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SINGAPORE: The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has tweaked its rules to discourage buyers who book a flat but subsequently cancel their booking, in a move designed to better protect the interests of serious home buyers.

SINGAPORE: Two years after it hosted the 2010 Youth Olympic Games' track and field competition, the Bishan Stadium will once again become a hotbed for young athletes from April 28 to 29 when the 7th South-east Asian (SEA) Youth Athletics Championships returns to the Republic for the second time (the Republic first hosted the event in 2007).

SINGAPORE: There is a need to send a strong message to deter like-minded people in the legal profession, argued the Public Prosecutor on Tuesday, as it appealed in the High Court to increase the nine-year jail sentence of disgraced lawyer Tan Cheng Yew, who misappropriated S$4.82 million of his clients' monies.

DORTMUND, Germany: The Singapore women's table tennis team strolled to a 3-0 victory in their Group B clash with Taiwan on Tuesday at the World Team Table Tennis Championships to make it three wins out of three.

SINGAPORE: Motorists who drive Singapore-registered vehicles may have to pay higher toll charges in future when going into Johor Bahru.

SINGAPORE : The inaugural DBS Marina Regatta at the Marina Bay in May promises to be Singapore's biggest dragon boat event since the year 2000.

SINGAPORE: LionsXII drew Terengganu 0-0 in a Malaysian FA Cup quarter-final second-leg clash at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Tuesday night.

SINGAPORE: A 32-year-old married man was jailed on Tuesday for five years for having sex with his 12-year-old sister-in-law.

SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said Singapore is entering an era where governance is becoming more challenging.

SINGAPORE: Singapore beat Taiwan 3-0 in the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund on Tuesday that also saw Singapore's Wang Yuegu red-carded and sent to the stands.

SINGAPORE: A doctor with Changi General Hospital pleaded guilty on Tuesday to dressing up as a junior college schoolgirl and exposing himself to a university student.