Daily Briefing: Singapore hurdler out of Olympics; Downtown East Safer Now; Private tutoring in Singapore

Here are the stories from around the web that Singaporeans are talking about including losing in 2012  London Olympics.
 
Singapore's track and field hopes at the London Olympics are over after hurdler Dipna Lim-Prasad bowed out from the Women's 100m hurdles heats on Monday. Read here.
 
Two years after the slashing of Darren Ng, Shoppers are flocking back to the shopping mall. Watch the video here.
 
Polls and other sources as saying that 97 percent of all Singaporean students, nearly 90 percent of South Korean primary students and about 85 percent of Hong Kong senior secondary students receive tutoring. Read here.
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