05 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019 world Indonesia toll touches 70 ‘French Spiderman’ caught in police web , Philippines

rench urban freeclimber Alain Robert was arrest- Fed yesterday, police said, after he scaled one of Manila’s tallest towers in his latest high- risk ascent. Indonesian rescuers searching for survivors after a landslide in Gowa, after The 56-year old adventurer heavy rains and strong winds pounded the southern part of Sulawesi island. dubbed the “French spiderman” climbed the 47-storey GT Tow- er without safety equipment, AFP | , Indonesia trict, with only a few buildings leaving watchers on the ground -- including a mosque -- visible staring in amazement. and iconic buildings, such as the loods and landslides that after an avalanche of mud and “This is my path, this is my , the Opera Fbattered Indonesia’s Su- rock cascaded down a nearby way of living. It is as important House, the Petronas Twin Tow- lawesi island have killed at hillside. to me as eating, sleeping. I need ers in and the least 70 people, authorities Nearly 9,500 people have that. It keeps me alive,” he told in -- where said yesterday, as aerial footage been displaced by the ex - reporters after completing the he used suction devices and a underscored the scale of the treme weather, and hundreds climb. safety rope as it has no hand or disaster with whole villages of houses, government build- Police were less enthusias- footholds. wiped off the map. ings, schools and bridges tic about the stunt and took However in June he was Lashed by heavy rain, rivers have been damaged, the dis- him into custody as soon as he foiled when he attempted to swelled and burst their banks, aster mitigation agency said reached the ground after the ascend a Seoul skyscraper, get- inundating dozens of commu- Monday. roughly two-hour climb up and ting more than half way up the nities across 12 districts as well Authorities say floodwa- down the building. 123-storey Lotte World Tower as parts of the provincial capi- ters are receding but a state He was being held on a charge before security forced him to tal Makassar. of emergency will remain in of public disturbance and was abort. Robert has suffered sev- The bodies of 70 victims place until February 6, while awaiting a decision from pros- eral severe falls while climbing have been found, while six are rescuers look for those still ecutors on bail. and estimates his accidents have still missing, Syamsibar, head missing and help repair dam- Robert has scaled more than left him 66 percent disabled. He of South Sulawesi’s disaster aged infrastructure. 100 structures without ropes has been arrested numerous mitigation agency, who like Landslides and floods are or other safety equipment, set- times for his exploits. many Indonesians goes by one common in Indonesia, espe- ting a record for “most buildings French urban free-climber Alain name, told AFP. cially during the monsoon climbed unassisted” according Robert (top C), popularly known as the Drone footage showed land- season between October and to Guinness World Records. "French Spiderman", is pictured on slides had buried Pattallikang April, when rains lash the vast His successes include many of the side of the 47-storey GT Tower in village in hard-hit Gowa dis- Southeast Asian archipelago. the world’s tallest skyscrapers Manila's financial district of

Failed escape bid earns Singapore iPhone FaceTime bug church fraudster more jail time lets callers eavesdrop Singapore, Singapore Singaporean man jailed , United States an iPhone being called using ment quoted in US media said Aover a multi-million-dol- FaceTime, logged nearly two the iPhone maker was aware lar fraud at a glitzy megachurch newly discovered Face- million views and was shared of this issue and has “identi- was given extra prison time ATime bug lets people hear 14,000 times by late evening in fied a fix that will be released yesterday for trying to flee the and even see those they are California. in a software update later this country before his sentence reaching out to on iPhones even Some Twitter users offered week.” started. if the other person hasn’t an- advice to disable the FaceTime “Disable FaceTime for now In a case that gripped the swered their phone. application until a fix was in until Apple fixes,” Twitter city-state with a mix of religion When a phone number is place. co-founder and chief executive and lavish spending, six City dialed on FaceTime -- the iP- An Apple support page list- Jack Dorsey advised in a tweet. Harvest Church leaders were hone’s internet-based voice ed Group FaceTime calling as Dorsey’s message included convicted in 2015 of pilfering and video calling feature -- the “temporarily a forwarded post by tens of millions of dollars from caller can swipe up from the unavailable” technologist Andy the place of worship to promote bottom of the screen and tap an as of 7:16 PM Baio. the pop career of the pastor’s option to add a person, accord- here (03:16 “Want to see a wife. City Harvest Church investment committee member Chew Eng Han is ing to video demonstrations. GMT) due really bad bug?” Among them was investment seen arriving at the state court in Singapore to face charges in relation to If the caller then enters their to an ongo- Baio asked in his manager Chew Eng Han, who a multi-million-dollar defrauding of the glitzy megachurch. (Courtesy of malaysianinsight) own number as that of the add- ing “issue” post. was sentenced to three years ed caller, a group call begins that was “You can Face- and four months. related to the attempt to flee. were jailed last year for helping even though the person being not speci- Time any iOS device His imprisonment was de- Yesterday District Court Chew in the escape bid. called hasn’t even answered. fied. running 12.1 and layed by a series of appeals but Judge Victor Yeo sentenced The church leaders were con- The caller can then eaves- An Ap- listen in remotely— after losing his final challenge, him to an extra 13 months for victed of using Sg$24 million drop on the person being called, ple state- WITHOUT THE OTH- Chew was meant to start serv- the two charges, to be served at ($19.8 million) from a church and in some demonstrations ER PERSON ANSWER- ing his sentence on February the end of his current sentence. building fund to help advance even watch them through the ING THE CALL.” 22 last year. The judge said he was not the music career of the pastor’s camera app. Declining a call Apple did not imme- But a day before he was due persuaded by the defence law- singer wife Sun Ho, and were breaks the connection. diately respond to re- to go to jail, police caught him yer’s argument that Chew had also found guilty of misappro- The bug, initially outlined by quests for comment. in a small fishing boat off east- shown genuine remorse for his priating huge sums as they cov- Apple product and review web- FaceTime soft- ern Singapore attempting to actions. ered their tracks. site 9to5Mac.com, was reported ware enables voice flee to neighbouring . State prosecutors had asked The money was used to by several media outlets. or video calls us- After the failed escape bid, for a sentence of 15 months, fund glitzy pop videos featur- A video posted at Twitter ac- ing iPhones, iP- he started serving his sentence saying Chew’s actions were ing scantily clad dancers, with count @BmManski showing ads, iPod Touch, in March. “premeditated” and underlined the church arguing Ho’s music how simple it is to take advan- and Macintosh Chew was convicted in De- his “complete lack of respect could be used to attract more tage of the flaw and listen in on computers. cember of two fresh charges for the law”. Three other men followers.