The long arm of the law caught up with two male Chinese nationals, aged 43 and 50 on Sunday (Aug 16), about four months after they allegedly broke into a Balestier temple and stole money from the donation boxes.Police said in a news release on Monday night that the duo were arrested on their return to Singapore after committing the alleged crime at about 12.30am on April 2.The alleged incident happened at a temple on Tai Gin Road, and cash amounting to between $300 and $400 was stolen from the donation boxes.Preliminary investigations revealed that the two men had entered the temple using a card affixed with adhesive tape to remove cash from the donation boxes.Officers from Tanglin Police Division established their identities through follow-up investigations and with the aid of images from closed-circuit television.But they had left Singapore on the same day of the alleged crime.They will be charged in court on Tuesday with the offence of housebreaking and theft with common intention.If found guilty of the said offence, they could be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.[[nid:742779]]

SINGAPORE — As a child, Mervyn Ong would follow his property agent parents to house viewings and help them distribute flyers in letterboxes. This stirred in him a passion for the profession which he later spent years trying to enter.It took the 38-year-old nine attempts over 15 years to eventually pass the Real Estate Salesperson (RES) examination to become a registered property agent in 2023.“I don’t like to be deskbound. I have wanted to be a real estate agent since young, but the exams were very hard to pass... I am not someone who is study-smart, but I was determined,” said Ong, who even hired a tutor to help him prepare for the examinations.“It took me 15 years, but I don’t feel ‘paiseh’ (about it),” added Ong, using the Hokkien term for embarrassment.Ong loves his job as he finds it meaningful to help people find their ideal homes, at the same time “earn a good income”.In his first year, Ong earned a gross commission of about $80,000. By his third year in 2025, his take-home income had risen to just over $200,000.

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She built an art platform to keep images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) out — but that platform has now been compromised by AI enthusiasts.The platform, Cara, was scraped by an AI enthusiast as part of a «fun project», Singapore photographer Zhang Jingna revealed in an Instagram post last Friday (Aug 14).Scraping refers to an automated process where data is extracted from a website to teach AI — which can in turn be used to create AI-generated art based on what it learns.Taking to the DefendingAIArt subreddit, the enthusiast gloated: «I scraped all of Cara, an anti-AI art platform!»«Was a fun project, happy to answer any questions here,» the user added.The post has since been deleted and the user banned.Expressing her frustrations, Zhang wrote: «What the hell must I do?»Artists just want a place online where platforms don't feed their work to AI. So I built Cara. But people just won't leave us alone.«The laws don't help us, the governments don't help us. What are artists supposed to do?»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has achieved a 69 percent phaseout of ozone-depleting substances over the past five years, as of the first half of 2026, underscoring its commitment to the Montreal Protocol and the gradual elimination of hydrochlorofluorocarbons, according to the National Center for Environmental Compliance.

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NEW YORK CITY: Yemen’s permanent representative to the UN, Abdullah Al-Saadi, told the Security Council on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s sustained political, economic and humanitarian support has been essential in keeping state institutions functioning, even as he delivered a sweeping condemnation of the Houthis and their backers in Iran.

JEDDAH: The Saudi-led multinational maritime defence coalition has finalized key arrangements to activate its command structure, and preparations began to integrate officers and personnel from member states into its command, maritime operations and intelligence structures, the Saudi Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. The announcement was made during the third planning meeting of the Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition at the Western Fleet Command in Jeddah, attended by representatives from 39 countries.

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Traffic lights at the Henderson Road and Telok Blangah Heights road junction were knocked out for nearly nine hours after a car skidded and crashed into a traffic lights signal control box on early Monday (Aug 17) morning.The incident, involving a silver Toyota saloon car, happened at about 4.10am. Map showing where the accident happened. GRAPHIC: Google Maps, AsiaOne/Naufal Danish When AsiaOne reached the scene at about 4.50am, the car had mounted up the traffic island and was sitting atop a collapse traffic lights signal control box.While the car was not obstructing any vehicular traffic, traffic light signals at the said junction were not working as a result of the crash. 

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Standard Bank Malawi has signalled its intent to deepen its role in the country’s mining sector, offering advisory services, financing arrangements and project funding as the industry enters what officials describe as a new phase of mineral development. The commitment emerged from a meeting between Standard Bank Malawi chief executive Phillip Madinga and Minister of […] The post Standard Bank Malawi commits to financing mining sector amid push for local capital mobilisation appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times.

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Five residential houses, five infrastructure facilities, three trucks, and three passenger cars were damaged