一 | ISLAMABAD -- More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.Taliban officials said Saturday's earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures. Women and children were more likely to have been at home when the quake struck in the morning, said Siddig Ibrahim, the chief of the UNICEF field office in Herat, said. “When the first earthquake hit, people thought it was an explosion, and they ran into their homes,” he said.Hundreds of people, mostly women, remain missing in Zenda Jan.The Afghanistan representative for the United Nations Population Fund, Jaime Nadal, said there would have been no “gender dimension” to the death toll if the quake had happened at night.“At that time of the day, men were out in the field,” Nadal told The Associated Press. “Many men migrate to Iran for work. The women were at home doing the chores and looking after the children. They found themselves trapped under the rubble. There was clearly a gender dimension.”The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened entire villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed.The Norwegian Refugee Council described the devastation as enormous. “Early reports from our teams are that many of those who lost their lives were small children who were crushed or suffocated after buildings collapsed on them,” the council said. The maternity hospital in Herat province has cracks that make the structure unsafe. The U.N. Population Fund has provided tents so pregnant women have somewhere to stay and receive care, Nadal said. Many people inside and outside the provincial capital are still sleeping outside, even as temperatures drop.The disproportionate impact of the quake on women has left children without mothers, their primary caregivers, raising questions about who will raise them or how to reunite them with fathers who might be out of the province or Afghanistan.Aid officials say orphanages are non-existent or rare, meaning children who have lost one or both parents were likely to be taken in by surviving relatives or community members.Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, where there are a number of fault lines and frequent movement among three nearby tectonic plates.Women may be at risk of not getting information on earthquake preparedness because of Taliban edicts curtailing their mobility and rights, and restrictions imposed on female humanitarian workers, a U.N. report has warned.Authorities have barred girls from school beyond sixth grade and stopped women from working at nongovernmental groups, although there are exceptions for some sectors like health care. The Taliban also say that women cannot travel long distances without male chaperones.Aid agencies say their female Afghan staff members are “for now” working freely in Herat and reaching women and girls affected by the earthquake.UNICEF has launched a $20 million appeal to help the estimate 13,000 children and families devastated by the earthquake.。 新加坡理工大学（新工大）将于9月2日在榜鹅新校舍开学。届时，学校将迎来3800名来自商业、传播及设计，以及信息通讯科技学院的学生。共有1500名师生、校友和贵宾昨天（24日）齐聚新校舍；师生们从杜佛校园和设在各理工学院的校舍出发，抵达新校园后展开步行活动庆祝这个里程碑。随行的还有教育部长陈振声，以及也是白沙—榜鹅集选区议员的数码发展及新闻部兼卫生部高级政务部长普杰立医生。陈振声在活动上致辞时，鼓励新工大继续与理工学院和其他机构接触，学习他们的优点，同时与附近企业、学府和社区联系，以创新的工作为社群服务。他还希望学生们能走出自身的科系，通过跨系的合作，在科学技术的前沿和传统学科的边界上创新。
二 | 共有1500名师生、校友和贵宾昨天（24日）以步行的方式齐聚新校舍。（图： SIT Photo: Keng Photography）西区校园预计明年初竣工 坐落在裕廊集团旗下榜鹅数码园区的新工大校园分成两个区域；面向科尼岛并坐落于海滨的新工大东区校园设有教学设施、实验室、行政大楼和公共空间等，西区校园区域则预计在2025年初竣工。
三 | 新工大校长蔡其昌在致辞时说，这将是新工大新篇章的开始。新校园将与企业与社区紧密联系，其可为学生提供实际的学习体验，让大学开拓更多与企业协作的机会。除此之外，东区学院也设有能丰富学生生活的食阁、健身房、音乐舞蹈室和网球场等体育设施、礼堂和多功能厅等。学生对新校舍设施充满期待 昨早从杜佛校园出发的文勇砚，即将来到新校舍就读。他说：“与旧的杜佛学院相比之下，新校园有更阔的空间。虽然校园目前还未建设完毕，但我对于校园新的实验室感到非常期待，因为这些实验室都使用新的科技，所以我迫不及待的想要尝试使用这些设施。
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