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Life term upheld for man who beat wife to death
LAWYERS arguing the appeal against the life term of a man who battered his wife to death with an 8.5kg standing fan and other objects, sought to tender four new affidavits but to no avail.The three-judge Court of Appeal yesterday upheld... [Read more]

Quick-thinking pilot, passengers foil hijack
LAS PALMAS (SPAIN) - PLUCKY passengers of a Mauritanian plane overpowered a suspected armed hijacker with help from a quick-thinking pilot. The Air Mauritania Boeing 737 was on an internal flight in the north-western African country on Thursday when the hijacker,... [Read more]

A slice of S'pore in the Philippines
President and Mrs S R Nathan, on a four-day trip to the Philippines, yesterday visited the Singapore GK Village, built in 2005 with the help of more than 50 Singapore volunteers for 46 poor families.Flanked by Mr Tony Meloto, founder of... [Read more]

Terror alert in Manila on Valentine's
POLICE have stepped up security at train stations and an oil depot and set up road checkpoints in the Philippine capital to prevent a repeat of the deadly 2005 Valentine's Day terror bombings, officials said yesterday.The authorities have not monitored any... [Read more]

MD who lied about degree let off with fine
COMPANY managing director Mahesh Narayan, who lied several times that he had a degree from a top US university, was originally facing up to five years in jail and a possible $20,000 fine.But he was yesterday let off with a $6,000... [Read more]

Bogus NKF fund seekers
THERE were two reported cases this week of fake donation seekers using the name of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) in Clementi and Jurong East. The NKF, which does not have any door-to-door donation drives in these areas, advises the public... [Read more]

S'pore-based firm plans shipping trust
FIRST Ship Lease, a Singapore- based ship leasing and financing company, is planning to launch an initial public offering of a new trust.According to a preliminary prospectus lodged on Friday, the company is offering 220 million units in First Ship Lease... [Read more]

Thai push for satellites may hasten Shin Corp overhaul
THAILAND'S push to take over the country's satellite business controlled by Shin Corp could speed up a corporate overhaul of the conglomerate's diverse assets.For the past three months, a Temasek Holdings-led consortium that controls Shin Corp has been mulling over a... [Read more]

OCBC to buy Indonesian debt underwriter
JAKARTA - OCBC Bank has agreed to buy a 29.5 per cent stake in Trimegah Securities, Indonesia's third-biggest debt underwriter, for 172.52 billion rupiah (S$29.16 million).OCBC, the smallest of Singapore's three banks, separately said its wholly-owned unit, Excel Holdings, has reached... [Read more]

Going the extra mile
PAYA Lebar Airport hit a space crunch not long after its opening in 1955. Mr Bernard Chan, now CAAS assistant director for estate management, remembers well the flights that took Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. Going on the haj was a red-letter... [Read more]

Sub-tenants told of big mall opening. What they got: empty stalls and legal woes
A SERIES of legal spats are brewing over a suburban shopping mall in Commonwealth that failed to open last year, leaving disgruntled sub-tenants filing police reports and landing main tenant Pagar Park in trouble with the law. Sub-tenants were promised by... [Read more]