Singapore  - Singapore's Nanyang Technological University was shaken by a second suspected suicide, days after a final-year student stabbed a lecturer and then jumped to his death.

A 24-year-old male Chinese project officer was found dead in a staff apartment Friday night, the university said in a statement Saturday.

The man was found hanged, a police spokeswoman said.

Singapore - A levy imposed on Singapore's hotels during the 2008 Formula One Grand Prix season is to be reduced this year to help the city-state's ailing tourism industry.

As Singapore's hotels are hit hard by slumping tourist arrivals, the five-night levy that hotels had to pay during the hosting of the inaugural F1 race last year would be reduced to a four-night period, the Singapore Tourism Board said Friday.

The 2009 Singapore F1 Grand Prix is scheduled to get under way in September.

Singapore  - The tiny city state of Singapore at the tip of the Malay Peninsula currently boasts what is probably Asia's largest construction site.

Despite the global economic downturn, workers toil here around the clock, seven days a week, to build Singapore's first casino complex.

The Marina Bay Sands is scheduled to open in December and apart from the casino proper it will comprise a convention and exhibition centre, some 300 shops and luxury boutiques, a museum and three hotel towers, each of them 200 metres high, with a combined 2,600 beds.

Singapore  - A Singapore court sentenced a 35-year-old man to three months in jail Thursday for hitting a schoolboy who accidentally stepped on his foot in a packed bus, a news report said.

Ismail Atan punched the boy three times on his forehead in a public bus in September, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper said.

Singapore - The Singapore Night Safari, one of the city-state's major tourist attractions, cancelled performances Wednesday after dancers of a contracted group from Malaysia had been arrested on suspicion of drug offences.

"Due to unforeseen circumstances, all cultural performances at Night Safari have been suspended until further notice," a statement on the safari's website said. "... Do enjoy the other attractions Night Safari has to offer."

Singapore - A Singapore court sentenced a serial predator and rapist to 42 years in jail on Tuesday, the longest prison sentence handed down to a sexual offender in the city state so far, a news report said.

Bala Kuppusamy was also ordered to be caned the maximum fine of 24 strokes.

Between April and June the 48-year-old man robbed and sexually assaulted seven women who were walking alone at night, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.