Judo black belt Jenny Huang stayed undefeated with an impressive gogoplata submission win over April Osenio in their women’s atomweight ONE contest. The bout took place on Friday, 2 December, at ONE: AGE OF DOMINATION in the Manila’s Mall of Asia Arena.
Huang finished the bout late in the second round, but had her hands full earlier in the bout with the hometown hero Osenio.
In the first round Osenio came out of the gates light on her feet and dominated a stiff and immobile Huang with kicks and punches to the body and head. Two left high kicks in particular from Osenio stunned Huang badly.
Huang recovered enough to score an outside leg trip takedown two minutes into the round and landed strikes from inside the active full-guard of Osenio, but soon found herself trapped in a guillotine choke. For a while, the choke appeared to be sunk in deep below her chin, but Osenio eventually popped her head out and regained her footing.
The second round began with two minutes of both women feinting and stalking one another, feeling things out before Huang scored a hip toss takedown and landed flush in side control. From there, the Taiwanese MMA pioneer took Osenio’s back with both hooks in and dominated the rest of the round, transitioning from the back to mount, back again, and eventually side control once more.
Osenio eventually escaped and reversed positions, but Huang smoothly transitioned to an omoplata shoulder lock, hitting an angle and appearing close to finishing. Osenio squared-up with Huang to take pressure off the shoulder, but that was when Huang switched to a gogoplata choke, forcing the submission tap-out.
The end came at 4:28 of the second round. The submission victory is Huang’s third in five pro fights, and is the first-ever gogoplata victory in ONE Championship history.
Osenio’s record dips to 2-2 with the loss, while Huang’s mark improves to 5-0. On whether She thinks the win earned her a shot at Angela Lee’s world championship belt, Huang was hesitant.
“I don’t have that thinking right now for the championship,” said the undefeated Huang. “I am thinking about every bout right now to give me more practice and more experience to move on to the next time, and when the time is right, then the championship.”
It was a clash of styles, but Sim Bunsrun earned a hard-fought unanimous decision victory over knockout artist Liu Peng Shuai at the Mall Of Asia Arena on Friday Night, 2 December, at ONE: AGE OF DOMINATION.
“I am really happy I won. I did not expect to win tonight because I know Chinese fighters are really strong and have a lot of support for training,” the 23-year-old Cambodian admits. “Their training facility is high-tech compared to what I am used to, so I went in not expecting to win this way. But I am happy to win for Cambodia.”
Both combatants were tentative in the opening stanza. Although Liu would get the better of the stand-up and avoid Bunsrun’s initial takedown attempts, the Cambodian was able latch onto the Chinese prospect, exchange clinch knees against the fence, and then finally, tipped him to the ground.
Liu immediately tied his opponent’s arms up and went for a guillotine choke, but Bunsrun fought out of it and threw some elbows from top position.
The Chinese prospect was able to dodge the Cambodian’s attacks in the second round and unloaded more of his accurate pinpoint strikes, but after a brief injury timeout, Bunsrun mastered his timing and perfectly scooped the ONE Hefei Flyweight Tournament Champion down into the canvas.
Though not a submission expert by any means, the Beijing gladiator worked a high guard, which led to various triangle and armbar attempts, but to no avail. This match would go to a third round.
Much like the previous two rounds, the third started quite methodically with a feeling out stage. Soon, the match was back to the ground, but Liu pulled an incredibly tight armbar Bunsrun could not seemingly break out of.
The KWC 3 Flyweight Tournament Champion tried punching his way out and even kneed his opponent, but he was finally able to wiggle and pull his arm free. Though Liu marched forward more aggressively in the last thirty seconds, it did not matter, as Bunsrun did enough to secure the nod.
“In the third round, I was in a lot of danger. It felt like my arm was going to break,” Bunsrun explains. “But I just reminded myself that I need to bring the ONE Championship medal back home for my country. My arm is hurting right now. It is nearly broken.”
Liu felt the effects of the fight too, as he was seen backstage with a bag of ice over his left hand.
“I stubbed my finger during the fight and may have sprained my knuckle,” said Liu (4-2). “I am not really good on the ground and do not have a lot of experience with jiujitsu. It is not my comfort zone.” If he had held on to his opponent’s arm for a few more seconds, the result might have been different.
With the victory, Bunsrun improves his record to an even 3-3, and extends his now three-fight win streak.
BANGKOK – Thailand’s new king on Friday made his first public appearance since ascending the throne the previous day, ending a period of uncertainty since the death of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, on Oct. 13.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, 64, took part in a merit-making ceremony at Bangkok’s Grand Palace to mark 50 days since his father’s death plunged the country into grief.
Civil servants dressed in black and white, the official colours of mourning, lined the streets to the palace as the new king’s convoy passed.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who was then the crown prince, surprised some when he asked to delay his succession following the death of his father, leaving the throne unoccupied for seven weeks.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn proclaimed new king of Thailand
His official taking of the throne, in a brief ceremony televised late on Thursday, ends that unprecedented interregnum while raising new questions about the palace’s relationship with the generals who have been in power since a 2014 coup.
The military government has made it clear it wants to oversee economic and political developments for years to come, even after a general election it has promised to hold in 2017.
Critics say a military-backed constitution, which will need the new king’s stamp of approval, will consolidate the army’s power, but financial analysts were upbeat about the outlook.
“Forget about Game-of-Thrones intrigue. With a new constitution in place and the royal succession behind, the conditions for institutional stability are in place,” Tim Condon, chief economist for Asia at ING in Singapore, said in a note.
Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, soon to be King
“We blame its absence since 2013 for the dismal economic performance and we consider its return an important turning point.”
Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy has suffered over more than a decade of on-off political unrest stemming from confrontation between the old royalist establishment and new populist political forces.
Since taking power in 2014, the junta has struggled to revive an economy hobbled by weak exports and slack domestic demand.
“Thailand remains politically fragile and it remains to be seen how the new king will navigate uncertain waters,” a senior Western diplomat based in Bangkok, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters.
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy but the palace is one of its most influential institutions.
On a street near the Grand Palace, shops on Friday displayed gold-framed portraits of the new king alongside pictures of his father.
Criticism of the monarch, the regent or the heir, known by the French term lese majeste, is a crime that carries a jail sentence of up to 15 years in Thailand.
A look back at Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s life
JAKARTA – More than 200,000 Indonesian Muslims prayed in unison and chanted Koranic verses Friday in the second major demonstration against Jakarta’s Christian governor, as conservative groups push for his arrest for allegedly insulting Islam.
People in white Islamic robes and skullcaps packed out a massive park in the capital, with over 20,000 security personnel deployed to prevent a repeat of violence that erupted at the last protest against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama.
Purnama, known by his nickname Ahok, is being prosecuted for blasphemy over election campaign comments he made about the Quran, which have sparked widespread anger in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
The case is seen in part as a test of religious tolerance in Indonesia, where a reputation for pluralism has been eroded by a surge in attacks on minorities, but critics say it is also about politics as the governor’s foes whip up anger to reduce his support.
The decision to prosecute Purnama, Jakarta’s first non-Muslim governor for half a century and a member of the country’s tiny ethnic Chinese minority, has not been enough to quell anger and conservative groups are now demanding his arrest.
Protesters waved banners that read “jail Ahok” as they marched en masse through the city’s streets in the early hours to converge on the park, which surrounds the National Monument, a tall tower that looms over downtown Jakarta.
“Let’s defend our religion,” Rizieq Shihab, leader of hardline group the Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI), told the crowd as he delivered a fiery sermon.
“Stop all forms of religious blasphemy and put all violators on trial.”
President Joko Widodo, an ally of Purnama who has been meeting with Islamic and political leaders in recent days to calm tensions, joined the mass prayer, thanking the protesters for being peaceful and urging them to return home.
Jakarta police spokesman Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono said more than 200,000 joined Friday’s rally, dwarfing the last protest on November 4. He said it had passed off peacefully and protesters were starting to head home.
Meanwhile police said eight people were detained in early morning raids on suspicion of treason before the protest, with reports saying they included the sister of an ex-president and a retired general.
They did not release details about what they were accused of but observers have expressed fears that opponents of Purnama and Widodo could try to take advantage of the chaotic protests to destabilise the government.
The November rally drew 100,000 Muslims onto the streets.
Tens of thousands of Muslim hardliners in protest march against Jakarta governor for alleged blasphemy
It was peaceful during the day but descended into violence as night fell, with hardliners hurling missiles and setting fire to police cars, leaving one person dead and hundreds injured.
In a bid to prevent violence at Friday’s rally, authorities and Islamic leaders agreed to restrict it to the park and end the event in the early afternoon.
Purnama is due to face trial and could be jailed for up to five years if found guilty of breaking Indonesia’s tough blasphemy laws.
The controversy started in September when the governor accused his opponents of fooling the electorate by misusing a Koranic verse to persuade voters not to support him in governorship elections.
Purnama’s opponents said the verse forbids Muslims from choosing non-Muslims as leaders.
Purnama has apologised for the remarks, saying he was criticising his political rivals who were using the verse rather than the Quran itself, but the scandal has seen him slip into second place in the polls.
He had long been the favourite to win the February election, popular for his no-nonsense style and determination to clean up Jakarta, a crowded, polluted metropolis of 10 million.
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Homegrown talents like Mandopop newcomer Mandy Ke, producer-composer Evan Low and singer-songwriter Charlie Lim are giving international and more established musicians a run for their money as their songs and albums climb up the charts.
#2 debut for Mandopop newcomer
You don’t have to be classically trained to embark on a music career – just ask homegrown singer-songwriter Mandy Ke, whose debut single So Wrong hit No 2 on the Malaysian Mandopop iTunes chart on its day of release last week.
It’s almost hard to believe the 21-year-old didn’t know how to write a single note of music when she penned the hit Mandopop ballad.
“When I first started, I would just hum tunes into my phone and then fill in the lyrics later,” reveals Ke, who is learning to play the keyboard and taking music arrangement lessons to advance in her career.
She has been penning songs out of habit since she was 18, and to date has written about 40 original compositions.
“I’ve liked singing since I was young. I started writing as a hobby and also to share with my friends who thought my songs were quite cool,” explains Ke, who cites fellow homegrown singer-songwriter Tanya Chua as her idol and inspiration.
Her break came when local vocal group MICappella invited her to collaborate with them last year and she ended up writing two songs – The Curse of Love and Never Be Defeated – for their latest album MICappella Reloaded.
She had a second shot at stardom when she participated in nationwide talent search programme Level Up! 2016 and the raw vocal recordings of her originals caught the attention of the judging panel.
Ke was short-listed to be in the top 10 from the hundreds of participants, earning the opportunity to record a single and music video before those plans were abruptly put on hold when the show got cancelled.
But it was also through Level Up! 2016 that her current label Cross Ratio Entertainment talent-spotted and signed her.
A fortnight prior to the release of So Wrong, Ke made her YouTube debut with a music video that was a cover of Jessie J’s hit Flashlight, but re-arranged with her own Mandarin lyrics.
She adds that her songs and lyrics are generally inspired by her own life as well as those of her friends: “I like to listen to their stories because (I’m still young and might not have experienced everything yet). And when I write I hope to share different messages through my songs.”
So Wrong’s lyrics, for instance, promotes self-worth. “I wrote it because a lot of times, people tend to judge a book by its cover without knowing someone properly,” Ke explains. “The lyrics are actually quite sarcastic and it’s meant to encourage the listener to not be affected by what others might say about them.”
On the more practical side of things, she quips: “I also chose this as my first song because (the refrain “So Wrong / So Wrong”) has a good (pop) hook!”
Producer steps out on his own
Producer, composer and performer Evan Low.Photo: EVAN LOW
EVAN Low is only 27 but the producer-composer-performer has raked up some serious credentials in his recording career – enough to rival any industry veteran.
The Berklee College of Music graduate who majored in electronic production and design has not only worked with the Who’s Who of the local music industry – The Sam Willows, Nathan Hartono, Jeremy Monteiro, Stefanie Sun, and Gentle Bones, just to name a few – and global brands like Adidas, Toyota and Lego but also with international musicians like David Foster and Nathan East.
“I was called upon to help (Foster and East) in recording their works at a studio by my mentor because I was able to operate with the technical know-how of an audio engineer (and) have the musical sensibilities of a musician,” he recalls. “(It was) definitely an eye-opening experience to watch them work, to say the least.”
While Low has largely stayed behind the scenes, the multi-instrumentalist recently stepped out on his own, recording under the musical alias Evanturetime.
His debut single, Vultures, featuring the vocals of indie music darlings Linying and Charlie Lim, topped Spotify’s Viral 50 charts and has raked up over 100,000 streams (and counting) since its release in late October.
An Evanturetime EP is currently in the works and will be released next year. It will include collaborations with the likes of Inch Chua and Tim de Cotta.
“The Evanturetime moniker is a name I’ve given myself so that I can explore and try out different musical approaches outside of my commercial work,” Low explains. “As much as I love to produce for artists it is nice to let loose once in a while.”
Evanturetime’s compositions draw inspirations from anything – be it a musical instrument or even something as unusual as a tree branch – and Low’s gift lies in his ability to mash these sounds together into a radio-friendly earworm like Vultures, which was built from sampled leaves and vintage synthesizers swirling around Linying and Lim’s warm vocal hooks.
He will be collaborating with another 2016 breakout star, Hartono, on Friday for the National Gallery’s Light to Night Festival. Both have been working together over the years on several projects, some of which stems from them just improvising.
On the current state of the local music scene, Low observes it is “blossoming”, thanks to the “huge amount of amazing creative talent in our small island”.
He adds: “Their success so far is largely thanks to the attention they’re garnering on digital/social media platforms, in addition to the support the National Arts Council has been giving to the arts.”
But awareness for the general public still needs to be raised, Low feels.
“It’s easy for us who are working in the industry to be in the know of what’s up and coming, but I’ve spoken to a random lady on the street (and asked) how she would be engaged in the arts, and her answer was: ‘I have no idea. Esplanade?’,” he shares. “It is still challenging for people who want to be supportive of the arts to access information so it’ll be great if we could find a way to organise and streamline that information.”
A hit record in all three formats
Singer-songwriter Charlie Lim performing at the Getai Soul 2016 concert held at Pearl’s Hill City Park on 8 May 2016.Photo: JENSEN CHING
WITH music listening and buying habits shifting mostly online, it surprises Charlie Lim that his fans still want physical copies of his work.
The homegrown singer-songwriter issued his Time/Space EP on vinyl a fortnight ago – about a year on from its CD/digital release – but all stock reserved for local sale sold out within days.
“We did about 700 copies for the first press, and about half of them have gone overseas,” says Lim, who adds there should be a restock in the coming week.
The first 50 copies also came with a free ticket to a secret intimate show later this month.
The demand has taken the 27-year-old aback slightly, given how well Time/Space has already performed when it came out in 2015.
Within an hour of its release, the double EP took top spot on the local iTunes chart, and his songs have over 1.5 million plays on Spotify.
Not only that, the first batch of 1,500 CDs have sold out and only a handful are left from the re-press.
“To me, that’s a very nice surprise especially in the Internet age,” says Lim, who recently signed to major label Universal Music, which is handling the production and distribution of the vinyl version.
“It’s so much easier to figure out analytics for streaming and downloads, and it’s also much lower-risk compared to putting out a physical product (but) I don’t really know how to gauge the market for physicals because you can never guarantee anything these days.”
The bespectacled guitarist admits he doesn’t own a proper CD or vinyl player himself but that doesn’t stop him from walking into a shop or going online to buy something off the shelves. “I care about owning that physical memorabilia (so) I’m hoping that the fans feel the same way about my music,” Lim shares.
Like the CD version of Time/Space which features a custom-made digipak case with amorphous sleeve, perforated lyric and artwork booklet, Lim and his team sat down with (local award-winning design agency) HJGHER, who also worked on the CD, to extrapolate the EPs’ artwork (by photographer Jovian Lim) to the vinyl sleeve, inserts and jacket.
“My younger brother is a bit of a vinyl nerd, so he was a good sounding board and gave me plenty of references to work with,” he reveals.
“We went through quite a few colour options for the vinyl itself, and went with a clear one in the end which matched the overall aesthetic really well.”
Pressed in Japan, it comes aptly with an obi strip – a small piece of paper with information about the album attached to the spine of Japanese-made CDs and vinyls – which Lim’s girlfriend, who knows Japanese, helped to translate into that language.
While he admits he isn’t an audiophile – “I’m a typical 90s kid who went through the transition of cassette to discman and I loved burning my own CD-R mixes (while) spending hours designing my own covers and track-listing” – he says there is no denying “there’s a lot more depth, warmth, and soundstage” when it comes to the vinyl format.
“Seeing a record spin on a plate and having that tactile experience of changing sides and discs is something else – it’s the proper way to listen to an album that’s meant to be played from start to finish,” Lim points out.
This article was first published on Dec 2, 2016. Get The Business Times for more stories.
Cyborgs don’t just only belong to the make-belief world of comics and Hollywood movies anymore.
A joint team of scientists and engineers from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the University of California, Berkeley have managed to literally turn living giant flower beetles into cyborgs which can be controlled by their human handlers.
Each beetle, which measures at least 6cm long, is designed to operate like a drone with its eventual aim to save lives in search-and-rescue missions, like entering crevices in inaccessible disaster areas such as collapsed buildings to locate victims, reported The Straits Times last year.
Stuck with beewax to the yellow-and-black striped insect is an extremely lightweight ‘backpack’ which contains a microchip with electrodes inserted into certain parts of the beetle’s body.
The electrodes convert radio signals into various involuntary actions in the beetle, such as getting it to change its flight path, to move faster in a galloping manner or to hover in the air.
But a new video posted by technology and culture website Motherboard on Wednesday (Nov 30) shows how a beetle can be deployed and controlled. A sensor can even help it detect a human being, such as a person missing in a disaster.
Looks like the humble bug will soon enjoy an honourable status even if it only performs one successful mission within its short lifespan.
Pupils planning to ace their Primary School Leaving Examination Chinese oral assessment can get a headstart later this month.
Primary 4 and 5 pupils can join a training camp focused on the oral assessment, which gets a new format next year. The Dec 16 camp is organised by Lianhe Zaobao’s Student Publications and Han Language Centre, which has over 20 branches here. It will be held at the Jurong East, Sengkang, Simei and Yishun branches, with teachers covering the new format and teaching practical skills.
The oral exam format for mother tongue languages will change next year. For instance, the picture description and conversation will be replaced by video conversation.
The camp will cost $150 per pupil.
Teachers will use a video oral guidebook published by Lianhe Zaobao’s student paper Thumbs Up.
The centre, which offers Chinese tuition, will also incorporate content from Lianhe Zaobao’s student publications into regular teaching materials. Mr Ann Jong Juan, its founder and principal, said the papers will be used to nurture a love for reading.
Ms Loh Woon Yen, vice-president of the Singapore Press Holdings Chinese Media Group’s Culture, Education and New Growth unit, said the camp marks the start of the group’s partnership with the centre.
“We will continue to roll out more interesting and relevant programmes and initiatives for primary and secondary school students, not only to help them cope with the demands of examinations, but also to cultivate their interest in the Chinese language,” she added.
This article was first published on Dec 2, 2016. Get a copy of The Straits Times or go to straitstimes.com for more stories.
SINGAPORE – Police are warning of a new social media scam that is making the rounds in Singapore, and has already seen victims swindled of more than $14,000 in three months.
In an advisory issued on Friday (Dec 2), the police said that they have received at least seven reports of a new type of scam carried out on Facebook between September and November this year.
In the scam, the perpetrators first hack or spoof Facebook accounts of the victims’ friends. These ‘friends’ then inform the victims that their names had been included on lists of contest winners on certain Facebook pages.
The victims are then asked to visit these pages, bearing titles like “FB Social Promotion International” or “Home Care Cash Grant”, and provide their personal details.
Phoro: Facebook screengrab
They are then instructed to remit money to overseas parties as insuraance or delivery fees in order to claim their ‘winnings’.
The Singapore victims, aged between 44 and 67, lost at least $14,600.
Scams operating online and on social media have been on the rise this year. In September, police revealed that a total of 1,145 cases of cheating involving e-commerce were reported from January to June this year, a 13.4 per cent increase from last year.
Of these scams, about seven out of 10 were carried out on platforms like Facebook, Carousell and Gumtree.
The police advises members of the public to be careful when acting on messages received through social media platforms. They recommended taking the following precautions:
– Be wary of messages which say that you have won a prize, especially if you did not enter any lucky draw or contest.
– Ignore requests to make upfront payments to claim a prize. Winning a lucky draw or contest should not require advance payment.
– Check that the person you are communicating with online is really the person you know. An imposter can hack or spoof an account and take up a false identity.
A snaking queue formed outside Raffles Place MRT station yesterday morning, as crowds braved the rain to get their free copies of the revamped The New Paper and goodie bags.
“I think it is a good idea – you get more people reading it and they can spend their time wisely on public transport,” said Mr Jason Tan, 55, who is self-employed. He was among the commuters enjoying the revamped TNP in Raffles Place.
Following TNP’s merger with My Paper, readers can now enjoy a free fresh mix of content catering to professionals, managers, executives and businessmen (PMEBs).
Yet it retains TNP’s traditional strengths in areas such as sports, food and entertainment.
TNP editor Eugene Wee stressed: “We will continue to do stories about people in Singapore that will inspire and tug at readers’ heartstrings.”
He showed up in person at Raffles Place MRT station to distribute the revamped paper, on its first day of publication.
“When we went free, I think that converted a lot more people to say, ‘Now that it is free, we want to pick it up.’ I think it is showing, based on the reception we are getting just here alone,” he said.
Those who collected a copy yesterday also received Owl goodie bags from 8am. They contained two different types of Owl coffee sachets and a voucher for its cafes.
The giveaways continued for two hours from 11.30am at Capitol Piazza. This will continue today as well. Readers who drop their name cards into a TNP vending machine there will receive Owl coffee and brownies with the newspaper.
Until Sunday, those who show a copy of the TNP at Seasonal Salad Bar outlets are eligible for a free meal, too.
Ms Yvonne Yeo, 57, a senior administrative officer, said she looks forward to reading more local news featuring Singaporeans and their stories in the free sheet.
“There were a lot of football news and advertisements, so I seldom bought it,” she said. “But I subscribed to its Sunday edition for my children in the past.”
Bank officer Jesslin Chong, 45, said she expects that the new TNP will have more content she is interested in, including news related to the economy.
Singapore Press Holdings chairman Lee Boon Yang was at Raffles Place MRT station to observe the launch, alongside chief executive Alan Chan.
Dr Lee said: “I think it is a good start, but it is still early days. There is still a lot of work left for us to do, to make sure that the new New Paper becomes a well-accepted and well-read newspaper in Singa- pore’s context.
“We will certainly do our best; the editorial team there will ensure that the content is persuasive and interesting for readers.”
Advertisers and partners, including Owl International, Princess Cruises and social network app HeyBuddies, look forward to reaching out to PMEBs through the revamped TNP.
Mr Jeremiah Ng, chief technology officer of HeyBuddies, said: “It serves a very important segment of the population, the PMEBs. Now that it has become a free paper, it is going to be even better because it reaches out to more people and it can be even more creative.”
Mr Anson Tan, general manager of video streaming service Viu Singapore, said: “We are excited about the revamped TNP, in particular how the paper will now have entertainment stories spread throughout the week instead of a weekly supplement.”
On TNP’s content, Mr Wee said: “We are focusing a lot more on matters that affect the wallet, as well as affecting the heart – stories about the economy, wages, property, things that have an impact on people’s way of life, their bank accounts.”
He added: “But we will still have a lot of the old TNP content – the sports, entertainment and stories about people in Singapore.”
Where to get The New Paper
Mondays to Fridays
7am to 9am at 49 MRT stations, including Raffles Place, City Hall and Orchard.
From 11.30am to 1.30pm at places such as Raffles Courtyard and Tanjong Pagar Plaza.
Saturdays
11.30am to 1.30pm at 31 MRT stations
TNP will also be distributed at selected malls such as Plaza Singapura, Paragon and Centrepoint, and at cafes, offices, country clubs, libraries, airline lounges, hospitals and on premium bus services.
Readers can also have the new free TNP delivered to their homes.
Existing subscribers of other SPH publications need to pay only a nominal handling fee of $4 a month.
Those who do not subscribe to SPH publications will need to pay the handling fee as well as a delivery fee of $3 for HDB flats, $4 for condominiums or apartments, and $5 for landed properties.
TNP is available online at www.tnp.com.sg and as an app for download on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
This article was first published on Dec 2, 2016. Get a copy of The Straits Times or go to straitstimes.com for more stories.
