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Chinese evening dailies' headlines
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Tue, Oct 21, 2008
AsiaOne
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>SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
- Body found at Bukit Batok Nature Park - is it triad-style execution?
- Two women accused of being prostitutes and cheating after two men refuse to pay for their drinks at a pub; police alerted to mediate the dispute
- Veteran singer Lisa loses $100,000 in the Minibonds
- 20 people involved in a fight at Newton Food Centre early this morning, two people hospitalised
- Former illegal taxi driver wins award for being the most courteous bus driver
- Subhas Anandan recounts how he saved a client from the gallows 13 years ago
- Tiger Airways launches additional 200,000 one-cent air tickets after the first 250,000 tickets were snapped up
- Second-hand shops lament that their businesses have suffered due to the financial crisis
- Local artist fractures his right palm while auditioning for the role of a triad boss
- Youth has a seizure, but the police arrest him for being drunk
- Lorry loses control and hits a railing, a tree and a lamp-post; driver hospitalised
- Trailer hits a gantry before its top falls off
- Youth falls dead from the 25th storey, his father scolds his younger brother for quarrelling with him
- Male employee from a legal firm charged with threatening to expose the naked photos of his female colleague
- Distributors have recalled three brands of hot/cold packs after they are found to contain toxic substance
- Tanya Chua's former boss does not regret promoting her in the past despite her lawsuit against the music company
- President of the Singapore Pawnbrokers' Association urges Singaporeans not to sell their gold at low prices as the price of gold is likely to increase further
- Survey by Shin Min shows that local retirees spend their days mostly on drinking tea and chatting with friends
LIANHE WANBAO
- Man does not know that his wife has been moonlighting as a prostitute until she was arrested during a police raid in Geylang
- 70 people plan to sue the banks over the Lehman Minibonds
- Local undergraduates are lowering their expected pay when they go for job interviews
- Supervisor promoted and gets a pay rise even though he has not completed his course on technology
- Lorry carrying pork hits a tree and crashes up a road divider, pork scattered on the road
- Ceiling collapses on the second storey due to water pipe bursts on the third storey
- Elderly woman hangs her clothes to dry at a playground
- Pawn shops report a 20 per cent increase in businesses due to the financial crisis
- Pervert youth at Bishan steals only white and black bras hanging at the corridors
- Lorry caught smuggling contraband cigarettes under cartons of polishing compound
- Woman answers a job ad on tour guides, but she turns down the job offer after attending the interview at a coffee shop in Geylang
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