Singapore  - A 32-year-old Singaporean divorcee was sentenced to 10 months' jail for having sex with a 13-year old school boy, local media reported Thursday.

The woman, who has a 14-month-old son, pleaded guilty to two of the seven charges for having sex with the minor last May.

The affair was discovered by the woman's sister who visited her flat and found the boy hiding in a wardrobe, according to a report by the Straits Times.

Singapore  - A second woman died Wednesday after a food-poisoning outbreak hit Singapore last week, a radio report said.

Norani Kassim, 59, who was admitted to hospital Saturday, died after lapsing into a coma, hospital officials told the local 938LIVE station.

Aminah Samijo, 57, died Monday while another woman lost her 2-month-old foetus after suffering food poisoning by eating a salad at a food stall.

News reports said 137 people had suffered food poisoning after eating the salad of meat and deep-fried vegetables called India rojak from a popular hawker stall last week.

The government has initiated an investigation of the stall operators while the entire market where it was located has been closed for cleaning.

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.