Singapore Local News, 2012-07-13

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Louis Vuitton highlights Yayoi Kusama's little red dot The Republic will play host to one of only seven 'pop-up' Louis Vuitton-Yayoi Kusama concept stores worldwide from July 15 to Nov 1. The concept stores will feature and carry special products created in collaboration with Japanese........     3 in 5 Singaporeans would pay a 'ransom' to recover their phones: Norton survey Going online is increasingly becoming mobile. According to the Norton Mobile Survey 2012 released by security provider Symantec today, 91 per cent of the online population in Singapore own a mobile phone, with 69 per cent surfing the Internet........ Singapore economy shrank 1.1% in Q2 The Republic's economy shrank in the second quarter as a global slowdown undermined demand for the city-state's exports, the Trade and Industry Ministry said this morning. Gross domestic product contracted at a seasonally-adjusted,........

From 6 weeks to 6 months A police national serviceman who misappropriated money entrusted to him faces more jail time after the Chief Justice allowed an appeal by the Public Prosecutor. Amir Hamzah Mohammad, 24, who was serving his NS as a........     Former sales executive jailed 6 years for cheating SINGAPORE : A former Taka Jewellery sales executive has been sentenced to six years' jail for cheating an elderly woman of S$2.3 million over two years...... Leadership changes at NRF, A*STAR from 20 July There will be some leadership changes at the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR)...... Inter-Agency Taskforce rebuts US report on human trafficking Singapore's Inter-Agency Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) has issued a point by point rebuttal to the latest US report on human trafficking in Singapore...... Woman charged with giving fake stamp certificates A 50-year old woman was charged with using counterfeit stamp certificates...... MediaCorp, Tokyo Broadcasting System to co-produce weekly TV show From October, fashionistas in Singapore can catch the latest Japanese trends on MediaCorp's free-to-air Channel U...... Ex-teacher pleads guilty to filming girls in school's toilet A former Yuhua Secondary School teacher has pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, including filming girls in the washroom...... Man charged with trying to molest granny A man has been charged in court with using criminal force on a 74-year-old grandmother, with intent to outrage her modesty...... WDA to pump S$8.3m into process & biomedical sciences industry The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) is pumping S$8.3 million into the process and biomedical sciences industry over the next three years to train and attract local workers...... Healthy lifestyle habits to prevent heart disease: study The right balance of healthy lifestyle habits can help prevent heart disease, according to researchers from the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the University of Minnesota...... MasterCard users spend almost US$710m in first month of GSS Shoppers chalked up more spending in the first month (28 May to 23 June) of the two-month long Great Singapore Sale (GSS) this year...... Man sentenced over online nude video extortion scam The mastermind of an internet love scam was on Friday sentenced to five years' jail and five strokes of the cane...... NTUC FairPrice opens 5th hypermarket Supermarket giant FairPrice officially opened its fifth hypermarket on Friday - FairPrice Xtra at Changi Business Park - with the promise to keep food prices stable......