What you need to know about the road closures for F1 Singapore: Singapore live news
We feature a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that’s making waves online
Yahoo News Singapore
Updated
There will be road closures around the Marina Centre and Padang area from 18 Sept due to the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. (PHOTO: Getty Images)
And that's a wrap. Thanks for tuning in. We'll catch y'all again tomorrow.
Hello to all our readers, Yahoo Singapore will be bringing you live news updates today.
There will be road closures around the Marina Centre and Padang area from 18 Sept due to the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. In order to facilitate morning and evening peak hour traffic, certain road corridors will open at selected hours on four of the seven days of closure. For more details, read here.
The Warburg Pincus-Lendlease venture has acquired property assets in Singapore for $1.6 billion.
Apollo Quiboloy, a Filipino preacher accused of sex crimes, is reportedly hiding out from the police in an underground bunker.
Lumine, a renowned Japan retail chain, opened its first global flagship store in Singapore and it's located at Raffles City. There's a curated selection of Japan’s finest fashion and lifestyle brands such as Beams, United Arrows, Tomorrowland, and Blue Bottle Cafe. For more details, read here.
An American tourist threw a tantrum and kicked the airplane door when he arrived late for his flight. The situation was only resolved when security and the police came to apprehend him. To find out what happened after his meltdown, read here.
HK authorities have urged horny teens to play badminton to curb their sexual desires. Are "badminton friends" the new "friends with benefits" now?
The tourist surge in the National University of Singapore has caused quite the inconvenience to students. One shared how a chicken rice stall ran out of rice because someone ordered 30 plates, while others complained about the buses being too packed and they were either late for class or missed it. To watch the video, read here.
LIVE COVERAGE IS OVER9 updates
Featured
Bryan Lim
VIDEO: NUS students complain about tourist disruptions
NUS students complained about the inconveniences faced from the tourist surge. (PHOTO: Yahoo News Singapore)
Imagine trying to get lunch as a university student but discovering that the tourist before you wiped out all the rice.
It sounds incredulous but that's one of the gripes a student at the National University of Singapore had about the tourist surge.
The local university has become a tourist hotspot but the surge is putting a strain on the students. In a video, they share some of the inconveniences faced – from an overcrowded bus (packed to the door) to stalls running out of food.
To cope with the situation, some students have resorted to leaving for class 30 minutes earlier so they don't miss their lesson or having lunch after the peak period.
Watch here to see what other issues NUS students face with the influx of tourists.
Featured
Bryan Lim
US man has meltdown and kicks airplane door when he missed flight
An American tourist threw a tantrum and kicked the airplane door when he arrived late for his flight. (PHOTO: New York Post)
An American tourist missed his flight and what did he do? Cry and kick the airplane door.
A video of his antics was recorded and shared on X (formerly Twitter) where it's going viral.
According to Columbian media, the passenger showed up late for a flight that was scheduled to fly from Bogotá to Cartagena on 23 Aug. Crew members denied him entry but he bypassed them and attempted to board the plane.
When he found out that the aircraft door was closed, he threw a tantrum right outside and kicked the door. He even attempted to use the joystick on the boarding bridge to gain access to the plane.
The situation was only resolved when security and the police came to apprehend him.
To find out what happened after his meltdown, read here.
Featured
Bryan Lim
Hong Kong urges horny teens to play badminton instead
HK authorities have urged horny teens to play badminton to curb their sexual desires. (PHOTO: Getty Images)
It seems like horny Hong Kong teens have to play with shuttlecocks instead of something else.
Hong Kong authorities have reportedly asked young boys and girls to play badminton in an effort to curb their sexual urges and other "intimate behaviours".
Hong Kong’s Education Bureau published a 70-page document on sexual education for both students and teachers. The document stated that sexual fantasies and desires are normal, but "we must recognise that we are the masters of our desires" and control them.
The document also shared examples of what teens can do to distract themselves from sexual urges. One example stated that a boy and a girl can "go out to play badminton together in a sports hall" if they get aroused.
Local blogger, mrbrown, even took a jab at the news and quipped, "This would never work in Singapore. Have you ever tried booking a badminton court in Singapore?"
In any case, seems like "badminton friends" might be the new "friends with benefits".
Featured
Bryan Lim
What you need to know about the road closures for F1 Singapore
There will be road closures around the Marina Centre and Padang area from 18 Sept due to the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. (PHOTO: Getty Images)
With the Formula 1 racing back into town this September, there will be road closures around the Marina Centre and Padang area from 18 Sept
The roads will close from 12.01am, 18 Sept, till 5.30am, 24 Sept.
In order to facilitate morning and evening peak hour traffic, certain road corridors will open at selected hours on four of the seven days of closure.
Motorists can still access the Marina Centre area via Rochor Road to Temasek Boulevard, or through a single lane along Raffles Boulevard via Nicoll Highway or Temasek Boulevard, but only during selected hours.
Taxis and motorcycles can use the single-lane access at all times, except during race hours.
Members of the public and F1 ticket holders are strongly encouraged to take public transport during this period.
To help with that, train services will be extended during race days, from 20 to 22 Sept.
The last trains on the North-South Line (NSL) and East-West Line (EWL) will depart from City Hall MRT station at 12.30am on 20 and 21 Sept, and 12.45am on 22 Sept. Operating hours for the other train lines (except for the Bukit Panjang LRT service and Changi Airport service) will also be extended.
To complement the extended train service hours, selected bus services connecting to MRT stations will also have extended operating hours.
According to the Ministry of Manpower, those who previously earned up to $5,000 a month will be eligible for the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support plan. It is expected to benefit about 60,000 people a year.
Those who are eligible will get up to $6,000 over six months.
The plan will cost about $200 million a year and will start in April.
Japan's Lumine opens first global store in Singapore
Lumine opened its first global flagship store in Singapore. (PHOTO: Sethlui.com)
There's something else stirring the crowds in the heart of Singapore and that is the opening of Lumine, Japan's renowned retail chain. This is Lumine's first global flagship store.
It's located at Raffles City and spans an impressive 7,000 square feet, featuring a curated selection of Japan’s finest fashion and lifestyle brands.
There are big names like Beams, United Arrows, and Tomorrowland, but perhaps the most exciting is Blue Bottle Cafe.
This marks its first appearance in Southeast Asia.
Filipino preacher accused of sex crimes 'hiding in underground bunker'
Apollo Quiboloy, a Filipino preacher accused of sex crimes, is reportedly hiding out from the police in an underground bunker. (PHOTO: AP Photo, File)
A Filipino preacher is evading arrest by hiding in a secret underground bunker.
Apollo Quiboloy, 74, is the leader of a religious sect called Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC). He is on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and is subject to arrest warrants from courts in both the Philippines and the US.
Around 2,000 officers stormed the KOJC headquarters in Davao City but they were unable to find Quiboloy. The authorities have used radar equipment to detect heartbeats of about 20 to 30 people who are 30 metres below ground.
The bunker is reported to house a labyrinthine network of underground tunnels and passages.
It also has a hangar with a taxiway leading to the neighbouring Davao international airport.
"We won’t leave here until we get him," said the police.
Lonely, horny dolphin wreaks havoc in Japanese seaside town
A lonely, sexually frustrated dolphin is believed to be behind the string of attacks on swimmers near the seaside town of Mihama. (PHOTO: Getty Images)
A lonely, sexually frustrated dolphin is believed to be behind the string of attacks on swimmers near the seaside town of Mihama.
Since July 2024, 18 people have been hurt in dolphin attacks, with some requiring dozens of stitches.
It was reported that the dolphin seems to be a solitary male bottlenose dolphin who may also be responsible for injuring swimmers in 2022 and 2023, and trying to press his genitals against them.
Putu Mustika, a lecturer and marine researcher at James Cook University in Australia, told The New York Times that dolphins can inadvertently harm humans by dint of their sheer strength when acting out mating behaviours.
The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a Georgia school shooting called to warn a school counselor prior to the shooting, the suspect’s aunt and grandfather said Saturday.
A hiker in northern Washington’s North Cascades National Park was rescued a month after he went missing in July, authorities said Saturday and according to one rescuer, it was just in time.
The daughter of a French woman who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted repeatedly by her husband and dozens of other men revealed her own fear of victimhood on Friday.Caroline Darian, 45, testified in an Avignon court against her father, Dominique Pélicot, 71, saying she believes she was also drugged and possibly raped like her mother, Gisèle. Among the thousands of photos and videos that police say Pélicot kept of his wife being abused, the officers also discovered two photos of an uni
A "very dangerous" British prisoner is among five inmates who have escaped from a high-security prison in Portugal. Mark Cameron Roscaleer, 39, had been serving a nine-year sentence for kidnap and robbery at the Vale de Judeus jail, about 43 miles (70km) north of Lisbon. The five men, aged between 33 and 61, fled on Saturday morning and received "external help" from accomplices who provided a ladder which "allowed the inmates to scale the wall", according to the Portuguese prison service (DGRSP).
A 2-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by his 6-year-old brother in Joliet, Illinois, police said. The child suffered multiple stab wounds from a kitchen knife inside a home Friday afternoon and later was pronounced dead at a hospital, Joliet police said. “Everyone in this incident is a victim,” Joliet police Sgt. Dwayne English told reporters.
Following Linda Sun’s firing in 2023 and a host of charges filed against her and her husband in an indictment unsealed this month, the New York state government is grappling with having employed an alleged agent for the Chinese government – and raising questions on why it took so long to bring charges.
MANILA (Reuters) -An influential evangelist preacher from the Philippines accused of sex trafficking and sexual abuse has been arrested, authorities said on Sunday. Apollo Quiboloy, self-proclaimed "owner of the universe" and "appointed son of god", is wanted on charges of child and sexual abuse and related allegations of human trafficking. "Apollo Quiboloy has been caught," Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. said on his Facebook page, without specifying how or where he had been.
Police arrested the neighbor of Melissa Jubane, a nurse whose remains were found on Friday after she was reported missing by her co-workers in Beaverton, Oregon, earlier in the week. Bryce Johnathan Schubert, 27, was charged in Jubane's murder and investigators said on Saturday he was involved in her disappearance. Jubane, 32, a nurse at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, had not reported for her shift on Wednesday morning, "Raising concerns among her coworkers, friends, and family," the Beaverton, Oregon, Police Department said in a statement.
A former Minnesota state trooper allegedly responsible for a car crash that killed an 18-year-old cheerleader is no longer employed by the Minnesota State Patrol, according to the agency.
“There could be more victims than these two young ladies,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said in a news release. “This case is still open and our investigation is ongoing.”
Trackathon For about $20 per hour, an army of Tesla annotators review troves of video taken by test drivers and owners — and are forced to deal with some pretty bizarre workplace rules while doing so. As Business Insider reports based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former Tesla employees on Tesla's data […]
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected in the weekend shooting of nine vehicles and wounding of five people on a busy interstate.
