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July 8, 2008
Housewife scalded maid, then sent her home
She also made maid sleep with dogs in the balcony and did not pay her for 18 months.
By Elena Chong
In court on Monday, Miss Tasiyem was in tears when she claimed her employer (above) also did not pay her salary for 18 months. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
ANGRY with her Indonesian maid over the damp clothes that she had left on a sofa, a woman poured two cups of hot water into her mouth and later on her back when she was bending down to pick up dog food in the balcony where she slept with the pets.
Miss Tasiyem, 25, recounted these abuses at the trial of her former employer, Brenda Tan Bee Khim, 40, who has denied scalding her at her Tampines Street 72 flat on May 15, 2006.
Four days after the alleged incident, Tan sent the Indonesian maid home to Kebumen, a village in Central Java.
Her family members found out about her injuries and took her to hospital where she was warded from May 20 to 26 that year.
In court on Monday, Miss Tasiyem was in tears when she claimed her employer also did not pay her salary for 18 months.
She started working for the family in June 2004 and her chores included cleaning the house, looking after the baby and tending to dogs.
At the time she said her employer had seven dogs.
Recounting the scalding on May 15 that year, she said she woke up at about 6am and her employer scolded her about the laundry she had left in the living room.
Miss Tasiyem said Tan forced some hot water into her mouth and she spat it out.
Tan then told her to wipe the floor. She then boiled some water in an electric kettle.
While she was still mopping the floor, the dogs started barking at the balcony.
Miss Tasiyem said that Tan, who was afraid that her neighbours might complain, told her to stop the dogs from barking.
While Miss Tasiyem knelt down to pick up dog food, she felt a burning sensation, turned around and saw Tan holding a mug in her hand.
Mr Ranjit Singh, defending, said nothing happened that day. But Miss Tasiyem told Tan's father the next day that she had scalded herself.
The defence claims that Ms Tasiyem refused medical treatment and had every opportunity to make a complaint during the four days but did not.
The hearing has been adjourned to a later date. |
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Indian teenage girl found dead in Ang Mo Kio was murdered: police
By Esther Tan
Madam Meena with a weeping woman believed to be Madam Alice (centre).
Night before her death, teen's boyfriend asked to marry her
ON Monday night, Ms Jeevithan Palanisamy's boyfriend asked her mother for her hand in marriage.
The 18-year-old's mother felt that Jeevitha was too young and suggested to the young man that he let her finish her studies first while he continued working, The New Paper reported on Wednesday.
The boyfriend seemed amenable to the reply and Jeevitha's mum, Madam Alice, left after asking him to take her daughter home.
But on Tuesday morning, Jeevitha's body was found beside a PUB power substation at Block 154, Ang Mo Kio Ave 5.
Jeevitha's aunt, Madam Meena, told The New Paper that she had met Madam Alice at 9am on Tuesday morning, where Madam Alice told her about the marriage proposal.
They found out about the Jeevitha's death only when Madam Alice received an SMS from her ex-husband at 11am.
Madam Meena said that Jeevitah had met her 22-year-old boyfriend while clubbing and they had dated for about a year.
She said he was nicknamed 'Marsiling Baby'.
The police have classified Jeevitha's case as murder.
They said they arrested a 22-year-old suspect at 6.15pm on Tuesday.
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Singapura : 11 Julai 2008
KES JUAL GINJAL
PENGERUSI C.K.TANG DIDAKWA
Fasilitator pesakit turut dihadapkan ke mahkamah
Oleh
Hisham Hambari
PENGERUSI C.K. Tang, Tang Wee Sung, dan seorang fasilitator pesakit, Wang Chin Sing, telah didakwa di Mahkamah Rendah semalam kerana penglibatan mereka dalam kes penjualan ginjal yang pertama di Singapura.
Tang, 55 tahun, dikenakan tiga tuduhan, sementara Wang, 44 tahun, menghadapi 10 tuduhan.
Tang menghadapi dua tuduhan di bawah Akta Pemindahan Organ Manusia (Hota) kerana menyertai rancangan di mana dia menawarkan $300,000 kepada Wang untuk membantunya mendapatkan ginjal dan membuat pengakuan palsu.
Hota mengharamkan penjualan organ manusia dan mereka yang terlibat dalam rancangan seperti itu boleh dipenjara sehingga setahun.
Pengakuan palsu itu dibuat oleh Tang kepada Pesuruhjaya Sumpah, di mana dia berkata tiada bayaran dibuat untuk mendapatkan ginjal dan bahawa dia mempunyai talian keluarga dengan seorang warga Indonesia, Sulaiman Damanik, 26 tahun.
Sulaiman bersetuju menjual ginjalnya tetapi diberkas sebelum pemindahan itu dijalankan.
Tuduhan ketiga Tang berkaitan pengakuan palsu yang dibuatnya kepada jawatankuasa etika pemindahan organ.
Tuduhan-tuduhan itu dibacakan kepada Tang petang semalam, setelah dia gagal hadir pada sesi pagi mahkamah kerana dirinya kurang sihat dan perlu dibawa ke Hospital Gleneagles.
Diiringi beberapa ahli keluarga dan seorang jururawat peribadi, Tang kelihatan tenang di mahkamah.
Sementara itu, Wang yang dikatakan sebagai orang tengah dalam dua kes penjualan ginjal di sini turut didakwa di bawah Hota pagi semalam.
Tuduhan pertama adalah membuat rancangan bersama Whang Sung Lin, yang mempunyai talian keluarga dengan Tang, untuk membeli ginjal daripada Encik Sulaiman.
Sembilan tuduhan lain termasuk dakwaan bahawa Wang bersubahat dengan Tang dan Sulaiman agar mereka membuat pengakuan palsu dengan berkata mereka ada talian keluarga.
Wang juga dituduh mendesak Sulaiman membuat keterangan palsu dalam pengakuan bertulis bagi membolehkan pemindahan ginjalnya dan juga kepada jawatankuasa etika pemindahan organ.
Dia juga dituduh membuat rancangan bersama seorang lagi warga Indonesia, Toni, 27 tahun, dan Cik Juliana Soh, di mana Cik Soh telah menerima ginjal daripada Toni pada Mac lalu.
Ini selain bersubahat dengan Toni agar membuat beberapa pengakuan palsu.
Tiada pengakuan diterima daripada kedua-dua Tang dan Wang setelah pihak pendakwa raya meminta tempoh lanjutan untuk menyiapkan kes mereka.
Hakim Daerah, Encik John Ng, memutuskan kes Tang dan Wang masing-masing didengar lagi di sidang sebelum perbicaraan (PTC) pada 21 Julai ini.
Tang dibebaskan dengan ikat jamin $15,000 sementara Wang dikenakan ikat jamin $30,000.
Kedua-dua pasport mereka ditahan pihak berkuasa. |
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Singapura : 11 Julai 2008
PEGUAM WANG CADANG BINCANG DENGAN PEJABAT AG, MOH
Minta tuduhan atas klien dikurangkan
PEGUAM Wang Chin Sing, Encik Shashi Nathan, bercadang mengadakan perbincangan dengan Pejabat Peguam Negara (AGC) dan Kementerian Kesihatan (MOH) agar jumlah tuduhan yang dikenakan terhadap kliennya dikurangkan.
Ini kerana walaupun Wang menghadapi 10 tuduhan, tuduhan-tuduhan itu berkisar kepada hanya dua kes penjualan organ, kata Encik Nathan.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui wartawan di Mahkamah Rendah semalam selepas Wang, yang dipercayai menjadi orang tengah dalam dua kes penjualan organ di sini, dikenakan tuduhan-tuduhan itu.
'Jumlah tuduhan ke atas klien saya seolah- olah kelihatan rumit kerana ia melibatkan ramai pihak tetapi sebenarnya ia berkisar kepada hanya dua kes penjualan organ,' kata Encik Nathan.
Beliau berkata perbincangan lanjut dengan pihak AGC dan MOH itu mungkin dilakukan secara bertulis atau dengan mengadakan pertemuan.
Ia akan dilakukan sebelum kes Wang didengar lagi di satu sidang sebelum perbicaraan (PTC) 21 Julai ini.
Antara tuduhan yang dihadapi Wang ialah membuat perancangan bersama Whang Sung Lin untuk membekalkan ginjal daripada seorang penderma hidup kepada Pengerusi C.K. Tang, Tang Wee Sung.
Wang dijanjikan bayaran $300,000 untuk peranannya itu.
Whang, yang mempunyai talian keluarga dengan Tang, dipercayai akan turut dikenakan tuduhan tidak lama lagi.
Encik Nathan berkata kliennya ialah seorang fasilitator pesakit yang bergerak bebas selama sekitar 10 tahun.
Tugasnya ialah mencari pesakit luar negara yang ingin mendapat rawatan di Singapura dan Wang akan menerima bayaran daripada pihak doktor kerana rujukan-rujukannya itu.
Sementara itu, peguam Tang, Encik Cavinder Bull, berkata kliennya telah bekerjasama dengan pihak berkuasa sejak siasatan bermula.
Beliau enggan memberi ulasan mengenai tiga tuduhan yang dihadapi kliennya, kecuali berkata bahawa beliau akan menyemaknya dengan teliti.
'Klien saya ingin kes ini diselesaikan secepat mungkin dan saya juga mempunyai harapan yang sama kerana klien saya tidak sihat,' ujarnya ketika ditemui wartawan.
SEKILAS KES
Tertuduh:
Pengerusi C.K. Tang, Tang Wee Sung, 55 tahun, dan orang tengah Wang Chin Sing, 44 tahun.
Kes Tang:
Menghadapi tiga tuduhan, termasuk menyertai rancangan mendapatkan ginjal daripada Wang dengan bayaran $300,000. Tang juga dituduh membuat pengakuan palsu bahawa dia mempunyai talian keluarga dengan warga Indonesia Sulaiman Damanik, 26 tahun. Sulaiman diberkas sebelum pemindahan ginjal itu dijalankan.
Kes Wang:
Menghadapi 10 tuduhan, termasuk membuat rancangan membekalkan ginjal kepada Tang dan Cik Juliana Soh, masing-masing dengan bayaran $300,000 dan $8,000. Cik Soh menerima ginjal daripada warga Indonesia, Toni, 27 tahun, Mac lalu.
Wang juga dituduh menghasut Tang, Sulaiman dan Toni membuat beberapa pengakuan palsu, termasuk kepada Pesuruhjaya Sumpah dan Panel Etika Pemindahan Organ.
Kes Sulaiman dan Toni
Dijatuhi hukuman dan denda 3 Julai lalu. Sulaiman dibebaskan setelah menjalani hukuman penjara selama tiga minggu, termasuk penjara seminggu kerana tidak membayar denda $1,000. Toni masih dipenjara setelah dihukum penjara tiga setengah bulan dan didenda $2,000. |
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Singapura : 11 Julai 2008
POLICE said an Indian teenage girl, found dead in a pool of blood near a power substation in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 on Tuesday morning, was murdered and they are working on 'some leads'
DITUDUH SEBABKAN KEMATIAN BEKAS TEMANITA
SEORANG lelaki berusia 22 tahun semalam didakwa di Mahkamah Rendah dengan tuduhan menyebabkan kematian bekas temanitanya.
Pathip Selvan Sugumaran dituduh menyebabkan kematian Cik Jeevitha Panippan, 18 tahun, di laluan pejalan kaki di belakang sebuah stesen janakuasa kecil di depan Blok 154, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 Isnin lalu.
Sugumaran, yang tinggi, ditangkap pada malam Selasa lalu di Pusat Pemeriksaan Woodlands ketika memasuki Singapura setelah keluar dari negara ini 12 jam sebelum itu.
Mahkamah membenarkan dia ditahan seminggu lagi bagi siasatan lanjut polis.
Kesnya akan didengar lagi pada 17 Julai.
Jika didapati bersalah Sugumaran boleh dijatuhi hukuman gantung. |
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Reply #626 Browneyes's post
ha'ah betul tu.. pembunuh tu betul2 tidak berperikemanusiaan..:@  |
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Major manhunt off East Coast nets 5 cigarette smugglers
By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 11 July 2008 2022 hrs
SINGAPORE : Five cigarette smugglers, who jumped into the sea to escape the Police Coast Guard, sparked off a major manhunt along Singapore's eastern shoreline on Friday morning.
The six-hour operation resulted in the seizure of over 2,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes.
Various police units fanned out to comb the forested area around the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, near Singapore Changi International Airport.
By late morning, the Special Operations Command, Gurkha and Bedok Division officers had rounded up five illegal immigrant suspects. They had jumped off their boat and swum to shore in the pre-dawn hours when detected by a coast guard patrol.
A 10-metre fibre glass speed boat and 2,099 cartons of contraband cigarettes worth S$230,000 or about US$170,000 were seized.
The suspects, believed to be Indonesians, will be charged in court on Saturday for illegal entry and possession of contraband goods. - CNA/ms
52 arrested in Singapore for illegal football betting
By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 11 July 2008 0026 hrs
SINGAPORE: 52 people were arrested in Singapore for illegal football bookmaking activities involving about US$440,000 from May 1 to June 30.
The Singapore Police Force-Interpol operation also seized cash amounting to US$85,000.
The arrests were made as part of Operation SOGA (short for soccer gambling) Wave 2. The operation also involved law enforcement agencies from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
This latest operation was timed to coincide with the recent Euro Cup 2008 competition.
Across the region, 1,316 people were arrested and cash amounting to US$16.8 million was seized.
Anyone convicted for acting as a bookmaker in Singapore faces a fine of between S$20,000 and S$200,000, and a maximum jail term of five years.
If convicted for betting with an illegal bookmaker, the fine is a maximum S$5,000 or a six-month jail term.
- CNA/so |
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S$370,000 worth of heroin seized in CNB operation
By Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 July 2008 0117 hrs
SINGAPORE : A two-day islandwide anti-drug operation rounded up 10 suspected traffickers and 25 suspected drug abusers on Friday.
A total of 1.5 kilogrammes of heroin, 2 grammes of 'ice', 3 grammes of ketamine and 2 'ecstasy' tablets was also seized. The heroin alone had a street value of over S$370,000.
The biggest haul was from a home in Yishun which had been used as a main store, where some 1.2 kilogrammes of heroin was recovered.
In addition, two hideouts in Ang Mo Kio used by a syndicate were smashed by Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers on Thursday. They arrested a suspected trafficker at the lift lobby of Block 235, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, shortly before 1pm.
The 50-year-old man had 6 grammes of heroin on him, and a further 111 grammes of the drug in a black suitcase at his hideout in the same block.
45 minutes later, another man - the owner of the hideout unit - was arrested at the block's void deck. The 46-year-old stall assistant was found carrying 0.7 gramme of heroin.
In a simultaneous raid at the syndicate's second hideout at Block 230 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, CNB officers arrested another 46-year-old unemployed man. He had 0.4 gramme of heroin hidden in a bedroom toilet.
Another suspect showed up at the hideout a few minutes later and was immediately arrested. The 24-year-old unemployed man had 137 grammes of heroin in his sling bag.
A follow-up raid on his home showed that it was being used as the main store. Some 1.2 kilogrammes of heroin were seized, together with various drug paraphernalia.
The men are being investigated for drug trafficking. If convicted, they face the death penalty. - CNA /ls |
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Former MediaCorp employee jailed, fined for taking bribes
Posted: 16 July 2008 2114 hrs
Photo courtesy of CPIB
SINGAPORE: A former senior accounts manager with MediaCorp Enterprises has been sentenced to three months' jail and fined S$5,900 for taking bribes.
28-year-old Teh Gim Leng had pleaded guilty to accepting bribes worth almost S$36,000 in the form of cash or petrol vouchers from 16 people as reward for choosing them to be winners of a contest held in October last year.
Teh could have been jailed five years, or fined up to S$100,000, or both.
In mitigation, Teh pleaded for leniency, saying he was driven by greed and foolishness, and regretted his actions.
He also asked the judge to defer his jail term for a week so that he could spend time with his sick mother and settle his personal affairs.
Teh is now out on a S$10,000 bail. He has been given until Wednesday to begin his sentence.
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Couple arrested for theft in several housing estates
By Heather Tan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 July 2008 0007 hrs
SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a couple believed to be responsible for a series of house break-ins and thefts in Woodlands, Marsiling, Choa Chu Kang and Serangoon.
The break-ins were believed to have happened as early as March this year.
Witnesses claimed to have seen a man in a ponytail leaving the crime scenes. Officers then conducted enquiries at several pawnshops.
They managed to find out that a woman had been pawning large amounts of jewellery, resembling several of the reported stolen items. She was later seen with a man sporting a ponytail.
Police managed to track the couple down at Block 130, Marsiling Rise on Tuesday at 4.30pm. Pawnshop tickets and stolen jewellery were found in their flat.
Later, nearly S$60,000 worth of jewellery was recovered from several pawnshops in Marsiling and Woodlands.
The suspects will be charged in court on Thursday at 9am with two offences |
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July 16, 2008
Accused of lying
Ming Yi allegedly claimed half of a $600,000 donation was a personal loan
He allegedly falsified papers to cover up a $50,000 loan to his helper
He allegedly said $300k in loans from charity was to invest for Ren Ci
By Chong Chee Kin
CHARGED: Ming Yi arriving at the Subordinate Courts yesterday with his lawyers (from left) Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, Hamidul Haq and Adrian Wong. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
THE Buddhist monk who used to head Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre has been accused of trying to cover his tracks.
When auditors opened the charity's books and began asking questions, Ming Yi allegedly told them that a $50,000 sum paid out by Ren Ci was a loan to Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre to buy wood.
He also purportedly claimed that half of a $600,000 donation to Ren Ci was actually a loan to him.
The prosecution believes these two claims to be untrue.
With regard to the $50,000, it will try to prove that this was the sum the monk misappropriated in 2004 to grant a loan to his helper, Raymond Yeung.
The prosecution believes that Ming Yi conspired with Yeung in May 2004 to pass off the amount as a loan to Mandala, a shop which deals in Buddhist artefacts.
To do this, the monk was said to have worked with Yeung to forge a document; a Ren Ci clerk, acting on this, prepared a payment voucher from Ren Ci to Mandala.
When the auditors started poring through Ren Ci's books last December on behalf of the Commissioner of Charities, the monk allegedly stuck to this story.
Questioned by the auditors from Ernst and Young Associates, Ming Yi apparently told them that Mandala was to use the $50,000 to buy wood.
And to show the commissioner proof of the purchase, the monk allegedly conspired with Yeung to come up with a letter, supposedly from a company in China, about the transaction.
Ming Yi is also accused of forging the minutes of a meeting he had with the Ren Ci management committee in July 2001.
In the minutes, he was said to have reclassified his personal loans from Ren Ci, amounting to nearly $300,000, as part of loans to Mandala, in which he has a stake.
This would have duped the charity's auditors into thinking that the committee had approved of the change in the status of his loans.
The monk now also stands accused of misappropriating the $300,000 from Ren Ci and using it as part repayment for outstanding loans Mandala owed the charity last year.
To explain the amount when the probe started this year, he apparently conspired with Phua Seow Hwa, a manager in Ren Ci, to show the Commissioner that half of a $600,000 donation from a businessman was actually a personal loan to him.
He faces separate charges for allegedly reclassifying his personal loans in 1998 and 1999, when he is alleged to have signed off on Ren Ci's audited financial statements, stating that his personal loans from Ren Ci were part of advances to him for investments on behalf of the charity.
The monk, represented by Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, is out on $200,000 bail. He is due back in court on Aug 4.
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Charges and penalties faced
The charges: Between 1998 and 1999, Ming Yi allegedly signed off Ren Ci's audited financial statements stating that his personal loans from the charity were advances to him for investments on behalf of the charity.
In 2001, he is said to have forged the minutes of a meeting to show that he had the approval of the Ren Ci management committee to reclassify his $300,000 personal loan as a loan to Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre, a shop dealing in Buddhist artefacts.
Penalties if convicted: Under the Penal Code, he could be jailed for up to seven years for forgery. Under the Charities Act, he could be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $5,000 for giving false information.
The charges: In 2004, he allegedly misappropriated $50,000 from the charity to issue a loan to his helper, Raymond Yeung. To account for it, the two were said to have conspired to falsify a document that led to the sum being recorded as a loan to Mandala.
To justify the loan, the two allegedly came up with a letter to show that Mandala had transacted business with a company in China. When asked about the accounts, Ming Yi apparently stuck to the story that the loan was given to Mandala to buy wood.
Penalties if convicted: Under the Penal Code, he could be jailed for seven years for fraud. Under the Charities Act, he could be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $5,000 for providing misleading or false information.
The charges: In March last year, he allegedly pocketed $300,000 from Ren Ci. He was said to have used the money as partial repayment of the outstanding loans Mandala owed the charity.
To account for this $300,000, he apparently conspired with a Ren Ci manager to come up with a letter stating that half of a gift of $600,000 to Ren Ci from a donor was actually a personal loan to him.
Penalties if convicted: Under the Penal Code, he could be jailed for up to three years for criminal breach of trust. Under the Charities Act, he could be jailed for up to a year and fined the maximum $5,000.
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July 16, 2008
Charged: Man with obscene films in monk's condo
MONK'S CONDO HOME: Ming Yi sometimes stayed at The Cornwall. His former aide was caught there with obscene films. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
A FOURTH man charged yesterday appeared to have nothing to do with the financial affairs of Ren Ci Hospital.
Pang Leong Chuan, 27, was charged with having 138 obscene and uncertified films.
He used to be the former personal assistant of monk Ming Yi, and was caught with most of the illegal films in an upscale apartment where the monk sometimes stayed.
Ming Yi is one of five listed owners of the apartment in The Cornwall, a condominium off Holland Road. Checks showed that the other owners included the Foo Hai Ch'an Monastery, where Ming Yi was the abbot.
Monastery staff were said to live in the fourth-floor unit, valued at about $2 million. Pang is believed to have lived there too.
Commercial Affairs Department officers confiscated 95 films at the apartment on Feb18, and another 43 from Pang's listed address in Tampines.
A resident said three men, including Ming Yi, lived there. Others said they had seen him returning at night in a car with two men.
Pang, a university student, was the monk's personal executive for more than a year.
No one was at his Tampines flat when The Straits Times checked yesterday. He is believed to have lived with his mother, though he was seldom home.
He faces six charges - four for possessing obscene films and two for having films uncertified for screening - and may be fined and jailed if found guilty.
He has engaged a lawyer.
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Flag display rules relaxed during National Day celebration period
Posted: 17 July 2008 2114 hrs
SINGAPORE: Following a relaxation of rules in 2007, the Singapore national flag now may be displayed on clothes and costumes during the period of National Day celebrations.
This period lasts from July 1 to September 30 each year.
A statement from the Information, Communications and the Arts Ministry said the national flag may also be flown on private and commercial vehicles alike during this time.
Decals, stickers, posters or other visual images of the flag may also be displayed freely.
The only requirement is that the flag must be treated with respect at all times.
Individuals and businesses are also encouraged to display the country's flag during this period when it can be flown without a flagpole and night illumination.
Foreign organisations are also invited to fly the Singapore flag as a sign of solidarity and friendship with Singapore.
Those with queries concerning the use of the flag or other national symbols can approach the National Heritage Board or visit Singapore Infomap www.sg. - CNA/vm |
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Australian man arrested for drug offences in Singapore
By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 July 2008 2303 hrs
SINGAPORE: An Australian has been arrested in Singapore for drug offences. According to a statement from the Central Narcotic Bureau, its officers seized 0.8 grammes of 'Ice', six syringes and an improvised smoking pipe from him.
The 41-year-old man, who is in Singapore on a social visit pass, also tested positive for amphetamines.
He's believed to be the supplier to a 31-year-old Singaporean drug user who was earlier arrested at Block 714, Ang Kio Kio Avenue 6.
Some 0.6 grammes of 慖ce |
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Australian man arrested for drug offences in Singapore
Australian journalist charged with drug trafficking and possession
By Dominique Loh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 18 July 2008 1937 hrs
ABC correspondent Peter Lloyd (Photo credit: ABC.com)
SINGAPORE : An Australian journalist has been charged with drug trafficking and possession in Singapore.
41-year-old Australian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Peter Lloyd was arrested on Wednesday.
Investigators believe Lloyd may have supplied drugs to a Singaporean who was arrested separately.
Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers seized from him a packet of designer drug 'ice' or methamphetamine weighing some 0.8 grammes, one improvised smoking pipe and six syringes.
Reporters and photographers staked out the Subordinate Court for hours on Friday, expecting to see Lloyd turn up in court to be charged.
But that did not happen.
The CNB confirmed Lloyd was actually charged on Friday afternoon at Changi General Hospital.
That is because he is being treated for a serious eye infection which he contracted while on leave in Singapore from his posting in New Delhi.
Bail has also been offered to him, although CNB did not say how much the bail was.
Lloyd is due to appear in court again next Friday.
If convicted of the charges, he faces up to 20 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane. - CNA/ms |
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July 18, 2008
Man jailed for punching wife who refused him sex
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
A MAN who punched his wife who refused him sex was jailed for two weeks on Friday.
David Sim Teck Meng, 48, was originally accused of causing grievous hurt to his wife, Madam Lee Meng Choo, 40, at their Hougang home on Oct 29 last year.
He pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of voluntarily causing hurt after she made a statutory declaration that she had forgiven him and wanted to drop the charge.
Sim, who is now a shop assistant at his wife's mobile phone business, asked his wife for sex that night but she said she was tired.
Angry, he pushed her to the bed and sat on top of her and tried to remove her clothes.
She tried to defend herself and was punched by Sim a few times.
When she broke free and ran out, he pulled her back by the hair into the room. She then locked herself in and called the police.
Madam Lee suffered fractures to the facial bones, a bruise over her eye and an abrasion on her upper lip.
District Judge Jill Tan told him that his violence resulted in serious injuries to his wife and the sentence must be such that he understood the gravity of his actions.
Sim, who has previous convictions for bigamy, affray and robbery, could have been jailed fined up to $1,000 and/or jailed for up to one year. |
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July 21, 2008
1,000 S'poreans give up citizenship each year
AN AVERAGE of about 1,000 Singapore gave up their citizenship each year in the last three years, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng on Monday.
The reasons they renounced their Singapore citizenship ranged from marriage to foreigners to yearning for a different environment, he said in his written reply to a question from from Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim, who wanted to know how many Singaporeans had emigrated in the last three years.
Most of them took up new citizenship in countries in Southeast-Asia, the United States of America and Australia.
Mr Wong said Singaporeans who emigrate generally do not declare this to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) when they leave.
The only available data which gives an indication of the number of emigrants from Singapore is the number of Singaporeans who have given up their citizenship and left Singapore. |
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3 Bruneians Die In Horrific Crash
By Azaraimy HH & Rohani Hj Abd Hamid
Bandar Seri Begawan - Three Bruneians, including two women, and two foreigners lost their lives in a tragic road accident during a heavy mid-afternoon downpour at KM 8 Jalan Kubong, Limbang on Saturday.
The two foreigners were husband and wife from Singapore.
The three Bruneians who died were Hj Mohammad bin Awg Damit, 55, Deputy Officer in Charge/Head of Administration at Maraburong Prison, Dyg Sadiah binti Hj Hitam, 50, and Dyg Hjh Zabaidah Hj Hitam, 45. The Singaporean couple, who also perished in the mishap, were Poh Sim Kee, 57, and Pang Yee Ying, 56. According to a friend of the deceased, their bodies will be flown back to Singapore Tuesday.
According to the Police report, the two Singaporeans were travelling back to Brunei in their four-wheel drive from Bandar Limbang when at KM8 their car was involved in a head on collision with another four-wheel drive from the opposite direction carrying the three Bruneians.
The accident happened around 3.15pm. The impact of the collision left one of the vehicles in a mangled mess, while the other one turned turtle.
The Singaporean couple reportedly died on the spot, while the two women passengers of the other vehicle succumbed to their injuries at the Limbang Hospital.
The driver of the vehicle carrying the Bruneians was reportedly battling for life while being transported to the RIPAS Hospital in the capital but passed away Saturday evening. He was confirmed dead at the RIPAS Emergency ward around 7.30pm.
According to the doctor at the RIPAS Emergency ward, the deceased suffered critical blows to his head and abdomen. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin |
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Post time 8-7-2008 09:50 PM
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