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A PRC was sentenced to six weeks' jail yesterday (18 Mar) after pleading guilty to committing theft on a SilkAir flight from Cambodia to Singapore. The victim of the theft is none other than the boss of Mustafa Centre, Mr Mustaq Ahmad. The PRC, Wang Liwu, committed the offence on 18 January 2013. Wang was seen behaving suspiciously... 

Chikungunya on the right foot. It looks like Chikungunya might be spreading in Singapore again as 14 people were infected with the viral disease last week. There have been 22 infections so far this year, the same number for the whole of 2012. In 2011, there were only 12 cases. MOH said that all 22 cases this year were foreigners... 

REACH announced today (18 Mar) that in a telephone poll, close to 9 in 10 of respondents were supportive of measures to tighten foreign worker inflow: 86.6% support the Budget measures to further reduce the inflow of foreign workers by raising Foreign Worker Levies 89.3% support the Budget measures to further reduce the inflow...