Housewife jailed for assaulting maid
Housewife jailed for assaulting maid
SINGAPORE: A Singapore woman has been jailed for six months for a series of assaults against her Indonesian maid, including rubbing chili on her mouth, news reports said on Thursday.
Kang Siew Kiem, 29, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the Subordinate Court to multiple counts of abuse against her 23-year-old Indonesian domestic worker Setyo Puryanti, The Straits Times newspaper said.
Court officials did not immediately confirm the report.
Kang, a mother of three, was charged with slapping and pinching Puryanti, as well as pointing a knife at her and rubbing chili on her mouth between February 2000 and October 2002, the paper said.
The court convicted Kang and sentenced her to six months in jail and a fine of S$1,500 (US$862), the report said. -- AP
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Manila police find grenades
PHILIPPINES: Philippine police said on Thursday grenades were found at a commuter rail station in Manila and near the headquarters of the Bureau of Immigration but were not linked to attempted terror attacks.
Police said a black bag containing wires, a revolver, bullets and a grenade that was found at the light-rail station was likely abandoned by criminals who preyed on the drivers and riders of privately run jeepney transportation vehicles.
"It was left under the LRT station," Rudy Supsipin, head of the Manila police bomb squad, told Reuters. "This could have been used by people involved in robbery."
The bag was not rigged to explode, he said.
In the second incident, a street sweeper discovered an MK2 fragmentation grenade in a park behind the Bureau of Immigration building in the capital's Intramuros area, radio reported. -- Reuters
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Russia's Ivanov visits S'pore
SINGAPORE: Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov was on a two-day visit to Singapore on Thursday to discuss closer economic cooperation with Southeast Asian countries.
Ivanov was scheduled to meet with his Singaporean counterpart foreign minister Shanmugam Jayakumar and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during his visit, Singapore's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Ivanov is expected to discuss how Russia can work with the 10- member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ITAR- Tass news agency reported, citing a Russian foreign ministry spokesman.
ASEAN has a combined market of more than 500 million people, accounting for 17 percent of the world's population. -- Dow Jones
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Shot pop star still in intensive care
THAILAND; A Cambodian pop star with links to the country's royalist FUNCINPEC party who was shot in the face in Phnom Penh and medically evacuated here remained in an intensive care unit on Thursday.
The 24-year-old Touch Sunnich, known across Cambodia as the voice of FUNCINPEC, and her mother were gunned down by four men on motorbikes as they were getting into a car after leaving a flower shop.
Touch Sunnich was shot in the head; her 62-year-old mother, Kim Sinon, was shot in the back and died.
Staff at the exclusive Bumrungrad Hospital refused to comment on her status while her relatives, who maintained a vigil at her bedside, declined to speak to the press through an interpreter.
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk said in an interview published on his website on Wednesday that he was deeply saddened by the attack on the singer, who had entertained the monarch's guests, including heads of state, at the palace. -- AFP