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KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN state ruler has commuted the punishment for a Muslim woman who was sentenced in a high-profile case to caning for drinking beer. The lawyer and the father of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno say she will instead have to perform community service for three weeks. Lawyer...

A NEW political party - the United Singapore Democrats (USD) - has just been registered last week. At least four of its leaders have links to the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), with one of them contesting the 2006 General Election as part of the SDP's six-man team in Sembawang GRC. The...

Casinos exempted from smoking ban in public spaces SINGAPORE: Smoking is banned in most enclosed places in Singapore, but it is a different story for the two casinos at Resorts World Singapore (RWS) and the soon to be opened Marina Bay Sands. A casino patron recently wrote to MediaCorp's...

SINGAPORE: A former management consultant who had cheated several charities was sentenced on Friday to 13 months' imprisonment. The court also ordered 51-year-old Stephanie Chee Jok Heng to return the money to the charities. She is appealing against the conviction and sentence. The...

Re: BANGKOK: More than 100K at 9pm. Many More Coming. JAMS 50km Long. ArbiSHIT SHITTI Thai PM ready for talks BANGKOK - THAILAND'S prime minister on Thursday said he was open to negotiations with red-shirted protesters who have massed in the capital to demand that he step down and call snap...

Mark Chow guilty of molest By Elena Chong FORMER television actor and model Mark Chow Yee Sze was convicted on Thursday of molesting a former operations manager of a pub three years ago. The 30-year-old former model agency owner was found guilty of molesting the 27-year-old woman at a...

Mark Chow guilty of molest By Elena Chong FORMER television actor and model Mark Chow Yee Sze was convicted on Thursday of molesting a former operations manager of a pub three years ago. The 30-year-old former model agency owner was found guilty of molesting the 27-year-old woman at a...

Re: offers Singapore companies free advertising space to put up job ads to hire Singa The Voice of Singapore from Singaporeans for Singaporeans THE TEMASEK REVIEW http://www.temasekreview.com/

As part of our continued endeavor to serve the interests of Singaporeans, we will be offering advertising space on our site completely free of charge to Singapore companies to put up their jobs ads recruiting Singapore citizens ONLY (PRs not included). We are currently charging prospective...

By Nopporn Wong-Anan and Kevin Lim SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It is time for people in one-party ruled Singapore to have more say in politics and not be fearful of a change of government, a hedge fund manager turned opposition leader said on Friday. Kenneth Jeyaretnam, whose late father and...

Foyce makes police report Mon, Mar 15, 2010 This afternoon, Foyce Le Xuan made a police report at the Tampines Police post. She said she would show the police the text messages alleging sexual harassment that Jack Neo had sent her. However, she does not know how much the police will be...

Australia 0.7 degrees warmer SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA'S top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as 'significant evidence' of climate change. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research...

JAKARTA - A powerful quake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit off the Indonesian island of Maluku on Sunday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at 07:47 pm local time (1247 GMT) about 132 kilometres southeast of Labuha, North Maluku province, at a depth of 56...

Media coverage on Jack Neo scandal is different for tabloids and broadsheet papers By Satish Cheney, Sharon See | Posted: 12 March 2010 2333 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Jack Neo in tears at news conference SINGAPORE: Media coverage on the Jack Neo scandal was raised in Parliament...

1) What is responsible for at least 51% of global warming? A) Carbon dioxide B) Electrical home appliances C) Transportation D) Livestock Answer:____

56-year-old man charged with stealing casino chips SINGAPORE: A 56-year-old man was charged in the Subordinate Courts this morning for allegedly stealing S$5,000 worth of casino chips from Resorts World Sentosa. Ooi Boon Huat, who is unemployed, allegedly committed the offence at a casino...

Wife suspected affair a year ago MADAM Irene Kng began suspecting that her husband Jack Neo was being unfaithful a year ago when friends told her that they had seen him with freelance model Wendy Chong, 22. But she chose not to confront the film-maker, whom she has been married to for 27 years...

SINGAPORE: Three bills have been tabled to amend the Constitution as well as the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Acts - paving the way for changes to the political system ahead of the next General Election, due by February 2012. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had proposed in May last...

SINGAPORE: A man who became the first person charged with offences committed in a Singapore casino has had his S$15,000 bail extended. Taxi driver Loo Siew Wan will next appear in Court 17 at 2.15pm on April 8, when a pre-trial conference on his case has been scheduled. Loo is accused of...

Cabbie in casino-crime case to appear in court on Apr 8 By Shaffiq AlKhatib, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 09 March 2010 1331 hrs SINGAPORE: A man who became the first person charged with offences committed in a Singapore casino has had his S$15,000 bail extended. Taxi driver Loo Siew Wan will...