SEX makes babies - that was all the girl said she knew about sex when she was 11 years old, the age at which she lost her virginity.

Now 13, she recounted matter-of-factly how she met her first boyfriend on the social networking site Friendster last year.

ONE hundred and eighty foreign workers living in Tagore Lane have been left jobless, unpaid and now, hungry as well, as meal deliveries stopped abruptly on Wednesday.

For the time being foreign worker advocacy group Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) has stepped in to provide two meals, but it is unclear whether the workers' other problems will be resolved.

WITH its glittering shopfronts lining Serangoon Road, Little India has long been popular with shoppers hunting for a good deal on gold jewellery.

However faced with rising competition and declining profit margins, some businesses in recent years have resorted to underhand tactics to squeeze customers, says a new survey on Little India goldsmiths by the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case).