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Flooding Cannot Be Prevented
Thursday, 22nd July 2010
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has said no amount of engineering can prevent flooding in Singapore. He said after touring the waterfront development at the areas around Kallang River.
Fined For Importing Fake Goods
Wednesday, 21st July 2010
A 43-year-old woman, Miss Mok Soo Khing, was caught with items bearing the Louis Vuitton trademark at the Woodlands Checkpoint in October 2009. Mok bought counterfeit branded goods from a number of shops in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in order to sell them in Singapore for a profit. Woman fined S$48,300 for importing fake designer goods.
Man Killed By A Tree
Tuesday, 20th July 2010
A 32-year old man was killed when a tree fell and crushed the car he was driving at the junction of Thomson Hills Drive and Yio Chu Kang Road. The tree was probably uprooted by a combination of a strong winds and heavy rains. According to onlooker, the car was also badly crushed and rescuers took about half and hour to remove the victim's body with hydraulic spreader-cutters. It took another 3-hours to cut the tree up and have it removed.
Exercise Pitch Black
Friday, 16th July 2010
About 180 personnel and various aircraft, eight F-16 C/D fighter jets, an E-2C Airborne Early Warning aircraft and a KC-135R tanker aircraft from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) are participating in Exercise Pitch Black, a multilateral air combat exercise. According to Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) this is the 20th year (since 1990) of Exercise Pitch Black which started between Singapore and Australia and later included other air forces in the region. It gave RSAF the opportunity to conduct air operations under realistic training conditions and enhance inter-operability with other participating air forces. The excercise was held in Darwin (Australia) between 16 July 2010 to 6 August 2010.
38 Australian Horses Arrived
Thursday, 15th July 2010
38 horses, aged between five and 11 years old, for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Equestrian competition arrived in Singapore after travelling eight hours from Queensland, Australia by Air. This is the largest movement of horses in Singapore, the horses, after their arrival, were loaded onto trucks bound for the Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre (STCRC) - the equestrian competition venue. The horses will be under quarantine for two weeks from July 16 to 30. Some of the horses will remain in Singapore after the competition as part of the YOG legacy.
Film About Lim Hock Siew Banned
Wednesday, 14th July 2010
The film "Dr Lim Hock Siew" by filmmaker Martyn See was banned under the Films Act and classified it as a prohibited film. In a statement from the Information, Communications and the Arts Ministry, it mentioned that the film "gives a distorted and misleading portrayal of Dr Lim Lok Siew's arrests and detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 1963."
Swiss Jailed & Caned For Vandalism
Friday, 25th June 2010
Swiss National, Mr. Oliver Fricker, was sentenced to 5 months jail and 3 strokes of caning by District for entering a protected place and spraying paint on two carriages of an SMRT train. He pleaded guilty to cutting through the fence of an SMRT Changi train depot with an accomplice and spray painting two MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train carriages with the words "McKoy Banos", a widely documented signature of graffiti artists who have vandalised trains around the world.
SLA Director Pocketed Twelve Million Dollars
Wednesday, 23rd June 2010
A 40-year-old SLA (Singapore Land Authority) executive, Mr. Koh Seah Wee, found a "Lohbang" (gap) in the Statutory Board's procurement system. He then got SLA to pay large sums of money to 10 firms for computer and IT services for almost two-years from 2008 with no actual delivery. Seven of these companies were owned by a 31-year-old businessman. Mr. Koh then use the ill-gotten public money to buy his 38-year-old wife a flashy million dollar Lambo sports car and a million dollar freehold apartment Axis @ Siglap.
City Harvest Church Founder Probed
Monday, 31st May 2010
18 individuals linked to the City Harvest Church (CHC), including church founder Pastor Kong Hee and his wife, Sun Ho are called up by the Office of the Commissioner of Charities (COC) and the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police. They are to assist in investigations, after receiving complaints alleging the misuse of church funds.
Financial Controller Jailed For Cooking The Books
Friday, 28th May 2010
Alex Ng Soon Heng, the former group financial controller of JEL Corporation has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for his part in a racket designed to fraudulently inflate the company's profits. The 33-year-old man pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Penal Code and Securities and Futures Act, after being accused of helping to produce and tailor documents that artificially boosted his company's profits by about $6.4 million in the 2006 financial year.
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