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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Security-Philippines
Manila police find grenades
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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-Ivanov-Singapore
Russia's Ivanov visits S'pore
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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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Thailand-Cambodia
Shot pop star still in intensive care
JP/11/ASEAN
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