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SINGAPORE: More households are being infested with bed bugs, said the Singapore Pest Management Association. The association said it has been getting one to two calls island-wide every week to get rid of the bugs. Five years ago, such calls only came once or twice a month. A resident...

Torrevecchia Teatina, Italy (CNN) -- Six months ago, an Italian bricklayer behind on his taxes wrote a note to his wife of 27 years, then doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire outside a Bologna tax office. Giuseppe Campaniello died nine days later. "He was a good person," said...

One of the most divisive issues today which gets many Singaporeans worked up has to do with the number of foreign workers here. It's an evergreen topic not just in online forums, but also in the equally noisy world of coffee shops and dinner parties. Foreigners take the rap for many...

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Haifa, Israel (CNN) -- Nine years after an American activist was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer, an Israeli civil court ruled Tuesday that Rachel Corrie's death was an accident. Corrie, 23, was killed in 2003 while trying to block the bulldozer from razing Palestinian homes. Her...

SEOUL - Twelve people were killed and 10 were missing after a strong typhoon pounded South Korea on Tuesday, uprooting trees, sinking ships and cutting power to almost 200,000 homes. By early evening, Typhoon Bolaven -- the strongest to hit the South for almost a decade -- had moved to North...

SINGAPORE: The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading is in the moderate range at 59, as of 4pm on Tuesday. In recent days, Singapore's air quality has dipped, with the PSI slipping from good to moderate in parts of the island. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said Singapore is...

SINGAPORE: The old boys of St Andrew's re-lived the vintage rivalry with their rugby foes from Raffles Institution. They took to the field in two friendly matches, as part of celebrations to mark 150 years of St Andrew's School. There were teams for those under 35 years and over 35. The...

SINGAPORE: A dispute between United Overseas Bank (UOB) and its customer over who should foot the bill for S$1,550 in unauthorised withdrawals from a stolen credit card has wound up in the courts. Ms Annie An Wei, 39, has not made any payments because she feels she should be liable for only...

(UPDATED 9 Feb at 9pm, adding the names of the women and chalet) Two young women have been found dead at a chalet at Aloha Changi early Thursday morning, reported Channel NewsAsia (CNA). The pair, Teo Wan Si, 20 and Chua Hui Hsien, 24, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to The...

SINGAPORE: Singapore should try to up its construction productivity, says National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan. To that end, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is pushing for more buildable designs and construction. Writing in his blog, Mr Khaw explained that through the...

These days, enrichment classes are not the only extras in children's schedules. Parents are also packing their children off to see psychologists - paying upwards of $100 per hour - fearing that they may have learning disabilities. Some do so on the advice of teachers. Others do so because...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has proposed to the Ministry of Education that its tuition fees be revised for the incoming cohort of students. NUS provost Tan Eng Chye told reporters on Wednesday evening, after a closed-door meeting with about 50 student leaders, that the...

The brutal festival at Nem Thuong village,Vietnam This is one Vietnamese festival that makes even non animal lovers cringe. Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck. Viewer...

Three female students topped the 2011 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education ordinary level (GCE O-level) examinations, results on Monday showed. Lim Min from Crescent Girls’ School and Zhong Yingyi and Chai Yung Ci from CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School scored 10 A1s in the exams...

Members of the public enjoying their Christmas and New Year's Eve parties are reminded to help keep the environment clean by disposing of their litter properly, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Friday. The NEA also said that it would be stepping up its enforcement efforts at...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch TV hosts cooked and ate each other's flesh, sampling fried buttock and fried belly, and pushing the boundaries of bad taste on Wednesday night in a program aired by Dutch broadcaster BNN. A butcher advised show hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno on which were...

She was a student aged 14. He was 38, married, and her teacher. But that did not stop him from seducing the girl after wooing her with gifts on a school trip to South Korea. First, he told her she was pretty, and lied that his relationship with his wife was on the rocks. Then, after they...

SINGAPORE: A gunshot was heard Thursday evening in shopping mall VivoCity. When police arrived at the scene, they found a dead man in a toilet cubicle on the first floor. Police said they got the call around 6pm. Channel NewsAsia understands the man could be an auxiliary police officer...

This wonderful and charismatic lady has blown away the hearts of all Singaporeans by her charm, courage and passion. Will she succeed to swing the votes from the Pap to the Opposition ?