ROME - A FURIOUS 36-year-old Italian woman has filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband brought his mother on their honeymoon, Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday. As the couple set off for their honeymoon to France in December, the newly-wed was shocked...
Derrick Hoh, 2005 Project Superstar finalist and NP alumnus is coming to here for a concert that’s exclusive to NP students and staff on 9 February 2011. This campus concert, organized by Poly Stage Production , in collaboration with YES 933 and Warner Music, is for one night only. Ti...
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' Bi...
GENEVA - THE number of Internet users worldwide has reached the two billion mark, the head of the UN's telecommunications agency, Hamadoun Toure, said on Wednesday. 'At the beginning of the year 2000 there only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users,'...
A model displays Japan's first auto vending machine for gold and silver coins in Tokyo at a press preview. -- PHOTO: AFP TOKYO - JAPAN, which sells everything from live crabs to used lingerie in its ubiquitous automatic vending machines, is now staking its claim to a precious new mark...
A 15-minute video clip of a man abusing a toy poodle has triggered a nationwide hunt by Internet users in Malaysia. The clip showed the man repeatedly hitting the puppy, named Sushi, while training it to stand on its hind legs. Angered by the images, netizens exchanged emails and mess...
SINGAPORE : A video of a man hitting and hurling his dog against the wall has been circulating on the social networking site Facebook for the last three days. In the 15-minute clip, the man is also heard hurling abuse while training the frightened dog to stand on its hind legs. In res...
A man who raped his seven-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 11 years jail and given 16 strokes of the cane. -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN A 42-YEAR-OLD man who raped his own daughter when she was only seven years old was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years in jail and 16 strokes of the ...
Toyota Motor Corp said it was recalling about a dozen models in Japan. -- PHOTO: AP TOKYO - TOYOTA Motor is to recall nearly 1.7 million vehicles worldwide including 1.2 million in Japan and 421,000 overseas over a fuel leak risk, the automaker and the Transport Ministry said on Wedne...
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box Groupon snaps up yet another daily deals site in Asia and this time it’s in Malaysia. The company today announced the acquisition of GroupsMore. This is the...
BEIJING - China on Wednesday raised the minimum down payment for second homes and ordered authorities to rein in property prices in its latest move aimed at quelling public angst about high real estate costs. A meeting of the State Council, China's cabinet, presided over by Premier We...
HARRISONVILLE (Missouri) - A US woman whose husband fathered four babies with one of the couple's daughters has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to child endangerment and hindering prosecution of a felony. Prosecutors say the woman knew about the abuse but...
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 ob...
A recent article on CNN says Singaporeans are the second coolest people in the world, beating out Americans, Japanese and Jamaicans. Our claim to fame? Being a bunch of 'absurdly computer-literate' geeks. According to the article, Singapore is geek central and its people can therefore...
Downtown East has become an infamous place after a fatal gang fight. My boyfriend, aged 26, his brother, 27, and I, 24, decided to drop by the arcade to pass the time while waiting for their youngest brother who was at a chalet. We were in the middle of a game (the Japanese Bishi Bash...
BEIJING - STATE media is reporting that China's premier has urged citizens to voice their criticisms of the government and speak out about injustice. The official Xinhua News Agency says Wen Jiabao made an unprecedented visit to China's top petition bureau, where ordinary citizens are...
The new Lemon Laws proposed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) are some of the best news consumers have had for a long time. Finally, there's a way to get your money back when something you buy doesn't work. And now is the time to tell MTI how to make the new laws even better...
What's "Camemberu"? Just the way Japanese pronounce Camembert, the French cheese. I love all things Japanese and how they add their own twist to something foreign (very often improving it). This Singapore food blog also features travel and food in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan. I star...
was pleasantly surprised when he heard live music coming from one of the train cabins when he boarded the MRT at Orchard. It turned out that a local band was entertaining the rush hour crowd with their unique blend of hip-hop and soul. Other passengers also enjoyed the music, said the...
SINGAPORE - Imagine walking into a Starbucks outlet here and being able to chat with customers or a friend at an outlet in Seattle through a wall-sized display, as if you were sitting just across from them. They appear as three-dimensional as they would be if they were in the Singapor...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to eliminate billions of dollars of oil subsidies in order to invest in a space race-like drive towards a clean energy future. "I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. ...
SINGAPORE : Retail traders in Singapore can expect a whole new way to trade stocks - on their TVs. MediaCorp is set to roll out an interactive TV via broadband in the second half of this year, and booking of stock trades using your remote control is just one of the Next Generation Nat...
SINGAPORE - Sports sponsorship is increasingly big business here these days. As Singapore's top athletes win more international prizes and the country hosts a lengthening list of world-class events, the number of sponsors have increased, and the battle to attract more such support has...
Russia's upper house of parliament ratified the new US nuclear disarmament treaty. -- PHOTO: AP MOSCOW - RUSSIA'S upper house of parliament ratified the new US nuclear disarmament treaty on Wednesday, the final step in approving the first nuclear pact between the two sides in 20 years...
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*It was able to infect machines from the Internet or by hiding on USB memory sticks carrying data from one computer to another. *'Conficker is among the largest botnets in the past five years,' the report said. 'It combined a number of the best tricks and traps within malware.' *Confi...
So confusing: One carpark sign says 'Full' while other says 640 lots available Driver parks at loading bay and shouts when asked to move car Carpark with no grace period charges me $2 yet no available lots Watch out when shopping in JB: Car damaged and broken into at mall carpark Is t...
SINGAPORE : The number of influenza and acute respiratory infections continue to climb, remaining above the epidemic threshold. The Health Ministry said the number of patients seeking treatment in polyclinics in the third week of this month rose to 20,702, up 13 per cent from the week...
MADRID - REAL Madrid confirmed on their website on Tuesday they had signed Manchester City's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on loan till the end of the season. The 26-year-old has been brought in to add urgently needed firepower after Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain underwent surg...
