Singapore  - Two brothers were sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for murdering a woman in 2005, capping a long-running trial that was spanning three years, the Straits Times reported.

The Court found Ismil Kadar, 40, and Muhamad Kadar, 33, guilty of killing Tham Weng Kuen at her apartment on May 6, 2005, when trying to rob her. Tham died from more than 110 stab wounds.

Justice Woo Bih Li said he could not conclude as to who had dealt the fatal blows to the woman but both men were liable under the law as they were found to be at the crime scene at that time.

Singapore  - The Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) will launch a new access platform to its securities market and data on April 27, it was announced Tuesday.

The new access platform, SGXAccess API1, will offer latency improvements of more than 10 times, achieving an average of up to 16 milliseconds for order acknowledgments, and is marektet as an alternative to the existing SGXAccess FIX2 platform.

Singapore  - The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said on Tuesday that its functions will be split between two new companies from July 1 as part of corporatization and restructuring of its existing airport setup.

Singapore - A second Singapore woman has gone into a coma after suffering acute food poisoning a day after the first victim's death, media reports said Tuesday.

Noraini Kasim, 59, is in a coma at a local hospital after having eaten from a local food stall last week.

Comatose Aminah Samijo, 57, died Monday in hospital, and Rosiah Samat, 38, lost her 2-month-old foetus in a miscarriage caused by a serious bout of diarrhea and bleeding brought on after eating the same food.

Singapore  - A 32-year-old woman was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student on seven occasions last May, reported the Straits Times Monday.

The woman, who cannot be named to protect the boy's identity, has pleaded guilty to two charges.

The petite woman, a stall assistant, was not represented and was remanded in custody as she could not post the 10,000-Singapore- dollar (6,662-US-dollar) bail offered.

Singapore  - A 57-year-old Singapore woman who went into a coma after suffering food poisoning from eating at a local food stall last week died on Monday morning in hospital, reported the Straits Times.

Aminah Samijo suffered acute renal failure when the food poisoning infection entered her kidneys, sending her into a coma. She also had low blood pressure.

Aminah had eaten Rojak, a deep-fried meat and vegetable dish, at a local hawker stall.