SINGAPORE (Bernama): A 58-year-old Singaporean man was arrested on Monday for attempting to smuggle drugs worth more than S$628,000 (S$1 = RM3.27) into Singapore, including over 5.6 kilogrammes (kg) of heroin, authorities have announced. Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said drugs comprising about 5,653g of heroin, 14g of ‘Ice’, 11g...
SINGAPORE: A man who cheated his then employer of more than S$170,000 and gave a bribe of nearly S$40,500 to a co-director of another firm was sentenced to a year and seven weeks’ jail on Thursday (Jan 23). On Jan 20, Alvin Yap Chin Chye, 50, pleaded guilty to a graft charge and three counts of...
SINGAPORE: A trip to Norway this month to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights turned awry for Ng and his wife, after their tour bus veered off the road and ended up partially submerged in a lake on Jan 12. Carrying 24 Singaporeans, the bus had been en route to Lofoten, a popular winter destination,...
SINGAPORE: Children younger than 18 months old should not be allowed screen use or be exposed to screens in the background. Background screen use refers to having the television or other devices turned on in the background even when a child is not watching them. These are part of stricter and clearer guidelines on screen use that the...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A man who lured around 50 women and teenage girls for photo shoots after promising to pay them went on to record intimate videos of the victims. Some of the videos, which included those showing sexual acts, were taken without the victims’ consent. Min Thein Kyaw, who was working for a software firm...
JOHOR BARU: A single mother here has been having sleepless nights over her 21-year-old daughter, whom she has not seen for over five months. Former beautician Pau Yiew Ping, 47, said the last time she saw Liew Jia Yee was in August last year after the latter went to Singapore for a new job. "My daughter was...
PUTRAJAYA: Singapore aims to open consulates in Sabah and Sarawak to deepen economic links with East Malaysia and strengthen ties between people on both sides. Singapore and Malaysia will also start a programme for volunteers from Singapore to help teach English in some Malaysian schools. It will be known as the Malaysia-Singapore English Volunteers Programme, with a...
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who owed a loan shark S$2,500 set up a fictitious boat repair company with two corporate bank accounts to repay his debt, and ended up sparking a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe. The court heard that the accounts were used to launder US$580,000 (S$794,000). Muhammad Ibrahim was on Wednesday (Jan 8) sentenced...
PUTRAJAYA: Singapore aims to open consulates in Sabah and Sarawak to deepen economic links with East Malaysia and strengthen ties between people on both sides. Singapore and Malaysia will also start a programme for volunteers from Singapore to help teach English in some Malaysian schools. It will be known as the Malaysia-Singapore English Volunteers Programme, with a...
SINGAPORE: After days of searching, the remains of a woman, likely to be Makansutra food guide founder K.F. Seetoh’s sister-in-law, have been found near the villa in Italy’s Tuscany region where a deadly explosion took place just before Christmas. Seetoh’s elder brother, Seetoh Kwok Meng, 68, was also killed in the Dec 21 blast. His body...
