SINGAPORE: Singapore plans to build more recreation centres in the suburbs to draw migrant labourers away from the city after a rare riot in the congested Little India district last year, a report said yesterday.
The multimillion dollar centres are the latest in a series of government measures to better manage areas where foreign workers congregate after the rampage by South Asian labourers on December 8 injured 39 people and saw 25 vehicles destroyed.
The Straits Times newspaper said the four new centres will be built next to dormitories sited in industrial areas away from the city centre and will serve as alternative gathering points for workers on their rest days. There are currently four such centres in outlying industrial zones.
Man jailed over military secrets
BEIJING: A Chinese snack bar owner has been jailed for 10 years for disclosing military secrets including documents and photographs of equipment to “foreign intelligence agencies,” state media said yesterday.
The suspect, who was surnamed Li and from the southern province of Guangdong, was approached online by “a foreign spy” with the username “Feige” — “flying brother” in Chinese — the official Xinhua news agency reported.
“Since 2007 Feige has lured 12 people in Guangdong and 40 others in more than 20 provincial regions to provide military information through online bookstores and military enthusiast websites,” the Xinhua dispatch said.
The report did not detail which country Feige worked for, but said Li passed information to “foreign intelligence agencies.” It cited a source at “national security agencies” in Guangdong.
Nepal lawmaker arrested
KATHMANDU: Nepalese police have arrested a lawmaker for allegedly masterminding a bomb attack that killed four people and injured dozens of others in 2012, an officer said yesterday.
Sanjay Kumar Sah, a former government minister, was arrested late Saturday over the attack targeting 150 protesters rallying in the southern city of Janakpur, 20 kilometres from the Indian border.
Police accuse Sah of holding a personal grudge against one of the protest leaders, who escaped unharmed when the bomb strapped to a motorbike exploded in April 2012, killing four and injuring nearly 30 others.
“We have strong evidence that Sah planned the attack,” district police official Uttam Subedi said.
A trial against Sah, from the regional Sadbhawana Party, is underway following his arrest in the border town of Birgunj for allegedly plotting the attack.
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