Search results

Ex-SPH senior executive Peter Khoo pleads guilty to corruption, CBT By Alvina Soh | Posted: 24 August 2012 1126 hrs Former Singapore Press Holdings senior vice president Peter Khoo (centre). (Photo: TODAY/Ooi Boon Keong) SINGAPORE: Former Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) senior executive...

Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report Ryan’s hair before it was cut by his teacher. Ryan’s hair right after the cut A MOTHER has lodged a police report after her 12-year-old son's teacher cut his hair an hour before his PSLE oral exam last Thursday. The mother, Madam...

Foreigner bribes policemen over littering summon AsiaOne Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 SINGAPORE - A foreigner who tried to offer two police officers a $20 bribe on Wednesday has been arrested. At 2.30am on August 22, Staff Sergeant Yeo Mingshu Yves and Corporal Fatin Hazirah conducted checks on...

Foreigner bribes policemen over littering summon AsiaOne Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 SINGAPORE - A foreigner who tried to offer two police officers a $20 bribe on Wednesday has been arrested. At 2.30am on August 22, Staff Sergeant Yeo Mingshu Yves and Corporal Fatin Hazirah conducted checks on...

No licence to run nanny placement business, woman gets $2,000 fine August 21, 2012 - 1:52am By: Chai Hung Yin She saw the business potential in matching nannies to parents who needed help caring for their young children. So she registered her company’s name, set up a website, got a network...

New law to crack down on errant employers Foreign workers from Sunway Concrete Products and Techcom Construction & Trading. The New Paper Thursday, Aug 16, 2012 Local employers will have to pay for the upkeep of foreign workers who are waiting for their complaints to be resolved, under a...

2 S'poreans among 4 nabbed in M'sia for possessing firearms & drugs By Melissa Goh | Posted: 15 August 2012 1939 hrs KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have arrested four men for possession of firearms and illicit drugs. The suspects - two Singaporeans, a Vietnamese and a Chinese national -...

Undergraduate fined, jailed 2 months for assisting loanshark Published on Aug 14, 2012 Fan Wei Kang, an undergraduate at the Singapore Institute of Management was fined $60,000 and jailed two months. He had agreed to work for a loan shark in order to earn $1,000 a month to cover his tuition...

Two jailed for robbery and stepping on victims' faces AsiaOne Friday, Aug 10, 2012 SINGAPORE - A 36-year-old Bangladeshi worker was cycling along Nicoll Highway on May 15 when he was thrown off his bicycle and robbed by two men, who stole his wallet and mobile phone. The young robbers also...

47 arrested for suspected involvement in loansharking activities Posted: 08 August 2012 2027 hrs SINGAPORE : Forty-seven people have been arrested for suspected involvement in loansharking activities. The suspects - 23 men and 24 women - are aged between 18 and 66. Three suspects had...

Man charges into police post with knife 30 July 2012 4:04 PM | Updated 4:26 PM <cite style="display: block; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; margin: 4px 0px; ">Picture for illustration purposes only. (Photo / Wikimedia)</cite> Police arrested a man who charged into a neighbourhood police...

Underage sex scandal: 3 more men charged Arjunan Kulasegaram (left) and Ban Yinh Jheow (right). AsiaOne Friday, Jul 27, 2012 SINGAPORE - Three more men have been charged for having sex with an underage prostitute in relation to a high-profile online vice ring case, The Straits Times...

Man needed to assist with investigations for loanshark harassment AsiaOne Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 A loanshark harassment case was reported at Senja Road housing estate on July 6. Police are looking for the man shown in the above pictures to assist with investigations. The man is of medium...

Man flings flower pot at police in emotional outburst 4 July 2012 8:43 PM | Updated 8:47 PM <cite style="display: block; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; margin: 4px 0px; ">(Photo / Screen grab from www.OMY.sg)</cite> A man was arrested on Monday (2 July) after he threw a flower pot at the...

Man jailed 4 months for sexually abusing 15-year-old girl Published on Jun 25, 2012 By Elena Chong A man who sexually abused a 15-year-old girl was jailed for four months on Monday. Ng Wai Yeong, 23, had admitted to two charges of sexual assault by penetration of a minor at a condominium...

Man avoided drug charges by imposing as another in jail AsiaOne Friday, Jun 22, 2012 SINGAPORE - A drug offender, who was serving a jail sentence while posing as another man, has been sentenced for his own drug-related offences after he was found out by a prison officer. According to a...

Main suspect in 6 break-in cases arrested AsiaOne Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of Marsiling and Woodlands break-ins between May 3 and May 19. The man is suspected of being involved in a total of six break-ins where visual and audio...

6 members of the public help police nab crime suspects Posted: 20 June 2012 1420 hrs SINGAPORE: Public-spirited members of the public helped police arrest four suspects for snatch theft and robbery of mobile phones in two separate cases. In the first case, the 22-year-old male suspect...

S'pore peeping Tom caught in the act in Malaysia The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Jun 16, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - A Singaporean's holiday here turned expensive after he was fined RM4,500 by a magistrate's court for entering a women's toilet and peeping at a woman. Ong Lek Lim, 51, pleaded...