BEIJING - A PHOTO showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the Internet, where it has been widely circulated.

THE bridegroom who died hours after his wedding dinner was caught on the hotel's security camera making for the fire escape staircase on the floor of his suite.

Mr Vernon Leong, 31, was next seen scrambling through the Hilton Singapore's second floor, where there is a shopping arcade.

HOURS after celebrating his wedding, the groom was found dead on the driveway of the Hilton Hotel in Orchard Road early on Wednesday.

Mr Vernon Leong Jun Wei, 31, who ran a computer shop in Sim Lim Square, had earlier held his wedding reception at the five-star hotel attended by over 300 guests.

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy was at Tiong Bahru Park with two of his friends when a group of six teens confronted him on Wednesday afternoon.

The gang accused the boys of having assaulted one of their member's younger brothers.

A WOMAN confessed to poisoning her husband when quizzed by a police officer, a district court heard on Friday

Fong Quay Sim, who turned 68 on Friday, admitted poisoning her husband, Mr Chan Tin Sun, 70, to the investigation officer, Sheik Faisal, on Oct 29 last year.

A DRIVER, who was not feeling well, parked his car at a Spottiswoode carpark to take a nap early on Thursday morning.

He, however, did not lock his car doors and found $10,000 worth of items stolen when he woke up seven hours later.

A 27-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested for drink driving on Thursday night after her car collided into a taxi along Springleaf Road.

SLIVEN (Bulgaria) - AN 11-year-old girl became a mother after going into labour during her wedding to her teenage boyfriend, reported European media on Monday.

Kordeza Zhelyazkova was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she arrived at hospital and gave birth to little Violeta.

BANGKOK - THAILAND said on Friday it would tear up an oil and gas exploration deal with Cambodia, stoking a row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an economics adviser.

The government in Bangkok also warned that it could seal the border between the two countries, one day after the neighbours both recalled their respective ambassadors due to the dispute over the appointment of Thaksin.

THE Government on Friday announced that its land sales programme for the first half of 2010 will have 42 sites, including a slew of residential plots.

Eight of the sites are on the confirmed list, which means that these will be put up for tender regardless of developers' interest, and these are all for residential developments.