Singapore - Singapore's retail sales dived in January as shoppers turned their backs on expensive goods amid the city-state's worst recession in decades.
Retail sales in January were 12.2 per cent lower than in the same period last year, the Department of Statistics said in a statement Friday.
Compared with January 2008, the drops in sales of motor vehicles, watches and jewellery, furniture, household equipment and technical items varied from 14.5 per cent to 31.7 per cent.
Singapore - A Singapore court on Friday fined a Danish aircraft engineer a total of 1,200 Singapore dollars (780 US dollars) for being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner on board a Singapore Airlines flight, news report said.
Kim Borch Petersen, 39, pleaded guilty to being drunk on board the flight from London to Singapore on Thursday and also admitted to shouting, uttering vulgarities and pushing a steward, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Singapore - A former taxi driver who supposedly torched a Singapore legislator at a community club event in January has been found to be of unsound mind and unfit to plead, media reports said Friday.
Ong Kah Chua, 70, has been remanded in a mental hospital pending a minister's order, after being diagnosed to be suffering from delusional disorder, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Yangon - Myanmar's prime minister, General Thein Sein, is to visit Indonesia and Singapore shortly in response to invitations from the leaders of the two South-East Asian countries, state media reported Friday.
Singapore - A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced a private bus driver to death by hanging for the murder of his China-born teenage stepdaughter, media reports said.
Ong Pang Siew, 46, was found guilty of strangling Ong Pan Hui, 15, on October 20, 2007, at her flat, the online edition of the Straits Times newspaper reported.
The murder came a few weeks after the girl's mother was granted a divorce from Ong with her getting custody of the girl and the son the couple bore together.
Singapore - Singapore's retail sales dived in January as shoppers turned their backs on expensive goods amid the city-state's worst recession in decades.
Singapore - A Singapore court on Friday fined a Danish aircraft engineer a total of 1,200 Singapore dollars (780 US dollars) for being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner on board a Singapore Airlines flight, news report said.
Singapore - A former taxi driver who supposedly torched a Singapore legislator at a community club event in January has been found to be of unsound mind and unfit to plead, media reports said Friday.
Yangon - Myanmar's prime minister, General Thein Sein, is to visit Indonesia and Singapore shortly in response to invitations from the leaders of the two South-East Asian countries, state media reported Friday.
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