The Straits Times' News In A Minute: June 7, 2016

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Berated foodcourt cleaner offered a new job; socio-political website apologises; intellectually disabled man gets probabtion for animal abuse

In The Straits Times' News In A Minute today, we look at:

* Several restaurant owners have stepped forward to offer deaf and mute foodcourt cleaner Png Lye Heng a job, after he expressed his intention to quit in the wake of his encounter with a woman who yelled at him last Friday.

* Socio-political website TR Emeritus has apologised for its online report which alleged that Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat's medical expenses are funded by the taxpayer.

* Lee Wai Leong, 41, who threw a cat over the 13th floor parapet of his block in Yishun Ring Road last October, was sentenced to 18 months' probation.

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