A father hit his young children with a fabric belt and even held an ignited lighter near them. The 33-year-old father of five did it because he had insisted his children were not telling him the truth about his estranged…
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A 47-year-old butcher was sentenced to nine weeks’ jail on Friday (June 30) for throwing a yellow ofo bicycle from the 15th floor of a Housing Development Board (HDB) block at Upper Boon Keng Road last week. Selamat Mohamed Ali…
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The letter writer Ho Lay Ping (“Don’t equate difference in opinion with discrimination”, June 20) said that because the Pink Dot event is allowed to continue, it shows that “discrimination does not exist”. A minority community which faces no discrimination…
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A 23-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man have been arrested for allegedly cheating victims by advertising the sale of Hari Raya cakes and cookies online, but not delivering them after orders were made. This was done through Instagram, said the…
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During his time in the navy, Osman Jaffar, now 88, carved out a reputation for being every inch as stern as one would imagine Singapore’s military pioneers to be. “When I was coxswain, I was in charge of a crew….
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