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The Electric Newpaper - Singapore news. Find the latest news reports here.

Total news: 4246
Last news: November 20, 2008 22:00:00

WHAT a difference a year makes. Just last October, the property market was buzzing with brisk sales at condo launches. Home-sellers, too, called the shots when it came to pricing. - [Read more]

THE news that she had cancer struck Madam Koh Siew Jeong like a bolt of lightning. - [Read more]

EGGS tainted with the industrial chemical melamine were detected last month in the same northeast Chinese city from where contaminated ones sold in Hong Kong originated, an official said Monday. - [Read more]

A LIANHE Wanbao team was attacked by a man on Sunday evening when they visisted Flanders Square, where Coco, a 41-year-old prostitute, was murdered the previous night. - [Read more]

THE Saturday morning began like any other. It ended with the horror of a husband watching his wife fall seven floors before his very eyes, his frantic efforts to revive her, and his overwhelming grief. - [Read more]

HE was dying of cancer. But the mortgage firm kept ringing and ringing to get its money back. - [Read more]

FOR some, the destination is greater than the journey. - [Read more]

HOW much pain was he suffering from cancer? A lot. - [Read more]

A FAMILY in Sydney is alleging that they were given ice-cream laced with faeces after complaining about bad service. - [Read more]

At least two of the six loan sharks are not appeased. They said to Mr Yee Meng Yong: Your wifes death is your business. They said they would not let the matter rest. - [Read more]

A SMILES operation is in force at Changi Airport in a bid to snag the worlds best airport title again. - [Read more]

SHE is said to have worked in the red-light districts in Singapore for more than two decades. - [Read more]

THE naked body of a young Chinese woman was found at the bottom of a block of flats in Sydney. - [Read more]

THERE probably were traditional Halloween outfits and symbols somewhere in the street parade. - [Read more]

I WAS but a twinkle in my fathers eye when, in 1948, a certain Alan Funt devised the riotous Candid Camera show for television. It became a phenomenal hit in several versions and was shown all over the world even in the late 70s. - [Read more]

THEY wanted to rough it out in the mountains. But when heavy rains hit and the area started flooding, the going got too rough for the 2,500 runners. - [Read more]

TERROR suspect Mas Selamat Kastari made it to Interpols wanted list after he escaped from detention here earlier this year. - [Read more]

ONE minute, unionist and legislator Lee Cheuk-yan was collecting signatures for the introduction of old-age pensions. - [Read more]

FROM having almost no furniture in their home last month, the family of a jailed drug addict now has two refrigerators. - [Read more]

SHE called herself Coco, and was one of the more popular prostitutes at Flanders Square, a small alley near Serangoon Road. - [Read more]