A 300-KG metal pipe came crashing down on the head of a foreign worker at the Resorts World worksite at Sentosa on Saturday, killing him instantly.

It is believed that Mr Annamalai Chandramani was taking a break from work when the pipe, which was being moved above him, fell right onto him.

Mr Annamalai, 33, suffered multiple fractures to his neck and was pinned under the heavy pipe.

THEY came prepared for a difference - and got just that.

About 27,000 spectators at the Marina Bay floating platform were treated to the nation's biggest musical, this year's National Day Parade on Sunday.

The third parade staged on the platform is also likely to be the last against a skyline of semi-finished skyscrapers of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, which is due to open next year.

HONG KONG - ABOUT 100 Hong Kong investors burned by complex financial products linked to failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers protested on Sunday, demanding securities regulators help them negotiate a settlement.

Tens of thousands of retail investors in this Chinese-ruled financial hub were hit by Lehman's collapse in September.

A 27-YEAR-OLD Indian woman with no known underlying medical conditions died from H1N1-related infection Sunday morning, said the Ministry of Health in a statement.

She had gone to Changi General Hospital's Emergency Department on July 23 with a four-day history of fever, cough and lethargy.