Singapore - Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng and a team of ministers were to arrive in China Tuesday for meetings on environmental, industrial and bilateral cooperation with Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier Wang Qishan on Thursday and Friday, said The Strait Times Tuesday.

At the top of the agenda, Singapore's deputy prime minster will co-chair meetings on the progress of the landmark Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City project and meet with Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli, Major Huang Xingguo, and other leaders.

Mumbai-based logistics company, Tuscan Ventures has announced its strategic investment in Singapore based Rasmussen & Simonsen International Pte Ltd. (RSI), for an undisclosed amount.

Singapore - Airlines were resuming their service between Singapore and the popular Thai holiday island of Phuket after the facility reopened following its closure by anti-government demonstrators, a newspaper report said.

Tiger Air and Air Asia planned to resume their service Monday, The Straits Times reported.

SilkAir became the first to reopen the route, resuming its flights Sunday night and upping its regularly scheduled single evening flight between Singapore and Phuket to three to ferry its backlog of passengers between the two destinations. It said it would operate its normal schedule of five flights Monday.

Singapore - A woman is to receive child support payments from a former live-in boyfriend after a Singapore court said the man could not expect affidavits from the city-state's estimated other 2 million men that they did not sleep with her, The Straits Times said Friday.

The mother, 29, who was living with two men, got pregnant in 2005 and married one of the men thinking he was the father.

However, the man bailed out of the marriage after realizing he was not the father. The husband, 33, suspicious after finding out that the baby girl's blood type was different from his, took a DNA test proving the baby was not his.

Singapore - In a sale dispute turned ugly, the chairman of a Singapore condominium estate was released on bail Thursday after being arrested for gluing residents' doors shut, The Strait Times news

Singapore - A Singapore tycoon pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of illegally attempting to purchasing a kidney from a village on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Tang Wee Sung, executive director of the tony CT Tang Department store and owner of prime real estate, admitted arranging to pay middlemen 300,000 Singapore dollars (211,678 US dollars), and just 20,000 Singapore dollars to the donor, the Straits Times reported.

Tang also admitted falsely declaring the donor was his relative.

The charges carry a three-year prison sentence, plus a fine for false declaration.

The retail magnate said he did it because he was desperately sick and had no recourse due the lack of preventative medicine to survive.