the Bay. At the end, the woman presents the man with a gift box -- which turns out to contain a positive pregnancy test. «I knew Singapore always had a surprise waiting for me!» her husband exclaims. «Happy anniversary, honey,» she replies, as cheesy music plays in the background. The video was withdrawn from YouTube on Monday after it drew a wave of derision in Singapore, but duplicates have been widely re-posted on social media. «This has to be a spoof. Nothing can be THIS bad,» wrote YouTube user Ferexx under one version of the promo. Singapore social news and lifestyle website Mothership.sg pronounced it «so bad it will go viral», describing it as «cringe-worthy». «The acting. The music. The surprise twist,» wrote another commenter calling themselves «Sing a Poor» below another version. «The worst tourism ad ever made in the history of advertising. Well done guys, you did Singapore proud.» The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said the video was produced for the Philippine market by Manila’s ABS-CBN network «in an effort to customise content for this audience». The tourism board said it posted the video on its YouTube channel after its television run in the Philippines ended. «We subsequently removed it as it was not resonating well with audiences,» STB said. «We thank readers for their feedback on the video and acknowledge that some aspects of it could have been done better.»
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International News… A COSTLY BLUNDER Hong Kong police on Wednesday searched for a valuable painting mistakenly dumped in a landfill after it sold for $3.7 million at auction. «Snowy Mountain» by Chinese artist Cui Ruzhuo, which was a main feature of the spring auction by Beijing-based Poly Culture this week, was dumped by cleaners at the luxury hotel hosting the sale, the South China Morning Post said. Grand Hyatt hotel cleaners were suspected of dumping the painting, which sold on Monday for more than HK$28.75 million ($3.71 million), along with rubbish that was taken to a landfill.
MARS LIGHTS A NASA robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, said the US space agency. More likely, the images of bright spots taken on April 2 and April 3 are a product of the sun’s glare or cosmic rays, NASA said in a statement. In fact, similar glints of light are seen all the time in images taken by the Curiosity rover, a multibillion dollar unmanned vehicle equipped with cameras and drilling instruments that is exploring Mars.
PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT Diplômé en Médecine Traditionnelle Chinoise. Diplômé en Ostéopathie. Attaché d’enseignement. (Collège Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement en Energétique Chinoise).
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