SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A 22-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 25-year-old man after a fatal brawl near Jalan Besar that occurred around 4am on Sept 22. Appearing via video link on Sept 23, Muhammad Sajid Saleem, who is in police custody, stood expressionless as his single charge was read out to...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Ronnie Ang enjoyed cycling regularly along the Sembawang Park Connector. But the 60-year-old’s leisurely ride on July 4, 2022, was tragically his last after he was attacked by hornets and died in hospital three days later. State Coroner Adam Nakhoda delivered his findings on Ang’s death on Sept 13, ruling it a...
SINGAPORE: Ronnie Ang enjoyed cycling regularly along the Sembawang Park Connector. But the 60-year-old’s leisurely ride on July 4, 2020, was tragically his last after he was attacked by hornets and died in hospital three days later. State Coroner Adam Nakhoda delivered his findings on Ang’s death on Friday (Sept 13), ruling it a tragic misadventure. At...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): When her son had to move out of his flat after he punched his wife for refusing sex, an 81-year-old woman agreed to take him in, even though other relatives tried to dissuade her from doing so. For her kindness, she was repaid with a violent attack by her own flesh and...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) arrested the former chief financial officer and the former chief operating officer of a real estate company on suspicion of submitting false payment claim documents for about RM100,000. A MACC source said both of them, a woman and a man in their 30s, were arrested at 2pm on...
SINGAPORE - A 46-year-old man who allegedly stole a carpark’s gantry barrier arms and caused damage to a building management’s wheel clamps has been arrested, the police said. The police added that the incident happened at a building in Buroh Street, on May 24. Officers from Jurong Police Division established the identity of the man on the...
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Police in India arrested a man at the New Delhi international airport on April 25 for impersonating a Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilot, after he was found walking around the airport dressed in full pilot gear. In a fashion not dissimilar to the semi-fictional Hollywood film Catch Me If You Can starring...
KLANG: A 24-year-old man is believed to be involved in a snatch theft that caused a woman to fall off her motorcycle and suffer multiple injuries near a school at Persiaran Raja Muda Musa. South Klang OCPD Asst Comm Cha Hoong Fong said they initially received a report from the 20-year-old woman on Monday (April 15). "She...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): ComfortDelGro is investigating after a video circulating online showed a passenger getting into the boot of its taxi. In a video posted on Singapore road safety Facebook group SG Road Vigilante on April 12, four young men are seen near a blue ComfortDelGro taxi at a VivoCity pick-up point. Two of them...
JOHOR BARU: A man lost RM427,940 after being duped by an acquaintance into withdrawing money with a promise of a refund and a commission. Seri Alam district police chief Supt Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said that the 45-year-old victim was introduced to a local man, who claimed that he had money amounting to RM25mil deposited into his...
