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May 16, 2011 Ex-seafood supplier admits to bribing chefs By Elena Chong Tay Ee Tiong, 55, has been charged with 223 charges of giving bribes totalling $992,404 to 19 chefs. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW A FORMER seafood supplier who bribed more than a dozen chefs from top...

May 11, 2011 Ex-AIA agent charged over fake $6.2m policy She faces 19 charges; bail cut from $2m to $300k on appeal By Lorna Tan, Senior Correspondent Sally Low Ai Ming, 34, allegedly told a businessman he could apply for an "AIA Thank You" policy when such a product did not exist...

May 5, 2011 Teens charged with armed robbery By Elena Chong TWO youths were charged in court on Thursday with armed robbery with hurt in Sembawang. Benny Kee Soon Chuan and Dane Tok Jun Wei, both 17 and students, are alleged to have robbed a 16-year-old student of his $230 mobile...

Termites eat millions of rupees Police say termites have devoured currency notes worth 10 million rupees in a steel bank chest in northern India. Officer Navneet Rana says the bank manager discovered the damage when he opened the reinforced room in an old bank building on Wednesday...

Largest ever spider fossil found The largest ever fossil of a prehistoric spider, 165 million years old with a six inch leg span, has been discovered. The legs would have spanned up to 15cm, front to back 2:31PM BST 20 Apr 2011 Its fossilised features have been so perfectly...

Leader teased for pocketing pen PRAGUE | Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:50pm EDT (Reuters Life!) - Czech media chided President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday after a viral Internet video showed him discreetly pocketing a ceremonial pen during a visit to Chile in what viewers are calling a theft...

Man fined for keeping mum on dubious money By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 03 January 2011 2239 hrs...

Dec 30, 2010 Five charged over impure liquor...

Tuesday December 28, 2010 Family of five held as bonded slaves after failure to repay loan A FAMILY of five, including three young children, were forced to work as bonded slaves for four years after the father failed to settle a loan taken from their...

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming In this Jan. 14, 2009 image shows a Civil War bottle with a message that was tucked inside at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. The message to Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton says reinforcements will not be arriving. The encrypted...

"Jigsaw expert" saves man's shredded cash TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan forensic scientist nicknamed the "jigsaw expert" has helped one fortunate man recover cash he accidentally shredded, piecing together the remains of 200 bills in just seven days. The man, surnamed Lin, dropped a...

Dec 24, 2010 SHOT IN SELANGOR Singaporean shot dead...

Thursday December 23, 2010 Trio held for murder of shop owner PETALING JAYA: Three men were arrested in connection with the murder of a wholesale mart owner who was gunned down outside his shop. Aged between 38 and 49, they were arrested at...

Thursday December 23, 2010 Trio held for murder of shop owner PETALING JAYA: Three men were arrested in connection with the murder of a wholesale mart owner who was gunned down outside his shop. Aged between 38 and 49, they were arrested at...

WikiLeaks: Richard Branson says 'overeducated' British students are unprepared for business world Richard Branson has criticised the British education system for "overeducating" students and failing to prepare them for the business world, according to leaked diplomatic...

Man who killed and ate victims gets life Victims: Suzanne Blamires, 36, and Shelley Armitage, 31 and Susan Rushworth, 43 He seems to be a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Jack The Ripper. Stephen Griffiths who calls himself the "Crossbow Cannibal" shot his victims...

Euro falls amid continuing debt crisis fears The euro declined as fears about the region's sovereign debt crisis continued to weigh on the single currency...

Perfect Pink diamond sells for $23 million A rare pink diamond has sold at an auction for more than $23 million in Hong Kong, making it the most expensive jewel ever sold in Asia...

Saturday December 18, 2010 Desperate mum tries to sell daughters Other news & views Compiled by A. Raman A MOTHER from Karur village in the Salem district of India’s Tamil Nadu state attempted to sell off her two school going...