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Lee Ooi Chun, former principal of a PAP Community Foundation (PCF) kindergarten centre in Ang Mo Kio, was sentenced to 3 months' jail yesterday (13 Nov) for misappropriating $37,118. Between September 2009 and October last year, Mdm Lee used the money collected at the PCF kindergarten to pay off her gambling debts. The kindergarten... 

Ho Kwon Ping (Pic: TOC) Mr Ho Kwon Ping, the Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, in his second lecture yesterday (12 Nov) under the IPS-Nathan series organised by the Institute of Policy Studies of NUS, said that housing affordability and income inequality are 2 challenges facing Singapore's economy in the next 50 years. To... 

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon decided on Tuesday (11 Nov) that PRC tour guide Yang Yin was a flight risk, given that he had few if any roots in Singapore, and that he had not been upfront with the court about a $500,000 transfer from a wealthy 87-year-old widow's account here to his father's account in China. His $150,000 bail...