Monday #sgroundup: Sun Ho embarked on singing career following a ‘miracle’: City Harvest church founder Kong Hee

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Sun Ho embarked on singing career following a 'miracle': City Harvest church founder Kong Hee
 City Harvest church founder Kong Hee arrives in court during fifth tranche of trial.
The Crossover Project idea to use pop singer Sun Ho in City Harvest Church's evangelical movement was conceived during Kong Hee's trip to Taiwan in 1999, the church founder said while taking the stand for the first time in the fifth tranche of the trial on Monday.

Kong, who was conducting church services in the country, explained that he saw mainly "aging church members", and was told that the young people in Taiwan were only interested in "[pop] entertainment".  

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sun-ho-embarked-on-singing-career-following-a--miracle---city-harvest-church-founder-kong-hee-115035574.html

He also said he was "shocked" when he first heard of the allegations made against the church on 17 January 2003.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/city-harvest-church-founder--shocked--upon-hearing-allegations-for-the-first-time-115934374.html

Causeway 'war' takes toll on Singapore employers
 Causeway toll hike not a burden to residents, says highway authority
Singaporean employers who rely on Malaysian workers are uneasy over their government's increase in levy for Malaysian cars, as well as another planned increase to match Malaysia's move to slap a sharp toll rate hike on cars entering Johor.

Bloomberg spoke to some who feel the tit-for-tat increase, which saw Malaysia following up Singapore's levy increase with a whopping RM7 (S$2.70)  increase for cars entering from Singapore, will also affect businesses which employ Malaysians.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/causeway-war-takes-toll-singapore-employers-025914802.html

Singapore couples eager for bloodlines spend big on surrogates
 Gammy, a baby born with Down's Syndrome, is fed by his surrogate mother Pattaramon Janbua at a hospital in …
An increasing number of Singaporeans are seeking the services of surrogate mothers from Thailand and Malaysia, spending huge amounts of money to have babies, The Straits Times reported.

The paper said after the cost of in-vitro fertilisation treatment, the cost of getting a baby through a surrogate mother could reach S$100,000, even before the baby is delivered.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-couples-eager-bloodlines-spend-big-surrogates-030053407.html

Rowdy passenger forces London-bound flight back to Hong Kong
 A virgin Atlantic flight was forced to make an emergency landing after cocaine pellets burst in a drugs mule's …
A rowdy British passenger forced a London-bound Virgin Atlantic flight to return to Hong Kong on Monday after he "lost control", police said.

The 26-year-old, identified only as "Robert", was on a Heathrow-bound plane from Hong Kong International Airport and became disruptive after the flight had been in the air for more than an hour.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/rowdy-passenger-forces-london-bound-flight-back-hong-044749401.html

Fire Challenge: New Deadly Online Dare Sweeping America
 Teenage girl takes the Fire Challenge in a video posted on YouTube. In this case, the fire was quickly extinguished. …
US health officials have warned of the dangers posed by the latest deadly dare sweeping the internet: The Fire Challenge.

Those taking part in the challenge douse themselves in flammable liquids and set fire to themselves, then extinguish the flames as quickly as they can, uploading the videos onto sites including YouTube and Facebook.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/fire-challenge-deadly-online-dare-sweeping-america-142559243.html

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