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SINGAPORE - The rail industry here is seeking to reduce chances of miscommunication and get all stakeholders on the same page, with engineers, SBS Transit and SMRT coming together to hammer out Singapore's first railway standards. The first three areas were launched on Tuesday (March 23) by Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung at the Shangri-la hotel, part of a planned fuller set of expectations and fixed terminology. The three areas cover terminology and abbreviations for the permanent way, or the rails that trains run on; how these rails are maintained; and the terms of references related to managing rail assets. The standards are being worked on by 17 working groups under a technical committee on railway systems set up last year. Comprising academics, engineers and representatives from both SBS Transit and SMRT, it is an industry initiative in which the Land Transport Authority has played a relatively small role, and which Mr Ong said was all the more valuable for it. He noted ... » Learn More about Singapore rail industry standards launched to get all stakeholders on same page

Not considered a supreme Van Gogh masterpiece, it still went for $15.4 million. PARIS - One of the few paintings by Vincent Van Gogh still in private hands, "Street Scene in Montmartre", was sold for over 13 million euros Thursday at auction after going on public display for the first time this week, Sotheby's said. The painting -- which emerged after a century spent in the same collection and has not been exhibited in public since it was painted in 1887 -- fetched 13.091 million euros ($15.414 million), Sotheby's said. Reaching well above the estimate of 5-8 million euros, Sotheby's said the sale price was a record for the artist in France. The sale of the painting was the highlight of an auction of 33 works from masters including Degas, Magritte, Modigliani, Klee, Rodin and his muse Camille Claudel sold in an auction live-streamed by Sotheby's in Paris. The painting was reoffered at the end of the sale in Paris after the auction house scrapped its initial sale earlier in ... » Learn More about Rarely seen Paris Van Gogh sells for over 13 mn euros

PARIS: One of the few paintings by Vincent Van Gogh still in private hands sold for more than 13 million euros at auction on Thursday (Friday in Manila), Sotheby’s said. “Street Scene in Montmartre” — on public display for the first time since its creation in 1887, after a century in the same collection — fetched 13.09 million euros ($15.4 million), the auction house said. At well above the estimate of 5 million to 8 million euros, the sale price was a record for the artist in France, it added. The painting was the highlight of an auction of 33 works from masters including Degas, Magritte, Modigliani, Klee, Rodin and his muse, Camille Claudel, sold in an auction live-streamed by Sotheby’s in Paris. The painting was reoffered at the end of the sale in Paris, after the auction house scrapped its initial sale earlier in the afternoon — where it fetched a slightly higher sale price — due to problems with online bidding. Other highlights included the sale of a recently restored ... » Learn More about Van Gogh’s 1887 work sold for $15.4 million

The tradition to formally complete the accession to the throne of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn will take place this weekend and into Monday, a public holiday, in a series of intricate and complicated ceremonies and mini-ceremonies, full of symbolic meaning and steeped in Hindu and Buddhist tradition. The elaborate and historic events will be televised – The Thaiger will publish links so you can watch the important ceremonies and parades live online. COLLECTION OF THE SACRED WATERS In the preliminary stages, before coronation, sacred waters are collected from around the Kingdom to be used at the heart of the ceremony – the purification bath known as Song Phra Muratha Bhisek and an anointing with sacred water, the Abhisek. The collection of sacred water from different sources across the country began on April 6. The water to be used in the purification bath came from five rivers around the country and from four ancient ponds in Suphan Buri. The rivers are the Bang ... » Learn More about This weekend’s Royal Coronation

New York Yankees fans watch their team suffer a 3-2 opening day defeat to the Toronto Blue Jays as the 2021 Major League Baseball season gets under way LOS ANGELES - The defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees suffered opening defeats as Major League Baseball's 2021 season began Thursday under the shadow of Covid-19. Just over a year after the pandemic plunged America's pastime into chaos, forcing a four-month shutdown and leading to an abbreviated 60-game regular season, fans returned to ballparks across the United States for the start of the 162-game marathon. But the spectre of Covid-19 served up a reminder of the challenges facing the new season, with the Washington Nationals opener against the New York Mets postponed for safety reasons. The game was scratched after confirmation on Wednesday that a Nationals player had tested positive and that four other players and a member of staff were in isolation after contact tracing. "We're still in the midst ... » Learn More about Dodgers, Yankees lose as Covid looms over baseball openers