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19 arrested in 2 cases of illegal betting and gambling Published on Apr 3, 2012 By Cherie Thio Police arrested 19 men in two separate cases of illegal horse betting, and operating and gambling at an illegal gambling den in a private apartment last Friday. In the case of the illegal gambling...

Former engineer jailed for fibre optic cable sabotage By Claire Huang, Sara Grosse | Posted: 02 April 2012 1312 hrs SINGAPORE: A former SingTel engineer has been sentenced to 15 months' jail for taking revenge on his supervisors. Thirty-five-year-old Terrance Tan Khoon Shan was convicted of...

Man attacked teen and cop with stun gun Tattoo artist resisted arrest and struggled violently in coffee shop Published on Mar 30, 2012 Chan hit a policeman in his right arm and twice in hischest with his stun gun. -- PHOTO: JSEN TECH COMPANY LTD By Elena Chong Tattoo artist Chan Kar Fai...

Man arrested for disorderly behaviour at Jalan Besar Stadium Posted: 28 March 2012 2138 hrs SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a man for disorderly behaviour at Singapore's Jalan Besar Stadium. This was after the Malaysia FA Cup quarter-final football match between Singapore and Terengganu played...

Norhanita Sulaiman, 43, was jailed 13 months by a district court. The housewife had pleaded guilty on Feb 21 to committing criminal intimidation, slapping Ms Siti and burning her in a series of abuses from February 2010 in Norhanita's apartment at the Atrium Residences in Geylang. -- ST PHOTO...

Man and teenage female charged with vice offences Published on Mar 21, 2012 File photo of a prostitute. A man and a teenage girl were charged in court on Wednesday with vice offences. The couple allegedly procured two women aged 24 and 20 years for prostitution on Jan 20 last year and March...

Serial bicycle thief arrested at Admiralty MRT station Published on Mar 20, 2012 File photo of bicycles seen parked at a taxi rank outside Admiralty MRT station. Since January 2012, police had received several reports of bicycle thefts from Admiralty MRT Station, which led Woodlands...

Technician jailed 1 month for carrying truncheon, slapping man Published on Mar 19, 2012 By Khushwant Singh A woman shouted: 'Slow down', at Tay Poh Loon as he parked his car in the Arab Street area. He went up to her and said she was lucky that she was a woman and to escape a beating from...

Police investigating unauthorised transactions on iTunes By Wayne Chan | Posted: 14 March 2012 2229 hrs SINGAPORE: Police have confirmed that investigations are ongoing into several reports lodged with them about unauthorised transactions on the App Store on iTunes. Police say anyone who...

Couple charged with abuse of Filipino maid Published on Mar 7, 2012 By Elena Chong A couple were charged in court on Wednesday with causing hurt to their Filipino maid. Jayaceilia K. Varso, 35, is accused of pulling the hair of Ms Lilia Nieva Duculan and forcefully holding her hands apart to...

Two managers fined for false declaration in online database Posted: 06 March 2012 1843 hrs SINGAPORE: A general manager and site manager were convicted on Tuesday for making false declarations in the Online Foreign Worker Address System. 38-year-old general manager Lim Jiun Wei was fined...

Loanshark runner jailed, caned By Claire Huang | Posted: 05 March 2012 1718 hrs SINGAPORE: A loanshark runner has been sentenced to 27 months' jail and nine strokes of the cane, as well as a fine of S$30,000, for harassing residents. 23-year-old Soh Yong Hwee faced nine charges of harassment...

AIG selling billion of AIA shares, to repay bail-out By Denny Thomas and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG | Mon Mar 5, 2012 3:08am EST (Reuters) - American International Group (AIG) is selling part of its stake in AIA Group to raise about $6 billion to help the U.S. insurer repay a huge...

Two British journalists accused of spying in Libya By Christian Lowe and Ali Shuaib TRIPOLI | Sun Mar 4, 2012 4:56pm EST (Reuters) - Two British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained late last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia which...

Poland to mourn 16 killed in head-on train crash By Janusz Chmielewski and Chris Borowski WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland | Sun Mar 4, 2012 2:35pm EST WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski announced a two-day national mourning period...

Russia's Putin faces protests after poll triumph By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Mon Mar 5, 2012 10:51am IST (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin faces new protests on Monday to challenge his victory in a presidential election he said had prevented Russia from falling into the hands of enemies...

Greek man shoots two, takes hostages over layoff Thu, Mar 1 2012 ATHENS | Fri Mar 2, 2012 4:43am EST (Reuters) - An unemployed man shot and wounded his former boss and one other worker and took another two hostage at a small factory in Greece in protest at losing his job, police...

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Twenty dead in attack in China's restive west By Ben Blanchard and Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - Attackers wielding knives killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region before police shot seven of them dead, the government said, in the latest violence to...