Swimmer Yip Pin Xiu wins Singapore's first gold in Paris Paralympic Games; Changi Airport great for red-eye flights: Singapore live news
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First up, a huge congratulations to swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has won Singapore's first gold medal of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Singapore also scores in a different kind of competition – it's ranked, in an entirely unofficial list, as one of the best airports to have a red-eye flight. Read on to find out why Changi Airport is great for tired travellers on nighttime flights.
Still on the topic of crime, a Singapore man had planned what he thought was the "perfect crime" by planting cannabis in his estranged wife's car. He had done so in the hopes of getting a divorce quicker, but has now been jailed.
Remember the billionaire Australian boss who went viral for banning his staff from working from home (WFH)? Now, Chris Ellison, of Australian mining company Mineral Resources, has said he doesn't want employees to leave the office to get a coffee.
The CCCS added that it initiated the investigation earlier this year under its fair trading laws after receiving several complaints on an online advertisement by Sterra in February 2024. In the ad, CCCS said, the company had falsely claimed that Singapore's tap water is unsafe for direct consumption without being filtered using water purifiers sold by Sterra.
Investigations by CCCS also revealed that Sterra had made other false and misleading representations on its website between February 2023 and March 2024, the watchdog said. These included:
a) False Country of Manufacture claims: Three models of air purifiers sold by Sterra were made in Singapore when they were in fact made in China.
b) Misleading "Korean" labelling: Two models of Sterra's water purifiers were marketed as "Korean" when they were neither sourced from nor manufactured in Korea, but were in fact manufactured in China.
c) False discounts: The "usual" (i.e. pre-discount) prices that Sterra claimed for comparison with its discounted price were not genuine previous prices and, in fact, never offered to any customer.
Do you own a Sterra purifier? Get more details on the Sterra issue here.
Esther Au Yong
Billionaire boss who banned WFH wants to stop staff from going out for coffee
Now, Chris Ellison, the managing director of Australian mining company Mineral Resources, has said he doesn't want employees to leave the office to get a coffee.
While touting the facilities of his company's two-year-old headquarters in Perth, Australia, he said, "I want to hold them captive all daylong. I don't want them leaving the building.
"I don't want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee, we figured out a few years ago how much that costs. Wandering out around lunchtime, we've got a restaurant in there [the office], we've also got a gym, and we've got other facilities that keep them glued in there."
Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) deputy director (operations) Datuk Nor Hisham Mohammad said that rescue personnel are working to remove debris and blockages over a 44m stretch from the sinkhole to Wisma Jakel to reach an object lodged along the span.
Read for more details on the search and rescue operation, which is in its eighth day today (Friday, 30 August).
Esther Au Yong
Catholic Pope Francis' itinerary on 2-week trip ending in Singapore
Next week, Pope Francis will embark on his most ambitious trip in 11 years since he began leading the Catholic Church.
He will visit Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore over the next fortnight.
Singapore's LTA will soon waive $10 admin charge for missed ERP payments settled within 5 days' grace
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Friday (30 August) that the administrative charge for missed Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) payments will be waived if the payments are settled within a five-day grace period. This will start from 1 October.
Now, motorists who fail to pay an ERP charge when they pass a gantry will receive a letter some days later, requiring that they pay a $10 administrative charge on top of the missed payment.
Singapore man planted cannabis in estranged wife's car in "perfect crime", gets jail time
In the hopes of getting a divorce quicker, a Singapore man had planned what he thought was the "perfect crime" by planting cannabis in his estranged wife's car.
The 37-year-old man had gotten married with his wife in 2021 but she moved out of their home in October 2022 after their relationship broke down.
After consulting lawyers, the man thought that it would be easier to get a divorce if one of them had a criminal record.
He was sentenced yesterday to three years and 10 months' jail for one count of possession of at least 216g of cannabis that was found in packets.
Local media reported that police were alerted to the case at 9.34am on Thursday (29 August), according to a statement put out by the Singapore Police Force (SPF).
However, before the police arrived, the restaurant staff had reportedly intervened and the 50-year-old woman had left.
Through CCTV footage, police cameras and ground enquiries, the police arrested the woman some nine hours later, SPF said.
While the 33-year-old woman was being interviewed at the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) duty office at Woodlands Checkpoint, she attempted to reach for the firearm of an ICA officer. She was immediately placed under arrest.
Esther Au Yong
Singapore is one of the best airports to have a red-eye flight. Why?
Singapore also scores in a different kind of competition – though entirely unofficial.
He is impressed by the array of food and lounges. "Singapore Changi Airport is always the leading G.O.A.T. of local food stalls," Ott said. "Some of the best local food is at the airport because famous places in Singapore set up locations there."
Find out what else he's saying about Changi Airport and which other airports around the world made the list.
Esther Au Yong
Swimmer Yip Pin Xiu defends paralympics title, wins Singapore's first Paris 2024 gold
The swimmer has won Singapore's first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics with her swim of 2:21.73 at the 100m backstroke S2 final. This is her third successive win of the event.
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 of shooting 12 vehicles and wounding five people on a busy interstate.
A broken pipeline that supplies drinking water to the Grand Canyon led to hotel cancellations for thousands of visitors for a week, including Labor Day weekend. The pipe should have been replaced a long time ago, experts say. (AP video: Ty ONeil. Produced by Brittany Peterson)