Seat-hogging students at Starbucks and a rip-off at Sim Lim
Here's December in numbers
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$2.9 millionDamages awarded to Michelle Lee, whose husband plunged to his death after reversing out of a second storey car park in Sydney. |
37People arrested for storing contraband cigarettes in their HDB flats in the past nine months, and selling them to neighboring residents. |
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96%Respondents who agreed with the Starbucks policy to remove unattended belongings of seat-hogging students, according to a poll by The Straits Times. |
30Number of pages in a dossier released by a local wildlife group, alleging that the health of the pink dolphins at Underwater World Singapore (UWS) was "appalling" and "deteriorating". |
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$1,500Additional money demanded by Mobile Air, a local electronics store, for fraudulent "warranty expenses" when tourist Pham Van Thoai bought an iPhone 6 there for $950. |
$200Amount Pham makes per month as a factory worker in Vietnam. |
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$4.4 millionPriced paid for a painting called Portrait of Bada Shanren by local artist Tan Swie Hian at a recent auction in Beijing. |
1 minuteThe time it took for Tan Swie Hian to create the painting, a minimalist portrait accompanied by a lengthy inscription. |
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56%Singapore International Airlines' stake in Tigerair (making the latter a subsidiary of SIA), after the Competition Commission of Singapore gave the green light to the proposed takeover. |
500Number of dogs in last month's Singapore Specials Run 2014, which aimed to raise awareness about stray and abandoned dogs. The event also raised $20,000. |
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$73 millionCost of creating a comprehensive virtual model of Singapore, to be used by public, private and research sectors, currently being developed under The Smart Nation Programme. |
91Number of Singaporean Malay classic films added to the UNESCO Memory of the World program. |
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