5-room HDB DBSS flat in Bishan sold for record $1.295 million asiaone.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asiaone.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wet markets are more than mere trading bazaars. Just like shopping centres, community clubs and parks, wet markets in Singapore have been the glue that binds communities together. Whether it is the diligent mom snatching the most affordable groceries at the break of dawn, or the hardworking man butchering fresh meats – wet markets are bustling destinations filled with charm..
SCDF rescues 6-year-old boy who got leg stuck at Bishan playground asiaone.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asiaone.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Experts said the return to phase two Covid-19 curbs will help underpin demand.
Resale prices climbed 1.2 per cent last month compared with March, according to flash data from real estate portal SRX released on Thursday (May 6).
The 21 million-dollar flats sold last month were an increase from March, when 17 such flats were sold. The monthly record so far is 23 million-dollar flats sold in February.
The number of million-dollar flats sold in April accounts for 0.9 per cent of the total resale volume in the month, said SRX.
This brings the total of HDB flats that have sold for more than $1 million to 74 units in the first four months of this year, compared with 14 such units sold during the same period last year.
April 29, 2021
Gaiyathiri Murugayan admitted to starving, torturing and ultimately killing Piang Ngaih Don.
The Straits Times file
SINGAPORE - In a turn of events, a 41-year-old housewife who starved, tortured and ultimately killed her domestic worker from Myanmar has changed lawyers and is making further moves in a bid to avoid life in prison.
Gaiyathiri Murugayan, the wife of a policeman, pleaded guilty in February this year to 28 charges, the most serious being culpable homicide, for which prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The other charges were mostly hurt-related offences for physical abuse she inflicted on 24-year-old Piang Ngaih Don, who weighed a mere 24kg when she died from the final assault on July 26, 2016.