The technical support scam has made a comeback. Since January this year, 154 people have been deceived, involving an amount of up to $7.1 million. The Singapore Police Force and the Singapore Cyber Security Agency of Singapore issued a joint statement on April 26, saying that tech support scams under the guise of assisting victims […]
Singapore is famously known as a food paradise. But do we have an ugly secret? Both parties – staff and customers – have been caught in the act of rude behaviour. Some have hurled abuse while other just make a scene to humiliate one another. Still other disputes have very nearly become violent. In March this […]
Farrer Park site to be redeveloped after Lawrence Wong said that site cannot be preserved because “the facilities in the…area were less frequently used as competitive sports venues.” A 10ha site in Farrer Park will be redeveloped into a public housing estate with about 1,600 HDB flats, integrated with sports and recreational facilities including a […]
In the case of stabbing with a knife outside the Beach Road Hotpot Restaurant, the female victim’s condition has improved. She has left the intensive care unit and is currently hospitalized at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Graphic videos of a man using a chopper, and two other knives, to viciously slash a woman said to […]
The former mistress a doctor sued her ex-lover, saying that he prescribed ‘addictive’ pills to her without registering her as a patient. As a result, after the two broke up, she got cut off from the drug supply, as the doctor did not refer her to other doctors. She alleged that he was therefore negligent […]
A 62-year-old retiree and his 31-year-old son were jailed for three weeks each for beating up and choking a young boy over an argument about football being played at a multipurpose hall, a court heard on Monday (April 18). The duo had choked the boy, who was 13 at the time, and slammed his head […]
After two weeks of online chat, a 17-year-old girl was invited to play guitar at a home in the middle of the night. She was then raped while she was asleep. The youth who sexually assaulted her was sentenced to seven years in prison and four strokes of the cane. Defendant Johnson Hong Siang Yeu […]
AWARE, a gender equality advocacy group, shared in their social media platforms the story of a man who was sexually assaulted by a male masseuse while getting a message in 2010. The man said the masseuse touched him inappropriately and asked him if he liked it. The man who was not identified in the video […]
The local Rock ‘n’ Roll community is celebrating the selection of Minister Lawrence Wong’s selection by the People’s Action Party (PAP) to lead the 4th Generation of its people. With the selection (and if all goes as planned), Wong is all set to become the 4th Prime Minister of Singapore and replace Lee Hsien Loong. […]
