A 33-year-old maid who gave birth to a dead baby boy and kept the body in a drawer at her employer’s house has been arrested. The incident occurred on Monday (Oct 19) afternoon at a two-storey house along Lorong Ong Lye…
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Indonesia has indicated it will now take up Singapore’s offer to help fight the ongoing haze, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Facebook today (Oct 7). Jakarta had declined Singapore’s assistance package several times since the smog descended last…
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BANDA ACEH — Two suspected lesbians detained earlier this week by Islamic Shariah police in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province will undergo rehabilitation instead of being charged with a crime, a police chief said today (Oct 3). The women, 18 and…
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Many Singaporeans have taken to donning masks or staying indoors as the Pollutant Standards Index climbs to unhealthy levels. But not Mr Judah Jay, 60. Instead, he headed straight for the forest fires in Jambi, a province in Sumatra, to…
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JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is open to help from any country, including Singapore, if they wish to assist in fighting the forest fires that are causing the haze in the region, Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said yesterday (Sept 27)….
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