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MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has posted a net profit of $102.3 million for its first quarter ended Nov 30 2010 (1Q 2011). This is a drop of 29.3 per cent from the same period a year ago, mainly because last year’s numbers included profits from SPH’s condominium project Sky@eleven, the group said in …
THE Singapore Table Tennis Association has secured its biggest sponsorship to date – a three-year deal worth $750,000 with isotonic drink 100PLUS. The deal – $600,000 in cash and $150,000 in kind – will help the association send the national team to more overseas training stints and Pro Tour competitions to chalk up ranking points …
SINGAPORE : Some Singaporeans living in Brisbane say they are shocked at the damage to their properties following the recent floods. The swamped Australian city on Friday began the heartbreaking task of cleaning up after its worst floods in decades. More than 26,000 homes were flooded, electricity remained cut off to thousands of homes, and …
PROPERTY investor Angela Hou knows what the new cooling measures have cost her – around $10,000. That is the princely amount she walked away from yesterday after deciding to forfeit her booking fee for a condominium unit she had set her heart on. Ms Hou, 28, was about to buy two condo flats when she …
BERLIN – MORE than 20 years after reunification, police in eastern Germany stumbled upon a man’s stash of worthless 100,000 East German marks, believed stolen from a bunker for sale to collectors. Police were searching the apartment of a 33-year-old man in the city of Halberstadt on drug, weapons and extortion charges when they found …
BERLIN – A GRANNY in Germany made short work of three suspected robbers who tricked their way into her Berlin apartment on Friday as she celebrated her 90th birthday, police said. The trio, a woman and two men, rang the doorbell of her flat in the eastern district of Hellersdorf and said they were there …
THE three universities, five polytechnics and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) announced separately on Friday that they will raise tuition fees for the academic year starting this year. The institutions all said the increased cost of providing a quality education has forced the fee hikes which, as with previous hikes, will be bigger for permanent …
A TEACHER at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) has lodged a report with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) against the school, alleging unfair dismissal. Ms Ann Phua, a 59-year-old English language teacher who has been with ACS(I) since 2000, believes she was sacked because of her age.
SINGTEL has been fined a total of $130,000 for selling an unapproved wholesale discounted broadband service and for offering the discount to only one Internet service provider (ISP). ISPs buy wholesale services and then retail them to home and business users. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said on its website it had decided …
DHAKA – BANGLADESHI security forces said on Saturday they had arrested the alleged leader of a gang responsible for amputating the limbs of children and forcing them into begging. Omar Faruq, 30, was arrested on Friday in a Dhaka suburb, said Colonel Zia Ahsan of the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). ‘He has admitted that …