REPORTING FROM MATSUMOTO
In a city where castles still stand and raw horse meat is a delicacy, the 250,000-strong community is so closely knit even taxi drivers know about the six young Singaporean…
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Time for sleeping giants to wake up, says Neil Humphreys
GROUP C
NORTHERN IRELAND v GERMANY
(Tonight, 11.55pm, Singtel TV Ch 142 & StarHub TV Ch 220 – Eleven EURO)
Euro 2016 commentators are beginning to sound like well-meaning…
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Stop the tinkering, Andrew Warshaw tells Deschamps
GROUP A
SWITZERLAND 0
FRANCE 0
When he was at Chelsea, Leicester City’s EPL title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri was known as the “Tinkerman” for always…
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Driver who slammed into bike arrested
UberEats rider Muhammad Fazly, 29, and his fiancee Siti Farina, 27, could have lost their lives on Wednesday, if it was not for his 10-year motorcycle riding experience and, yes, the heavy rain.
“Thanks to the bad weather,…
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Caught by 1,000-strong Line group
They were caught on closed circuit television (CCTV) stealing two pieces of clothing from an unattended shop in a Bangkok shopping centre.
The two girls, who had left the Platinum Fashion Mall by the time the theft was…
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Dipna finally goes under 56sec for women’s 400m
As if clocking the best time by a Singaporean woman in the 400m for 42 years wasn’t sweet enough, national sprinter Dipna Lim-Prasad enjoyed a post-race treat of pizzas and egg tarts.
The 25-year-old clocked a new personal…
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Para-athlete has sex with women in 'social escort' scheme
A person named “Angel Tan” messaged her on Facebook with a tempting offer – become a social escort and earn up to $1,000 an hour, or $30,000 a month.
The 34-year-old food and beverage (F&B) manager, who was in financial…
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Dan Tan’s ex-wife jailed two months for lying to CPIB
SINGAPORE – The former wife of alleged match-fixing kingpin Dan Tan was yesterday sentenced to two months’ jail, after a judge last week found her guilty of giving false information to a Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) investigator.
The…
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CDAC ready to step up worker training, aid as more seek help
SINGAPORE – More people turned to the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) to seek financial and other forms of assistance in the first few months of this year, amid turbulent economic conditions and rising layoffs last year.
And the self-help group…
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NUS, NTU come out tops in Asia university ranking
This is the first time NUS has attained the top position in the Times Higher Education Asia rankings since the category was introduced in 2013. NTU jumped eight spots to rank joint second with China’s Peking University.
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