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 National Library Board (NLB) will be withdrawing a series of Malay language books from its libraries “immediately”, after concerns about their contents were raised. The books belong to a series published in Malaysia in 2013 called Agama, Tamadun Dan…
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Close to 600 families received cash and vouchers worth over S$200,000 at the Muslim Converts’ Association of Singapore’s Ramadan Zakat Disbursement ceremony yesterday. The 575 recipients included the low-income, the elderly and those with chronic diseases. For the first time…
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S.League club Tampines Rovers ran into cash-flow problems last April, and it appears that the club are facing another money muddle this year. The New Paper understands that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board is looking into the club, with…
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Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Ltd is facing a loss in excess of 4 billion francs (US$4 billion, S$5.6 billion) on its emergency investment in Swiss bank UBS Group nine years ago, according to IFR calculations. GIC cut its…
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