Singapore Local News, 2011-06-30

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Some of the key changes - Estate agents and salespersons are required to obtain the owner's prior consent before advertising any property for sale or rental. - In the case of leased property which is sought to be sublet, the estate agent or salesperson is required to......     New guidelines for real estate agents: CEA Come August, real estate advertisements proclaiming "advance loans available", "real estate specialist" and "king of XX (name of estate)", could become a thing of the past, as the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA)........

Man jailed 2 weeks for filming up woman's skirt during job interview A 29-year-old woman who went for a job interview got a rude shock when her interviewer used a mobile phone to film up her skirt. Vernon Loh Chiang Meng, 40, a business development manager with Italia World, was yesterday jailed two........     Man jailed for housebreaking, theft An unemployed man was jailed Thursday for seven months for breaking into a security services company and stealing more than S$7,000 in cash and electronic items...... Woman nabbed for hoax 999 calls Police have arrested a 53-year-old woman for making hoax calls to the '999' police emergency hotline...... Alleged thieves held Police have arrested two Vietnamese men, who are believed to be responsible for a series of cases involving the theft of excavator parts island-wide, amounting to more than S$100,000...... Medisave use for mammograms & colonoscopies SINGAPORE : With effect from July 1, patients can use their Medisave for screening mammograms and colonoscopies...... 800,000 households to receive U-Save rebates in July SINGAPORE : Some 800,000 Singaporean HDB households can expect to receive S$35 million of Utilities-Save (U-Save) rebates in July...... Electricity tariffs to go up from July 1 SINGAPORE : Households can expect to pay an average 6.6 per cent more for their electricity in the July-September quarter as tariffs go up...... Son claims he is fighting for dad's interest in $7m house lawsuit One of the sons testifying in the High Court on the ownership of a S$7 million house said he was going to court to stand up for the interests of his father and not to pick on his father's mistress...... S'pore explores new technology to treat drinking water A new technology is being tested for its potential to treat drinking water in Singapore...... Total wages in private sector up 5.5% in 2010 The strong Singapore economy and the tightening labour market raised workers' wages last year...... Taskforce aims to shorten deadline for implementation of Fall Prevention Plan Twelve workers have died from falls at the workplace since the start of the year...... Much more needs to be done for climate change says UN Sec-Gen Climate change and nuclear disarmament will be high on the agenda for United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon as he enters his second term of office...... PUB extends implementation date for securing water tanks National water agency PUB said it is extending the implementation date for the bolting of water tank covers and the replacement of locksets till the end of the year......