By DEEPIKA SHETTY

INDIAN movie stars broughtShanghai to Singapore for a Bol-lywood event that is expectedto be watched by hundreds ofmillions of people around theworld.

Last night, stars Abhay Deoland Kalki Koechlin attendedthe world premiere of theirmovie, the controversial politi-cal thriller Shanghai, directedby Mr Dibakar Banerjee, at theShaw Lido Cineplex.

It was the first major eventof the star-studded Internation-al Indian Film AcademyAwards (IIFA) weekend, whichbegan yesterday and ends to-morrow.

Said Koechlin, 29: “I’ve hadno sleep, no rest. It is my firsttime in Singapore. From what-ever little I’ve seen of it so far,it has been impressive.”

The carpet the Bollywoodstars walked on was green in-stead of the usual red for glitzyevents, in a nod to environmen-tal causes. About 200 fansthronged the green carpet tosee the actors, with some turn-ing up four hours before thestars appeared.

There was no hint of the con-troversy Shanghai has attract-ed in India, where a Hindu na-

tionalist group is seeking a banover the satirical lyrics of oneof the movie’s songs Bharat Ma-ta Ki Jai (Victory For Mother In-dia), which runs down India asa land of diseases.

The movie, which deals withthe thorny issue of urbanisa-tion as India tries to become aChina, is released in Singaporetoday, during the IIFA week-end.

Now in its 13th edition, the$15 million event is being heldin Singapore for the secondtime. It brings with it the prom-

ise of a global viewership of800 million, up from 400 mil-lion in 2004, when Singaporefirst hosted it.

Some 10,000 visitors are ex-

pected to attend it, with about3,000 coming from Thailand,Malaysia, Indonesia, and India.

Three days’ worth of filmscreenings, a rock concert, afashion show and other festivi-ties will climax with an awardsceremony at the Singapore In-door Stadium tomorrow.

Many stars, includingA-listers such as Hrithik Ro-shan, Anil Kapoor, Shahid Ka-poor, Ranbir Kapoor, Vidya Bal-an and Shriya Saran, are expect-ed to attend the ceremony.

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By POON CHIAN HUI

SINCE March, Tan Tock SengHospital (TTSH) has changedthe way it treats motorcycleaccident victims after a studyrevealed that both biker and pil-lion rider sustain similar inju-ries.

The trauma team at its Acci-dent and Emergency (A&E) De-partment now treats the twocasualties together, rather thanseparately.

“If the rider has injuries tothe head and chest, we findthat the pillion rider will alsohave the same,” said Dr Teo LiTserng, a consultant traumasurgeon involved in the study.

“Now, if we see an injury onthe rider, we will check forsomething similar in the pillionrider. The two teams will com-municate all these to one anoth-er,” he said.

“This way, we are less likelyto miss out on any injuries.”

The study examined 31 rid-er-pillion pairs treated atTTSH from last August toMarch this year. They were

about 35 years old on averageand hospitalised for about fivedays.

The findings were presentedat a regional conference inApril and won a prize for bestresearch project. They havebeen submitted for publicationin a scientific journal.

The hospital has been seeingmore motorcycle accident casu-alties at its A&E Department.In the past five years, there wasa 3 to 6 per cent increase eachyear in victims with moderateto severe injuries.

On average, the hospitalgets about six cases a week.

Last year, the Singapore Civ-il Defence Force sent 4,095motorcycle accident victims tohospitals.

The accidents they were inmade up a third of all road acci-dents.

Dr Teo said the study’s find-ings differ from previous stud-ies that claimed that either thebiker or the person riding pil-lion tended to be worse off inan accident.

Most studies examined mo-

torcyclists and pillion ridersseparately, which might haveled to differing conclusions.

In this study, bikers andthose riding pillion – from thesame accident and on the samebike – were examined together.

“There are a lot of confound-ing factors – every accident in-volves different speeds, differ-ent mechanisms,” Dr Teo said.“We saw this limitation inthose studies.”

Findings showed that bothpeople on the bike had thesame number of body areas in-jured. Most common are limbfractures and chest injuriessuch as broken ribs. Some alsosuffered head injuries like bleed-ing in the brain and concus-sion. The severity of the inju-ries was also similar, going by ascoring system that examinesthe three most severely hit are-as of the body.

The average of 15 pointsputs the victims in the categoryof moderate injury. Some 45per cent of those injured wereinvolved in a collision with acar, while 29 per cent werehurt when their bikes skiddedon the road.

Most of the bikers had an av-erage of 15 years of riding expe-rience. Only four were carrying

provisional licences. Said DrTeo: “This throws out the be-lief that only young riders getinto accidents. Your age or ex-perience in riding does not pre-vent you from injuring your-self.”

He advised motorcyclists –and also pillion riders – to wearproper gear, such as a protec-tive jacket and covered shoes.

“A lot of riders like to wearflip-flops or sandals but thesecan get caught when steppingon the gears, causing the per-son to lose his balance,” hesaid.

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Bollywood stars Kalki Koechlin (left) and Abhay Deol, on stage at Lido Cineplex for the world premiere of theirmovie Shanghai, which kicked off the International Indian Film Academy Awards weekend. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE

By LIN ZHAOWEI

MORE than 100 tertiary stu-dents tried their hand at audit-ing a fictitious company’s net-work security during afour-day camp on cyber de-fence this week.

Divided into 27 teams, thestudents were given 12 hours toidentify loopholes in the compa-ny’s servers and devise solu-tions to plug those gaps, astheir scores flashed on screensset up in a hall in the SingaporeScience Centre, where thecamp was held.

A team from Singapore Poly-technic yesterday emergedchampions in the universityand polytechnic category,while a team from Hwa ChongInstitution topped the juniorcollege and integrated pro-gramme school category.

Mr Jeremy Heng, 19, a mem-ber of the Singapore Polytech-nic team, said working on areal-life scenario was a freshexperience. The infocomm secu-rity management student saidhe hopes to take up a job in thecyber security field.

Seventeen-year-old WongJun Ming, a Year 5 Hwa Chongstudent, said the camp had ex-posed aspects of cyber securitythat he was unaware of.

“I learnt to use many tools

to spot security loopholes,”said the A-level computing stu-dent.

The Cyber Defence Discov-ery Camp was jointly organisedby the Defence Science and

Technology Agency (DSTA)and the Defence Ministry’s De-fence Research and TechnologyOffice to promote interest inthe cyber security industry.

Minister of State for De-fence and Education LawrenceWong was guest of honour atyesterday’s closing ceremony.

Addressing the participants,he said a highly wired countrylike Singapore is susceptible tocyber attacks, and there is aneed to build up expertise indealing with the threat.

“This means building up in-terest among young Singapore-ans in this area, and gettingmore people to enrol in compu-ter science and engineeringcourses in our universities,” hesaid, adding that the camp wasone such initiative.

DSTA Infocomm Infrastruc-ture Programme Centre DeputyDirector Tan Ah Tuan, whochaired the camp’s organisingcommittee, said the organisersmay make the event an annualor biannual affair. They alsohope to take in more partici-pants in the next round.

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MIRROR INJURIES

Now, if we see aninjury on the rider,we will check forsomething similar inthe pillion rider.– Dr Teo Li Tserng, consultanttrauma surgeon at Tan TockSeng Hospital

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Minister of State for Defence and Education Lawrence Wong (right) speakingto Mr Tan Zhong Xing, 25, who was part of a team from NanyangTechnological University that was first runner-up in the camp’s networksecurity auditing competition. ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

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