LONDON – RYAN Giggs believes Sir Alex Ferguson could continue as Manchester United manager for another five years. Ferguson, who turned 69 last month, has refused to consider retiring since he announced he would quit after the 2001-02 season and then later changed his mind. In an interview with Sky TV magazine, United winger Giggs …
THE police have arrested five people believed to be members of an online sex syndicate. Acting on a tip-off, police officers raided a hotel at Lavender Street on Jan 24, arresting two men and three women aged between 19 and 29. Cash amounting to $1,250 and other items such as handphones, a camera and several …
A MAN who caused alarm to an SMRT customer service officer by saying that he was a terrorist, was fined $1,000 on Thursday. Kevin Teo Kok Leong alias Muhammad Riduan Teo, 33, a mechanic, admitted to using threatening words at Mr Suasni Samuri, 43, at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Interchange on Nov 26, 2010. A Community …
BANGKOK – A THAI court has jailed an undertaker for 20 years for helping to hide 2,002 illegally aborted foetuses discovered in a Bangkok temple last year, an official said on Thursday. Suchart Phumee was initially sentenced to two months for each of the corpses after pleading guilty to two charges of concealing the bodies …
SINGAPORE : Contractor Mun Siong Engineering was fined S$100,000 on Tuesday for failing to provide a safe working environment for its employees. Three of its workers died in a fire in 2007 at an oil refinery at Ayer Chawan Place in Jurong. One other worker was also injured. Mun Siong was at that time engaged …
SINGAPORE : Singapore authorities simulated a terror attack on Tuesday evening to test the emergency preparedness of the Home Team and the security teams from Resorts World Sentosa, one of the Singapore’s newest tourist attractions. It was the first time that one of the two Integrated Resorts was participating in such a large-scale exercise. It …
PARIS – PALAEONTOLOGISTS fought back on Wednesday in a spirited debate over the Tyrannosaurus rex, saying revisionists who branded the great dinosaur a shameless scavenger have got it all wrong. For more than a century after its discovery, many scientists routinely described the Tyrannosaurus as the king of the killing machines – six tonnes of …
SEOUL – SOUTH KOREA on Wednesday proposed holding working-level military talks with North Korea next month, in what would be their first dialogue since the North’s deadly bombardment last November. The defence ministry said it sent a message to the North suggesting a meeting on February 11 at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The …