[ad_1] SINGAPORE – An Indonesian maid who killed an elderly couple in 2017 claimed that she just wanted to run away and that the double murders occurred during a fight. Khasanah, who has only one name, told Indonesian police in the course of their investigation that he was not happy …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore has done well in handling the coronavirus pandemic so far in terms of health outcomes, although its response was not without shortcomings, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. Joining the debate on the president’s speech in Parliament on Wednesday (September 2), he noted that the country’s …
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[ad_1] The board of directors of the embattled Axington company has been reduced to a shell after a series of abrupt resignations in recent days, including that of Chinese gem trader Evangeline Shen. Shen, the non-independent and non-executive chairman of Axington, is linked to a company that manipulated images of …
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[ad_1] Wed, Sep 02, 2020 – 2:28 pm SHARES in SK Jewelery Group, which is listed on Catalist, hit a two-year high on Wednesday after the jeweler’s co-founders offered to take the company privately at 15 Singapore cents a share. The counter hit an intraday high of 14.9 cents on …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Ailing cruise operator Genting Hong Kong sold the Zouk Group, which operates the popular nightclub, for $ 14 million as part of efforts to shed non-core assets and generate liquidity for the cash-strapped company. Malaysian firm Tulipa is buying the Singapore-based group, according to a presentation on …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The founders of SK Jewelery Group have launched a voluntary conditional cash offer of 15 cents per share to delist and privatize the company, they announced in a stock presentation on Wednesday (September 2) ahead of the market opening of values. The founders are Peter Lim Yong …
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[ad_1] Waiting tables is definitely not the easiest job, but Aunt Poh has done it without the ability to speak or listen, for over ten years. A Stomper shared with Stomp on August 4 that he met a waitress named Aunty Poh, who is deaf and unable to speak, at …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 64-year-old man was charged on Wednesday (September 2) in the Lucky Plaza accident that killed two domestic workers in December last year. Malaysian Chong Kim Hoe, whose car allegedly struck six Filipino women, now faces three charges of dangerous driving. Two of them were killed, three …
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[ad_1] PHNOM PENH: The Khmer Rouge commander known as ‘Comrade Duch’, Pol Pot’s chief executioner and security chief who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians in the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died on Wednesday (2 of September). He was 77 years old. Kaing Guek Eav or ‘Comrade …
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[ad_1] TAIPEI: Fed up with being confused with China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s redoubled efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday (September 2) that it would redesign its passport to give the island’s name greater prominence. Taiwan has complained during the outbreak that its citizens have had …
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