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  • Indian lorry driver jailed in Singapore

    An Indian lorry driver has been jailed by a court in Singapore for causing the death of one person and injuring 14 others due to negligence while driving. Periyasamy Jayaprakash, 25, pleaded guilty to causing the death of Mathialagu Kathiravan, 19, when his lorry collided head-on with another lorry on the Tanah Merah Coast Road here in the morning of July 3 last year, the Straits Times reported ...

  • AVA explains monkey trapping video after public outcry

    THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has responded to a public outcry over a YouTube video showing one of its contractors herding a wild monkey into a cage.Titled "How Singapore handles its wild macaques", the video last night garnered more than 4,000 views. In the video, workers armed with a water gun and grabber are seen dragging the animal into a small cage.Netizens appeared ...

  • Singapore-KL high-speed rail link looking very attractive

    THE proposed high-speed rail link between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur is looking "very, very attractive", though further discussions on the finer details are needed, Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said yesterday. In his first major press conference since the elections to outline the ministry's priorities, Datuk Seri Anifah said preliminary studies for the rail link are ...

  • Take a virtual peek inside these places with Google Maps

    Google Business Photos uses Google's Street View technology to create 360-degree images of the interiors of shops such as (clockwise from top) the Fat Cow restaurant, bag retailer Crumpler's Ion Orchard store, and hair salon Truefitt & Hill. -- PHOTOS: SMAP ...

  • Former interns say they worked in fear at software firm

    The software firm supervisor who is named only as Alan (above) allegedly hit the head of his younger subordinate and used vulgar language on him. According to Shin Min, the victim was an intern at the firm. -- PHOTOS: LIANHE ...


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The Watcher

"The Watcher" is a serial killer thriller that, like "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), is ultimately about the unusual relationship between a killer and an FBI agent. "The Watcher" attempts to further complicate the scenario by making the relationship into a triangle of sorts by inserting a third character who is close to the investigator and whose life will, therefore, be threatened at some poi ... ...

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  • Singapore Asia’s Politically Incorrect Success Story

    A city-state located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula with a population of 5.2 million, Singapore is arguably the most successful among the four "Asian Tigers" — a group that also includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. When this former British colony became a fully independent country in 1965, its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was a lowly $511. Today, that figure ...

  • Singapore UAE to widen bilateral cooperation

    Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and his United Arab Emirates counterpart Sheikh Abdulla Zayed Al Nahyan agreed on Monday that bilateral ties were excellent and there was scope to widen ...

  • More getting help from Sindas tuition programme

    More students across more levels are getting help from Sinda's flagship tuition programme, Project Teach. The programme, which offers school-based intensive tuition classes to underperforming Indian children, has about 1,320 students under it. This is up from the 1,254 last year. In 2001, the programme was only open to primary schools but started to take in secondary school students last ...

  • SMRT to extend bus and train services on the eve of Vesak Day

    SMRT train services (North-South, East-West and Circle Lines) and selected bus services will be extended on the Thursday, the eve of Vesak Day. The last trains will leave City Hall interchange at 12.30am on May 24. The last train timings between the Expo and Changi Airport stations however remain unchanged. Feeder buses will correspondingly extend their hours to match the last train services ...

  • Lubna Al Qasimi and Singaporean FM discuss joint efforts in International Development

    WAM ABU DHABI, May 21st, 2013 -- Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of International Cooperation and Development, has held extensive talks with the Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs, K. Shanmugam and his delegation, on ways to support efforts in international development, stimulating the response to crises and providing emergency humanitarian support to those affected, in ...

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