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Relief teacher charged for sex with underaged student

A former secondary school relief teacher was charged in court today for having sex with his underaged student. Ross Ryan Kristiaensen is charged with four counts of having sex with his underaged student, one 13-year-old girl at his flat on Dec 3, 2009 and at an unknown unit in Bayshore Road on Dec 31 that year; and two more...

MWC chairman: Foreign spouses may help reduce foreign labour dependence

Mr Yeo Guat Kwang The chairman of the Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC), Mr Yeo Guat Kwang has suggested Singaporeans' foreign spouses could help reduce the country's dependence on foreign labour. Making the suggestion at the Deepavali celebration for foreign workers held today, Mr Yeo said: At the moment, all our employers are...

Oralgate Day 10a: Ng Boon Gay to take the stand

Defence lawyer, Senior Counsel (SC) Tan Chee Meng had submitted on 2nd November that the accused, Mr Ng Boon Gay has no case to answer when it was wrapping up its case and called on the court to grant a discharge amounting to an acquittal on all charges. SC Tan argued that all that the prosecution has managed to show thus...