Singapore Local News, 2011-01-19

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New intiative to get local food court operators to adopt environmentally friendly practices A new scheme has been launched to get local food-court operators to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. Its an intiative by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC)......     Rape accused says he did not know what the girl meant with her SMSes SINGAPORE -In her SMSes to the martial arts instructor, the then-13-year-old girl said that she wanted to be with him till the end of time and have two children with him...... FAS outlines plans to rebuild national team President of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) Zainudin Nordin has outlined details to rebuild the national team...... Air-con market turned into Lunar New Year bazaar SINGAPORE : Singapore's first air-conditioned wet market is cashing in on the Lunar New Year festivities, with its partial opening this week...... Singapore, Thailand reaffirm ties Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo and his Thai counterpart Kasit Piromya opened on Wednesday the Thailand-Singapore Civil Service Exchange Programme (CSEP-10) in Bangkok...... Labour movement to reach out to more PMETs SINGAPORE : The labour movement will step up efforts to draw in more white collar professionals as part of its plans for this year...... COE prices mixed Certificates of Entitlement (COE) premiums were mixed in the latest bidding exercise which ended on Wednesday...... North-South Expressway alignment approved The government will acquire close to 40 lots and more than 30 part lots of land to facilitate the construction of a stretch of the North South Expressway (NSE) between Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise...... More citizen engagement initiatives to leverage on social media The Singapore government will roll out more initiatives in the next five years leveraging on social media to facilitate two-way communication with its citizens......

'Gary Ng' gets 50 months jail and S$20,000 fine A 28-year-old man, who gained notoriety by posting home-made sex videos on the Internet, has been sentenced to 50 months' jail and fined S$20,000 for possessing obscene films, housebreaking and forgery......     Code of governance for charities fine-tuned Singapore's Charity Council has refined its Code of Governance for Charities and Institutions of Public Character (IPC)...... New eco-label for food-courts The Singapore Environment Council (SEC) has launched a new certification scheme to facilitate the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices among local food-court operators...... Cheapest healthcare products in Singapore ?ONE hundred commonly used health care products, all at the cheapest prices, all found in one retail outlet.This is Unity's Mr Value programme, where they promise the cheapest prices in all of Singapore for these one hundred items...... Two loanshark runners arrested POLICE arrested two male Chinese subjects for suspected involvement in loansharking activities on Wednesday.The duo aged 24 and 27 years were nabbed in the vicinity of Tampines Street 33...... 'Do you believe in fengshui and astrology?' THIS was one of the unusual questions Straits Times reporters posed to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for a book which will be launched on Friday. Titled 'Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going', the book covers weighty topics such as Singap..... Do you dare to eat alone? IT WAS a much subdued affair at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences canteen yesterday as a student-run campaign to dispel the stigma of eating alone was held. Over the course of the four-hour event, about ..... Singaporeans recount flood ordeal A SIGNIFICANT Singapore population resides in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, which has been hit by one of the worst floods since 1974.The death toll has risen to 20, and clean-up efforts are now in high gear. Reconstruction efforts ar..... Big car COE prices continue to slide CERTIFICATE of Entitlement (COE) premiums for big cars have continued their downward slide after there were 13-year highs in December 2010's final round of bidding.The COE premium for cars above 1,600cc ended at $58,910 - a drop of $10,090 or 14.6 pe..... NSE: New North-South Expressway approved THE green light has been given by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for the alignment of the North-South Expressway (NSE) between Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise.The new expressway - with construction expected to start from 2013 and finish by..... S'pore's first eco-foodcourts in new scheme INSTEAD of plastic or styrofoam takeaway packaging, customers at two food courts here will get takeaway cartons and cutlery made from sustainable materials instead. That's one of the criteria which mark them as Singapore's first eco-foodcourts, in a ..... Through The Lens, Today in Pictures - January 19 THROUGH The Lens takes a look at the pictures that make the headlines, showcase a lifestyle and even explore the quirky side of life.From cold weather in the US to festivals in Belarus, view pictures from around the world today...... NSF gets probation for sex with underage girl ONE of a 13-year-old girl's multiple sex partners was given 15 months' supervised probation on Wednesday.Full-time national serviceman Loy Zhen Ge was a 17-year-old student when he had sex with the girl at her home in April 2008...... 'Gary Ng' gets 50 months jail and $20k fine THE man dubbed Singapore's Edison Chen was sentenced to 50 months' jail and fined $20,000 on Wednesday for a series of offences.Chen Guilin alias Gary Ng, 28, had admitted to having 507 obscene films, mostly of himself having sex with other women. So..... Charity Council refines Code of Governance THE 2007 Code of Governance of Charities and Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs) has been refined to provide greater flexibility to the different charities.But key guidelines related to staff pay and the distinction between the board and operat..... S'pore to boast world's fastest trading engine SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) , Asia's second-largest listed bourse operator, said on Wednesday it will launch the world's fastest trading engine, called SGX Reach, on Aug 15 as it tries to compete with rivals.SGX said last year that it would invest $250 .....