A woman who had sex with her father pleaded guilty to incest on Wednesday, nine months after he was sentenced to jail. She is the first woman in Singapore to have been charged with incest, in what is believed to be the first consensual case prosecuted here. Neither father nor daughter...
STOMPer Misnomer wonders why a store would be named something unrelated to its business. This was after coming across a clothing store at a shopping mall that was named like a bakery. The STOMPer wrote: “ I saw this shop at Marina Bay Sands with the huge signboard that reads 'Bread & ...
Runners heading to the Standard Chartered Marathon during the early morning of Dec 4 will enjoy overnight MRT train services on the North-South East-West Lines and the Circle Line. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG Runners heading to the Standard Chartered Marathon during the early morning of D...
Many found Mr Neo's Facebook posting offensive because he put up this picture of Malay children in their schoolbus and captioned it: 'Bus filled with young terrorist trainees?' -- PHOTO: INTERNET By Rachel Chang A PEOPLE'S Action Party (PAP) youth wing member has resigned from the par...
One of the most popular games for the male students in the eighties, goli was a game involving skill and accuracy. Typically played on sand, the marbles were placed in a drawn circle as the players stood behind a straight line drawn several meters away. Every marble that was knocked o...
Photo by linkway88 In view of the Rochor residents & shops who have to make way for the new N-S Expressway, I propose 梧槽路 be renamed 无草路。 LTA chief on the new highway: "Speaking at a press conference yesterday, LTA chief executive Chew Hock Yong noted that the city centre is “very cro...
Singapore's swimmers ended its SEA Games campaign on a high on Thursday, collecting two more gold medals for a record total haul of 17. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI By Terrence Voon PALEMBANG - Singapore's swimmers ended its SEA Games campaign on a high on Thursday, collecting two more g...
Residents in Clementi will be able to wait for their buses in air-conditioned comfort from Nov 26. -- PHOTO: LTA By Maria Almenoar Residents in Clementi will be able to wait for their buses in air-conditioned comfort from Nov 26. The new 8,100-sq-m facility at Clementi will be the six...
SINGAPORE: A Young People's Action Party (YP) member who posted "insensitive" remarks - in his own words - on his Facebook page has resigned, following an online furore. Mr Jason Neo has also issued an apology on his Facebook page. He had posted a religiously and racially offensive ca...
WELLINGTON (AP) - Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend. Though whale strandings are relatively common in both countries, the past few days have been pa...
Singapore's Mohammad Afiq Bin Yunos (left) fights for the ball with Thailand's Sutjarit Jantakol during their football qualifying group match at the 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEAGAMES) in Jakarta on Nov 17, 2011. Singapore led 1-0 after the first half. -- PHOTO: AFP By Lee Min Kok J...
Compared to the region, which has a childhood overweight percentage of 23 per cent, Singapore's rate in 2010 was 10.9 per cent. -- PHOTO: MUHD NADZI ABU SUJAD By Lim Yan Liang Students here are less than half as likely to be overweight than their peers in South-east Asia. Compared to ...
Singaporean children's battle against cyber dangers has crossed over to the ubiquitous mobile phone, the latest study has shown. -- PHOTO: INTERNET By Irene Tham Singaporean children's battle against cyber dangers has crossed over to the ubiquitous mobile phone, the latest study has s...
Cast member Bradley Cooper poses at the premiere of 'The Hangover Part II' at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California. -- PHOTO: REUTERS LOS ANGELES (AFP) - He's a Georgetown University graduate who cooks, rides motorcycles and speaks fluent French, but United States actor ...
The police have been in contact with the organisers of an anti-sexual violence event called SlutWalk to find out more about their planned outdoor events. That is to establish if permits are needed. SlutWalk is an event against sexual violence. It is organised by seven friends who have...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Never mind the obesity crisis: United States lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved to protect schools' ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for students. In an annual spending bill covering the US Department of Agriculture, which...
Bangladeshi Shawkat Ali Khan and poses with his bride Farzana Yasmin at their wedding held at the auspicious time of 11.11am (1.11pm Singapore time) on Nov 11. Mr Khan had his hopes of a long and happy life with his bride dashed when she left him minutes after the ceremony. -- PHOTO: ...
1st Sg woman charged with incest: She pleads guilty to sex with father 17 Nov 2011 SOURCE: The Straits Times A WOMAN who had sex with her father pleaded guilty to incest yesterday, nine months after he was sentenced to jail. She is the first woman in Singapore to have been charged wit...
As a member of the Muslim community , I am of course angry at the comments made. We hope this is just one or two bad apples in the YPAP activist and not a widespread phenomenon among the elites. We hope that the government take notice of this and see what has gone wrong with the educa...
Google on Wednesday began selling digital music in a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's online shop. -- PHOTO: AP LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Google on Wednesday began selling digital music in a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's online shop. 'Today we are happy to a...
Photo by Yabby Kena have to move house because of new road? Sing along with us! An original mrbrown show song! Podcast: the mrbrown show 18 Nov 2011: hey hey hey Download MP3 (MP3, file size: 4.2mb, Time: 00:02:57) Subscribe: [feed ][iTunes ] This entry was posted Friday, November 18t...
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SINGAPORE: Those who haven't gotten their tickets to the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) might want to get a move on and pick them up, because some of the biggest names in K-pop have confirmed their attendance to the prestigious event! Korean girl groups SNSD, 2NE1, Miss A and sup...
韩星名单新鲜出炉,这一次来新参与2011Mnet Asian Music Awards (2011 MAMA) 音乐盛事的韩星牌子打得够大,单是韩流天王就有两个宪哥——李炳宪、宋承宪;而凭《同伊》一炮而红的女主角韩孝珠,男主角裴秀彬此番能来新,也将令珠迷、彬迷欣喜若狂! 李炳宪已晋身好莱坞,宋承宪拍《英雄本色》揣摩了发哥周润发神韵,说来,宋承宪曾多次几度来新,始终不果,如今应2011 MAMA而来,肯定叫爱宪哥者乐疯! 追看韩剧者,不可能不认识皮肤白皙、外型斯文儒雅的朴时厚,朴时厚参演过《家门的荣光》、《检察官公主》、《逆转女王》,《公主的男人》,新剧《一天》与性...
SINGAPORE: Runners heading to the three different start points for the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2011 on December 4 will be able to use overnight MRT train services. These will be on the North-South and East-West lines (NSL/EWL) as well as the Circle Line (CCL). SMRT said ...
Practical jokes may be played out among friends all the time in good fun but if they are as elaborate as these pranksters, you might find yourself cursing your luck instead. STOMPer Rahz wrote: “We have all played pranks on our friends, but these guys have turned pranking into an art....
Entrepreneurship books these days are a dime to a dozen. The bad ones run the gamut from being too preachy to being so academic they read like textbooks. The better ones, which are far rarer, extract simple, easy-to-apply lessons from personal experiences of seasoned entrepreneurs tha...
SINGAPORE: A new phenomenon called "cyberbaiting", where kids taunt their teachers, film the incident and post it online to embarrass the teacher or the school, has been identified. Three in 10 Singapore teachers have personally experienced this or know of another teacher who has, sai...
Some people update their Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook profile pictures with the frequency of changing their underwear, while others stubbornly retain the same picture from the very first upload. Profiles provide an important opportunity to communicate our identity through a tiny pie...
WASHINGTON - United States President Barack Obama - pronounced tobacco-free in his latest medical checkup - has tough words for cigarette makers. Some tobacco companies, he says in a new White House web video, are fighting new cigarette warning labels because "they don't want to be ho...