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$68m paid to workers in accidents last year: MOM report

August 4, 2012 - 2:58am

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Benson Ang

PHOTO: The Straits Times

If you suffer a permanent incapacity while working, you can get compensated. If you die while working, your dependents can get compensated.

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Some foreign workers in S'pore on MOM tab - why?

August 4, 2012 - 2:55am

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Benson Ang

PHOTO: The Straits Times

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has been paying for the accommodation of some foreign workers here, and this has raised some eyebrows.

Why use taxpayers' money this way, some ask?

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She loves her Big Walk T-shirts

August 4, 2012 - 1:12am

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Hedy Khoo

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MADAM ANG MUA CHENG

THEY are so precious to her that they are kept in their original plastic packaging, to be taken out of storage and admired occasionally.

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Prof in sex-for-grades case won't leave Singapore for now

August 4, 2012 - 12:44am

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Shaffiq Alkhatib

TNP PHOTO: Gary Goh

THE law lecturer allegedly involved in a sex-for-grades scandal will not be leaving Singapore after all.

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Two jailed for having sex with underage prostitutes

August 4, 2012 - 12:40am

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Shaffiq Alkhatib

ST FILE PHOTO

He had engaged the services of an underage Vietnamese sex worker – one young enough to be his daughter.

But Wee Lian Kee’s family members still stood by him despite his crime.

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Cheated by daughter, but mum supports her in court

August 4, 2012 - 12:29am

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Shaffiq Alkhatib

TNP PHOTO: Gary Goh

Madam Lee Seok Yan (above, right), 58, a cashier, was cheated out of $4,300 by her own daughter.

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TNP report helps him win scholarship

August 4, 2012 - 12:11am

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Linette Heng

PHOTO: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

After two unsuccessful scholarship applications, Mr Lim Wei Zhong thought he would never be able to get a scholarship.

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He gropes her, then punches her

August 3, 2012 - 1:43am

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Amanda Phua

TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Ariffin Jamar

A female server of a Clarke Quay restaurant-bar was helping a female customer when she felt someone grab her right buttock.

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'My friend's death woke me up'

August 3, 2012 - 1:40am

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Shaffiq Alkhatib
Eunice Toh

TNP PHOTO: Choo Chwee Hua

He has been in and out of drug rehabilitation centres and jail for various offences since he was a teenager.

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They have Lady Luck with them

August 3, 2012 - 1:37am

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Ng Huiwen

They are both courier drivers and they were doing their rounds in the Shenton Way area.

The similarities do not end there.

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