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Miss Singapore World resigns after lingerie fraud
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/30/09 | Neil Chatterjee

Posted on 09/30/2009 5:38:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Beauty queen Miss Singapore World has given up her crown after it emerged that she had stolen credit cards to go on a shopping spree for lingerie. Ris Low had come under public pressure to be stripped of her 2009 title, after local media reported she stole seven credit cards last year while working at a medical clinic, buying goods worth about S$8,000 ($5,662) including gold anklets and phones.

Organizers of the pageant ERM World Marketing said she had resigned Tuesday of her own accord. She will no longer represent Singapore at the Miss World finals to be held in South Africa in December, but her replacement has not yet been decided.

Low had also been criticized for her poor English, mispronouncing "bikini" in a recent video, leading others in multicultural Singapore to spring to her defense and soul-searching on websites about the national character.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fraud; lingerie; misssingapore; pageant; resigns; singapore
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To: NCC-1701

Pretty. Cute. Not exceptional.


21 posted on 09/30/2009 6:02:56 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Ris Low had come under public pressure to be stripped of her 2009 title, after local media reported she stole seven credit cards last year while working at a medical clinic,...

She should also be stripped of her stolen lingerie. Televise it. Only way to teach her a lesson.

22 posted on 09/30/2009 6:21:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (Everybody knows it's a spotted dog...)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...she stole seven credit cards last year while working at a medical clinic, buying goods worth about S$8,000 ($5,662) including gold anklets and phones.
If she'd used the money to pay for her wedding with another woman, it would all have been okay here in the States.
23 posted on 09/30/2009 6:23:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: NCC-1701
"You ask, I provide"

Your picture is of #12.. Miss Singapore World 2009 was #10.

24 posted on 09/30/2009 6:30:58 PM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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To: y6162

Baby... You can do without the lingerie, let me show ya...


25 posted on 09/30/2009 6:43:11 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: BullDog108

Good link....but check out Miss Singapore World 2008. Wow what a knockout!!


26 posted on 09/30/2009 6:46:25 PM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: HardStarboard

Yowzer! I’m movin’ to Singapore...


27 posted on 09/30/2009 6:52:48 PM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
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To: NCC-1701

I love Asian/Eurasian females, but for some reason, that particular pic isn’t doing it for me.


28 posted on 10/01/2009 5:08:24 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Correct. Average. There are some genuine eye-popping world class over-the-top drop everything gifts from God roaming the world. Ms Sinagpore/World 08 is nice.


29 posted on 10/01/2009 5:11:39 AM PDT by Broker (Pakikisama)
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