Parliament in brief: Safeguards for workers during haze and other highlights from Nov 3
Parliament also passed a new law to rename a ministry and debated cybersecurity measures for the maritime industry.
Parliament also passed a new law to rename a ministry and debated cybersecurity measures for the maritime industry.
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To follow a "trend", a man in Singapore made a TikTok where he was seen taping a phone to the back of an SBS Transit bus while it was stationary along Jalan Besar. The rest of the video, supposedly filmed from the taped phone, showed him on a motorbike apparently following behind...
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Customers’ names, booking references and travel details were among the data exposed, but SIA said its own IT systems were not breached.
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A new bill was introduced in parliament on Nov. 3, 2026, requiring courts to consider reformative training or imprisonment as punishments for convicted young scam offenders. In its first parliament reading, introduced by Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs Goh Pei Ming on b...
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The nine-and-a-half-hour public healthcare service disruption on Oct. 13, 2026 was caused by a "preventable lapse", said Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How said in parliament on Nov. 3. Tan said "we apologise" and added that a required security update by a contracte...
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A motorcyclist and his pregnant wife were killed in the accident.
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Consistent with the national trend for males aged 10 to 30, the leading causes of death were suicide, followed by road traffic accidents.
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Alex Lo Chun Ming was charged with the murder of his then-23-year-old ex-girlfriend. Her body was found in a bathtub at a five-star hotel in Hong Kong in 2022. He has pleaded not guilty to murder. Charged The victim, also known as Aqua Chow, was found dead at The Ritz-Carlton hot...
