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Military court upholds 2-week detention for ex-SAF master sergeant who kept 50 blank rounds

1 Today at 5:50 AM www.channelnewsasia.com
The Amazon is burning at a rate not seen since we started keeping track. The smoke is reaching cities 2,000 miles away.

2 Yesterday at 4:06 PM www.businessinsider.com
All ITE graduates will be able to upgrade beyond Nitec qualification by 2030

3 Today at 5:00 AM www.straitstimes.com
All sorts of bubble tea replaces traditional red drink offerings at Thai temple

4 Today at 5:56 AM mothership.sg
Chang'e lantern in Chinatown gets 'plastic surgery' after complaints

5 Today at 4:34 AM www.asiaone.com
Chinatown Chang’e undergoes radical overnight transformation from super masculine look

6 Yesterday at 11:50 PM mothership.sg
500 million bees in Brazil dead 3 months after govt lifted ban on toxic pesticides

7 Today at 4:25 AM mothership.sg
Temasek CEO Ho Ching’s salary remains a mystery even as she defends her husband’s high pay

8 Today at 4:40 AM theindependent.sg
Wife dies from heart attack after husband falls to death while hanging clothes at Toa Payoh HDB

9 Yesterday at 10:59 PM mothership.sg
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee released from prison

10 Yesterday at 11:10 PM www.channelnewsasia.com
Chinese-American neo-Nazi threatens to kill Hispanic woman & minorities in US

11 Today at 5:20 AM mothership.sg
Man found dead at foot of block, wife dies of heart attack

12 Today at 1:00 AM www.straitstimes.com
Male teacher, 35, admits to kissing female student, 14, on the lips twice in public

13 Today at 2:51 AM www.straitstimes.com
55,000 tertiary students to get enhanced bursaries, some up to 95%: MOE

14 Today at 5:00 AM www.channelnewsasia.com
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee released from prison

15 Yesterday at 11:22 PM www.todayonline.com
City Harvest case: Here's all you need to know

16 Today at 3:22 AM www.straitstimes.com
S’porean man hand-brews soy sauce in vats, also produces “most precious salt in the world”

17 Today at 3:28 AM mothership.sg
Needy students to pay significantly less for medicine and dentistry university courses from next year

18 Today at 5:03 AM www.straitstimes.com
Needy students to pay lower tuition fees at polys, universities from next year as higher bursaries kick in

19 Today at 5:00 AM www.straitstimes.com
NUS student makes seditious comments

20 Today at 4:10 AM theindependent.sg
Rail industry needs quicker manpower boost amid rapid MRT expansion: Janil Puthucheary

21 Today at 4:31 AM www.todayonline.com
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee released from jail

22 Yesterday at 11:19 PM www.straitstimes.com
Shaw Tower will be gone by 2023

23 Yesterday at 9:36 PM mothership.sg
JJ Lin gathers courage to approach unwitting fan in role reversal, says it’s his ‘first time’ doing it

24 Today at 12:03 AM mothership.sg
55,000 students to benefit from moves to make higher education more affordable, accessible: MOE

25 Today at 4:57 AM www.todayonline.com
Kong Hee looks considerably older upon prison release

26 Today at 3:14 AM mothership.sg
27-year-old Indonesian lady & 83-year-old man fall in love, get married within a month

27 Today at 12:30 AM mothership.sg
A ‘hard Brexit’ could have massive consequences for global air travel — here’s what we can expect

28 Yesterday at 10:03 PM www.businessinsider.com
Woman who kept $50k in love scam sentenced to 18 months' mandatory treatment order

29 Today at 1:21 AM www.straitstimes.com
International publication covers Ho Ching’s defense of PM Lee’s seven-figure salary

30 Today at 4:00 AM theindependent.sg
First look at S’pore Night Festival light installations, returning Aug. 23-31, 2019

31 Today at 12:35 AM mothership.sg
Wine bottle falling from height: Police look for culprit in condo after man's death

32 Yesterday at 5:00 PM www.straitstimes.com
Fiction & non-fiction books from S$5, children’s books from S$1 at Ang Mo Kio Aug. 23-25

33 Today at 2:48 AM mothership.sg
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee released from prison

34 Yesterday at 11:35 PM mothership.sg
“Are we fishing for talent in a small pond?” – WP politician responds to ESM Goh’s difficulty in attracting good people to politics

35 Today at 4:20 AM theindependent.sg
Serial shoplifter jailed for punching friend outside Banana Leaf Apolo restaurant, causing his death

36 Today at 1:17 AM www.todayonline.com
Masagos takes on Musk as he throws shade at Tesla’s electric cars

37 Today at 4:10 AM www.asiaone.com
Elderly man who went on cruise missing, feared to be floating at sea

38 Today at 1:06 AM www.straitstimes.com
Dry spell here likely to last several months

39 Yesterday at 5:00 PM www.straitstimes.com
Chaos at Hong Kong’s Yuen Long MTR station as protesters confront police while marking one month since mob attack

40 Today at 12:56 AM www.scmp.com
City Harvest Church: A timeline of Singapore's biggest case in misuse of charitable funds

41 Today at 12:20 AM www.channelnewsasia.com
City Harvest Church: A timeline of Singapore's biggest case in misuse of charitable funds

42 Today at 12:07 AM www.channelnewsasia.com
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee released from jail

43 Yesterday at 11:46 PM www.asiaone.com
Diners horrified after 'U-shaped white stuff' turns out to be '50 to 100 worms' in Seng Kee mee sua

44 Yesterday at 11:38 PM www.asiaone.com
M’sian driving 25,00km over 98 days to Germany to marry his fiancée

45 Yesterday at 4:04 PM mothership.sg
HPB partners Fitbit to encourage Singaporeans to adopt healthier habits

46 Yesterday at 8:38 PM www.todayonline.com
Mandatory treatment order for woman who scammed a fraudster, before being scammed herself

47 Today at 12:46 AM www.todayonline.com
Indonesian man marries two women at the same time

48 Today at 12:40 AM theindependent.sg
China slams Taiwan for offering to shelter asylum-seeking Hongkongers

49 Yesterday at 4:10 PM mothership.sg
Man found dead at foot of Toa Payoh block, wife dies of heart attack

50 Yesterday at 8:10 PM www.asiaone.com