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Hong Kong actress Angela Yuen spoke out about inappropriate remarks made by a veteran journalist during an interview. The journalist has since issued a public apology. In late 2025, Yuen and other female cast members attended an interview promoting the film Gamer Girls . The jour...
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Russian state TV showed a man lying on a floor and handcuffed by three masked men in black uniform.
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Johor Bahru politician Andrew Chen has urged Indonesia to take responsibility for transboundary haze and apologise to affected Asean countries. The DAP politician and member of the Johor state legislature's remarks came after an Indonesian government official said forest fires we...
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UPDATE on Oct. 13 at 6:01pm : By 4:37pm, all affected services were restored, according to health tech agency Synapxe. All three public healthcare clusters in Singapore — NHG Health, National University Health System and SingHealth — are experiencing connectivity issues that is a...
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A currency trader based in Sydney, Australia, who was allegedly on holiday in Singapore when he was supposed to be working from home, was fired by his company HIFX Australia, trading as Xe. The man won an unfair dismissal case on Oct. 7, but was not compensated or reinstated. The...
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A man in Singapore, convicted after stalking and raping an intoxicated woman in her home, lost his appeal to reduce his 15-year jail and 12 strokes of the cane sentence. Dhanabalan Fok Jin Jin, 43, had appealed against his rape conviction and to have his jail sentence reduced to ...
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SINGAPORE: On Monday (Oct 12), a 45-year-old man who used to be a department head at a primary school in Singapore faced a charge of voyeurism. The Singaporean national has been charged in connection with an incident in 2023 when he was said to have intentionally recorded on vide...
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A five-year-old girl, Asiah, passed away after a six-vehicle pile-up along Jalan Kuching in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 10. The 24-year-old driver of a BYD Seal that police believe rear-ended the girl’s family car was later found at a private hospital in Damansara, where he was being tr...
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The father of a 23-year-old woman who died after being struck by a man who fell from an apartment building in Nagoya, Japan, is calling for the man to face a murder charge. Tomoki Inaba was walking with a friend along a pavement in Sakae, Naka Ward, when 29-year-old Nobunari Tagu...
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They were arrested during an airport police operation at Terminal 4 targeting theft on aircraft.
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The inaugural awards recognise businesses that used proprietary AI solutions or off-the-shelf solutions.
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The men were found with three bank cards that did not belong to them, the police said.
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SINGAPORE: A photo of the Governor of East Kalimantan having breakfast with his wife at Marina Bay Sands over the weekend has gone viral. Some netizens questioned why Governor Rudy Mas'ud and his wife, Sarifah Suraidah, had taken the trip while the province continues to be severe...
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Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has announced stepped-up measures to tackle the forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan. However, he did not mention whether Indonesia would accept any offers of assistance from neighbours Singapore and Malaysia, who have also been affected b...
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Former Jurong GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Tan Wu Meng sent his well wishes to Sengkang GRC MP Jamus Lim following news that the latter had been hospitalised for pneumonia. Writing on Facebook on Oct. 12, Tan said he had just seen news about Lim's hospitalisation. "I remember ou...
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Over the past weeks, airports in Saudi Arabia have been attacked and there have been repeated strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, says MFA....
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Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Ridyadh was recently struck in a series of missile attacks, with the Yemeni Houthi militia claiming responsibility. CNN reports at least 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. Saudi Arabia finds itself facing military challenges al...
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Singaporeans already in Saudi Arabia should avoid all travel to high-risk areas.
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A 26-year-old Chinese influencer known as Xiao Yue, who stood at 2.2m tall, has passed away. Her husband, Zihao, announced her passing on social media, as reported by Red Star News . She leaves behind her husband and her one-year-old son. Xiao Yue reportedly suffered from pituita...
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Across seven healthcare institutions visited by CNA, most patients said they had few or no issues, despite signs warning visitors of potentially longer wait times....
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A man from Singapore spent about six hours searching for a hotel he had booked in China before paying to stay elsewhere overnight, according to Shin Min Daily News . When he finally located the hotel the following morning, he was told it only accepted Chinese guests. The 54-year-...
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Isaac Wong Kai Jie injected her with more than three times the annual limit of dermal fillers in one session.
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A teacher in Singapore has been accused of recording a video of a female individual’s groin area in a school in 2023. The 45-year-old man was charged with voyeurism on Oct. 12. Chargesheets seen by Mothership did not indicate if the victim was a student or staff member at the sch...
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SINGAPORE: In a social media post on Monday (Oct 12), former Nominated Member of Parliament Calvin Cheng wrote that a number of visitors to Singapore are leaving with “a very bad impression” of the city-state due to haze conditions that affected their health. Mr Cheng wrote that ...
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More than 200,000 Singapore Airlines return tickets and over 180,000 one-way tickets on Scoot will be on sale from Oct. 23 to 30, during the annual Time To Fly promotion. The tickets will be for destinations such as Bangkok, Hangzhou, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Seoul, and Sydne...
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A man in southwestern China's Guizhou Province sparked controversy when he apparently held a wedding banquet and his baby's 100-day celebration with two different women on different floors of the same building. The man, Wu, (transliterated), reportedly held his wedding banquet wi...
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This comes after NEU commissioned a new facility in Tuas capable of processing 1,300 tonnes of battery materials a year.
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IMDA has announced three new industry partnerships to provide support to SMEs.
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From childhood dinners with Chateau Latour to vineyard trips with Masters of Wine, Alicia Thian has built her appreciation of wine through curiosity, study and patience....
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The National Environment Agency (NEA) is monitoring the haze situation in Singapore closely and gathering information on fire hotspots, their sources, and their impact on air quality. The agency was responding to media queries on Oct. 12 on whether any action would be taken under...
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Call centre lines across NHG Health are temporarily unavailable. According to a Facebook post on Oct. 13, they are working to restore access. Patients and members of the public can still visit their websites and the HealthHub and NHG Health App for assistance. NHG Health apologis...
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Mr Wong Yee Keong shares with CNA how he fulfilled a lifelong dream after a “painful and frustrating” start to his university journey.
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No evidence of fraud or cheating was found in the work injury claim filed by an employee of EatGreen Pte. Ltd., which operates Sumo Salad. The investigation outcome was announced in a joint media release by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Oct. 1...
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SINGAPORE: A number of smokers were seen gathered outside the Woodlands MRT station, sitting in rows to smoke away and carelessly throwing their cigarette butts everywhere, raising public concerns regarding hygiene and safety hazards. As reported by Shin Min Daily News , a concer...
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Singapore is also testing out solutions to tackle heat without air-conditioning.
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He committed the offences while released from reformative training under supervision.
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A Taiwanese businesswoman and influencer's visit to a restaurant has turned sour over a dispute regarding a stained handbag. According to a series of posts by Anni Miao — the CEO of a cosmetics and health foods wholesaler — on Facebook, the incident took place in May this year, w...
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Kim Chuan Depot’s resident feline has helped staff bond.
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MOH is not aware of any deaths or haze-related cases sent to the intensive care units.
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Family members held the final rites for Shalinny Deavy, one of the nine missing Singaporeans, on Oct 9.
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SINGAPORE: Workers' Party Member of Parliament (WP MP) Jamus Lim is currently in the hospital due to pneumonia, causing him to miss the Meet-the-People Session (MPS) on Oct 12 (Monday) at Anchorvale, the ward in Sengkang he’s been representing since 2020. Nevertheless, the MPS st...
