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Woman convicted of forcing maid to pour hot water on herself and drinking tainted water
Lim Toon Leng, 44, and Linda Seah Lei Sie, 39, withheld their domestic worker's salary for almost a year and assaulted the maid over a period of three months in 2016.
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Man jailed for tying up and assaulting girlfriend, threatening to rape her daughter
Goh Kim Seng, 52, tied his girlfriend up with phone charging cables and assaulted her, then asked the victim’s teenage daughter whether he could rape her.
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Woman jailed 13 months for scamming 28 Carousell users of nearly $6,000
Pretending to have electronic gadgets, and tickets to the F1 race, a JJ Lin concert and even the 2018 National Day Parade, Foong Si Min, 23, tricked 28 victims on online sales platform Carousell.
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'Inherent difficulties' in AGC's case against Li Shengwu: Chief Justice
Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon has taken the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) to task, noting that there were now "inherent difficulties" in what has transpired in the case that the AG has presented against Li Shengwu.
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Man charged with murder of 40-year-old woman in Woodlands
A 34-year-old man was charged in the State Courts on Friday (18 January) with the murder of a 40-year-old woman in Woodlands.
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Tan Cheng Bock applies to form new political party along with some ex-PAP cadres
Former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock Bock announced on Friday (18 January) that he has applied to form a new political party along with 11 others including some ex-People’s Action Party (PAP) cadres.
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Yahoo Poll: Are tighter rules needed for the pet cremation industry?
Animal welfare organisations in Singapore have called for tighter rules on pet cremation services.
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Part-time cabby jailed for stealing taxi to avoid paying rental
A part-time cabby facing financial woes hatched a plan to steal a taxi so that he could earn fares from passengers without having to pay the rental for the vehicle, a court heard.
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Need for tighter rules on pet cremation services following Platinium saga: AWOs
Animal welfare organisations in Singapore are urging tighter rules on pet cremation services following the case of a dog that died at a controversial pet boarding facility and was reportedly cremated without its owner’s knowledge.
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2 'bak kwa' smugglers foiled at Woodlands Checkpoint: ICA
Two Singaporeans were separately busted at Woodlands Checkpoint last Saturday (12 Jan) for attempting to smuggle bak kwa (barbequed meat) in from Malaysia.
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MHA civilian officer admits to exempting himself from IPPT for 3 years
While overseeing fitness tests for police national servicemen, an MHA civilian officer changed his own records to exempt himself from the test.
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Youth who drove into Customs officer while fleeing over contraband cigarettes given probation
Afraid that he would be caught with contraband cigarettes, he panicked and accelerated the car he was driving – hitting a Singapore Customs officer in the process.
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Woman found dead in Woodlands flat, suspect arrested for murder
A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after police discovered the body of a 41-year-old woman in a Woodlands flat on Thursday morning (17 January).
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Car catches fire in Bukit Batok, driver escapes: witness
A Kia Cerato Forte caught fire along Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 on Thursday (17 January) morning.
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Food products containing alcohol exempted from liquor control laws: MHA
As of Friday (18 January), food products containing alcohol will be allowed for sale and consumption in public places past 10.30pm.
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Man jailed 12 weeks for abusing insurance firm's online travel claims system
A former customer care consultant with Etiqa Insurance abused his employer's computer system which approved of travel insurance claims, a court heard.
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Man jailed 4 months for signing telco contracts in parents' names
An unemployed man signed contracts with telcos in his parents' names to get phones which he would then sell off for cash, a court heard.
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Teen who blackmailed ex-girlfriend with secretly filmed obscene videos jailed
After Jin Zhaojie dumped the woman, he became upset that she was seeing other men and uploaded the obscene videos onto his Tumblr account. Jin, a 20-year-old China national, was jailed four months and two weeks on Wednesday (16 January) on one count of criminal intimidation and one count of transmitting
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Religious teacher and student issued Restriction Order under ISA for extremist views
A religious leader and one of his students have been placed on a Restriction Order (RO) under the Internal Security Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Wednesday (16 January). Murad Mohd Said, a 46-year-old freelance religious teacher, was issued the RO on 5 December for propagating “beliefs
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Woman fined for throwing hot noodles at beer promoter over alleged insult
G Radha Govindasamy, a 51-year-old Malaysian, was fined $3,000 on Wednesday (16 January) by the State Courts after she pleaded guilty to one count of doing a rash act to endanger the safety of 32-year-old Chua Chiew Theng. The court heard that on 4 May last year, Radha, who is a Singapore permanent
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Cyclist, lorry driver in viral road rage incident charged
A cyclist and lorry driver who were involved in a road rage incident in Pasir Ris were charged in the State Courts on Wednesday (16 January).
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Past shows in Singapore similar to RuPaul's Drag Race 'have not attracted much feedback': Iswaran
Past shows similar to an upcoming world tour featuring drag queens in Singapore have not attracted "much feedback" from the public, said the Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran on Tuesday (15 January).
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Revealing identity of SingHealth cyberattacker not in Singapore's national interest: Iswaran
Revealing the identity of the perpetrator behind Singapore's worst-ever cyberattack would not be in the Republic's national interest, said Minister-in-Charge of Cybersecurity S. Iswaran.
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Teen who tried to extort money from sex worker given probation
A teenager met a prostitute and tried to extort from the Chinese national by threatening to report her illegal sexual services to the police. When the Institute of Technical Education student previously pleaded guilty to the offence, the court heard that Kong had received a phone call from someone who
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NUS research fellow who cheated university by failing to declare ownership of firm jailed
Singaporean Liang Juan, then a research fellow at the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute (NERI), denied knowing the identity of the company’s owner when asked. On Tuesday (15 January), Liang was jailed eight weeks’ on three counts of cheating NERI in 2012. Liang, who
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