SINGAPORE: A man in Singapore posted a warning recently on social media after he was almost scammed when he received a link that was purportedly from the popular online travel agency Booking.com. Jim Tay, a property consultant who is OrangeTee's Country Director for Japan, took to Instagram on Se...
A man filmed two conservancy workers in a Marine Parade-Braddell Heights estate returning cans and bottles at a Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS) return machine. He then accused them of obtaining the cans from waste bins and criticised them for earning a "double salary". Ba...
The female co-pilot of the fatal Florida jet crash, which killed all nine people on board, has been identified as 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras. She could be heard pleading for help in air traffic control audio prior to the crash, the New York Post reported. It was also...
A 73-year-old woman died after being hit by an SMRT bus along South Bridge Road towards Tanjong Pagar on Nov. 2. In response to Mothership 's queries, the police said they were alerted to the accident involving a bus and a pedestrian at around 11:40am. The woman was taken unconsc...
A 29-year-old Singaporean man convicted of manslaughter in Australia after running over a 48-year-old cyclist who stole a backpack has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. According to a judgment by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Lincoln Ng Jing Kai wa...
Singaporean actor Thomas Ong's planned 45-day Japan trip was unceremoniously cut short after he slipped and fell while taking photos of a waterfall. He told Lianhe Zaobao his injury occurred barely 10 days or so into the trip, which mostly involved exploring more remote areas of ...
Over about five years, from 2019 to 2024, a man had been secretly taking more than 180 photos and videos of women's chests and butt. He was finally caught on Jul. 3, 2024, at Woodlands MRT station. An SMRT general manager saw the accused holding his phone under a woman's skirt, a...
Sheng Siong’s share price tumbled 15 per cent over three trading sessions after it flagged a competitive grocery retail landscape in its third-quarter results....
China completed the Fifth Plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 29, bringing together 162 of the most influential members of the CPC and their 117 alternates. While speculation prior to the Plenum was that there might be a foc...
SINGAPORE: After the backpack of a Singaporean man who was on a visit to Australia with his girlfriend and her family was stolen, he was able to track the thief’s location. Unfortunately, the incident ended in a road accident that claimed the life of the man who had stolen the ba...