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Ex-property agent charged with landlord/tenant representations in same transaction Posted: 28 March 2013 1901 hrs The logo of the Council for Estate Agencies. SINGAPORE: The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) has for the first time charged a former real estate salesperson with...

Police looking for man in loanshark harassment case at Serangoon North AsiaOne Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 SINGAPORE: Police are looking for the man shown in the above pictures to assist with investigations into a case of loanshark harassment which took place along Serangoon North Ave 3 on March...

Errant licensed moneylender fined S$124,000 Posted: 25 March 2013 1850 hrs SINGAPORE: A moneylender, whose licence was not renewed, has been fined S$124,000 for breaching the Moneylenders Act. Tan Chun Hua was the sole proprietor of moneylending business Credit HT. He held a moneylending...

Youth injured in Orchard Cineleisure attack Yahoo! Newsroom – 5 hours ago A youth was attacked late on Thursday evening outside Cathay Cineleisure Orchard shopping centre. It's believed the young man, aged in his 20s, was beset by a group of other boys in the incident which took place just...

Drop in cases of illegal subletting of HDB rental flats By Olivia Siong | Posted: 05 December 2012 2149 hrs Two HDB officers conduct checks on an HDB rental flat for illegal subletting. SINGAPORE: There has been a significant drop in the number of Housing and Development Board...

Spot legal cigarettes with their lines Posted: 29 November 2012 1429 hrs (File photo) SINGAPORE: From March next year, all cigarettes sold in Singapore must have a new marking to show that they are not contraband or smuggled goods. Besides the letters "SDPC", which stand for...

Man molested sleeping woman in Novena mall The New Paper Monday, Nov 26, 2012 SHE was on her way to work when she sat on a wooden bench at the first level of Square 2 mall and fell asleep. At about 6am on May 22, Sim Tiong Boon, 54, also on his way to work, saw the 25-year-old woman. He...

Littering penalties and fines being reviewed by Amanda Lee 04:45 AM Oct 16, 2012 SINGAPORE - The National Environment Agency (NEA) is reviewing penalties and fines for those caught littering, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday. Responding to a...

Experts name 25 most endangered primates QMI AGENCY FIRST POSTED: MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 11:51 AM EDT | UPDATED: MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 02:46 PM EDT Many of man's closest living relatives - apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates - are on the brink of extinction, according to a new...

Clinton: ‘I take responsibility’ for Benghazi ANDREW QUINN, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 04:44 AM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 04:53 AM EDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a speech to the media at the government palace in Lima, October 15, 2012...

Cop joins ransom kidnap that killed hostage By Zhao Wen (Shanghai Daily) 08:43, October 16, 2012 A policeman in Shaanxi Province, northwest China was detained for his alleged involvement in a 1.62-million-yuan ransom case in which the hostage was killed. Police officials confirmed the...

Russian Man Goes On Drunken Rampage in Beijing, Reactions by Fauna on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Photo is of the police officers arresting the suspect after arriving on the scene. Photo: Ma Wei. On iFeng: Beijing: Male Foreign National Under the Influence of Alcohol Hacked At People with...

Mysterious mummy images in Nantou fields Staff Reporter 2012-10-15 14:50 This farming region has coincidentally etched out a pattern in the landscape that bears a striking resemblance to a mummy with wings. (Photo courtesy of Google map) Through a Google satellite map, the Waitaping...

China's cash-strapped local gov'ts resort to heavy fines to boost revenue Huang Pei-chun and Staff Reporter 2012-10-16 17:41 An electronic sign dispalys the speed of a bus. (Photo/Xinhua) Faced with declining revenues due to the current economic downturn, cash-strapped local governments...

Mo money Mo problems: Nobel winner can't afford Beijing apartment Staff Reporter 2012-10-16 08:45 US$1.2 million doesn't get you much in Beijing these days. Mo Yan could be based in rural Shandong a while longer. (Photo/Xinhua) Mo Yan, the winner of this year's Nobel prize for literature...

Hurdles to buying a private jet in China Staff Reporter 2012-10-16 10:11 A private aircraft at an exhibition in Shanghai. (Photo/Xinhua) Chinese citizens can consider buying a private jet if their wealth amounts to 5 billion Chinese yuan (US$797.19 million) and they spend at least 300 hours...

Swiss hold $1 billion in blocked "Arab spring" assets By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA | Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:43am EDT (Reuters) - Switzerland has blocked nearly one billion Swiss francs ($1.07 billion) in stolen assets linked to dictators in four countries at the centre of the Arab spring - Egypt...

Some 72 million living as refugees around globe in 2011: Red Cross GENEVA | Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:02am EDT (Reuters) - Some 72 million people around the world had been driven from their homes by conflict, natural disasters or big development projects at the end of last year, the Red Cross...

British hacker spared extradition to U.S LONDON | Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:08am EDT (Reuters) - A British computer hacker accused by the United States of breaking into military systems will be spared from extradition because he is at risk of committing suicide, interior minister Theresa May said...

Cuba to lift broad travel restrictions, easing exit and return By Jeff Franks HAVANA | Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:42am EDT (Reuters) - Cuba will scrap much reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said on Tuesday in the communist island's...