Are you looking to buy cheap furniture in Singapore? Confused where to get good deals to furnish your house or even your own wardrobe? Check this list out! A good alternative for those that are renting, on a tight budget, moving out (for sales of furniture) and for those sniffing out a good bargain! If …
SINGAPORE: The Singapore government is undertaking another review of the Baby Bonus scheme which aims to encourage married couples to have more children and help them defray part of the financial costs. A survey with some 3,000 beneficiaries is in the works. The move comes at a time when Singapore’s fertility rate is at 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 …
A DESPERATE Turkish man has turned to police for protection against his wife who constantly demanded sex. The weary man claims he had been sleeping on his sofa for the past four years in an attempt to avoid his wife who has an insatiable appetite for sex. According to the AFP, the exhausted husband went …
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 …
NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan on Friday said the Government is considering coming up with tougher measures to deter first-time Housing Board flat buyers from repeatedly declining to select a flat. In an interview with Lianhe Wanbao on Friday, he said changes might be made to the HDB’s build-to-order scheme to penalise those who …
ROME – A FURIOUS 36-year-old Italian woman has filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband brought his mother on their honeymoon, Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday. As the couple set off for their honeymoon to France in December, the newly-wed was shocked to find her new mother-in-law at Rome’s …
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 …
RIVERSIDE (California) – ANIMAL services officers often get calls reporting ‘huge,’ monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake. The 5-foot (1.52 m) Monitor lizard wandering around a condo complex in the city of Riverside was way bigger than animal control officer Jenny Selter could have imagined. ‘She said she saw it …
SINGAPORE : Students from families with at least one or both parents being university graduates are likely to have a better learning environment. The correlation was evident in statistics released when Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew visited Dunman High School on Monday. Mr Lee also assured non-Chinese students that promoting the learning of the Chinese …