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Bangladesh, Singapore sign two MoUs

Bangladesh and Singapore sign two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) for collaboration over Public Private Partnership (PPP) and air services.
Cockroach in car causes woman to crash into bridge

The sight of a cockroach crawling in her car gave a 61-year-old woman such a fright that she crashed into one end of an overhead bridge in Jurong East Central of Singapore last Friday.
Migrant talent on display at Singapore cultural show

Every Sunday - his only day off for the week - for the past two months, 30-year-old Bangladeshi construction worksite supervisor in Singapore, Fazley Elahi has been swopping his safety helmet for the hat of a show organiser.
Singaporean president’s car escapes summons

Officers who provide security protection to the Singaporean president and other senior political leaders have been reminded to make sure their security convoys comply with traffic rules, without compromising the safety and security of the VIPs they are escorting.
Singapore suspends trade relations with NKorea

Singapore suspends trade relations with North Korea, the latest of Pyongyang's major trade partners to cut commercial ties under toughening UN sanctions over its weapons programme, a customs notice obtained shows.
Singapore passport world’s ‘most powerful’

With Paraguay removing visa requirements for Singaporeans, the Singapore passport is now the "most powerful" in the world, with a visa-free score of 159.
Singapore to freeze car number from next year

Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, is not going to allow any growth in its car population, citing the small city-state’s land scarcity and billions of dollars in planned public transport investments.
Electric car-sharing service to roll into Singapore

An electric car-sharing service is going to be launched in Singapore in December, in what the company behind the scheme says is going to be a first for Southeast Asia.
President off to Singapore for medical check-up

President Abdul Hamid leaves Dhaka for Singapore on Sunday afternoon for medical check-up there.
‘Asia backs 48-team World Cup’

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino on Thursday said Asian countries backed his plan to expand the World Cup to 48 teams -- and added that up to three countries should be allowed to co-host the tournament.
FIFA boss urges zero tolerance for child abuse

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has called for "zero tolerance" of child abuse in football and promised to look into ways the global governing body can do more to prevent it in the wake of the scandal sweeping the game in England.
Bangladesh storm into final

Bangladesh romped into the final of the 5th Men's AHF Cup after thrashing Singapore 8-0 in the first semifinal today.
Rio Olympics: Phelps hails role inspiring his own defeat

Michael Phelps has acknowledged a "small part" in his own dramatic Olympic defeat by Singapore hero Joseph Schooling but bears no grudge.
Rio Olympics: Schooling wins Singapore's first gold

In just one performance, Singapore's Joseph Schooling beats swimming great Michael Phelps, takes home his city state's first Olympic gold medal and becomes an instant millionaire.
Man held in Singapore for promoting violence, radicalism, and IS

A Singaporean who actively spread radical ideology online and helped radicalise at least two other citizens is detained under the Internal Security Act in Singapore.
Drone seized at Dhaka airport

Custom intelligence seize a drone at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka due to a ban on its import.
Singapore plane catches fire on runway

A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Milan catches fire shortly after making an emergency landing.
Bangladeshi paralysed in work accident gets $600,000

A Bangladeshi construction worker paralysed after a worksite accident is awarded about $600,000 in damages and costs.
Light pollution 'affects 80% of global population'

More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.
4 Bangladeshis convicted in Singapore

A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers, detained in Singapore under the Internal Security Act (ISA), of financing terrorism.
Six Bangladeshis charged with terror financing

A Singapore court yesterday charged six Bangladeshi workers with terror financing, over a month after they were arrested on the
6 Bangladeshis charged in Singapore with financing terrorism

Six Bangladeshi workers detained in Singapore last month are charged with financing terrorism. Their goal was to set up an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the IS in Iraq and Syria.
How Islamic State in Bangladesh began

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
'They formed cell, met in parks, shared radical contents'

The eight Bangladeshi workers held recently in Singapore had allegedly formed an “Islamist” cell that met in parks and other
5 ‘militants’ deported from Singapore remanded

A Dhaka court has placed five alleged militants, who were deported from Singapore, on seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed under the anti-terrorism act.
'Bangladesh must have zero tolerance for terror'

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.
Terror cell 'unfazed' by earlier arrests

Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.
8 Bangladeshis held in Singapore for plotting attacks back home

Singapore says it has arrested eight Bangladeshi workers, who were planning to stage terror attacks back home. The country’s home ministry releases a kill-list found with them, which include MPs, ministers and media personnel. Meanwhile, in Dhaka, cops arrest five other Bangladeshi nationals, who were repatriated from Singapore after the authorities found that they possessed and/or proliferated jihadi-related materials, or supported the use of armed violence.
Singapore releases kill-list found with Bangladeshis

Members of the so-called Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB), formed in Singapore in March, have identified several possible targets in Bangladesh, which include lawmakers, ministers, and media personnel, a kill-list released by the country’s home ministry shows.
Gold worth Tk 1.25cr seized at Dhaka airport

The preventive team of Dhaka Customs House seizes six gold bars, weighing 2.5 kilograms, from a plane at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.