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 …
LONDON – RYAN Giggs believes Sir Alex Ferguson could continue as Manchester United manager for another five years. Ferguson, who turned 69 last month, has refused to consider retiring since he announced he would quit after the 2001-02 season and then later changed his mind. In an interview with Sky TV magazine, United winger Giggs …
THE police have arrested five people believed to be members of an online sex syndicate. Acting on a tip-off, police officers raided a hotel at Lavender Street on Jan 24, arresting two men and three women aged between 19 and 29. Cash amounting to $1,250 and other items such as handphones, a camera and several …
A MAN who caused alarm to an SMRT customer service officer by saying that he was a terrorist, was fined $1,000 on Thursday. Kevin Teo Kok Leong alias Muhammad Riduan Teo, 33, a mechanic, admitted to using threatening words at Mr Suasni Samuri, 43, at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Interchange on Nov 26, 2010. A Community …
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 …
SINGAPORE : Contractor Mun Siong Engineering was fined S$100,000 on Tuesday for failing to provide a safe working environment for its employees. Three of its workers died in a fire in 2007 at an oil refinery at Ayer Chawan Place in Jurong. One other worker was also injured. Mun Siong was at that time engaged …
SINGAPORE : Singapore authorities simulated a terror attack on Tuesday evening to test the emergency preparedness of the Home Team and the security teams from Resorts World Sentosa, one of the Singapore’s newest tourist attractions. It was the first time that one of the two Integrated Resorts was participating in such a large-scale exercise. It …
PARIS – PALAEONTOLOGISTS fought back on Wednesday in a spirited debate over the Tyrannosaurus rex, saying revisionists who branded the great dinosaur a shameless scavenger have got it all wrong. For more than a century after its discovery, many scientists routinely described the Tyrannosaurus as the king of the killing machines – six tonnes of …
SHAH ALAM – A MYANMAR national here stabbed her newborn baby several times to death and left the body in the toilet of her home. The refugee, in her early 20s, was arrested at about 12.45pm in her home yesterday. It is believed that the baby girl was stabbed five times with a sharp object. …
Singapore – Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has reversed its stance on penalising employees who fall sick during the Chinese New Year period after public outrage. Casino dealers will no longer be awarded demerit points for falling sick, following a public uproar at the arbitrary rules designed to keep the casino at MBS staffed during Chinese …