Seat-hogging students at Starbucks and a rip-off at Sim Lim

$2.9 million

Damages awarded to Michelle Lee, whose husband plunged to his death after reversing out of a second storey car park in Sydney.

37

People arrested for storing contraband cigarettes in their HDB flats in the past nine months, and selling them to neighboring residents.

96%

Respondents who agreed with the Starbucks policy to remove unattended belongings of seat-hogging students, according to a poll by The Straits Times.

30

Number of pages in a dossier released by a local wildlife group, alleging that the health of the pink dolphins at Underwater World Singapore (UWS) was “appalling” and “deteriorating”.

$1,500

Additional money demanded by Mobile Air, a local electronics store, for fraudulent “warranty expenses” when tourist Pham Van Thoai bought an iPhone 6 there for $950.

$200

Amount Pham makes per month as a factory worker in Vietnam.

$4.4 million

Priced paid for a painting called Portrait of Bada Shanren by local artist Tan Swie Hian at a recent auction in Beijing.

1 minute

The time it took for Tan Swie Hian to create the painting, a minimalist portrait accompanied by a lengthy inscription.

, Seat-hogging students at Starbucks and a rip-off at Sim Lim

56%

Singapore International Airlines’ stake in Tigerair (making the latter a subsidiary of SIA), after the Competition Commission of Singapore gave the green light to the proposed takeover.

500

Number of dogs in last month’s Singapore Specials Run 2014, which aimed to raise awareness about stray and abandoned dogs. The event also raised $20,000.

$73 million

Cost of creating a comprehensive virtual model of Singapore, to be used by public, private and research sectors, currently being developed under The Smart Nation Programme.