Monday #sgroundup: Singapore cracks down on illegal bets during World Cup

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Singapore cracks down on illegal bets during World Cup

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo takes a shot during the group G World Cup soccer match between the United States …

Singapore police on Monday said they have arrested 15 people in a crackdown on illegal betting during intense World Cup fever in the city-state, which has become notorious for football-linked crime.

"Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects are believed to have received illegal bets amounting to about S$800,000 in the past two weeks," the Singapore Police Force said in a statement posted on its website Monday.

https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/news/singapore-cracks-down-illegal-bets-during-world-cup-054940446--sow.html

Christian paper loses battle to use 'Allah'

Muslim supporters gather in front of the Federal Court as they wait for the seven-member bench to decide on the …

Malaysia's highest court ruled today that the Catholic newspaper The Herald has no grounds to appeal a lower court decision preventing it from using the word "Allah" to refer to God.

The landmark decision on a divisive issue that has fuelled intense debate and heightened religious tensions in the country, brings to an end the Catholic Church's challenge in the Malaysian court system.

A seven-member bench at the Federal Court decided by a narrow 4-to-3 majority to deny the Catholic paper the right of appeal.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/christian-paper-loses-battle-allah-014200762.html

Costly private transport jacks up inflation in May: MAS

Costly private transport jacks up inflation in May 2014. (Vulcan post photo)

CPI-All Items inflation picked up to 2.7% in May, on the back of an 8.1% climb in private road transport costs.

According to data released today by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, May's inflation is higher than April's 2.5%, while private transport costs are also greater than the 5.7% rise in the preceding month.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/costly-private-transport-jacks-inflation-062900182.html

Rogue S. Korea soldier shoots himself, ending long stand-off

A wounded South Korean soldier who killed five comrades in a shooting incident on a stretcher is carried from an …

 A stand-off between South Korean troops and a conscript soldier who killed five comrades ended on Monday when the young recruit shot himself in an incident that has raised fresh questions over the country's rules on compulsory military service.

Troops cornered the 22-year-old soldier in a densely forested area near a small town in Goseong county, a mountainous region on the eastern coast of the peninsula near the border with North Korea.

After a 24-hour stand-off and despite pleas by his father to give himself up, the conscript shot himself in the side, and was taken to a military hospital.

Late on Saturday night the soldier threw a grenade and opened fire, killing five members of his unit and wounding seven at a base outpost in Goseong county. The conscript then fled carrying a firearm, ammunition and a grenade and exchanged gunfire with troops.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/korea-troops-corner-young-soldier-killed-five-comrades-032716466.html

China busts 32 terror groups in month of crackdown

In this Friday, May 23, 2014 photo, armed paramilitary policemen ride on military trucks during a show off force …

Authorities say they have broken up 32 terror groups and arrested more than 380 suspects in China's west in the first month of a crackdown aimed at demonstrating the Communist Party's resolve to maintain order in a borderland by recent unrest.

Officials from the Xinjiang region told reporters Monday that security forces also seized several hundred explosive devices, a few tons of explosive material and computers and books about terrorism and religious extremism.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-busts-32-terror-groups-month-crackdown-083442380.html

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