A woman was arrested who traded two young children for a bird and a bit of cash, the lead detective on the case said on Friday.
The story began several weeks ago when Greenwell pulled her cattle truck into a livestock dealer's to make a delivery. A couple had put up a flier at the dealer's, advertising a cockatoo they had for sale for US$1,500. the woman saw the picture of the cockatoo along with the phone number, and with her raising birds already, she called them up. The deal was sealed, and she handed over a five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl to the couple in exchange for the bird and US$175.

A 42-YEAR-OLD woman, suffered a fracture to her skull and had nearly 100 stitches all over the body, she said that she was attacked by her maid. Phang Kian Huang, said that the maid attacked her with a wooden stool, a knife and a mortar at her apartment on Thursday. Several of her ribs were fractured and left ear almost severed in the attack. She needed 100 stitches after the attack on Thursday which left her with a fractured skull and an almost severed left ear. Phang said the maid attacked her while she was asleep in her apartment and claimed that the woman even pretended nothing had happened after the event.
Mrs Phang had to have 65 stitches on her head and neck, more than 20 stitches to rejoin her left ear and another 10 stitches on both knees.

Ten employers who supposedly had locals on their payrolls, hired about 1,000 foreign workers in their place. This is the largest number of employers the MOM has prosecuted at one go for using 'phantom' workers.
Under the law, businesses are required to hire a certain number of Singaporeans or permanent residents before they can employ foreigners. Some employers cheat by getting their hands on the details of unemployed locals, mostly retirees, and pretending to be hiring them, to make up the numbers. Then they hire foreigners instead. A MOM spokesman said a total of 50 companies are under investigation, including the 21 the 10 were involved in. They face 387 charges.
Facing the most number of charges were two men in the SME Group of companies, which provides cleaning services.

China gave a new food safety law on Saturday, tougher regulations and severe punishment for makers of bad products after tainted products showed serious flaws in the food industry. The law goes into effect June 1. China's government has been trying to restore confidence in the country's food system since September that infant formula was contaminated with melamine. The tainted milk is blamed in the deaths of at least six Chinese babies and the sickening of nearly 300,000 others. China's current system of splitting food safety responsibilities among many different agencies has resulted in uneven enforcement and confusion.

New extensions

around 550 residents of Jurong West Town took their first ride on the new Boon Lay MRT Extension on Saturday morning at an open house held by the LTA. The BLE, which took about three years to complete, will begin revenue service on Feb 28. It has two stations - the Pioneer Station and the Joo Koon Station. The Pioneer station is located along the Jurong West Street 63, while the Joo Koon Station services the industrial estate along International Road. The extension is expected to have a ridership of 35,000 commuters a day.

JOHOR BARU, 11 robbers who stole 300 sacks of rice from a warehouse had a short lived escape before police arrested them and recovered most of the loot. Police believe the gang, mainly foreigners led by a local mastermind, were responsible for over 20 cases of factory robberies in the state over the last eight months.

two security guards had been tied up during the robbery, with one of the guards sustaining injury to his head caused by a sharp object.

California, a SPORT utility vehicle filled with foreign students swerved off a highway, slammed into a tree and burst into flames, killing six of the seven people aboard. Two of the passengers were ejected from the vehicle and landed about 10 feet away. The other four victims were likely killed on impact before the SUV caught on fire, the SUV was going about five miles over the speed limit.

faked fathers death for pay out

An australian woman was charged for faking her fathers death in a wild fire to get payouts from the government. She applied to recieve $10k from the victoria bush fire fund, which was establish to help victims of deadly fires. She could face up to 10 years of in prison if convicted.

Charities in victoria recieved donations from all over the world, austrailians alone gave more den 100 millions in the first week.

faked cancer for 5 years

For 5 years, she carried a walking cane, cropped her hair short to coax her colleagues,neighbours and cancer survivor that she had got breast cancer. She accepted 194 days of paid leaves donated by colleages. She also blogged about protecting her child from hospice care, but all was lie.

Later, she resigned. She then sent a email to her boss on dec 12, acknowledging that she had been cancer free since 2000. She was arreasted for 8 counts of theft and 1 count of forgery, resulting in up to 60 years of imprison.

Unhappy with Cny chingay

This years Chinese new year chingay parade, many unhappy. It was said that this was suppose to bring back the joy of chinese new year, by replacing firecrakers. But this year, Paraded chinise customs are getting lesser and lesser. No lion dance, more other races custom. I heard the news and they said that this year theme is on indian. Some complained that there should not be demons and black faces, or ghost faces.

I do not actually appreciate Chingay. It doesnt even show chinese customs.

Satelites crashed in space

Russian and US satelites crashed into each other on tuesday. Scienctist predicted that there are too many satelites in the space, Both would crash one day. It happen during tuesday, when the scientist spotted clouds of debris in the space. More and more debris are being created in the space.

It is rather stupid for 2 satelites to crash into each other in SUCH a big space.

Octuplets.

A mother in california gave birth to an octuplets of babies. They were given birth 9 and a half week earlier. The mother already had a triplets at home. It was said that the babies would experience long term health proplems. Her husband opened a website on the internet to welcome peoples wishes and donations. Most of the mothers could only reach triplets, but this is a total mirical that octuplets can happen.

Bushfire killed at least 200

A bushfire in Melbourne killed at least 200. Most of the forest areas were burned down, followed by another 50+ properties and cars. Hundreds of wildlifes was found dead, including a horse. Some of them survived by running out of the forests, with burned legs or body. It was suspected that a arsonist started the fire. His body was found along the forest by the road.

Man dies after a quarrel

Healthy fifity year old man, died after a quarrel at Jurong carpark. A motor came in while he was washing his car. He accused the motorist of making his car dirty as he had cleaned the mat on the seats which had became dirty after the motorist arrived. They have a quarrel when suddenly, the man fainted, and died immediately.The police are still investigating why did he die. His wife said that he was a very fit man and only have a fever and a cold but it was all cured. I think that he must have gotten a heart attack from the shock.

"cows" stolen.

Missing 200 cows, wooden cows actually. Its one third of the 600 placed on new year eve. This cut outs, in colours like red, blue, pink, yellow and green were put up at 50 spots island-wide. They are belong to the mooved media, the objective is to bring cheer and hope for singaporeans. Instead, 1 third of it was stolen. $100 dollars each to make. They weighed about 8 kg each. Signs beisde cut-outs that say cows under surveilliance have not stop theft.

Toilet Blaze

Madam Wee Chiok took a long time to back from a toilet visit, or she never came back. Her friend decided to check on her, only finding a flaming body. The fire is too strong for them to put out. Madam Wee was pronouced dead when the paramedics arrived. Her friend quoted that she was told by madam Wee that she had debt problems. 2 lighters and a can of thinner were found in the toilet. It was believed that her whole family had sucided.

Contact lenses sold online

Most of the eye infections were caused by the birght coloured contact lenses from online sellers. According to singapore law, only registered opticans can sell contact lenses. Recent years, hundreds of internet blogshops have sprung up selling contact lenses. Lenses are delivered through mail, with no aftercare provided. it result in many users having corneal ulcer.

Stolen Tortises

Tortises, valued at $74,440 were being stolen from turtle musuems. 3 men were charged last wednesday. One of this 3 had been caught for theft before. the culprit, was jailed 6 months before, stole 18 tortisers, worth more then $80k. 14 of them were recovered.

Even poisonous spiders, known as tarantulas, were stolen. one of the staff member recalled seeing a man with 3 children crowding around the tank of tarantulas. But it was too late when the staff found out that the spiders are missing.

Michael Phelps took a bad turn

Michael Phelps was born in 1985, and his potential was spotted as an 11 year old. His first gold was awarded at 2001 World Championships, another 4 golds at 2003 world championships. His first Olympic game, earned him6 golds at 2004 in Athens. But he was sentenced to 18 months probation for drunk driving in Maryland.

After that stumble, he continued to rise. 5 golds at World championships at 2005, 7 golds at 2007. He became olympic history in beijing by scoring 8 golds, he held 7 world records. He took a bad turn, embarrassed himself with a las vegas strip club picture, and a new pic of him sniffing drug.