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Chinese evening dailies' headlines
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Thu, Oct 23, 2008
AsiaOne
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SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
- Singaporean girl who takes part in an Australian micro bikini competition is a primary school teacher who has tattoos and goes clubbing regularly
- Female worker breaks her spinal bone and may become paralysed after she falls into a drain at Geylang
- Strong stench near the sea at Kranji due to water pollutions
- Passenger fined $3,000 for using expletives to insult the bus driver
- Man in his 50s arrested for stealing tidbits from the supermarket
- Taxi driver fined $1,200 and barred from driving a taxi after she was caught breaking the rules by a taxi inspector who posed as a passenger
- Maid steals more than $20,000 worth of valuables from her employer's house, but the employer can't do anything about it due to a lack of evidence
- Thai narcotics officers seize S$3.5 million of assets from two Singaporeans who were caught drug trafficking in Thailand
- Highly-decomposed body of a middle-age woman who lives alone found in her house
- Black racer collides with a SUV before hitting a tree at Ulu Pandan Road
- Sterling Road death: Private victim claims that the victim is a loose woman
- Charles & Keith founder loses his eight-year marriage as he was too involved in work
- Lorry hits a gas tank outside a coffee shop, more than 100 people evacuated, driver leaves his lorry behind
LIANHE WANBAO
- 42-year-old woman who falls dead from a flat at Sengkang was forced to her death by loan sharks
- Foreign workers in Singapore who send their money home say their money has "shrunk" due to the Singapore dollar's falling exchange rate
- Liu Guodong clarifies that he was offered $6,300 per month in the new contract, and not $8,800 as reported in some media; he says his original monthly salary is $4,500
- Woman appeals against her four-year jail sentence for using forged credit cards to shop and re-pay her debts
- Fish shop owner fined $26,000 for owning illegal imports of the Asian arowana
- Motorcyclist in a coma after hitting a van
- Singapore's largest water catchment area Marina Barrage opens at the end of the month
- Gambling den in a fengshui shop: Police arrest one man and seize 43 gaming machines
- Eight-year-old boy helps to foil a kidnap scam
- 60-year-old woman who rides a motorcycle died in a traffic accident
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