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| Scandal causes sharp drop in Ren Ci donations |
| 2008-07-17 14:37:33 |
Donations to Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre have plunged.
It collected just $1.1 million in the last seven months, down from the $9.3 million that came in over the same period last year.
The beating to the Buddhist medical charity’s coffers comes from the cancellation of its televised charity show, which used to bring in $6 [...]...
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| Anwar Ibrahim taken to hospital |
| 2008-07-16 11:23:26 |
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been taken to hospital after his arrest on sodomy allegations, and is believed to be undergoing a medical examination, his party said on Wednesday.
‘We think that he’s being taken for a medical examination but we’re not sure,’ said Mr Tian Chua, information chief for Mr Anwar’s Keadilan party which [...]...
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| HK family pays ransom for safe return of son |
| 2008-07-16 11:18:02 |
The mother of one of Hong Kong’s richest tycoons paid nearly 77 million US dollars (S$103.7 million) for his release after he was kidnapped by a notorious gangster, a report said on Wednesday.
Ms Kwong Siu-hing, the 79-year-old chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, met gangster Cheung Tze-keung, known as ‘Big Spender’, days after he kidnapped [...]...
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| Careful next time you honk your horn at that cabby |
| 2008-07-16 11:12:58 |
The explosion of violence from the cabby came suddenly.
And when it was over, rojak seller Choo Zin Chye, 49, was left bleeding with a broken cheekbone.
The incident occurred at about 9.30am on 9 Jul, along Woodlands Street 31.
Mr Choo had been at Woodlands buying ingredients for his rojak stall in Geylang.
He was driving along a [...]...
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| Illegal cigarettes to be fined $500 for the first time |
| 2008-07-14 13:16:19 |
First time offenders caught with duty-unpaid cigarettes anywhere on the island will be fined $500 per packet from Tuesday.
In a press statement issued on Monday, Singapore Customs said the composition sum, which was initially implemented in hotspots such as Geylang and Yew Tee in Oct 2007, will now be extended throughout the island.
Elsewhere, first-time offenders [...]...
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| Injured girl caned, becomes paralyzed |
| 2008-07-14 13:13:55 |
A teacher in Kuala Klawang who caned a student might not have known that the students had hurt her back in a fall.
As a result of the caning, Nurlieyana Nazran, 17, now cannot walk.
She is being warded at the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital in Seremban.
“Due to the student’s injury, she was absent from school for some [...]...
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| Tang Wee Sung charged with human organ trafficking |
| 2008-07-10 14:51:55 |
CK Tang’s chairman Tang Wee Sung, 55, was charged in court on Thursday afternoon with trying to buy a kidney from a living donor, for which he was willing to pay $300,000 to a middleman to procure it.
Tang faces three counts - two under the Human Organ Transplant Act which bans the sale of human [...]...
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| OCBC protecting your money from fraudsters |
| 2008-07-04 10:36:56 |
Fraudsters masquerading as representatives of Malaysian oil company Petronas have been asking the account holders for their bank account numbers by first sending SMS messages congratulating them for winning cash prizes from Petronas lucky draws.
OCBC said it was first alerted to this scam by suspicious account-holders who received such messages on June 25.
Its Fraud Incident [...]...
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| $22,000 for your kidney, would you do it? |
| 2008-07-04 10:35:06 |
Having lost his job six months ago, Sulaiman Damanik could not say no when a man came by his village offering 150 million rupiah (S$22,000) for his kidney.
Unemployment, coupled with his elderly parents’ dependence on him for care, made him the perfect target for organ solicitors.
Sulaiman calculated that the money offered was the rough equivalent [...]...
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| Gang attacks clubbers on Canton Street |
| 2008-07-04 10:33:53 |
The victim was taken to hospital bloodied and with bruises on his body and face, a swollen forehead, and cuts under his right eye and lips.
The attack has left the friends in shock and fear, and spurred one of them to write to The New Paper.
The 31-year-old safety coordinator at an engineering firm, who wanted [...]...
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| Explosion in Singapore power building |
| 2008-07-02 11:19:48 |
4 workers were injured in a flash fire which broke out at a Singapore Power substation on Somerset Road on Wednesday morning.
One worker suffered second degree burns on his hands and legs, while the others came down with smoke inhalation. They were taken to Singapore General Hospital.
The fire triggered a 20-minute power outage in the [...]...
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| More tickets for Grand Prix |
| 2008-07-02 11:17:28 |
More tickets have been released for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, bringing the race’s total capacity to over 100,000. With tickets at several grandstands selling out fast, organisers Singapore GP have added an extra 1,600 seats for the race on Sept 28.
Most of these seats will be at the new 1,100-seater Connaught grandstand, to be [...]...
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| Sexy ads banned |
| 2008-07-02 11:16:00 |
Sleazy advertisements with suggestive pictures promoting matchmaking services will no longer grace the main pages of newspapers.
Such ads can only appear in text, in the classified section of print publications. And they cannot guarantee marriages.
The Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore on Tuesday announced these changes to the Singapore Code of Advertising Practice, following concerns received [...]...
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| Sally Ang Poh Choo jailed for offences against maid |
| 2008-06-27 11:24:36 |
To teach her maid a lesson, finance officer Sally Ang Poh Choo used marker pens to draw lines on the Indonesian maid’s face. It was Ang’s way of punishing Miss Sri Hartuti Rokiman for not closing the front door properly while she was washing the family’s car parked in the front porch of the house [...]...
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| Ah Jie covers self only with purse |
| 2008-06-27 11:16:19 |
With her modesty protected by a $50,000 Chanel leather clutch and a pair of jeans, MediaCorp artiste looks semi-nude as she posed for the cover shot in the latest issue of Chinese female magazine, Nuyou.
But there are some lines that even the well-respected veteran would not cross.
If you think she was not wearing a top [...]...
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| Fan gets too close for comfort |
| 2008-06-27 11:13:52 |
The dangers of being a rising celebrity.
Felicia Chin related a close brush she encountered with an overenthusiastic fan in a recent interview with Lianhe Wanbao.
The MediaCorp artiste told the paper that a middled-aged man had come up to her in public and grabbed her to take a photo with him.
She said to LianHe Wanbao: “When [...]...
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| Singaporeans like to shop … online |
| 2008-06-25 09:28:05 |
Singapore online shoppers spent 770.70 US dollars over a three-month period, followed by South Koreans who spent 707.50 dollars, the survey found.
It studied the behaviour of more than 4,000 people with bank accounts who used the Internet at least once a week, in Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia, Japan, India and Thailand as well as [...]...
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| Siemens develops new desalination process |
| 2008-06-23 11:30:12 |
Bucking convention, researchers have developed a way of producing drinking water from seawater - that is twice as efficent.
A team from Siemens Water Technologies on Monday received top honours and a $4million grant from the Environment & Water Industry Development Council (EWI).
The council threw a challenge to research institutes and companies last July to develop [...]...
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| MDA encouraging game development with $50,000 |
| 2008-06-23 11:27:47 |
Game developers dreaming of creating the next Halo or Grand Theft Auto game can now turn to a more generous government grant to get them off the ground.
They can now get up to $50,000 each to get their games marketed to big publishers and sold to gamers worldwide.
This is part of the Invigorate scheme that [...]...
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| Spammers targetting disaster fund raising |
| 2008-06-23 11:24:05 |
Spammers are taking advantage of current world problems to try to exploit computer users, said Symantec Corp, an Internet security solutions vendor.
It said donation scams via e-mail are on the rise and are being tied to recent natural disasters, such as the China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone, and the increasing petrol price hikes.
One earthquake donation [...]...
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| Fight: David Gan vs. Addy Lee |
| 2008-06-20 12:44:18 |
Renowned celebrity hair stylist David Gan recently reacted to a local entertainment magazine regarding the constant comparison between him and fellow hair stylist Addy Lee.
David Gan responded with an analogy : Addy Lee is Newton Foodcourt’s chicken rice - with a plate worth three dollars, whereas he is Mandarin Hotel’s chicken rice - with a [...]...
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| Caught red handed, burglar jumps to death |
| 2008-06-20 12:39:24 |
A burglar jumped five storeys to his death on Friday after being surprised by a landlady who caught him in her living room.
The man was trying to make a quick escape from the three-room flat in Marsiling Lane, but instead landed 15 metres below with a thud.
‘Only a stupid person will enter my house. There’s [...]...
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| Workers to get inflation bonus |
| 2008-06-20 12:37:46 |
Electrical storekeeper Tan Cheng Yen is getting an extra $400 to take home next month - a one-off payment to help cushion the impact of higher food and oil prices.
‘I can spend it on groceries, like rice, as well as defray the cost of taking public transport to work,’ said the 63-year-old who earns $1,600 [...]...
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| Sony Ericsson debuts MD400 USB modem |
| 2008-06-17 09:52:00 |
For people on the move keeping in touch via the internet with colleagues, clients, friends and family is a necessity. Now Sony Ericsson gives users the speed they need in a stylish way with its two new modems complete with HSPA technology. Users can receive 7.2Mb/s in download and up to 2.0Mb/s in upload speeds. [...]...
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| Stench turns out to be dead body |
| 2008-06-16 14:35:29 |
For three days, students Kid Wu, 22, and Stella Pan, 21, did not know they were living with a corpse.
They had detected a foul smell coming from their flatmate Jiang Ting’s room.
But they dismissed the odour as they thought it was rotting food.
Unknown to them, Miss Jiang, 22, a Chinese national, had been dead for [...]...
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| Deleted SMS gone for good |
| 2008-06-16 14:31:34 |
If you have deleted an important text message, don’t expect your cellphone company to have a magical backup server that will bail you out.
One Singapore man recently found that out the hard way when he tried to recover messages that he had trashed nine months ago.
Mr Huang Yongliang wrote to The Straits Times Forum this [...]...
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| SIA supervisor charged with theft |
| 2008-06-16 14:27:07 |
An inflight supervisor was fined $2,000 on Monday for stealing liquor and other items from a London-bound Singapore Airlines flight.
Ong Hong Aik, 50, admitted to stealing two bottles of Dom Perignon champagne, a bottle of Hennesy XO liquor, a bottle of red wine, caviar and other miscellaneous items worth a total of $1,116 on board [...]...
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| Ok for women to look sexy at the office, just not too sexy |
| 2008-06-12 09:28:23 |
Women, take heed - experts say you shouldn’t look too sexy in the office. A 2007 survey reported in Allure magazine showed that when men and women saw videotapes of the same women dressed provocatively business suit, they assumed she was a competent receptionist but not a competent manager.
Sexual stereotypes based on clothing still exist, [...]...
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| Crazy woman arrested for throwing stuff out her window |
| 2008-06-12 09:21:53 |
It was raining papers, shoes, cartons and even tupperware at Block 331, Clementi Avenue 2 on Thursday morning.
Police received a call at 9.15 am about things being flung from a seventh-floor flat, littering a playground and void deck below.
Two fire engines from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived at about 11.30 am and the [...]...
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| Woodlands factory burns again |
| 2008-06-12 09:18:12 |
2 workers carrying out salvage work at the gutted factory in Woodlands Terrace on Thursday set off another blaze.
They were trying to separate two steel drums containing essential oils in the burnt-out KL Koh Enterprise factory with gas torches when they sparked off a flash fire, which was quickly put out.
The workers were unhurt.
The factory, [...]...
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| Durai begins serving sentence |
| 2008-06-10 14:11:21 |
T.T. Durai went to jail on Tuesday, but it was not the end of his troubles that stemmed from his leadership of the National Kidney Foundation.
He is to serve three months in jail for using a fake invoice to deceive the charity into paying $20,000 to an interior designer friend. He may have a month [...]...
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| SingTel to get iPhone by year end |
| 2008-06-10 14:09:38 |
The latest version of the much-hyped iPhone unveiled by Apple boss Steve Jobs in the United States on Monday will be on sale here within the next few months, and probably at half the price of the original.
This will cheer Singapore’s phone and gadget fans, who are still unable to buy the original iPhone a [...]...
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| Cabby catches thief |
| 2008-06-10 14:07:46 |
A thief was nabbed on Monday with the help of a public-spirited taxi driver.
The 45-year-old thief was on the run after stealing two handphones valued at $1,250 from a unit at Block 168, Lorong 1 Toa Payoh at 10.30am.
Taxi driver Oh Kim Beng, 50, who had stopped his taxi at the traffic junction along Lorong [...]...
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| Peeping tom caught in women’s washroom |
| 2008-06-10 13:57:07 |
A Singapore man has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after he was found guilty of secretly filming a woman in an airport toilet, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Samuel Ong, 19, sneaked into a female toilet at Singapore’s Changi Airport earlier this year and used his camera phone to snap shots of [...]...
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| Employee gambles away company money |
| 2008-06-09 15:21:55 |
A customer service executive siphoned almost $2 million from his company over two years, and then lost it all in casinos.
And while under probe for his gambling sprees in Genting Highlands and onboard cruise ships, he managed to lie his way into getting a replacement passport to travel - again to visit casinos.
In the six [...]...
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| Many girls having ‘virgin’ surgery |
| 2008-06-09 15:17:10 |
“The girls don’t come alone (for the consultation and surgery). They come with their boyfriends or a trusted girlfriend,” says a consultant plastic surgeon with a notable private hospital in Kuala Lumpur.
A lot can happen when youths leave home to study abroad and sexual exploration is invariably on the top of the list.
“And when these [...]...
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| IM outpacing SMS ;) |
| 2008-06-06 10:35:37 |
Walk into an office these days, and chances are you will come across someone doing It: Having a little fun on the side while working.
Instant Messaging via Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger, or MSN for short, has taken off in a big way here, and more and more people are logged on for hours on end [...]...
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| Malaysian couple get cheap hotel, expensive hookers outside |
| 2008-06-06 10:33:19 |
He wanted a budget hotel room for his short stay here.
But Malaysian journalist Fauzi Baharuddin, 28, ended up with more than he bargained for when he realised that his hotel was in the heart of Singapore’s red-light district.
He told The New Paper in Malay: ‘In early April, I was visiting Singapore for three days and [...]...
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| Thief who preyed on elderly caught |
| 2008-06-05 14:43:08 |
A 33 yr old man believed to be involved in a series of snatch thefts against elderly victims in Hougang, Telok Blangah and Tampines housing estates was caught on Thursday morning.
Police arrested him at his flat in Block 467, Tampines Street 44 at about 6 am
On March 25 at 10 pm, the suspect snatched the [...]...
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| Landlord, loan sharks harrassing tenants |
| 2008-06-05 14:32:43 |
There are two posters pasted outside this four-room flat.
The one on the left, written in Mandarin, is addressed to ‘Mr Ah Long’, telling the loan shark that he has gone after the wrong guy.
The other is in English and is for the occupant’s landlord, condemning him for allegedly borrowing money from loan sharks.
The loan shark [...]...
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