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Man jailed over bestiality A twisted 22-year-old man has been jailed after pleading guilty to performing sex acts on his pet dog. Gareth Francis Owen confessed to having sex with his Golden Labrador, called Andrex, between July 20 and September 20 last year. Owen, 22, from Hartlepool...

An Indonesian domestic worker, who ran away from her employer's house, ended up being raped by the "good Samaritan" who had given her shelter. The 24-year-old woman met the man when she went to the Immigration Department to surrender herself the day she left her employer's home in Kota Baru...

A little girl whose birthmark was literally strangling her to death can finally smile after becoming the first Brit to trial a miracle drug. Adorable Millie Field, three, was born with a small, blue mark on her face which doctors told her parents Michelle and Stuart was a bruise from a...

A multi-millionaire was arrested for trying to steal a chicken in China. The businessman, surnamed Zhang, was traveling in his BMW when he passed by a village in Xinyu town of Xiangxi province last week. He saw some chickens searching for food at the courtyard of a farmhouse. When he...

KUALA LUMPUR - Days after being acquitted of a sodomy charge, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim continued to come under fire from his detractors, this time for appearing to support gay rights. Pro-government newspapers slammed Mr Anwar on Sunday for suggesting that Malaysia's strict laws on...

SOURCE: The Straits Times Online A foreign domestic worker leapt eight floors to her death after her employers found that she had stolen from them, a coroner's court heard. Shaik Razzia, 25, an Indian national, had been working for the couple - both also Indian nationals - for about seven...

By Nur Asyiqin For $82.59, he could have bought a ticket, not including taxes, to fly on a budget airline from Singapore to Cebu in the Philippines. But this was what Mr A. Kochumadhavan paid for a 90-minute taxi ride from Changi Airport to Jurong West. Cabbies whom The New Paper spoke...

CHICAGO - PepsiCo Inc said company tests of its Tropicana orange juice showed low levels of a potentially dangerous fungicide, but levels were below federal safety concerns and did not pose a health risk. The company said in a statement on Saturday it was conducting additional tests after the...

There is a very low tolerance for imperfection here, but it is this intolerance that will drive the nation to strive and do things better, said Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Chan Chun Sing. He was speaking in response to questions about the recent spate of MRT...

She made a remark about her male teacher in jest. But his crude response left her shocked and shaken. The incident between Denise (not her real name), 17, and her teacher took place last month during a performance trip to Hong Kong with the school's choir. The teacher is one of those in...

Any person with any brain would have contacted the police and not put it on STOMP instead.

[img]http://www.asiaone.com/A1MEDIA/news/01Jan12/images/20120116.085405_tan.jpg[img] Mr Tan Chuan-Jin carrying a bag of rice to be distributed to residents in Chai Chee yesterday. By Samantha Boh my paper Monday, Jan 16, 2012 The key to engaging people online is to be yourself, said...

Rumours of celebrities involvied in prostitution are not new to the entertainment industry in Hong Kong. Over the past two years, there have been much talk that dozens of female celebrities were suspected of "selling themselves" for money. But there was no concrete evidence of their...

Last year - 2011 - was memorable for the way social media suddenly became a national buzzword when it came to major issues talked about online and offline. In the run-up to, and even after the May 2011 General Election, more Members of Parliament began using social media to reach out to...

Netizens are discussing a phenomenon where more Singaporeans are choosing to move to Malaysia. In fact, the number of Singaporeans who have moved to stay in Johor is believed to have doubled in the last five years. One netizen recently discussed this phenomenon by citing the example of a...

工人党：救济人民是政府责任 不应由议员承担 虽然部分民众已开始受到经济趋软的影响，但这些冲击似乎还未来到由工人党议员管理的选区。阿裕尼集选区议员林瑞莲、毕丹星和后港区议员饶欣龙都表示，他们去年每周接见选民的个案保持平稳。 　　毕丹星每周接见二三十名选民。大选前阿裕尼集选区的行动党议员每周接见60至80名居民。 　　对此，毕丹星重申工人党立场：救济人民是政府的责任，不应由议员来承担。 　　“我们不希望陷入得自行推出福利计划的局面，因为这将让国人不去关注政府为什么没有帮助穷人，这也会把照顾穷人的责任放在反对党手中，那是不对的。”...

Malaysia Nanban reported that police in Andhra Pradesh managed to stop a 25-year-old man from selling his four-month-old son for 300 rupees (S$7.26) to pay for his drinking habit. It was reported that Barath, 25, a painter from Madanapally in Sitturdistrict in North India, had spent all his...

Hot-potato issues - housing, transport and employment - will be the talk of the town, say GWENDOLYN NG, SARAH CHANG and SUJIN THOMAS 1 MINISTERIAL SALARIES REVIEW TO BE MADE PUBLIC SINGAPOREANS wait with bated breath for details of the report handed to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last...

Come 1st January 2012, households in Singapore can expect an average of 2.3% rise in electricity tariffs. SP Services announced yesterday that electricity tariffs between 1st January and 31st March will increase due to higher fuel prices resulting in higher power generation costs. A...

Looks like our passports are becoming 3rd class. S'porean family's Xmas eve nightmare in Dubai jail. A Singaporean family was prevented from boarding their departing flight at the Dubai Airport on Christmas eve and detained for 14 hours. The wife and her 13-year-old daughter were...