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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
#FreeShakirHamzah
"The only way that I can show I am a changed man is through my actions. Just by saying is not enough." ~ Shakir Hamzah
"Youngsters make mistakes but he will have my full support to learn from that. He should be fined for what he did - that's it." ~ Bernd Stange, Singapore coach
"Youngsters make mistakes but he will have my full support to learn from that. He should be fined for what he did - that's it." ~ Bernd Stange, Singapore coach
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Bonus
Companies are expected to pay variable bonuses of 2.1 months of base pay during the April to December period. The financial services sector is projected to be the most generous, giving 3.6 months of base pay.
Are you working in the financial services sector?
Are you working in the financial services sector?
Free MRT Rides
Commuters who are catching Singapore's first free MRT train rides from June 24 onwards won't just get free rides, they will also receive free drinks.
250,000 cans of Red Bull Less Sugar will be given out by Red Bull Singapore at Chevron House, outside Raffles Place MRT from June 24 to 26.
Commuters can collect the drinks between 7am and 8am, as well as between 12 noon and 2pm on these dates.
Cheaper Tickets to Singapore Zoo
The Singapore Zoo will turn 40 this year on June 27, and to mark the occasion, tickets to the zoo will be priced at 40 per cent off on that day.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Mustafa's Condo
The managing director of Mustafa Centre built an $11 million, 10-storey apartment building for his family.
Complete with a swimming pool and gymnasium, the building houses nine units which Mr Mustaq Ahmad (above), his wife Ishret Jahan, their four children and six grandchildren share.
Mr Mustaq said: "A home is the most important necessity for any person."
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
JEM
The JEM shopping centre opened its doors Saturday morning, with more than 10,000 shoppers showing up within the first hour.
But new problems surfaced - a couple of shops had water leakages, and had to close temporarily, barely hours after their opening.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Wendi Deng's Divorce
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch filed papers to divorce his third wife Wendi Deng on Thursday, citing an "irretrievably" broken marriage to a woman 38 years his junior.
Wong Li-lin and Allan Wu
In a media statement, it said that the pair have reached a mutual decision to get divorced. The pair were married in 2004 & have 2 children, Sage and Jonas, aged 8 & 5 respectively.
Volatile Global Financial Markets
The world economy appears to be moving into a phase of "more stable, but slower growth", the World Bank said yesterday in a report whose cautious overall tone provided a backdrop to the volatility and nervousness that are afflicting global financial markets.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Beerfest Asia 2013
From today until 16 June 2013
Tent@Marina Promenade
(F1 tracks behind Singapore Flyer)
Tent@Marina Promenade
(F1 tracks behind Singapore Flyer)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Euro
The euro hit a four-week high against the dollar on Thursday as investors positioned for the European Central Bank to leave rates unchanged, but uncertainty over the US Federal Reserve's next move kept equity markets on edge.
Bonus
Civil servants will receive a mid-year bonus of 0.4 month of their salary in July, slightly higher than last year's figure of 0.3 month.
Siow Hui Min
After a night of drinking games at a friend’s hen night in a hotel suite, Malaysian presenter and television host Siow Hui Min, 30, was tired and went to bed around midnight.
At about 4am, she felt the bed covers being taken off her.
Then, to her shock, she felt someone touching her breasts, she told a Kuala Lumpur court on Tuesday.
Ting Yan Jing
Ken Low, 28, a Malaysian with Singapore PR, is on trial for molesting Ms Siow Hui Min, 30, and Ms Ting Yan Jing, 31, on July 22 last year at the hen party which he attended with his wife, Malaysian radio DJ May Lau, 31.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013
SOTA
Graduating O-level students interested in studying film now have another option open to them.
Starting next year, the School of the Arts (Sota) will offer film as an international baccalaureate (IB) subject to outside students.
SIM-RMIT
Some 2,000 degree students at RMIT University did not get their exam results on Thursday amid a dispute with Australia's National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).
The union has banned the release of the results, which had been scheduled for yesterday, after failing to come to an agreement with the university about academic pay and employment.
There are about 6,000 students in the three- year Singapore Institute of Management-RMIT programme. RMIT believes around 2,000 students are missing at least one result.
Boy, 9, murdered in West Coast.
A 31-year-old woman has been arrested by the police in connection with the murder of a 9-year-old boy on Saturday night.
According to the police, they received a call for assistance at Block 704, West Coast Road at about 6.08pm last night.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Peeping Tom from Temasek Polytechnic
The teen wore a blonde female wig and sneaked into a women's toilet at Temasek Polytechnic (TP), allegedly taking pictures of the girls there.
But as he tried to leave the toilet, he was confronted by a group of seven girls, two of whom subdued him and pinned him to the wall.
Security was alerted and the teen apprehended. The incident happened on Friday.
The New Paper understands that he is an 18-year-old first-year student from the business process and systems engineering course at TP.
Bicycle Sharing in Moscow
One of the world's least cycle-friendly cities, Moscow, will on Saturday launch its first bicycle sharing scheme allowing residents to pedal around for free and escape the traffic gridlock.
The scheme, similar to those already in place in cities such as London and Paris, will start on a modest scale with 1,000 bicycles placed at 50 stands around the city centre.
Asteroid
An asteroid nearly two miles (three kilometers) wide is set to pass by Earth Friday with no risk of impact, offering scientists a rare chance to study a massive flying object with its own moon.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest approach to Earth at 4.59pm (20.59 GMT), at a distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon, the US space agency said.
"This is the closest approach the asteroid will make to Earth for at least the next two centuries," NASA said.
Friends
"Don't care what you earn,
where you live,
what you drive,
where you studied,
whether you are fat or slim,
tall or short,
old or young,
beautiful or average,
rich or poor,
smart or not.
If you are my friend, you are my friend.
I accept you for who you are,
and that is ALL that matters."
~ Author Unknown
where you live,
what you drive,
where you studied,
whether you are fat or slim,
tall or short,
old or young,
beautiful or average,
rich or poor,
smart or not.
If you are my friend, you are my friend.
I accept you for who you are,
and that is ALL that matters."
~ Author Unknown
Friday, May 31, 2013
Breaking News on Ex-SCDF Chief Peter Lim Sin Pang
Former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief Peter Lim Sin Pang is guilty of corruption.
The 52-year-old was on Friday, handed a guilty verdict by District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim, who ruled that Lim had been the one who initiated the sexual encounter with Ms Angie Pang Chor Mui, whom he was not in an intimate relationship with.
David Loh Kim Kang
Knowing that their eldest son died while helping a needy family in the Sabah northern district of Kota Belud is perhaps one of the consoling thoughts of parents David Loh Kim Kang and Angela Loh Moh Cheng.
Psy on His Twins
“Life is not fair you know."
“Their mum spent most of her life on them and I was flying this country, that country. Then I just ‘fly’ once and they love me more,” said Psy with a grin.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Darren Loh Ying Xiu
The teenager was on a service project in Malaysia with his school, hoping to help the less fortunate.
But Darren Loh Ying Xiu, 17, a Year Five pupil of Anglo-Chinese School (International), died in Kota Kinabalu on Monday, said his family in a statement to the press yesterday.
BTO and SBF Schemes
4,900 BTO flats from eight projects in five non-mature towns, and 3,100 sale of balance flats in various non-mature and mature towns were launched today.
Eastern Region Line
Speaking at the Modern Railways conference at Mandarin Orchard hotel yesterday, Land Transport Authority director of rail services Melvyn Thong said there are plans to extend the upcoming Eastern Region Line (ERL) and link it to the airport's planned Terminal 4.
Kurt Tay
He wanted a boob job to boost his confidence, but he didn't count on how badly his family would react to his new assets.
After a series of fights and confrontations with his mother and father, security guard and aspiring Singaporean singer Kurt Tay finally decided to attend counselling sessions with his parents.
His aim is to help his parents reconcile themselves with his decision to get C-cup breasts - although he is a man.
Panasonic Corp
Panasonic Corp said it will cut around 5,000 workers from its automotive and industrial division in a bid to bolster its operating profit margin over the next three years to a 5 per cent minimum set by the company's president, Kazuhiko Tsuga.
Road Closures for Sundown Marathon 2013
Some roads will be closed from May 31 to June 2 for the Sundown Marathon 2013. The 10km run and the 21km half-marathon will be held on May 31 and the 42km Marathon will be held on June 1.
The races will involve road and lane closures in the vicinity of Marina Bay, Tanjong Rhu estate and East Coast Park.
Momjjang
Korean fitness and diet guru Jung Da Yeon looks nothing like the hefty 70kg-heavy housewife she was a decade ago.
A far cry from her days as a dowdy housewife, she is now known throughout South Korea as the woman who launched the "momjjang" hot body fad.
The term "momjjang" refers to her nickname "momjjang ajumma" - which means a mom or older woman with a striking figure.
Hate Speech on Facebook
Facebook Inc said its systems to remove hate speech haven't worked as well as the company had hoped, amid reports that advertisers are pulling their brands off the social network in the face of a backlash from women's groups.
Breaking News on Facebook
Facebook pages belonging to well-known public figures and pages with large followings (celebrities, journalists, government officials, popular brands and businesses) will now get an added feature to verify their authenticity.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Istar Sulaiman
What started as a good deed by one man turned into a yelling match between two others, and it ended with one of them spitting at the other thrice.
The confrontation was filmed by Mr Istar Sulaiman on his mobile phone.
The 20-year-old national serviceman had given up his seat to an elderly man.
However, the elderly man insisted that the person seated next to Mr Istar give up his priority seat instead.
The man in the priority seat got offended and an argument ensued.
Man Spits on MRT
A man was caught on video spitting and hurling vulgarities at an elderly man who had argued with him over who could have the priority seat on an MRT train.
IMF
The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Tuesday reiterated confidence in managing director Christine Lagarde after she was grilled for two days in a French court over the 2008 Tapie scandal.
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