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  • Over 30 wild animals seized from Singapore flat

    Over 30 wild animals of highly endangered species such as the slow loris, marmoset, Indian star tortoise and ball python, prohibited for being kept as pets, have been seized from a flat in Singapore during a raid, authorities said. The animals were recovered earlier this month by the country's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, Xinhua reported Monday. It was the largest seizure of wildlife ...

  • Haze update Vivian Balakrishnan urges Indonesia to name companies responsible for forest fires

    People visit the Merlion Park, which is blanketed in a thick haze, in Singapore on June 18, 2013. The worst episode of haze here in 16 years has prompted Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan to urge commercial pressure against firms causing the haze. -- PHOTO: ...

  • Singapore Open kicks off with several withdrawals

    The Li-Ning Singapore Open kicked off on Tuesday, with several of the top players absent in the men's singles event.The absentees include 2010 champion and Olympic bronze medalist Sony Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia in the men's singles.Previously, China's Olympic gold medallist Lin Dan, who had stayed away from the court in the months after the London Olympic Games and started playing ...

  • Stars missing at bare-bones Singapore Open

    (29 mins ago) A large-scale withdrawal on the eve of competition has robbed badminton's Singapore Open of several seeded players after superstars Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei also chose to skip the event. Eleven players pulled out yesterday, citing fatigue and injury, though many may be keen to avoid exerting themselves in what is the last Super Series event before the world championships in ...

  • Two charged over Cathay Cineleisure Orchard attack

    Two men were charged in court on Tuesday with rioting over last Saturday's attack on a full-time national serviceman at Cathay Cineleisure Orchard. Mizra Abdul Azman, 23, and Muhammad Fahmi Razali, 20, are alleged to have been members of an unlawful assembly with three others to cause hurt to NSF Wilson Siau 20, while armed with a parang each at 9.12pm at Grange Road. Mr Siau is in ...


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The Last Metro (Le dernier metro) [DVD]

The Last Metro (Le dernier metro) [DVD]

The Last Metro (Le dernier metro) takes place during the German Occupation of France in the early 1940s, a time that director Franois Truffaut remembered from his days as a 10-year-old schoolboy, and he poured his memories into the film, shaping its broad, romantic thrille ... ...

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  • Police arrest 26-year-old for murder

    Police have arrested a 26-year-old man for murder. The officers were informed of a fight at about 5.40pm on Monday at Kranji Loop. When police arrived, a 35-year-old man was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene. The offence carries the death ...

  • Singapore takes precautions over smoky haze after air pollution briefly hits 16-year-high

    SINGAPORE - Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work Tuesday after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore's main measure to determine air quality, crept into the ...

  • US scientists family says Singapore inquest a sham

    SINGAPORE (AFP) - The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed on Tuesday the city-state's findings that he committed suicide as "a sham and a cover-up" for a murder."I am not surprised by the state's findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide," Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics ...

  • CNB officer rejects $13300 bribe offered by drug suspect

    An attempt by a suspected drug abuser to bribe himself out of trouble on Sunday failed when a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer rejected the $13,300 he offered to let him off the hook -- ST FILE PHOTO : WANG HUI ...

  • Committee set up to chart Singapores infocomm media direction till 2025

    SINGAPORE: The government has set up a new committee to chart Singapore's infocomm and media direction till 2025.The committee will spend the next two years working with the private and public sectors to deliver a masterplan to shape the country's information landscape.It has 14 members and is led by Mr Koh Boon Hwee, who previously chaired the Media Convergence Review Panel.The ...

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