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electricity tariffs for households will go up by 12.5 per cent or 2.41 cents to 21.69 cents per kilowatt-hour.

September 29th, 2009 • Vote PAP Somemore

SINGAPORE : For the quarter starting in October, electricity tariffs for households will go up by 12.5 per cent or 2.41 cents to 21.69 cents per kilowatt-hour.

SP Services said the increase is due largely to significantly higher fuel oil prices over the last three months, which increased by around 21 per cent to S$92.03 per barrel.

It added that this brings the fuel oil price to around the level in the first quarter of this year.

This is the second quarter tariffs have gone up, after they dipped in the first two quarters of this year.

In July, tariffs went up by 7 per cent.

Starting from July, the Energy Market Authority used a new formula of calculating tariffs, which takes an average price from the three months in the previous quarter, instead of the first month of the previous quarter. - CNA /lsdownload Slippery Slope

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Miss Singapore quits after criminal record revealed

September 29th, 2009 • Uncategorized

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s representative to the Miss World beauty contest has stepped down after being exposed as a credit card cheat, the local contest organisers said on Tuesday.

Ris Low, a 19-year-old student, had first resisted calls to give up her crown after Singapore media revealed she received a suspended sentence for stealing and misusing customers’ credit cards when she worked as a receptionist.

She was convicted of credit card fraud in May and sentenced to two years’ probation.

When asked if she was finally bowing down to public pressure, the 19-year-old beauty queen said: “I feel that it would be better for everyone, including Singaporeans who are not very supportive of me going to this pageant.

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