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Screwdriver-wielding robber arrested <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OVYUif5yRtI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> AsiaOne Monday, Jun 02, 2014 SINGAPORE - Police have arrested a 35-year-old man for alleged armed robbery in a lift at Boon Lay...

MDA assistant director pleads guilty to corruption and forgery Elena Chong The Straits Times Friday, May 30, 2014 SINGAPORE - Lai Wai Khuen, 37, originally accused of 31 charges and currently suspended from duty. admitted to one charge each of trying to get a loan and forgery, and three...

Five injured as gun goes off at kindergarten’s police safety talk PUBLISHED : Thursday, 29 May, 2014, 7:18pm UPDATED : Friday, 30 May, 2014, 9:19am Andrea Chen [email protected] The private kindergarten was marking Children's Day when the gun firing happened. Photo: Weibo What was meant...

Sex assault conviction 'caused businessman serious hardship' Businessman Anthony Lyons leaves court yesterday. Lyons was jailed for sexual assault in 2012. Photo: Collins Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor – Published 30 May 2014 02:30 AM YOUNG women "should be able to walk the streets of...

Two die in cesspit after a woman drops her phone into toilet PUBLISHED : Friday, 30 May, 2014, 2:54pm UPDATED : Friday, 30 May, 2014, 6:12pm Stephen Chen [email protected] A relative of the victims is overwhelmed with grief at the scene of the tragedy. Photo: sohu.com Two people died...

Anorexic woman who weighs four stone to be fed against her will Tim Healy – Updated 29 May 2014 07:40 AM A young woman weighing about 27kg (4.3 stone) due to severe anorexia nervosa is to be fed through a tube against her wishes, the High Court has ruled. The order also provides for the...

Mum found dead in hotel was strangled, inquest told Gareth Naughton – Published 30 May 2014 02:30 AM Sonia Blount A YOUNG mother who was found dead in a Dublin hotel died as a result of strangulation and suffocation, an inquest heard. Sonia Blount (30), a mother of a three-year-old boy...

Drug courier saved by unusual defence Published on May 29, 2014 7:37 AM Drug courier Mohammad Farid bin Mohd Yusop escaped the gallows after the High Court accepted his defence that he had intended to deal only in not more than 250g of Ice. -- PHOTO: CENTRAL NARCOTIC BUREAU By Selina Lum...

SWAT given 'shoot on sight' orders; commuters frisked as Beijing heightens anti-terror measures PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 6:03pm UPDATED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 6:16pm Alice Yan [email protected] and Andrea Chen [email protected] SWAT teams were given the green light by the...

Beijing 'orders crackdown' to halt spread of spam messages sent to mobile phones PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 11:15am UPDATED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 12:06pm Teddy Ng [email protected] Hundreds of millions of spam messages are sent to mainland mobile phone users every year. Photo...

China’s fake Sphinx to be demolished after Egypt complains PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 10:40am UPDATED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 10:40am Agence France-Presse in Beijing The full-size replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Donggou village in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province...

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Bus driver fined $5,000, banned from driving three years for causing death of cyclist Published on May 21, 2014 8:28 PM By Ian Poh <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/udIMGhx0Uxc?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe> SINGAPORE - An SBS Transit bus...

Police look for man to assist in attempted housebreaking case AsiaOne Sunday, May 18, 2014 SINGAPORE - The police are looking for the man in the picture (above) to help with a case of attempted housebreaking. The incident happened at a HDB unit along Tampines Street 21 on Feb 26, 2014, at...

Police investigating 20-year-old man for lodging false robbery report Published on May 16, 2014 8:45 PM By Walter Sim <iframe class="erwowupzokvmyekepauw" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ymHWpnFgcfc?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="853"></iframe> A 20-year-old man is...

Vietnam shaken by worst anti-China unrest in decades AFP May 15, 2014, 12:13 am Hanoi (AFP) - Anti-China protesters have set more than a dozen factories on fire in Vietnam in the biggest eruption of rage against Beijing for decades over the deployment of an oil rig in contested waters...

Eight dead, hundreds ill from 'tainted water' in Philippines AFP May 15, 2014, 2:24 am Alamada (Philippines) (AFP) - Health officials are testing for cholera and other diseases after eight people died and hundreds more fell ill in a remote area in the Philippines, possibly from contaminated...

S.African judge orders psychiatric tests for Pistorius AFP May 15, 2014, 3:37 am Pretoria (AFP) - A South African judge on Wednesday ordered that Oscar Pistorius undergo psychiatric tests to establish if he has "general anxiety disorder," in what could be a pivotal development in his murder...

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HDB vandals: Court to hear lawyer's bid for access to teen client Application to meet alleged vandal in remand is a test case, lawyers say Published on May 14, 2014 6:50 AM A worker painting over the spray-painted red graffiti across the walls of a rooftop of Block 85A, Lorong 4 Toa Payoh...