SINGAPORE: The Home Ministry (KDN) has selected a single application to facilitate immigration procedures for Malaysians at the Sultan Iskandar Building (BSI) and the Sultan Abu Bakar Complex (KSAB) in Johor for entry and exit to Singapore, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Three applications - MyTrip, MyRENTAS, and MyBorderPass - are currently undergoing...
SINGAPORE: Consumers will have greater flexibility to import food – whether meat or processed goods – for personal consumption, under a new law proposed in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 12). Under the Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB), each person will be allowed to bring in a total of 15kg of food across all categories for...
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signalled that it expects pressure from rising competition to continue despite “robust” demand for air travel. The warning came as the airline reported a substantial fall in profit for the second quarter of its financial year owing to a gap between passenger traffic and newly deployed capacity, as well as rising...
SINGAPORE: The man arrested for stabbing a priest at St Joseph’s Church in Bukit Timah has been charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a dangerous weapon. Basnayake Keith Spencer, 37, appeared at the State Courts via video-link on Nov 11 at 10.10am. The Singaporean man, who had a close-cropped haircut, was expressionless during court proceedings as...
SINGAPORE: An Indonesian maid was charged on Wednesday (Nov 6) with causing grievous hurt by performing a rash act in an accident in River Valley that killed a four-year-old girl. Lilyana Eva, 32, is accused of committing the offence shortly before 5pm on Jan 23. According to court documents, she allegedly failed to ensure the safety of...
SINGAPORE: A risk and controls officer with an insurance firm, who earned more than S$11,000 a month used its corporate credit card to make 27 unauthorised transactions involving S$29,674 in total. Raul Randhawa, a 44-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal breach of trust and was sentenced to four months’ jail on Wednesday (Oct...
Would you rather walk if you knew you would be stuck in a jam for hours? The upcoming Deepavali holidays will see thousands crossing the Causeway for a short trip. But if you aren’t that keen on being stuck for hours on the Johor-Singapore Causeway, have you considered… walking? In a six-minute video posted online, Msian netizen Irving...
SINGAPORE: A 16-year-old girl was among 112 suspected drug offenders who were nabbed in an islandwide anti-drug bust, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in a statement on Monday (Oct 28). The raids, which took place from Oct 14 to 25 in areas such as Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Clementi, Eunos, Jurong and Tampines, saw a...
SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old who allegedly killed a man in Clementi was charged with murder on Wednesday (Oct 23). Toh Chee Hong appeared in court via video-link at around 12.20pm and was handed a capital charge for allegedly killing Winson Khoo Chin Wah, 41. Court documents stated that the alleged murder occurred at Block 311B Clementi Avenue 4,...
SINGAPORE: A female cyclist who clung onto a car bonnet during a row with a driver in East Coast Road in June 2023 was sentenced to a five-day short detention order (SDO) on Thursday (Oct 17). Offenders given an SDO are jailed for a short time, but they will not have a criminal record after their...
