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 …
SEOUL – SOUTH KOREA on Wednesday proposed holding working-level military talks with North Korea next month, in what would be their first dialogue since the North’s deadly bombardment last November. The defence ministry said it sent a message to the North suggesting a meeting on February 11 at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The …
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 …
SINGAPORE: A former property agent pleaded guilty on Wednesday to offences including cheating and forgery. Thirty-eight-year-old Anika Priyadharshini pleaded guilty to offences involving S$183,556.29. She originally faced 69 charges, but 44 of them were taken into consideration while two others were withdrawn. She even cheated two of her clients of S$58,800, a district court heard …
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 …
A MAN has spent more than US$26,000 (S$33,280) to travel across England and America with his six sex dolls. Dave Hockey, 57, has travelled with his girlfriends to Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. Mr Hockey, who is married and from Nova Scotia, Canada, flew ‘Realdoll’ Bianca and ‘Teddy Babe Deluxe’ Carey to Britain …
LOS ANGELES – MCDONALD’S Corp plans to raise prices this year to help offset an expected rise in its grocery bill for the 10 commodities that account for around 75 per cent of its food preparation costs. Food prices are rising around the globe and the comments from the world’s biggest restaurant chain overshadowed weaker-than-expected …