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SINGAPORE – A 33-year-old man has been arrested for his suspected involvement in online purchase scams, the police announced in a news release on Friday (June 3). Police said it had received several reports since
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SINGAPORE – The likelihood of Donald Trump becoming the next American president has attracted much interest in the region, with at least two questions asked at two different events on Friday (June 3). Asked about
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SINGAPORE – DBS Bank has signed cross-referral agreements with peer-to-peer (p2p) lending platforms Funding Societies and MoolahSense, it announced on Tuesday (April 19). DBS said it is the first Singapore bank to collaborate with such
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SINGAPORE – A freelance air-con maintenance technician who was desperate to repay his debt to a loanshark broke into his friend’s office and spent about an hour cutting into a safe to steal $42,000 in
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SINGAPORE – The flaming purple 1961 Cadillac sticking out of the Hard Rock Cafe Singapore was taken down on Monday (May 16), as one of Singapore’s most iconic culinary destinations is closed for renovations until August.
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ATTENTION: all ITRA clients’ current, pending and potential. Please be aware that ITRA has discovered a fraudulent operator in the north of England claiming to be an ITRA agent. This scammer seems to have illegally
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Members of the public received automated phone calls from suspicious-looking phone numbers, which later directed them to an operator asking for personal information. SINGAPORE: Courier company DHL has warned members of the public that scammers
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SINGAPORE – Public bus operators SBS Transit and SMRT have been rewarded for improving waiting times of buses, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Monday (May 9). The Bus Service Reliability Framework (BSRF) trial
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SINGAPORE – The woman who was raped three times in 20 minutes by a stranger along a stretch of public road broke down on Tuesday when she faced her attacker on the first day of
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Reader Jason Oon wrote to askST to commend the National Environment Agency (NEA) on its efforts at encouraging recycling and the introduction of recycling bins at HDB estates. He noted that people are also increasingly
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Some 8,700 people are estimated to have invested up to S$160m in three of five firms that have received investor complaints. SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Thousands of diamond and wine investors in Singapore and
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Police cameras will be put up not just in housing blocks, but also town centres and public walkways, in a move to enhance vigilance. The cameras, to be installed from the second half of the
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It is not difficult to question the integrity of the company simply by googling “Australian Wine Index Scam” amidst a growing list of high profile fraud cases happening in Singapore such as Assets Wine Management(AWM),
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Park First is the name behind world class airport car parks offering investors exclusive access to a market-leading commercial property product. Never before have single parking spaces at the UK’s busiest airports been available for
Read moreCustomers were told to expect delivery of their diamonds one month after putting in their money. But they were advised that to avoid paying GST for their diamonds, AFD would store them in a Changi
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Some laid down bouquets outside the Istana and Parliament House, and many, with heads bowed, observed a minute of silence at memorial events across the island yesterday. However, gone were the red eyes, tear-streaked faces
Read moreSINGAPORE – There were seven per cent less illegal immigrants and overstayers arrested in Singapore last year, although there were more people arrested for harbouring or employing immigration offenders. The Immigrations and Checkpoints Authority (ICA)
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Nguyen Thi Yen, in blue t-shirt, leaving the State Courts on Tuesday Two Vietnamese women who were involved in arranging for a marriage of convenience between a Singaporean man and a Vietnamese woman were in
Read moreWhen I hear that kind of returns my antenna all shot up! If this was really achievable in a big scale, you will be able to double your money every 2 years. Or just put
Read moreSix angry investors yesterday turned up at the office of a wine investment firm to demand their money back, before calling the police. Each of them had allegedly paid The Bottled Wealth Holdings between $10,000
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