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Names in the News Places in the News

Ashvin Sivakumar (pg6)(pg20)

Grand CanyonArizona

United States

Changi Airport (pf16)

Words in the News

(Pg4)notoriousSwelled

dwindledscavenged

(Pg16)trafficking

environmentnarcotics

(Pg19)Labour

(pregnancy)Caesarean

sectionMidwife

Gynecologist

Prisoners-of-War (POWs) were jailed in Changi Prison during Japanese Occupation

Cramped living conditions Lack of food and medicine Diseases spread readily How did the inmates stay

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A prison’s harrowing history

• K-9 unit has over 80 narcotic detector dogs

• Involved in sniffing out human, firearms and drug trafficking

• Find out about a day in the life of a k-9 officer and his detector dog

Sniffing out illegal drugs (pg16)

• An obstetrician helps a pregnant woman with the birth of her baby

• Read on to find out more about the scope of their job.

How’s the baby, doc? (pg19)

• Soil erosion occurs when water washes over stone and wears it away

• One result is the Grand Canyon in Arizona, US

• A popular tourist destination

• Go online to search for more pictures about its beauty

Gorgeous gorge (pg20)

This week in History…First loch ness sighting claimed

Go back to where it all began…