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Perth Now, 28 Mar 2011UP to 10 men are believed to be responsible for a vicious attack against two Singapore students.Nine News reports two men, aged 19 and 20, were fishing at Ascot Waters at about 4am on Saturday morning when they were attacked.The men suffered injuries to their heads and upper body, both needed stitches and one may require plastic surgery after being hit with an iron bar,

Thewest.com.au, 28 Mar 2011Two young men were attacked while fishing at an inlet near Ascot Waters at the weekend.A police spokeswoman said the pair were fishing at 4am Saturday when a group of about seven people asked them for cigarettes.The two men asked the large group how old they were and the seven people left and came back armed with an empty beer bottle and a wheel brace.They demanded the

Herald Sun, 24 Mar 2011A MAN wanted for questioning over the murder of a woman in Adelaide may have fled to Singapore, police say.Wei Li, 19, is wanted in relation to the death of a woman at a home in suburban Burnside.Her body was found on Tuesday but she may have been dead for some time.A police spokesman said investigations had revealed the man caught a flight to Singapore in the early hours

A lesson a young man on a bus from Málaga to Madrid obviously had never heard of or had forgotten. Police have detained 19-year-old Oscar Eliseo on his arrival in Madrid because he was overheard speaking on his mobile telephone by an off-duty policeman and saying that he had stabbed a man to death.The off-duty policeman alerted the authorities to what he had heard and Eliseo was arrested upon his

The Malaysian Insider, 27 Feb 2011KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — A Singaporean businessman was forced to pay a RM21 million ransom to release his family after they were kidnapped in Johor Baru, reigniting fears of visiting the neighbouring city among residents of the island state.The man’s wife, daughter and maid were driving home when they were forced off the road by another vehicle in the capital of

Guardian.co.uk, 5 Feb 2011Insider trading couple Christian and Angie Littlewood made nearly £600,000 in a case dubbed the biggest yet in Britain.On 31 March, 2009, a knock at the door of Christian Littlewood's north London home caused panic. The corporate financier knew immediately why police were stationed outside and exactly what their visit meant.His secret life as an insider trader – which

Sundaytimes.lk, 2 Feb 2011An Indian national was nabbed at the Bandaranayake International Airport (BIA) last night while attempting to smuggle out of the country a stash of foreign currency, police and airport officials said today.They said the man who was not identified had on his possession 16, 000 Sterling Pounds and 39,000 Euros equal to SLR 700,000.The man who had arrived from a north

AFPSINGAPORE — Illegal money lending syndicates in Singapore are hiring more foreign thugs, most of them from Taiwan and Vietnam, to harass delinquent borrowers into paying up, police said Wednesday.These loansharks have resorted to recruiting foreign "runners" in the hope that they can avoid detection and arrest by the authorities because they enter on short-term social visit passes and have no

Portfolio.com, 18 Jan 2011NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc's iPad tablet computer.The charges arise from an alleged hacking last year of AT&T Inc's servers, which affected iPad users who accessed the Internet through AT&T's 3G network. Full

Thesundaily.com, 18 Jan 2011KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 18, 2011): Federal police have rescued 22 babies with the arrest of 30 people since last year in dogged efforts to clamp down on baby-for-sale syndicates in the country.The syndicate is believed to be linked to two other similar groups which were crippled by police in Sarawak in July and in Kuala Lumpur in November.Police learnt that the syndicate

Fox News Latino, 17 Jan 2011A total of 39 Singaporean art treasures from the 17th and 18th centuries were seized in the Mexican port of Manzanillo after being smuggled into the Latin American nation, the Attorney General's Office said Monday.Federal investigators and tax inspectors were checking goods stored on the premises of the Timsa company in Manzanillo when they came upon two wooden boxes

The Times Of India, 1 Jan 2011SINGAPORE: A court in Singapore has framed charges against five Indians for allegedly using fake casino chips at a resort in the city state, local media reported on Saturday.The Indians are accused of using an unknown number of counterfeit chips valued at SGD 1,000 each by exchanging them into smaller denominations of the genuine chips at Marina Bay Sands casino on

Dailymirror.lk, 31 Dec 2010A Lankan woman who sold her passport and then reported it as lost was jailed for six months in Singapore after pleading guilty today.A Sri Lankan woman identified as R.S. Maddumage, 38, sold her passport to another Sri Lankan woman along Serangoon Road for $600.Six days later on Wednesday, Dec 29, she was arrested when she went to report its loss to the Immigration &

BombayNews.netThe company is said to have signed an agreement with a one-dollar Singapore company for selling iron ore at a price much below market price and later exported it at a higher price to evade income tax payment. Full story

Journal Online, 16 Dec 2010THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is conducting a thorough background investigation into the activities of a Singaporean national who was arrested in an entrapment operation inside the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 in Pasay City 11 a.m. last Thursday.“We have sought the help of the Bureau of Immigration and our Bangkok counterparts in looking into

CNN.com, 11 Dec 2010Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Two Singaporean nationals were arrested late Friday as they allegedly tried to smuggle raw elephant ivory out of Kenya, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service.The suspects were arrested with 92 kilograms of illegal raw ivory at the Jomo Kenyatta International airport while trying to board a midnight flight to Bangkok, Thailand. Full storyRelated:Two

Inquirer.net, 10 Dec 2010MANILA, Philippines--A Singaporean national was arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 Thursday for allegedly sneaking illegal drugs into the country, police said on Friday.Soa K.H., 36, had just arrived from Thailand via the Thai Airways Flight TG-620 when airport authorities arrested him before 2 p.m., according to a report from the police's

Malaysia Star, 10 Dec 2010JOHOR BARU: Police have busted a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of three people including a Singaporean and seizure of more than RM271,000 worth of syabu and Eramin 5 pills.Johor Police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said police officers from the State Narcotics Department raided a house in Taman Setia Tropika following a tip-off at 3.30am

The Jakarta Post, 6 Dec 2010The Jakarta Police have confiscated some 10,000 ecstasy pills in Mercure Hotel, Ancol, North Jakarta. “We still chase the ecstasy owner who is a Singaporean,” Jakarta Police narcotics chief Sr. Comr. Anjan P Putra said Monday, adding the police had also detained a suspect, who is allegedly a courier. Full story

The China Post, 4 Dec 2010Singapore jewelers and pawnshops are on the alert on news that their counterparts in Hong Kong were hammered by a gold scam where they unwittingly bought hundreds of ounces of fake bullion.The scam has been described by the Financial Times (FT) as “one of the most sophisticated scams to hit the Chinese territory's gold market in decades.” Full story