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ST Briton cleared of molest after paying $5,000 to compound case By Elena Chong A Briton was acquitted on Tuesday of molesting a woman at Clarke Quay after the case was compounded. Recruitment executive Austin Charles Arnold Cowburn, 35, had compounded the matter by paying $5,000 to the 30-year-old woman, who was in court with her husband. Mr Cowburn, originally accused of grabbing her buttocks at China One Pub at Clarke Quay on April 3, apologised to the woman in open court. He was on holiday here when the alleged offence took place. He said outside court that he was looking forward to going back to Britain, and to seeing his mother and father. Anyone convicted of outrage of modesty may be jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or received any combined punishment

Businesses at Newton, Orchard Road area affected due to flash floods By Dylan Loh | Posted: 17 July 2010 1934 hrs Photos 1 of 1 SINGAPORE: It looks like money down the drain again for retailers at Lucky Plaza. About a month after the massive Orchard Road flood, the watery mess returns. One owner of a shop at Lucky Plaza is a victim of yet another flood. The owner is not happy because renovations were recently completed and as a result of this, business has to stop. Christina Lim, shop owner, Singapore Gift Centre, said: "This is very bad. I feel that the management should do something about it because this is not the first time. It happens almost every year." It's a similar story nearby at Liat Towers. Ng Thian Chin said: "When I came here in the morning at about 6am, the water level was very high.

SDP five cleared of illegal march By Kor Kian Beng, Political Correspondent THREE leaders and two supporters of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) were acquitted in court yesterday of the charge of taking part in an illegal march in 2007. The SDP leaders were Mr Gandhi Ambalam, chairman; Mr John Tan, assistant secretary-general; and Ms Chee Siok Chin, central executive committee member. The supporters were Mr Yap Keng Ho and Mr Chong Kai Xiong. The five were cleared of charges of taking part in a procession without a valid permit on Sept 16, 2007. If convicted, they would have faced a fine of up to $1,000 for the offence under the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order & Nuisance) Act. District Judge John Ng, in a written judgment, said he acquitted the five on the sole ground that he did not consider what they had done a 'procession'. 'The prosecution's position appears to be that so long as a group of five or more people walked from one point to another point in a public place to commemorate an event, the people in that group had participated in a procession for the purposes of the Act...I am not able to agree with such a simplistic interpretation of the word 'procession',' he wrote. The walk by the SDP five was held to mark the first anniversary of a similar protest planned for September 2006, when the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings were held in Singapore. The five walked from Hong Lim Park to Parliament House and the Istana before stopping at the Queenstown Remand Prison, where SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan was being held. He was then serving a three-week jail term in lieu of paying a $4,000 fine for trying to leave the country in April that year while he was bankrupt. The judge said that in the absence of a definition for the word 'procession' in the relevant legislation, taking the 'natural and ordinary meaning' of the word would be the starting point. Citing two dictionary definitions of the word, he outlined three key features of a 'procession': a group of people moving together; as part of an event like a wedding; and moving in a formal way, in orderly succession and regular formation. The group of five, he noted, had walked mainly on pedestrian pathways, and made ad-hoc stops for toilet breaks and to give out pamphlets. They walked 'casually', sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs or smaller groups. He also noted that the walk 'did not cause inconvenience to the public, affect traffic flow or make noise which disturbed the public peace' - which 'fortified' his view that the law had not been broken, as the law was meant to relate to offences against public order and nuisance. The prosecution could not be reached by press time on whether it would appeal against the judgment.

Finally I can sleep in peace at night. Thanks to that stupid Bufan scare the crap out of me. I went to do a sexual health screening for HIV TPHA VDRL HPV Chlamydia Hep B, Hep C Hep A All Negative! I didn't know Chlamydia no symptopms one. The nurse told me. And it can effect my next generation like blindness. Luckily I go test!! Horray I am Free!!

was just waiting for the outcome this whole evening.. and thankfully, the sports and the Silver Arrow are not penalized by actions of individuals ------------------------- The FIA World Motor Sports Council has decided not to impose any penalty on McLaren. The FIA said after the hearing that it would pursue action against Coughlan and Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney. The governing body said that there was no doubt that the team's chief designer Mike Coughlan had had the leaked information but there was no proof that McLaren had benefited from it. The FIA reserved the right to summon McLaren again if it was suspected that the team had made use of any of the data. The full FIA statement read: "An extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council was held in Paris on 26 July, 2007. The following decision was taken: