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11 foreign women caught for suspected vice Posted: 22 March 2013 1653 hrs SINGAPORE: Police arrested 11 women of different nationalities around Orchard Towers, who are believed to be involved in vice activities. The suspects are between 21 and 43 years old. They were caught on Friday...

Woman caught for trying to enter Singapore illegally Posted: 07 March 2013 1418 hrs The woman was found hidden under various items in the boot of the car. (Photo: ICA) SINGAPORE: A Chinese female national who tried to enter Singapore illegally was caught at the Woodlands Checkpoint...

7 nabbed for assault and immigration offences AsiaOne Friday, Feb 01, 2013 SINGAPORE - Police arrested 7 male Indonesian nationals, aged between 17 to 40, in a forested area off Woodlands Road in the wee hours of this morning. On Jan 29, 2013, at about 7.54 pm, police were informed that...

Chinese national jailed for theft onboard Posted: 31 January 2013 1621 hrs SINGAPORE: A Chinese national has been sentenced to two weeks' jail for stealing from another passenger during a flight from Medan to Singapore. Ren Guanglun, 33, committed the offence when he was flying on...

Cisco officer shoots herself at Supreme Court The Straits Times Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 SINGAPORE - The police are currently trying to contact the Malaysian woman's family. Details of the incident are still unclear. Get the full story from The Straits Times. More information from a joint...

Drug addict jailed for incest, trafficking Published on Jan 10, 2013 Posed picture of a man. Soon after his release from prison for drug consumption on Feb 17, 2011, the 56-year-old man went to stay with his ex-wife in Boon Lay. -- NEW PAPER PHOTO : JOYCE LIM By Khushwant Singh Soon...

Passenger punched and kicked me December 5, 2012 - 8:42pm By: Kerri Heng PHOTO: Shin Min Daily News YET another case of violence involving a cabby has surfaced, but this time, the assault by a passenger was captured on video. Cabby Lim Ciam Hock, 54, had picked up young male passenger at...

SAF colonel charged in pedestrian's death 27/11/2012 on mypaper A Singapore Armed Forces colonel was yesterday charged with causing the death of an elderly pedestrian through negligence. No plea was taken from Tan Yan Yee, 44. Tan, who is attached to the Singapore High Commission in Kuala...

Man smashed van windscreen and windows with spanner Published on Nov 16, 2012 By Elena Chong A plumber was jailed for a day and fined $5,000 on Friday for smashing the windscreen and windows of a van with a spanner. Seow Siow How, 53, admitted to committing mischief by causing damage of...

Appeal for information on case of theft AsiaOne Monday, Nov 05, 2012 SINGAPORE - Police are looking for the man shown in the picture to assist with investigations into a case of Theft in Dwelling which occurred at 1A International Business Park on October 9, 2012 at about 12.27 pm. The man...

Poland found explosives on wreckage of president's plane: report WARSAW | Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:25am EDT (Reuters) - Polish investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russia two years ago, killing Poland's president and 95 others, daily...

French PM sparks controversy with 35-hour week remark PARIS | Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:09am EDT (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault delighted business and angered labor leaders on Tuesday by suggesting the 35-hour work week was not sacrosanct, although he stressed the Socialist...

Greek journalists strike over suspension of presenters By Renee Maltezou ATHENS | Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:56am EDT (Reuters) - Greek state television journalists accused the government of censorship and began a series of work stoppages on Tuesday after two well-known presenters were suspended for...

U.S., Japan to hold joint military drill amid island row with China TOKYO | Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:45am EDT (Reuters) - Japan and the United States will hold a biennial joint military exercise in Japan in November in a move likely to further anger China amid heightened tensions between the two...

Greek PM appeals to coalition allies to back austerity ATHENS | Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:15am EDT (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appealed to his coalition partners on Tuesday to approve in parliament a new wave of austerity measures demanded by international lenders. The...

Rwandan opposition politician jailed for eight years By Jenny Clover KIGALI | Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:00am EDT (Reuters) - Rwanda's high court on Tuesday sentenced a leading opposition politician to eight years in prison, in a case linked to the 1994 genocide and seen as a test of the...

Fear, mistrust grip Myanmar's volatile Rakhine region By Martin Petty SITTWE, Myanmar | Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:50am EDT (Reuters) - As security forces police the edgy aftermath of sectarian bloodshed in western Myanmar, fearful Buddhists and Muslims are arming themselves with homemade weapons...

Gunmen kill religious leader in Russia's Dagestan By Thomas Grove MOSCOW | Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:19am EDT (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Muslim religious leader in Russia's Dagestan region on Tuesday in an attack likely to worsen a spiral of militant violence that threatens Moscow's hold on the...

Czech government threatened as PM's party stays split on tax By Robert Muller PRAGUE | Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:02am EDT (Reuters) - The ruling Czech Civic Democrats will try to delay a confidence vote tied to an unpopular law to raise taxes, after failing on Tuesday to quell a rebellion by six of...

Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:52am EDT (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and...