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NUS scholar found dead in room AsiaOne Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 SINGAPORE - A first-year student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was found dead in his room at the university's UTown campus yesterday afternoon, reported the Shin Min Daily News. The 21-year-old male...

Cabby gets jail, caning for causing grievous hurt at a coffeeshop Published on Apr 23, 2013 A taxi driver who caused grievous hurt to an acquaintance was jailed for 12 months and ordered to be given three strokes of the cane on Tuesday. Lim Boon Inn, 41, pleaded guilty to punching Mr...

Re: Man pleads guilty to culpable homicide for fatal blow to girlfriend's three-year- Three-year-old Danish Iman Abdullah was brutally abused by his mother's boyfriend. The boy was in a coma for a whole week before he succumbed to death. Post mortem done, and due to the brutality, one of...

Man pleads guilty to culpable homicide for fatal blow to girlfriend's three-year-old son Published on Apr 22, 2013 23-year-old Muhammad Raffiq Jaffah (above) has been charged with the murder of three-year-old Danish Iman Abdullah, who went into a coma after being struck on the head...

Police appealing for information on shop theft at Fajar Shopping Centre Published on Apr 19, 2013 The police are looking for the woman in the picture above to assist in the investigation of a case of shop theft. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE By Melissa Lin The police are looking...

Man arrested for stealing iPad through window AsiaOne Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 SINGAPORE - Police have arrested a 45-year-old man for suspected housebreaking in Tampines. On March 19, 2013, a resident placed her iPad on a table beside the window facing the common corridor. While she was in...

Man arrested for series of thefts from vehicles in Bukit Merah Published on Apr 17, 2013 By Joanna Lee Police have arrested a 41-year-old man who is believed to have committed a series of thefts from vehicles. Between April 1 and April 7, the police received reports of items taken from...

Man arrested for series of thefts from vehicles in Bukit Merah By Joanna Lee The Straits Times Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 SINGAPORE - Between April 1 and April 7, the police received reports of items (above, left) taken from cars in the vicinity of Jalan Membina and Kim Tiam Place. Get the...

Security guard jailed for a week for smashing door of bus Published on Apr 15, 2013 By Khushwant Singh In a fit of rage, an off-duty security guard kicked the front door of a bus smashing its glass panel. Muhammad Haslam Said, 24, paid the price for his anger on Monday when a district...

Police appeal for information on loanshark harassment AsiaOne Friday, Apr 12, 2013 SINGAPORE - The police are looking for the man shown in the above picture to assist with investigations into a case of loanshark harassment at Chai Chee Street on Nov 20, 2012. The man is believed to be in...

Police issue crime prevention advisory for loanshark harassment scams By Amelia Teng The Straits Times Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 SINGAPORE - Police have in the last month received several reports of harassment involving SMS messages that were purportedly sent by loansharks. In such cases, the...

Drug trafficker in high speed car chase jailed 15 years Published on Apr 10, 2013 File picture of a man in handcuffs. Abdul Aziz Ismail, 51, unemployed, was sent to prison for 15 years on Wednesday for drug offences. He was also given the maximum fine of $3,000 and banned from driving...

High Court upholds anti-gay sex law, dismisses legal challenge Published on Apr 09, 2013 By Tessa Wong The High Court has dismissed a legal claim by gay partners Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee that Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalises sex between two men, was discriminatory and...

Woman litterbug jailed for offering bribe to cops Published on Apr 08, 2013 A woman was jailed for three weeks on Monday for offering $20 to two police officers to not take action against her for littering. Filpino national Prisbelle Pascua Abalos, 26, who was on social visit here...

Former S-League coach jailed for embezzling $170,000 from father-in-law Published on Apr 05, 2013 A former coach of Woodlands Wellington football club, R. Balasubramaniam, was jailed for a year by a district court on Friday, April 5, 2013, for misappropriating nearly $169,842 from his...

Woman charged with receiving stolen $388K Published on Apr 04, 2013 By Elena Chong A woman was charged on Thursday with dishonestly receiving stolen money and transferring it to another person. Khanim Omar, 51, is accused of three charges of dishonestly receiving stolen money amounting...

Fewer cases of high rise litterbugs with use of surveillance cameras Published on Apr 03, 2013 A 60-year-old man was fined $800 on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, for throwing a cigarette butt out of his kitchen window in November last year. An initiative by the National Environment Agency...

Police seeks help with missing 35-year-old man AsiaOne Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 SINGAPORE - The police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 35-year-old Ali Wijaya. He was last seen at Blk 11 Holland Drive on April 1, 2013 at about 4am. Mr Ali Wijaya has light, tanned...

$87k drugs found on Malaysian rider at Woodlands Checkpoint AsiaOne Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 SINGAPORE - Drugs with an estimated value of $87,000 were seized from a Malaysian motorcyclist at Woodlands Checkpoint on Saturday morning. In total, Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers seized...

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