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Friday #sgroundup: Charges against Malaysian teacher who breached checkpoint withdrawn

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Charges against Malaysian teacher who breached checkpoint withdrawn

Sharifah bte Shafie, mother of Nurul Rohana Binte Ishak, leaves the Subordinate Courts after learning that Singapore has withdrawn its trespass charges against her daughter. (Yahoo photo)
Sharifah bte Shafie, mother of Nurul Rohana Binte Ishak, leaves the Subordinate Courts after learning that Singapore has withdrawn its trespass charges against her daughter. (Yahoo photo)

Singapore has withdrawn all three charges that stood against the 27-year-old Malaysian woman who tailgated her way through the Woodlands Checkpoint, drove around Singapore for three days and passed through Cantonment Police Complex to end up at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A psychiatric assessment on her found that she was suffering from a paranoid subtype of schizophrenia, and when she committed the offences, she was under the impression that she was being pursued and had to flee her home country.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/charges-against-malaysian-teacher-who-breached-checkpoint-withdrawn-085631910.html

Woman found dead at foot of block in Bishan

A woman was found dead at the foot of a block in Bishan. (Google Street View image)
A woman was found dead at the foot of a block in Bishan. (Google Street View image)

A female domestic worker from Malaysia was found dead at the foot of a block in Bishan late on Thursday night.

She was aged in her 30s, and police are now investigating her unnatural death.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-dead-at-foot-of-block-in-bishan-040302673.html

Popular Jakarta governor named as Indonesia presidential candidate

Jakarta's Governor Joko Widodo, also known as Jokowi, is greeted by residents during his visit to inspect the aftermath of a slum fire area in west Jakarta April 9, 2013. (REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni)
Jakarta's Governor Joko Widodo, also known as Jokowi, is greeted by residents during his visit to inspect the aftermath of a slum fire area in west Jakarta April 9, 2013. (REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni)

Indonesia's leading opposition party named Jakarta's governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate, a man who is widely seen as a shoo-in to be the next leader of the world's third-largest democracy.

Party chief and former president Megawati Sukarnoputri has also likely given her party a boost to their chances in the upcoming parliamentary election on 9 April.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-opposition-party-nominates-jakarta-governor-jokowi-president-084119041--sector.html

Radar data suggests Malaysia jet flown deliberately toward Andamans: sources

A woman writes on a banner of well wishes for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Edgar Su)
A woman writes on a banner of well wishes for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Edgar Su)

Sources familiar with the ongoing search-and-rescue investigation have told Reuters that military radar-tracking evidence suggests the missing jetliner MH370 was deliberately flown across the Malay peninsula toward the Andaman Islands.

Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was the Malaysian Airlines flight was following a route between navigational waypoints -- indicating it was flown by someone with aviation training -- when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-radar-data-suggests-missing-malaysia-plane-flown-081438772--sector.html

Singapore bids King Albert Park building goodbye

Singapore bids McDonald's Place, the iconic commercial building at King Albert Park, goodbye as it closes on Sunday, 16 March. (Yahoo file photo)
Singapore bids McDonald's Place, the iconic commercial building at King Albert Park, goodbye as it closes on Sunday, 16 March. (Yahoo file photo)

McDonald's Place, the iconic commercial building at King Albert Park, will cease operations after 11:59pm on Sunday, 16 March 2014. Open since 1991, it was acquired by Oxley Holdings for $150 million in April 2012.

The 5,534.8sqm space -- which is home to McDonald's corporate headquarters, one of the largest McDonald's outlets in Singapore and Cold Storage, among other smaller cafes like Spinelli and Cinta Manis — will be torn down and re-developed for both residential and commercial purposes.

People have flooded Twitter and Facebook with tributes to the soon-to-close building.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-bids-king-albert-park-building-goodbye-061952360.html