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March 28, 2014 7:42 PM The body of a 58-year-old man was found in Kallang River at about 8.10am on Friday morning.         ...

March 28, 2014 9:07 PM A fire alarm in Changi Airport Terminal 1 was accidentally triggered by a cleaner at about 6.40pm on Friday.         ...

March 28, 2014 9:12 PM In today's The Straits Times News In A Minute video, we look at the Ministry of Education offering another 1,000 university places this year.         ...

March 28, 2014 11:07 PM Bare Housing Board void decks in Gek Poh, one of Singapore's oldest districts, were given a fresh coat of paint by students and about 100 volunteers from DBS Bank, including its chief executive Piyush Gupta, on Friday afternoon.         ...

March 28, 2014 1:00 PM Logging in to the free national Wi-Fi network, Wireless@SG, will take seconds instead of minutes with an upgrade to the network ready from Tuesday.         ...

March 28, 2014 1:05 PM A veteran doctor and motoring writer was convicted of two counts of molesting a female patient after a seven-day trial.         ...

March 28, 2014 1:09 PM Fourteen men, aged between 25 and 28 from Bangladesh, were charged in court on Friday with rioting at a workers' dormitory.         ...

March 28, 2014 2:01 PM A 75-year-old retired teacher who ran a red light and caused the death of a passenger in a lorry was on Friday sentenced to four months' jail.         ...

March 28, 2014 2:26 PM Republic Polytechnic students will be working with Cambodian university students to grow fish in flooded padi fields in Cambodia, under a new million-dollar training scheme announced by Temasek Holdings' philanthropic arm on Friday.         ...

March 28, 2014 2:31 PM Police seized about $300,000 worth of fake handbags, jewellery as well as phone and tablet cases in simultaneous raids of six shops at a mall along Scotts Road on Thursday.         ...

March 28, 2014 4:53 PM A woman from China who procured five women for prostitution and earned $18,450 from them for 21/2 months was jailed a total of 14 months on Friday.         ...

March 28, 2014 6:21 PM The Seletar Mall's lighting design maximises the use of sunlight while minimising the need for artificial lighting during the day. It also has a presence detection system in toilets and staircases to lower lighting energy usage.         ...

March 28, 2014 6:32 PM The police have arrested a man suspected of stealing two copies of newspapers from a shopping mall in Commonwealth Avenue West with the help of three members of the public on Friday.         ...

March 28, 2014 6:44 PM Some of the criticism being levelled at Malaysia for its handling of a missing jetliner has been unfair, said Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Friday.         ...

March 28, 2014 10:54 AM SMRT Bus service 964 will operate half an hour longer on Saturdays, starting April 5.         ...

March 28, 2014 11:35 AM Customers here are the most satisfied in seven years, but are less happy with finance and healthcare, according to newly-released survey results from an institute under the Singapore Management University (SMU).         ...

March 28, 2014 12:43 PM President Tony Tan Keng Yam is to make his first state visit to meet Queen Elizabeth II in Britain in October.         ...

March 28, 2014 12:51 PM The Education Ministry will open up more university places this year, bringing the total number of places at the six universities, including the Singapore Institute of Technology and SIM University to 14,000.         ...

March 28, 2014 12:51 PM The Singapore Army and the Indian Army are conducting a bilateral armour exercise, which will end on Monday.         ...

March 28, 2014 7:52 AM Singapore has learnt from London in its drive to become a global city, but as a city state with no hinterland, it also has to be sensitive to national identity and social solidarity, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.         ...