A FRIEGHTER and a containership collided outside Singapore port waters near St John's Island on Wednesday evening.

The Iranian-registered Danoosh, weighing 13,914 gross tons, collided with Indonesian-registered containership Lagun Mas (2,900 gross tons) at 3-km southwest of St John's Island, said the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), which was alerted to the incident at 2.30 am on Thursday.

A GROUP of foreign Bangladeshi workers, who felt that they were shortchanged on their salaries of their rightful pay, went to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) with the story that their employers were setting them to work on additional jobs, on top of their regular ones.

Caught out in their lie, the 29 have each landed themselves two-week jail terms on Thursday for giving false information to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).

IF YOU have a good singing voice, dancing skills or look like Hollywood screen siren Marilyn Monroe or other celebrities, Resorts World at Sentosa wants you now.

The US$4.32 billion integrated resort in Sentosa, which is opening its doors to the first Universal Studios theme park in Singapore early next year, is going on an 11-city tour to recruit 200 performers for its attraction.

WASHINGTON - NEW claims for US jobless benefits rose in the past week to 640,000, reversing course after a surprise decline a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.

The Labor Department said the number of new claims in the week ending April 18 rose from a revised 613,000 the previous week.