Earthquakes

Dozens of small earthquakes are shaking California. The largest of them on Wednesday was a 3.7 magnitude recorded at 4am singapore time. a magnitude 3.5 struck 12 hrs earlier. On tuesday there was a 4.8 magnitude stuck a small town by a beach. There had been no reports of injury or deaths from any of the quakes.

Maid robbed

A 41 years old woman was jailed for robbing her sis-in-law maid. Loots consisted off jewellery worth of $1000 some cash and a handphone. The maid recognise Salvi the 41 years old woman, and let her in. Her accomplice rush in and push the maid to the sofa and used a knife to slash her. She was then tied up in a room. Salvi got a plastic bag and took away the loots. She and her accomplice is serving 7 years in jail.

Pirates hijacked tankers

Pirates armed with machine guns hijacked a Norway tanker off the coast of Somalia, the ship's owner said. A Greek-owned tanker was seized in the same area, that attack came in less den 24hrs. The pirates also tried to hijack a small boat, but the crew fought them off with fire hose and sped away. This ships were all chemical tankers.

Laptop stole.

2 Laptops worth a total of $4300 and $100 cash were had been stolen when thieves went into the shop through an unlocked window. The manager had locked up at about 8pm and the next day she found out that the toilet window was unlocked. She found out that 2 laptops were missing.

Sucide bomber

A Suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers in a mosque in Pakistan, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens. As a prayer leader, he read "god is greatest" and set off his explosives. Television footage showed residents and police officers digging frantically with their hands through the collapsed white-walled mosque, helping to find trapped causalities.

A restaurant manager who was charged with corruption was fined a total of $2,500 in a traffic court for drink driving and stopping at a road shoulder of an expressway. The driver allegedly offered the bribe to him. The cop refused it. In the traffic court on Thursday, Ng was fined $1,500 for being unfit to drive as he had at least 45 mcg of alcohol per 100 ml of breath that evening. He was fined another $1,000 for stopping and allowing his vehicle to remain at the road shoulder of the expressway. He pleaded guilty to both charges.
A pre-trial conference has been fixed for the bribery case on April 16. He is out on $5,000 bail.

Some 10,000 graves at Choa Chu Kang Chinese cemetery will be exhumed. These graves, which date back to between 1958 and 1978. Notices to alert the next-of-kin of those buried in the affected section will be published in The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao on March 21. The NEA has begun exhuming graves in phases at the Choa Chu Kang (CCK) cemetery since December 2004. This is in line with the government's policy of limiting the burial period of all graves to a 15-year period.

A mother was charged in court yesterday with killing her 14-year-old daughter. Goh Hai Eng, 51, is said to have stabbed Eunice Chew Li Xin in their flat in Block 852, Woodlands Street 83, early yesterday morning. The teenager was found dead in her room with a stab wound in her torso just after 3am, said police. Neighbours say that the one-room rented flat on the fifth floor was also home to Goh's other daughter, believed to be in her 20s to 30s, and that daughter's baby girl, who is about a year old. Eunice, who was in Peicai Secondary School, was described by her classmate Ng Chiaqi, 16, as well-liked, and rather obedient.

A 40 year old man was charged to court on Friday on a charge of housebreaking and the theft of about $8,400 worth of property from a company. Purana Chandran Subramaniam allegedly broke into Press Automation Technology at Woodlands Walk and stole cash of about $2,664, four bottles of liquor and six laptops between Jan 6 and 7.
He was remanded at Ang Mo Kio police division for investigation and the case will be mentioned on Friday.
If convicted, he faces caning as well as between two and 14 years behind bars.

Houseowner Pesi B. Chacha had a 'visitor' dropping in at his swimming pool on Saturday. It was a section of a metal fence from a construction site behind his bungalow. It toppled after heavy rain lashed the Kheam Hock Road area in Bukit Timah. The fence also broke a garden lamp and hit the roof of the house.
He was reading in his bedroom when he heard a loud crash at about 3.30pm. After the initial shock, he alerted the authorities and The Sunday Times. The heavy rain also caused damage to the bungalow next door. Mrs Chacha alerted neighbour Suresh Devi, 61, about the landslide.
'I was shocked to see my collapsed wall,' said Ms Devi. Both houses are sited about a few metres below the construction site which used to house the Hillpark condo.

5.0 quake hits China

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake on Thursday struck the region of southwest China devastated last year by a massive quake, but there were no reports of casualties.
The latest earthquake occurred at 4.25pm (Singapore time) about 200 kilometres north-east of the Sichuan provincial capital, Chengdu. The quake occurred at a depth of just 10km.
Last year's 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12 left nearly 88,000 people dead or missing, injured 375,000 and left more than five million homeless, according to previous official estimates.

Man arrested for murder

A MAN has been arrested in connection with the death of a 44-year-old man in Woodlands on Sunday. The victim, Mr Cong Cheng Li, was found unconscious at the void deck of Block 301 in Woodlands St31. Police believe that he was assaulted.Mr Cong was sent to the National University Hospital where he died later.The 45-year-old suspect is expected to be charged in court on Thursday with murder, which carries the death penalty.

Bus driver gets death

A private bus driver was sentenced to hang for the murder of his China-born teenage step-daughter. Ong Pang Siew, 46, was found guilty of killing 15-year-old Ong Pan Hui. The killing took place a few weeks after Pan Hui's mother, Madam Xiu Yanhong, was granted a divorce from Ong, with her getting custody of the girl and the son she bore with Ong. That afternoon, Ong had called Madam Xiu to ask where their son was but they ended up quarrelling over access to the boy. He then cycled to the Marsiling flat where Madam Xiu lived with Pan Hui and their son. The teenager was at home with two sub-tenants.An argument broke out between Ong and Pan Hui. When he started strangling her, a sub-tenant called Madam Xiu, who alerted the police.
By the time paramedics arrived,Pan Hui was dead. Police arrested Ong at the scene.
Ong was calm as the mandatory death sentence was pronounced.

Woman mistaken for monkey

Police say a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked chiku in his tree thinking it was a monkey. Police officers said Yahaya Othman says Zainab Mohamath Ali was gathering fruit on Thursday when her neighbour shot her. Mr Yahaya says the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. 'Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbour.' He says Zainab is hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable on Friday. He says police were investigating the man, a volunteer security corps member, for illegally discharging a firearm, which carries a maximum prison term of two years. -- AP

main abuse

A former airforce staff sergeant found guilty of abusing his Indonesian maid on several occasions was sentenced to 20 months jail. Tong Chew Wei, 31, who is appealing against conviction, was also ordered to pay his maid $6,480. Tong was convicted of seven charges of causing hurt to Ms Widayanti between December 2006 and February 2007. The maid testified that the physical abuse began 1 1/2 months into her employment at Jurong West Street 65 until she ran away. Tong, she said, had slapped, poked and hit her frequently, using a broomstick. In one incident, he scalded her on the back of her right and left knees.
Tong, who is out on $10,000 bail pending his appeal, could have been jailed for up to 18 months and/or fined up to $1, 500 per charge.

HK bird tests positive

Hong Kong authorities said on Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. There were no poultry farms within three kilometres of where the dead bird was found, but warned farmers to be on their guard against the disease. Laboratory tests had confirmed that the chicken found floating in the sea off Hong Kong on March 2 carried the deadly strain.

baby dies in pet dog attack

A 2 week old toddler has died after being attacked by the family's dog in their home. The infant was found in the living room with bite wounds on her head. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene. Her daughter was placed in a low-lying bassinet or crib and discovered the attack when she returned a few moments later.

the dog was qurantined.

Mum jailed for tot's death

A mother whose 22-month-old daughter died in a house fire after being left at home alone was jailed for seven-and-a-half years on Thursday. The toddler died from smoke inhalation after an electric fire broke out. During a two-week trial it emerged that mother-of-five Brown left her young daughter unsupervised in an upstairs bedroom while she attended a court hearing relating to one of her other children. The toddler was trapped in an unventilated room for more then 3 hours after the faulty television broke out.

Dead baby found

Police have arrested a woman after the body of a baby was found in a riser at a block in Jurong West on Friday. The body of the infant, said to be less than one year old, was found in a recyling bag in the riser outside a five-room flat on the 12th floor of Block 678D Jurong West Street 64. Police were alerted to the case at about 2.25pm on Friday. Two technicians who were at the block to read the electricity meter stumbled on the body when they found the door of the riser sealed with a masking tape. Inside was a green recycling bag that stinks. They did not look inside but felt uneasy, and one of them immediately called the police. A 24-year-old woman, believed to be the baby's mother, was arrested.

4As for I Not Stupid actor

When actor Shawn Lee takes part in a movie, the most important part to him is seeing the audience's reaction. The 17-year-old adopted the same attitude when preparing for his 'A' levels: he pictured his parents's applause to his results to motivate himself. Judging from the four As the Anglo-Chinese Junior College student received on Friday, his parents should indeed be elated.

The actor of I Not Stupid and Homerun fame, scored As in Maths, Economics and Physics and General Paper. He scored Bs in Chemistry, Project Work and Higher Chinese. He has been missing from the big screen in the last two years, a decision he made so that he could focus on his studies. Shawn rejected a couple of roles in movies such as Jack Neo's Love Matters. He had to turn down Mr Neo's offer because the movie was filmed during the his A-level exams week last November.