Two more people with Influenza A (H1N1) have died in Singapore after developing complications. They were a 51-year-old Indian woman with Down's Syndrome and high body mass index (BMI) and a 78-year-old man with no medical history. This brings the total death tally from H1N1 to eight in three weeks. The woman with Down's syndrom died on Wednesday afternoon from pneumonia. She had gone to Tan Tock Seng Hospital's emergency department on that day after having flu-like symptoms for three days. There, she had breathing difficulties and low blood pressure and died later. The elderly man had no medical history and died on Thursday morning after having fever and shortness of breath for a day. While in the intensive care unit, his condition worsened and he died from a heart attack, with pneumonia as a contributing factor.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Message will be broadcast on Saturday, the eve of National Day, on local television channels and radio stations. PM Lee's message in English is shot in high definition (HD) with subtitles for the hearing-impaired. It will be given on Channel 5, HD5 and TV Mobile at 7.15pm; Channel NewsAsia at 7.32pm; and Okto at 9.45pm. On radio, it will be aired at 7.35pm on 938LIVE.

Remember to watch it! Listen to what he says.

At the age of nine, he was already a veteran on social networking websites. By the time he was 12, he was a regular on an online chatroom popular with homosexual men. When he was 15, he pimped himself out, posting online messages on the chatroom that he was up for some 'fun' - if the men paid him for it. At least six men, aged 21 to 50, took him up on his offer. Now, half are doing time for committing obscene acts with the teenager, who is now 17. On Wednesday, Victor Ng Yong You, 25, and Thomas Song Choong Chen, 37, became the latest to be jailed for the crimes under the Children and Young Persons Act. Both men will spend three months behind bars. They are among six men who have been taken before the court in connection with the teenager. The youth cannot be named due to a court order. Quek Hock Sing, 42, a tour guide, was the first to be convicted in January for a similar offence. He was jailed for four months. Both Ng, who was a property agent at the time, and Song, a supervisor, committed the offences two years ago

It is a sign of the times - More girls aged below 14 are having sex. The police have now tabbed this as a worrying crime issue, and are trying to keep a lid on the problem. Crime statistics issued on Wednesday for the first half of the year showed that the number of statutory rape cases involving girls under 14 jumped more than 70 per cent, to 37 cases, compared with 21 in the same period last year.The girls involved in such cases were not punished, even if they initiated the sex, lawyers said. But they were sometimes counselled or sent to homes. They should not do this as they are underage. Having sex below 18 will have to go to jail...

Noordin Top is finally caught! Noordin Top is actually the mastermind behind the Jakarta suicide bombings. As the saying goes, no one can escape from the long arms of law. He was "shot dead" by policemen.