Wed, 24.Nov.2010 - 6:00am


THE Education Ministry is initiating disciplinary action against Nur Aini Asmom, the Malay language teacher who harboured her uncle Mas Selamat Kastari after his escape from custody two years ago.

It is likely to end up dismissing her from service.

Police have arrested a 47-year-old woman for selling fake foreign student identification cards.

On 18 March 2012, Police received information about a printing shop at Bencoolen Street that was reportedly selling fake student cards. On 19 March 2012, officers from the Central Police Division raided the place and arrested the shop owner. Various templates of foreign student cards which were believed to have been forged were found in the shop’s computer system. Printing-related paraphernalia including a computer, a cutter, some plastic lamination cards and nine counterfeit student identification cards were also seized as case exhibits. Preliminary investigations reveal that suspect provided printing services and sale of counterfeit student identification cards for a price of between $25 and $65. Investigations against the suspect are ongoing.

Under the Penal Code, offenders found guilty of committing forgery for the purpose of cheating may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Commander of Central Police Division, Assistant Commissioner of Police Tan Hung Hooi advised members of the public that it is an offence to carry or use forged identification cards or documents. He also warned that the Police will not hesitate to prosecute anyone who commits forgery of such documents.

Up to sixty men may soon charged for having sex with a voluptuous teenage model whose ‘services’ were marketed on a porn site after an online vice ring was busted three months ago.

The men include a senior banker, a company director, a senior vice-president of a private company, lawyers, a senior police officer, a primary school principal who is married with a child as well as a scholarship recipient.

One of the bankers was reported to have resigned abruptly in the same month while the former school principal has also left the school.

Doing the right thing?

•Is delaying the payment of CPF (through all kinds of tricky schemes) to retirees (cash poor) a right thing to do?
•Is paying ministers obscene millions a right thing to do?
•Is paying Mercer $860,000 to justify the new salary of ministers a right thing to do?
•Is going to China and elsewhere, using taxpayers money, to give scholarships to foreigners (while neglecting locals) a right thing to do?
•Is treating foreigners (regardless of their talent) as 1st class and treating Singaporeans as low class a right thing to do?
•Is paying interest on CPF (peoples' money) at a lower rate than EPF pays Malaysians a right thing to do?
•Is giving $1.1billion of taxpayers' money to PTOs to enhance their business a right thing to do?
•Is belittling and bullying opposition MPs in parliament a right thing to do?
•Is helping the rich in abolishing the Estates Duty Act a right thing to do?
•Is making Singaporeans paying one of the *highest taxes in the world and not provide basic health care for the needy poor, old, feeble and disabled a right thing to do?
•Last but not least, for a self-proclaimed 1st world government, is bringing in 2 millions foreigners (over the past 20 years) without planning to accommodate their housing, transportation and social needs a right thing to do?
If one cannot do the right things in the first place, how does one do them right?

Six men have been charged in court today for allegedly having sex with underaged prostitutes.

The six men are suspected of paying for sexual services with three Vietnamese prostitutes, one aged 16 and two aged 17, in separate instances in July last year.

It is understood that the six, aged between 24 to 59, are all well-to-do men that include bosses and directors.

Up to nine men may be charged altogether in this case.

The six men are, Justin Guo, 24, sales consultant, who is single and from a well-to-do family; Chan See Sean, 40, the owner of a construction company; Yee Yew Seng, 43, single; Wee Lian Kee, 54, married, and the owner of publishing contractor company, Loh Kian Ann, 55, married, and the director of three construction companies; Seah Seng Kok, 59, married.

The six are currently out on bail and ordered not to have any contact with the victims.

It is understood that the men had all met the prostitutes in karaoke lounges and coffeeshops, before striking a deal with them, then carrying out the sordid transaction in budget hotels in Geylang.

They paid between $100 to $200 for the sexual services.

If convicted, each of the men may face up to 7 years' jail, or a fine, or both.

Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 30 March 2012.

SINGAPORE - A 23-year-old woman who drove without a licence was sentenced to four months' jail for causing the death of an elderly pedestrian.

Candy Siow Pei Shan, a waitress, was also banned from driving for 10 years, The Straits Times (ST) reported.

Siow, who was driving her boyfriend's car on Feb 12, 2011, lost control of the vehicle at the junction of Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 and Avenue 4, the court heard today.

She was driving along Avenue 3 and attempted to make a right turn without stopping at the intersection.

She panicked when she saw an oncoming vehicle and her car veered to the left, mounted the kerb and hit 70-year-old Tan Son Seng, who was on the pedestrian walkway, ST reported.

Mr Tan was crushed between the car and a traffic light pole, and pronounced dead on the scene.

Before the accident which took place in the morning, Siow had also drunk a substantial amount of alcohol between 12am and 5am.

She had consumed brandy with her boyfriend at Club Axchange in Tanjong Pagar, and later brandy and beer at a club in the Esplanade.

According to ST, Assistant Public Prosecutor Raja Mohan said as Siow had failed her driving test 13 times, she would have known that she was not competent to drive, yet she still chose to do so.

Siow, who started sobbing when she was sentenced to jail, was also driving without insurance coverage at that time.