AFTER finding out that residents in the Bukit Merah area had a high rate of heart attacks, grassroot members there have decided to install defibrillators at the lift landings.

Residents will also be taught resuscitation procedures and how to use the machines - which jumpstart hearts that have stopped - to give victims a better chance of surviving in the critical few minutes before an ambulance arrives.

FOR more than seven years, from when she was eight, a girl was sexually abused over and over by a temple medium regarded by her parents as a close family friend.

He was a 'spiritual advisor' to the child's father, who was also a temple medium.

They trusted him so much that they let him sleep in their flat on many occasions, during which time he would abuse the child.

WASHINGTON - THE Marriott hotel chain on Friday said it hoped to soon reopen two bomb-hit properties in Jakarta following blasts that killed at least nine people on Friday.