SHE got a police friend to rope in a woman to take the rap for beating a red light for the price of $1,000. For perverting the course of justice in 2008, Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 on Feb 8. Through lawyer Lim Kia Tong, Tay, who is now studying for a …
WHISTLER (British Columbia) – ABOUT 100 sled dogs, some badly maimed and writhing in pain, were killed and dumped in a mass grave after bookings dropped sharply for a tour operator following the 2010 Winter Olympics. The gruesome event was described in documents awarding compensation to a worker who claimed post-traumatic stress disorder after having …
Beijing has lately stepped up its campaign against the country’s “fake news” scourge, with the General Administration of Press and Publications putting pressure on news organizations to dismiss journalists suspected of doctoring their stories. Ironically, the latest example of alleged news fakery comes from China’s own state broadcaster, CCTV. In a development that could further …
TAMPA (Florida) – THE army officer’s wife who authorities say killed her teenage daughter and son because she was fed up with them talking back and being mouthy did not appear in court Saturday because she’s being treated at a hospital for an unknown condition. Authorities say Julie Powers Schenecker was taken to Tampa General …
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 …
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 …
SHAH ALAM – A MYANMAR national here stabbed her newborn baby several times to death and left the body in the toilet of her home. The refugee, in her early 20s, was arrested at about 12.45pm in her home yesterday. It is believed that the baby girl was stabbed five times with a sharp object. …
SINGAPORE: A former property agent pleaded guilty on Wednesday to offences including cheating and forgery. Thirty-eight-year-old Anika Priyadharshini pleaded guilty to offences involving S$183,556.29. She originally faced 69 charges, but 44 of them were taken into consideration while two others were withdrawn. She even cheated two of her clients of S$58,800, a district court heard …