Singapore Local News, 2011-09-27

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SMRT driver jailed over hit-and-run accident An SMRT bus driver was today jailed six weeks and fined $6,000 for a fatal hit-and-run accident along Woodlands Avenue 7 on Oct 5, last year. Tan Joo Ngang, 60, pleaded guilty to one charge of causing the death of a 73-year-old........     Licensed moneylender fined A licensed moneylender has been fined S$6,000 for breaching the Moneylenders Act and the Moneylenders Rules. Goh Siong Kiat of Bez One Credit pleaded guilty to three charges. They include failing to provide a statement of account to........ Search for missing S'poreans continues MERSING - Search and rescue operations are continuing for two missing Singaporeans after their boat sank off Mersing, Johor, following a collision with a tanker on Saturday night. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Authority identified them as....... Six employers charged with not paying workers' salaries Six employers from various industries were charged in the Subordinate Courts, today, with not paying their workers' salaries. A cleaning company, Service Partners, faced the most number of charges and had allegedly defaulted on........ More cyber sleuths to be trained by tertiary institutions The Home Affairs Ministry is enhancing its collaboration with various institutes of higher learning to prepare the next generation of IT security professionals. The Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority, (SITSA), an........

No conclusive findings on body in ship's container The body of a Bangladeshi man who was found dead in a locked metal shipping container at Pasir Panjang was too badly decomposed for any conclusive findings to be made. State Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid recorded at an inquest yesterday........     Asia-Pacific sports market booming Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Chan Chun Sing has said Singapore wants to ride on the growth of the Asia-Pacific sports market, which could be worth US$20.2 billion in 2013...... Losing one GRC not "disaster" for S'pore: Lee Kuan Yew Singapore's former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew does not think a more populist form of government would have to emerge as a result of the general election in May...... Bus driver jailed for hit-and-run An SMRT bus driver was jailed Tuesday for six weeks and fined S$6,000 for a fatal hit-and-run accident along Woodlands Avenue 7 on 5 October last year...... ComChest Award recipients contributed S$48.9m last FY The latest batch of Community Chest (ComChest) Award recipients contributed some S$48 million in the last financial year, more than 85 per cent of the total fund raising target...... Employers charged over pay default Six employers from various industries were charged on Tuesday in the Subordinate Courts with not paying their workers' salaries...... Council, public to stamp out bad hygiene practices The National Environment Agency (NEA) has set up a public hygiene council in its latest effort to keep Singapore clean...... Licensed moneylender fined S$6,000 A licensed moneylender has been fined S$6,000 for breaching the Moneylenders Act and Rules...... S'pore ranked 3rd most competitive IT market worldwide Singapore has risen six places to become the most competitive IT market in Asia Pacific...... Yam Ah Mee's debut musical Former chief executive of Land Transport Authority (LTA), now People's Association chief executive director, Yam Ah Mee, will make his stage musical debut on Sunday, October 2...... Distinguished Fellowship awarded to French official The former Deputy Director-General of DGA, the armaments branch of the French Defence Ministry, Patrick Auroy, has been conferred the Singapore Defence Technology Distinguished Fellowship by Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen...... New undergraduate course to beef up pool of IT professionals The Singapore Management University's (SMU) School of Information Systems (SIS) is tying up with the Home Affairs Ministry (MHA) to develop a new undergraduate course on information security management...... Search under way for 2 missing S'poreans off Mersing Search and rescue operations are currently on-going for two missing Singaporeans after their boat sank off Mersing, Johor, following a collision with a tanker on Saturday night, September 24, at 10pm...... S'pore to groom IT security experts Three tertiary institutions are enhancing their collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to prepare the next generation of IT security professionals......