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PRC conman Yang Yin jailed 8 years and 2 months

Former grassroots volunteer Yang Yin has been sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment for misappropriating $1.1 million from an elderly widow. Yang had met Chung Khin Chun when he was her personal tour guide during a trip to Beijing in 2008. Subsequently, he moved into her Gerald Crescent bungalow the next year and called himself...

Teacher jailed for committing an indecent act with child

Colin Ting Fook Mun When the aunt of a young Primary school kid jokingly told her nephew to beware of perverted teachers, she did not expect him to reply "Only one, not a lot". The shocking answer the child gave subsequently led to the 1-year imprisonment of his former form teacher for three counts of committing an indecent...

Female Indian Minister mistaken for “Vivian Balakrishnan”

In what appears to be a diplomatic faux pas, India's External Affairs Minister was mistaken for Singapore's Foreign Minister "Vivian Balakrishnan". Sushma Swaraj was making a speech at the General Debate of the 71st UN General Assembly in New York when Peter Thomson - President of the UN's GA - announced it in a Twitter post...