Singapore Local News, 2012-06-01

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Non-voters of Hougang by-election can now apply to restore names to registers Residents who did not vote in the recent Hougang by-election will need to have their names restored to the Register of Electors, or lose their eligibility to vote or stand as a candidate at future elections. Under the Parliamentary........     Plans underway to make easier to get a taxi It could soon be easier to get flag down a taxi, if tripartite partners are successful in getting taxi drivers to maximise the earning potential of their cars. Advisor to the National Taxi Association Seng Han Thong said that the........ Six months' jail for man who groped woman's butt He groped her left buttock while she was on her way to the toilet at a pub. Five minutes later, 35-year-old Ramasamy Ramesh, an Indian national, touched the 24-year-old woman's buttock again when she came out of the toilet...... Singapore Children's Society gets S$1.38 million donation The Singapore Children's Society has received its biggest single donation from a deceased's estate. The children's charity received a cheque of close to S$1.38 million from the estate of the late Mdm Chin Mee Ngo. A........ Man gets 5 weeks' jail for punching cabbie A business development manager was given five weeks' jail today for punching a taxi driver and causing damage to the bonnet of his ComfortDelGro taxi. Andrew Tan Soo Kiat, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of mischief and another........ EDB MD to become new Minlaw Permanent Secretary Dr Beh Swan Gin (picture) now the managing director of the Economic Development Board (EDB), will be appointed as Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Law (Minlaw) from next month. Taking over from him will be Mr Yeoh Keat Chuan,........ Changes to MAS' board of directors The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang (picture) has been re-appointed to the MAS' board of directors as deputy chairman for a further period of two years with effect from........ June COE bidding exercise opens Monday The Certificate of Entitlement (COE) first open bidding exercise for June opens on Monday at noon, with a total of 1,902 COEs available for this tender. In the non-transferable categories, there are 668 COEs for Category A (cars........ Formula 1's plans for Singapore IPO delayed: Source Motor racing business Formula One Group has decided to delay its initial public offer on the Singapore stock exchange, dropping plans to lodge a prospectus with regulators there next week, a source familiar with the decision said this........ Millionaire households in Singapore on the rise GENEVA - Singapore, China and India posted the biggest increases in millionaires last year as the Asia-Pacific region countered a decline in wealth in western Europe and the United States, said Boston Consulting Group. Millionaire households in......

A-G to be appointed appeal judge Only 21 months after Mr Sundaresh Menon was appointed Attorney-General (A-G), he will be passing the hat to Supreme Court Judge Steven Chong. Mr Menon, 50, will hand over the role of Public Prosecutor and the........     Technology helps to lower waste-collection fee hikes Waste management companies said an increase in refuse collection fees is unavoidable, due to rising operating costs. However, they said that productivity and technology gains have helped to moderate fee hikes...... Man who escaped trial brought to justice 10 years on A fishmonger who fled to Malaysia while on trial for beating a man in 2003 was on Friday given a 25-month jail sentence and three strokes of the cane...... Non-voters of Hougang by-election can now apply to restore names to registers Residents who did not vote in the recent Hougang by-election will need to have their names restored to the Register of Electors...... Butt molester gets 6 months' jail He groped her left buttock while she was on her way to the toilet at a pub...... Book on taxi tales launched A baby left behind by a passenger in a taxi's back seat...... Singapore Children's Society gets biggest single donation Singapore Children's Society received its biggest single donation from a deceased's estate...... 34 nabbed in islandwide anti-loansharking blitz Police have arrested 24 men and 10 women, aged between 26 and 72, for their suspected involvement in loansharking activities...... New Permanent Secretary appointments The Ministry of Law will get a new Permanent Secretary from July 1...... Man gets 5 weeks' jail for punching cabbie A business development manager was given five weeks' jail on Friday for punching a taxi driver and causing damage to the bonnet of his ComfortDelGro taxi...... Thai Defence Minister Sukumpol visits Singapore Thailand's Defence Minister Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sukumpol Suwanatat called on Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on Friday...... Highest-ranking US armed forces officer visits Mindef The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Martin E Dempsey, called on Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen and Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Neo Kian Hong at the Ministry of Defence on Friday morning......