Pertapis Children’s Home is facing allegations of children in the home being inappropriately punished physically. In a media release on Friday, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) said it had received some information about some children in the…
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SINGAPORE: A patient who beat up a doctor over a medical certificate was on Wednesday sentenced to 12 weeks’ jail. 23-year-old Nurhayati Shedek had gone to see a doctor at Tampines Polyclinic with two sisters on 27 August last year….
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INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has told the Singapore media that “no ill intent was meant, no malice, no unfriendly outlook”, when Indonesia named a new frigate KRI Usman Harun, after two Indonesian marines executed in 1968 for a 1965…
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When a bomb went off one Sunday night in April 1964 at Jalan Rebong in Kampung Ubi, the impact was so large that I could feel it from my home in Geylang Serai a kilometre away. A 50-year-old Malay widow…
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