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Swimmer Yip Pin Xiu wins Singapore's first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. (PHOTO: Getty)
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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
Chris Ellison of Minerals Resources in a press conference after their AGM in Perth in November 2023. (PHOTO: Trevor Collens / Australian Financial Review via Getty Images)
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
Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square, during the Angelus prayer at the Vatican on 25 August 2024. (PHOTO: AFP)
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
An ERP gantry along Orchard Road. (PHOTO: Getty)
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
A person holding cannabis and handcuffs. (PHOTO: Getty)
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?
A view of the control tower next to Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore. (PHOTO: REUTERS/Edgar Su)
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
Gold medalist Singapore's Pin Xiu Yip (right) celebrates with silver medalist Mexico's Haidee Viviana Aceves Perez (left) on the podium of the women's 100m S2 backstroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (PHOTO: Franck FIFE/AFP)
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.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
All three Alexander brothers are pleading “not guilty” after prosecutors accused the trio of raping more than 60 women. Luxury real estate brokers Tal, 38, and Oren, 37—once featured on the TV show Million Dollar Listing—were arrested in Miami alongside their brother Alon, 37, on federal sex trafficking charges in December. The brothers arrived together at court in Manhattan on Friday to enter their plea. In their indictment, prosecutors said that for over a decade, all three worked together to
Former Singapore transport minister S Iswaran will serve the remainder of his 12-month jail sentence in home detention, the nation’s prison service said.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a retired British couple were found dead in grisly circumstances at their luxury gîte in south-west France.
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