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On 1 October 2013, just 4 days before the third 6.9 million Population White Paper (PWP) protest scheduled to be held at Hong Lim Park, an NParks' Senior Officer, Ms Sim Bee Lan, wrote to organizer Gilbert Goh, asking for a layout plan for the event. There was no such request for the first 2 protests, held on 16 February 2013... 

Pratawala restaurant A TRE reader, Kumar, encountered a bad experience with the staff at Pratawala restaurant (www.pratawala.com) in Tiong Bahru Plaza and wrote to the restaurant to complain. He sent the letter to the restaurant on 1 October 2013 and copied it to TRE ('Singaporean insulted in Hindi at restaurant'). Kumar's trouble... 

The court sentenced an assistant pastor to 16 months' jail today (4 Oct) for having oral sex with a 15-year-old church member. He is 29 years older than the girl and a father of 3. The pastor was charged under the Children and Young Persons Act. The girl was 15 years old at the time of the offence. She performed oral sex on...