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Police appeal for next-of-kin of Chan Yoke Tong AsiaOne Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 SINGAPORE - Police are appealing for the next-of-kin of 74-year-old Chan Yoke Tong to come forward. Mr Chan had recently passed away at Bright Vision Hospital on Jan 22. He was previously staying at United...

Suspect in series of theft from vehicles arrested AsiaOne Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 SINGAPORE - Police have arrested a 45-year-old man believed to be responsible for several acts of theft from vehicles in Yishun. From December 24 to 26, the police received several reports of theft from vehicles...

S'pore boss shot in JB November 22, 2012 - 1:50am By: Zul Othman PICTURE: Sin Chew Daily It is a day Mr Raman Othayanan, 56, a Singapore permanent resident living in Johor Baru, will never soon forget. The managing director of Singapore-based engineering company NDT Hitech Inspection...

2 women arrested for online vice activities AsiaOne Monday, Nov 19, 2012 SINGAPORE: Two women, aged 25, have been arrested for suspected involvement in online vice-related activities after police raided a unit located along Jalan Lokam. Preliminary investigations revealed that illicit...

Shop theft numbers down 04:45 AM Nov 14, 2012 SINGAPORE - The number of cases of shop theft over the first nine months of the year has decreased, continuing a steady decline over the past three years. There were 220 cases of shop theft as at September this year, compared to 317 in the same...

11-year-old investigated for false bomb threat AsiaOne Friday, Nov 02, 2012 SINGAPORE - An 11-year-old boy is being investigated for allegedly posting a false statement on Channel NewsAsia's Facebook page about a bomb blast on the MRT network between Buona Vista station and Outram Park...

Man sentenced to jail and caning for raping teenager By Kimberly Spykerman | Posted: 01 November 2012 1617 hrs SINGAPORE: A High Court judge on Thursday sentenced a man who raped a teenager in the back of a lorry to 12 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane. The 40 year old had been...

Two men plead guilty to attacking bus driver By Leong Wai Kit | Posted: 24 October 2012 1907 hrs SINGAPORE: Two men have pleaded guilty to attacking a SBS Transit bus driver and smashing empty beer bottles at the bus windscreen. Sin Teck Hock, 46, and You Yee Chong, 41, committed the...

Woman charged with kicking police officer Posted: 22 October 2012 1306 hrs SINGAPORE: A 22-year-old woman from China was charged on Monday with kicking a female police officer. Chen Li Ying is accused of kicking Sergeant Chan Min Ghee in the thigh. The alleged offence took place on...

HIV-positive man gets 15 months' jail for not telling partner Published on Oct 19, 2012 By Elena Chong An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 15 months' jail on Friday for having sex with a partner without telling him that he was infected. The defendant, a young bespectacled man, had pleaded...

NUS student may be charged with posting obscene material online By Dylan Loh | Posted: 16 October 2012 2247 hrs SINGAPORE: There is a possibility that a National University of Singapore (NUS) student may be charged with posting obscene material on the internet. This is according to lawyers...

Man arrested for cheating more than 50 online shoppers AsiaOne Monday, Oct 15, 2012 Police have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected to have cheated more than 50 online shoppers. Between June and Sept this year, police received numerous reports from victims who had placed online orders for...

Seven accused of hurting two elderly men By Leong Wai Kit | Posted: 15 October 2012 1535 hrs SINGAPORE: Seven people, aged between 16 and 31, have been charged with hurting two elderly men. The accused are Eswaran Rajasevran, 31; Elangovan Rajalingam, 22; R Shivam Roy, 16; Raveen...

Sinwa's chairman fined $153k for insider trading and other offences Published on Oct 12, 2012 By Khushwant Singh The executive chairman of mainboard-listed Sinwa was on Friday (oct12) fined a total of $153,000. Sim Yong Teng, 68, had pleaded guilty last month (sept28) to two counts of...

Man charged with living off earnings of underage prostitute By Leong Wai Kit | Posted: 03 October 2012 1436 hrs SINGAPORE: A man has been charged with living off the earnings of an underage prostitute. The accused cannot be named to protect the identity of the 17-year-old girl. He was...

Man nabbed for theft of computer hard disks at NTU Posted: 30 August 2012 2051 hrs Through the assistance of the Malaysian police, 61 hard disks were eventually recovered and seized from a second-hand goods dealer in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 21-year-old...

Police looking for woman to assist with theft investigations Published on Jul 19, 2012 Police are looking for a woman to assist with investigations into two cases of theft which occurred at a shopping mall, located at Harbourfront Walk, on July 3 and July 9. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE...

Cabby in fatal hit-and-run accident charged The victim, Hussain Abdullah Bagarib, in an old family photograph taken before the accident. AsiaOne Monday, Jul 16, 2012 A taxi driver accused for causing the death of a motorcyclist in May last year has been charged in connection with a...

Why? Because suicides like emigration, it's alarming figures are bad image for the PAP. :D Teenage girl pleads guilty to multiple suicide attempts By Alvina Soh | Posted: 11 July 2012 1221 hrs SINGAPORE: A teenage girl on Wednesday pleaded guilty to three attempts of suicide. Seven other...

Appeal for information on missing person AsiaOne Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 43-year-old Kumar S/O Ramasamy, who was last seen in the vicinity of Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic on April 18 this year at about 11am. Mr Kumar is about 1.7m in...