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Experts weigh in on the risks of sinkholes in Malaysia and Singapore, highlighting crucial differences in the ground beneath people’s feet.

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In his report, Coroner Christopher Goh noted that Chan Yoke Chew, who died a day after taking her first Covid shot, had a known history of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.

Morena Hui Yan-Yan is also on the run from authorities in Toronto, Canada, where she has been wanted for alleged fraud and other property offences since 2019

Safuan Tehda, a 35-year-old former truck driver, was sentenced to 23 months’ jail for the fatal accident and is disqualified from holding all classes of driving licences for eight years.

The married man, now aged 33, was sentenced to three years’ jail on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to two charges of engaging in sexual acts with a person under 16 years of age.

Dressed in a black headscarf and dress, Ummu Hani held signs calling out the ‘derelict’ conditions of roads in southern Sumatra’s Merbau Mataram.

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The photographs were accompanied by messages stating that the victim was a ‘pig’s child’, ‘a prostitute’, and that she came from a ‘characterless family’, prosecutors said.

Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz, 5, has become the youngest Singaporean to reach the Mount Everest base camp, completing the feat with his father, Zikri Ali, on Monday.

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A 45-year-old man, Zhang Ruijin, linked to Singapore’s largest money laundering case, was sentenced to 15 months’ jail on Tuesday. The sentence is the harshest meted out so far in the US$2.2 billion case.

Muhammad Danial Sukirman was sentenced to 20 days’ jail for causing ‘unnecessary pain and suffering’ to the felines by failing to provide adequate food and water.

M Krishnan, 40, had a ‘propensity for abusing his domestic partners’, the court heard. He punched and kicked the victim to death after learning about her relationships with other men.

Shanmugam said The Economist could not resist “sneering” at Singapore and the British commentariat class cannot stand seeing the island nation “doing better”

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He was responding to a parliamentary question after a Russian media outlet leaked a recording of a conversation between German military officials, one of whom was reportedly staying at a Singapore hotel.

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