According to expenses submitted to the Elections Department (ELD), Dr Chee, the losing candidate, spent S$87,200.42 for the hustings, compared to Mr Murali’s S$82,091.
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Barbie Hsu posts photo of her holding son's hand for full moon celebration
TV host Barbie Hsu posted a photo of her holding the hand of her baby boy on social media to mark his full moon celebration, Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported.
She shared her happiness through the post with the caption “Love is everything”.
The 39-year-old actress and her Chinese billionaire husband Wang Xiaofei married in 2010.
They also have a two-year-old daughter.
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CMA CGM, PSA form container terminal joint venture in Singapore
The join venture company, CMA CGM-PSA Lion Terminal, will start operations from the second half of this year.
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Air hostess punched by unruly passengers
TWO men punched an air stewardess for refusing to upgrade them from economy to first class seats for free, China Press reported.
According to China website Long Hua, the incident happened on a Chinese domestic flight which was preparing to depart from Taiyuan for Chongqing at about 3.40pm on Sunday.
A passenger known only as Zhou said the stewardess had asked the men, who had gone to the first class area, to return to their seats as they had bought economy class tickets.
The stewardess also suggested that they top up their tickets with cash but the two passengers claimed they did not have enough money and insisted on paying by credit card.
They also refused to go back to their seats. Another passenger tried to intervene but failed to prevent the stewardess from being hit.
The pilot then called the police and security guards to escort the two passengers off the plane.
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Fire breaks out at factory in Joo Koon
The fire was extinguished with eight water jets including an aerial monitor within 90 minutes, SCDF says.
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Early morning fire at Joo Koon processing plant
SINGAPORE – A fire raged at a processing plant in Joo Koon early Wednesday morning (June 15), leading to a firefighting operation that lasted more than an hour.
By the time the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived on the scene at 6 Joo Koon Circle (at…
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Live TV deal for Rio Games not finalised
WITH less than two months to go before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro begins, it is unclear if Singaporeans will be able to catch the sporting action live on television.
It is understood that neither national broadcaster Media- corp nor pay-TV operators Singtel and StarHub have been able to strike a deal with rights holder Dentsu to screen the Games live here.
Dentsu holds the 2016 Olympics broadcast rights in Singapore and 16 other Asian territories. It acquired the rights after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched a tender in 2013.
Of the 17 markets in Dentsu’s blanket deal with the IOC, it is believed Singapore is the only one that has not agreed terms to broadcast the coverage live.
Mediacorp and Dentsu have so far agreed on a package that includes the two daily highlights programme and content produced by Mediacorp’s crew in Brazil. The only live content in this deal are the opening and closing ceremonies.
A Mediacorp spokesman said: “Mediacorp is finalising details of our plans and will advise on our broadcast details shortly.”
The broadcaster did not address ST’s queries on whether Mediacorp is still keen on broadcasting the sporting action live, or if a deal can be reached in time.
Both Singtel and StarHub said they were interested in airing the Olympics but confirmed that no agreement has been reached with Dentsu, which declined to comment.
Free-to-air television rights in Asia were previously held by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), a non-profit association of broadcasting organisations, of which Media- corp is a member.
The ABU, backed by its members, paid about US$10 million (S$13.56 million) for the rights to the last Olympics.
But it is understood that broadcasters here are exercising prudence due in part to the 11-hour time difference between Singapore and Brazil.
This means the action takes place between 8pm and 7am (Singapore time), which is unattractive to advertisers as viewership is not high.
In 2013, Mediacorp tried to acquire the broadcast rights from the IOC but was pipped to it by Dentsu, a Japanese communications company.
A source familiar with the talks said Dentsu’s latest offer is about a quarter of what Hong Kong had paid and 30 to 40 per cent lower than Malaysia’s deal.
Various reports said Hong Kong’s free-to-air broadcaster TVB bought the rights to the Rio Games in 2014 for just under US$25 million (S$34 million).
The source added that talks between Dentsu and Media- corp started back in 2013 but, after dozens of meetings, the latter made an offer only this January. The latest offer compares favourably to what Mediacorp paid in total for the 2012 Olympics.
Four years ago, viewers here watched the London Games on eight Mediacorp free-to-air channels, with at least 21 hours of daily coverage on Channel 5 and HD 5.
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Weather may fix Singapore haze as Indonesia makes scant progress
JAKARTA – Indonesian officials don’t expect a repeat of the forest fires that cloaked South-east Asia in a thick haze last year, though that may be due more to favourable weather than progress in addressing the underlying causes of the blazes.
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Car carrying family of 4 crashed into tree on Lentor Ave; wife dead, husband arrested
SINGAPORE – A 33-year-old woman died after her husband drove the car they were in into a tree on Lentor Avenue on Tuesday (June 14) early morning.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said.
Their sons, aged three and six, were taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
The six-year-old had spinal injuries while the younger boy suffered from head injuries, SCDF said.
The 42-year-old driver was taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital where he was later arrested for causing death by a rash act, said police.
He and his younger son were seriously injured, reports said.
The accident happened at around 1.15am at the junction of Lentor Avenue towards Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6.
More than 10 motorists stopped their vehicles to help, Lianhe Wanbao reported. Some deflated the airbag and pulled the driver out from the car; some helped to direct traffic, while others comforted the boys.
The woman victim was sitting in the backseat of the car and hit her head as she was flung forward, Wanbao said quoting an eyewitness.
Her sons were both crying that they wanted their mother, the witness added.
Police said investigations are ongoing.
This article was first published on June 14, 2016.
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Son, 16, walks thanks to the gait trainer
Like any other mother, Madam Zainon Arshad was ecstatic to see her son’s first steps.
Except that her son, Huzairul Izwan, is 16 years old and managed it only recently.
Huzairul suffers from cerebral palsy, a condition…
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