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Abuzz with relief

August 10, 2012 - 1:52am

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Amanda Phua

TNP PHOTO: GARY GOH

Days before National Day, rumours were swirling online about the state of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's health.

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Ailing grandma watches NDP from swanky suite with family

August 10, 2012 - 1:50am

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Hedy Khoo

TNP PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

The 84-year-old granny suffered a massive heart attack last month, and her kidneys and liver are failing.

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He queues for five hours to be first to sign up for Big Walk

August 10, 2012 - 1:03am

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Eunice Toh

TNP PHOTO: Melissa Chue

HE WAS out and about before the sun was up when most others would rather laze in bed.

On a public holiday, no less.

At 5.45am yesterday, Mr Tan Chu Meng, 32, was out of his Hougang home and on a bus to Ang Mo Kio.

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Designer totes in exchange for bags of rice in unusual charity drive

August 10, 2012 - 12:54am

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Benson Ang

TNP PHOTO: Kelvin Chng

Do you have designs on being both fashionable and charitable?

Contact Madam Fion Phua.

The 42-year-old wants to “exchange” about 50 of her designer items, worth tens of thousands of dollars.

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Japanese drifting champion in action at Changi

August 9, 2012 - 10:37pm

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Ng Ee Ching

PICTURE: STAMFORD TYRES

About 50 people were at Changi Exhibition Centre last Sunday to see 2011 Formula Drift USA champion Daijiro Yoshihara in action.

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People here turning to website to get odd jobs

August 9, 2012 - 10:34pm

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Benita Aw Yeong

TNP PICTURE: GARY GOH

Fancy sharpening 900 pencils for $150? Or picking out brown M&Ms into a bowl for a fee?

More people here are hiring strangers through service networking sites to check off their to-do list.

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Giving National Day songs a run for their money?

August 9, 2012 - 1:39am

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The New Paper

One music video is slick, with breathtaking shots of Singapore at sunrise and features a professional singer.

The other is rough-edged, put together for less than $1,000 by a motley group of film-makers and musicians as a labour of love.

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Truck driver allegedly had sex with other underage girls too

August 9, 2012 - 1:34am

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The New Paper

Forty-year-old truck driver Hang Tuah Jumaat, who is on trial for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2010, also allegedly raped, assaulted or had sex with other underage girls.

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Runaway maid with baby puts up struggle in Choa Chu Kang carpark

August 9, 2012 - 1:32am

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Eunice Toh

PHOTO: Shin Min Daily News

Some residents in Choa Chu Kang witnessed a peculiar sight on Tuesday evening.

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He got 500 sedatives from 7 doctors

August 9, 2012 - 1:32am

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Joyce Lim

He went clinic-hopping, telling different stories to different doctors.to different doctors.

To one, he was a policeman. To another, he was part of a security team escorting VIPs on trips overseas.

And all seven doctors he saw gave him what he wanted – sedatives.

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