THE green light has been given by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for the alignment of the North-South Expressway (NSE) between Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise. The new expressway – with construction expected to start from 2013 and finish by 2020 – will run parallel to the Central Expressway (CTE) to serve the …
SINGAPORE: The Singapore government will roll out more initiatives in the next five years leveraging on social media to facilitate two-way communication with its citizens. A recent study by Nielsen found that more than half of the Singapore population participates in at least one social media website, with the most popular being Facebook, followed by …
ONE of a 13-year-old girl’s multiple sex partners was given 15 months’ supervised probation on Wednesday. Full-time national serviceman Loy Zhen Ge was a 17-year-old student when he had sex with the girl at her home in April 2008. They had become acquainted through the Internet website Friendster the previous month, a Community Court heard. …
JAKARTA police arrested a man suspected of running a prostitution business involving seven junior high school girls through Facebook, a police official said on Wednesday. Central Jakarta police detective chief Yoyon Toni Saputra said that Dede, 28, who was arrested on Monday, had allegedly committed the crimes for two years, kompas.com reported. The suspect, a …
The 37-year-old Corinthians left back and Brazil legend showed he still has a bit of dead-ball sorcery left in him with his corner kick against Portuguesa on Sunday, firing a quick shot directly at the far post. Naturally, it caught the goalkeeper off his guard and found the target.
NEWARK (New Jersey) – TWO hackers stole the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, including those of politicians and famous media personalities, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday in announcing criminal charges against the men. AT&T revealed the security vulnerability months ago, and US Attorney Paul Fishman said there was no evidence that …
THE fertility rate for Singapore Chinese – already the lowest among all races here – slid to 1.02 last year from 1.08 in 2009, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew disclosed on Tuesday night. Singapore thus needs to remain open to new immigrants, and groups like the clan associations have an important role to play in …
THE 45-year-old martial arts instructor accused of having sex with his teenage student broke down on the stand on Tuesday, while talking about how his wife had controlled his life for 12 years. He referred to his wife as ‘Tiger’ in his text messages to the alleged victim, and told the court he was allowed …
ATHENS – A CYPRIOT monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport on Sunday after security staff discovered a skull wrapped in …
‘Gary Ng’ gets 50 months jail and $20k fine THE man dubbed Singapore’s Edison Chen was sentenced to 50 months’ jail and fined $20,000 on Wednesday for a series of offences. Chen Guilin alias Gary Ng, 28, had admitted to having 507 obscene films, mostly of himself having sex with other women. Some of the …