Singapore Local News, 2013-01-25

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SAF starts Care Fund for severely disabled servicemen The Singapore Armed Forces has started a Care Fund for severely disabled servicemen......     Robber who fled to Thailand jailed for seven years A robber who skipped town after he was charged with 49 counts of robbery and cheating offences has been sentenced to seven years' jail and ordered to be given 24 strokes of the cane...... NUS names water research facility in honour of Dutchman The National University of Singapore has named its water research facility the van Kleef Centre. This is to honour Dutchman Karel Willem Benjamin van Kleef, who lived in Singapore in the 19th and early 20th century...... Football: LionsXII match called off due to pitch problems KUALA LUMPUR: The LionsXII's Malaysian FA Cup match against bogey side PKNS on Friday afternoon was called off after 37 minutes because of a waterlogged pitch at the Shah Alam Stadium...... Police report lodged against church pastor SINGAPORE : Police have confirmed that a report has been lodged against the pastor of Cornerstone Community Church, Yang Tuck Yoong......

New premises for Singapore Pools from Feb 6 SINGAPORE : Singapore Pools will operate from its new premises at Middle Road from February 6......     AXA, estate of Ma Chi reach compensation deal The insurers of the Ferrari car involved in a high-speed crash that left two others dead and two injured have reached a settlement with the estate of the deceased driver Ma Chi...... NTU partners Holland's Wageningen University in food science research Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is working with a leading research centre of Wageningen University from the Netherlands in food science and technology...... More caught buying and selling smuggled cigarettes More people were nabbed in 2012 for buying contraband cigarettes in Singapore -- an increase of 4.5 per cent. This is according to Singapore Customs' annual statistics...... Private home prices up 1.8% in Q4: URA Private home prices rose 1.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to a 0.6 per cent increase in the previous quarter...... S'pore appoints new ambassador to Ethiopia & African Union The government has appointed Mr Vanu Gopala Menon as Singapore's first Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union...... COV of flats in popular estates remains high in Q4 The cash premiums for HDB resale flats continued to hover in the high range in the fourth quarter of 2012 in some popular estates...... HDB resale prices rise 2.5% to record highs in Q4 Resale prices for HDB flats reached record highs in the fourth quarter of 2012, but the price increases for the year were slower compared with the previous year......