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Lee Kuan Yew Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has been in Singapore General Hospital since Sunday (2 Feb). A statement from his office today (4 Feb) said that he is suffering from a bad cough with fever caused by an infection. The 90-year-old has been advised by doctors to avoid public appearances. Hence, he will not be attending... 

On New Year Day (1 Jan), prominent local theatre actor and director Ivan Heng slammed MediaCorp's New Year Countdown show for being "so 'cheena'". "Cheena" is Singlish for "Chinese", and is a corruption of the Malay "cina". Mr Heng posted a message on his Facebook page saying that he just could not bear watching MediaCorp's... 

Earlier, TRE reported that Mexican Alan Ramos, 26, who worked for the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) as associate consultant, was sentenced by a court to 10 months’ jail for having sex with a minor ('FT jailed 10 months for sex with minor'). He was found by the court to have engaged in kinky sex with a girl who was only...