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Twice’s Momo dazzles at Amaffi’s Singapore event after sold-out concerts
SINGAPORE, Oct 14 — Twice member Momo attended an exclusive event at fragrance house Amaffi’s Singapore boutique on Monday, just a day after the K-pop group concluded its sold-out concerts at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The 28-year-old Japanese performer, who
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Singapore’s ICA urges travel planning, warns of long waits at Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints during Deepavali break
SINGAPORE, Oct 13 — Travellers can expect heavy traffic at Singapore’s Woodlands and Tuas land checkpoints during the upcoming Deepavali long weekend from Oct 17 to 20. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said travellers should anticipate longer waiting times
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Singapore’s north to get more health posts as diabetes, hypertension rates surge, says minister
SINGAPORE, Oct 13 — Singapore’s northern region faces higher rates of chronic illnesses compared with the rest of the country, prompting the government to strengthen local health services, Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung has said. Currently, the three northern
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Singapore motorcyclist dies after collision with SBS Transit bus on PIE
SINGAPORE, Oct 12 — A 30-year-old female motorcyclist died after a collision with an SBS Transit bus on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) on October 9, The Straits Times reported. According to the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force, they were
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Singapore prison officer jailed 10 months for smuggling contraband, taking bribes from inmate
SINGAPORE, Oct 10 — A Singapore prison officer has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for helping an inmate smuggle prohibited items, including painkillers and lewd photographs, into Changi Prison Complex, The Straits Times reported. The officer, 39-year-old Mohammad Asri Abd Rahim,
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AXS acquires majority stake in Sistic to expand live entertainment in Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — AXS, the global ticketing division of United States-based Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore’s leading ticketing platform, SISTIC, acquiring a majority stake in the company. AEG in a statement
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Australia’s PM discusses Optus outage linked to four deaths with Singapore PM
SYDNEY, Oct 8 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today that he had raised the recent deadly outage at Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong. After meeting Albanese in Australia’s capital Canberra, Wong said he expected
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Woman jailed for life for fatally stabbing boyfriend in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
SINGAPORE, Oct 7 — A Vietnamese woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death after suspecting him of drinking with a beer promoter has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, in what a Singapore High Court judge described as a
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Singapore police escort man accused of killing neighbour in noise dispute back to crime scene of fatal stabbing
SINGAPORE, Oct 7 — Singapore police escorted a 66-year-old man accused of murdering his neighbour back to the scene of the alleged crime in Yishun. Koh Ah Hwee is charged with killing 30-year-old Vietnamese national Nguyen Phuong Tra outside a sixth-floor unit
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Freeport confirms deaths of all seven missing workers in Indonesia mine disaster
JAKARTA, Oct 6 — Miner Freeport said yesterday that all seven workers who went missing after a mud-flow disaster at Indonesia’s Grasberg copper and gold mine have been confirmed dead, following the discovery of five more bodies. Around 800,000 metric
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