An unexploded World War II relic was safely removed from a construction site in Ang Mo Kio. The police told AsiaOne they received a report at around 5.45pm yesterday (June 28) about the war relic discovery along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 towards Marymount Road during excavation works. «The Singapore Police Force worked with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and the item was established to be a World War II unexploded ordnance,» they said. The police added that it was moved away for disposal after it was assessed to be safe for handling. «No danger was posed to the public,» they said. Last September, a WWII bomb was discovered at a construction site in Upper Bukit Timah Road, which led to the evacuation of thousands of residents living in the vicinity.

Two drivers found themselves at an impasse when neither gave way to the other while trying to switch lanes, and their vehicles ended up colliding. Dashcam footage of the collision was posted to Facebook group Singapore Road Vigilante on June 27. In the video, which is slightly longer than a minute, the bus and car are stopped at a traffic light side by side along the two leftmost lanes of a road identified in the comments as Loyang Avenue. The car is seen signalling left from the beginning. As the light turns green and the two vehicles start moving, the bus signals right and starts to move closer to the car. However, neither of the two vehicles slow down to let the other cut in. As a result, the two vehicles collide near a fork in the road after the bus veers into the car's lane, in a supposed attempt to avoid turning left. Both drivers are seen exiting their respective vehicles after a few seconds and their interaction was not caught on video.

After taking a pilates class in the vicinity, a woman returned to the car she had parked at a building in River Valley Road only to find that its wheel had been clamped. Ms Elaine Ong received a shock, as she had only been gone for an hour, and she had got access to the building’s carpark after passing through a gantry. To have the clamp removed from the wheel of her car, the 29-year-old was instructed through a slip issued by management corporation strata title (MCST) 325 - the Chiap Chuan Building’s management office - to pay $400. Ms Ong said about the incident that took place on May 24 that she was told by the building’s management that her car’s wheel was clamped because she had parked illegally within the estate. This was because the vehicle’s rear wheel had mounted the kerb next to the designated parking space. Photos she shared with The Straits Times on June 24 showed her car - with a clamped wheel - parked within a parking space, albeit with its rear left wheel merely touching the line. “It was so frustrating. There was no negotiation, and the building’s management refused to release my car until I made the payment.

An unexploded World War II bomb was safely removed from a construction site in Ang Mo Kio. The police told AsiaOne they received a report at around 5.45pm yesterday (June 28) about the war relic discovery along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 towards Marymount Road during excavation works. «The Singapore Police Force worked with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and the item was established to be a World War II unexploded ordnance,» they said. The police added that the bomb was moved away for disposal after it was assessed to be safe for handling. «No danger was posed to the public,» they said. Last September, a WWII bomb was discovered at a construction site in Upper Bukit Timah Road, which led to the evacuation of thousands of residents living in the vicinity.

A customer who ordered a bowl of fish soup found an unexpected ingredient in his dish: a plastic clothes peg. The 46-year-old clinic assistant, who wishes to be known as CT Zu, posted a picture of his soup to Facebook Group Complaint Singapore on Thursday (June 27). «Found this clip in my tom yum fish soup, bought from Cantine at Jurong Point,» read the caption. A large, pink plastic clothes peg, which seems to have been fished out of the soup, can be seen in the picture. These clips are also used to attach order slips to containers to inform the kitchen of the order and removed before the food is packed. Speaking to AsiaOne, Zu said that he ordered three portions of fish soup from the food court operated by Kopitiam on Wednesday evening via Grab. Upon opening one of the tom yum fish soups, he was shocked to discover a whole plastic clip inside. «I was agitated, disgusted and annoyed. An angry man is a hungry man,» said Zu. «Luckily I ordered other food as well.» According to a picture of Zu's order receipt seen by AsiaOne, one bowl of tom yum fish soup cost $7.50 and his total order came up to $28.10.

When it comes to extremism and acts of terrorism, Singapore has always taken a zero-tolerance approach, said Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam.  He was speaking to reporters on Friday (June 28), just days after the arrest of eight suspected extremists in Malaysia earlier this week and the May 17 attack by radicalised individuals on Ulu Tiram Police Station. The May 17 attack resulted in the deaths of two policemen, and left one injured. The alleged attacker, Radin Luqman, 21, was killed in the ensuing firefight. Describing the Ulu Tiram attack as «brazen», Shanmugam noted that Luqman had arrived at the police station carrying a bag filled with metal sheets, and was wearing a bulletproof vest. «Obviously, the attack seems to have been pre-planned,» he said. Shanmugam added that Luqman, his father Radin Imran Mohd Yassin, 62, and brother are reported to be ISIS supporters. And that the act was likely inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS).

The decomposing body of an 80-year-old woman was found inside her flat on Wednesday (June 26), days after residents noticed a foul smell wafting into their homes. The discovery was made in a ninth-storey flat at Block 245 Jurong East Street 24 at around 5pm, reported Shin Min Daily News. A 34-year-old resident surnamed Chen, who lives in the unit directly above on the tenth floor, said that his family started noticing an odour from outside his bedroom window last Sunday. «A neighbour on our floor lives alone, so we were worried something might have happened to him,» he said. «But when we saw that he was safe and sound, we thought the smell might be from a rotting animal carcass.» When the smell worsened over the next two days, he contacted the Jurong-Clementi Town Council, whose staff visited the block on Monday and Tuesday but could not pinpoint the source of the stench. «They went into my bedroom and noticed the foul odour too,» Chen added.

SINGAPORE — Gas and electricity tariffs will rise for the next three months. From July 1 to Sept 30, those supplied by grid operator SP Group will see a 0.3 per cent increase in electricity tariffs compared with the previous quarter, the group said in a statement on June 28. For households, this amounts to a tariff of 29.88 cents per kilowatt-hour before goods and services tax, up from 29.79 cents currently. The new tariff is still one cent lower than the first quarter of 2024. With the new tariff, the average monthly electricity bill for families living in four-room Housing Board flats will rise by 35 cents before GST, increasing from $118.03 to $118.38. The hike is due to an increase in energy costs, by 0.09 cents per kWh on average, said SP Group. These costs, which are paid to power generation companies, are adjusted quarterly to reflect changes in the cost of fuel and power generation. City Energy, the producer and retailer of piped gas, said in a separate statement on June 28 that town gas tariffs will increase by 0.03 cents per kWh over the same period, also due to higher costs.

She's a navy officer now, but things might have turned out quite differently had she continued her passion for the arts. The Commanding Officer of RSS Indomitable Major Jaime Liew had originally dreamed of chasing a career in the arts - and she's thankful that she didn't, she shared in an interview with the media on June 20. «I was interested in doing art-related stuff… visual art, painting, drawing, dance, performing arts,» the 32-year-old said. «But I don't think that I would have been good enough,» she admitted, adding that it was good that she got pulled into the navy before she «embarked on a career that might not have worked out». Entering the navy wasn't all that easy, however, as her father was «surprised» by her decision to join the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). «So my dad took a while to come around to it, but he eventually gave me his full support,» she said. «I don't think that I would have had so much confidence when going through basic military training - which was honestly at the deep end of the pool -  if my classmates from junior college and family members hadn't all [given me their support].»

A construction worker had a close shave with death after he was struck by a bus on Thursday (June 27) and dragged under for a few seconds. Miraculously, he managed to get to his feet after that. The accident happened around 5.20pm at the junction of Anson Road and Palmer Road. In a video uploaded to Facebook group SG Road Vigilante, the worker, wearing a bright green reflective vest and hard hat, is seen walking to the bus lane and placing a cone. He then turns around to walk back to the side of the road, where there were construction works near a bus stop. However, he fails to notice that an SMRT bus is turning in from his left. The bus rams into him, and he falls under the left front wheel and is dragged under the carriage for a short distance. He manages to sweep his legs out before the rear wheel strikes him. The bus comes to a halt at the bus stop a few metres away from where the worker lies. A man in a red reflective vest and another worker in a green vest help the man get to his feet.

A resident in Yishun is so fed up with a woman feeding the birds in his neighbourhood that he has installed a CCTV camera outside his flat to catch her in the act. The man, surnamed Chen, told Shin Min Daily News that over the past year, the woman, whom he said looks to be in her 60s, has been tossing slices of bread onto the grass patch near Block 148 Yishun Street 44. She used to only feed the birds occasionally, but has been throwing down bread at 5am almost every day in the past month, Chen said. «I've seen over 50 birds at the grass patch,» lamented the 49-year-old. This is despite a signboard put up by the Nee Soon Town Council at the location informing the public to report bird feeders and that the act is an offence. According to the Wildlife Act, those who feed birds and other wildlife can be fined up to S$10,000. Reporting the woman to authorities is what Chen plans to do. Last week, he purchased a camera for about $40 and installed it at his front door, with the intention of sending in the footage of the woman to the authorities.

A Singaporean man was shocked and betrayed when he reportedly woke up to his Thai girlfriend and various valuables missing from his hotel room. He then reported the incident to Huay Kwang Police Station in Bangkok on Tuesday (June 25). The man, whose identity has not been released, met the Thai woman online and chatted with her for four years before travelling to Bangkok to meet her in person, reported Thai media outlet Thaiger. The couple had dined together before returning to the man's hotel room for the night. The next morning, the Singaporean reportedly woke up to find that his girlfriend had disappeared along with his Rolex watch worth about 1.5 million baht (S$55,300), cash, and designer clothes, reported Thai media outlet Channel 7 HD News. He believed that he had been drugged and robbed by the woman, he told police. After looking through the hotel's CCTV footage, the police identified the Thai woman as 33-year-old Kittiyaporn. She reportedly has three outstanding arrest warrants for theft from another Bangkok police station and the Mueang Pattaya Police Station.

SINGAPORE - A construction worker was killed and another was injured in an accident on Thursday (June 27) at a worksite for the upcoming Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link station in Woodlands North. The workers, aged 48 and 49, were injured by falling steel reinforcement bars that were being installed for the station's foundation at around 9.30am. Both workers were taken to hospital, where the younger man later died. Police investigations are ongoing, but based on preliminary findings, foul play is not suspected. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said the steel bars had swayed before falling. It added that it takes a serious view of safety incidents, and a safety timeout has been called to review and further enhance the safety process. Meanwhile, the authority is working with the main contractor, Japanese firm Penta-Ocean Construction, and the subcontractor involved, Interno Engineering, to assist the family of the dead worker. This is the third death of a worker at an LTA worksite in seven months.

Nine people were taken to the hospital after an accident between two cars at the junction of Tanah Merah Kechil Road and New Upper Changi Road on Thursday (June 27) morning. In response to AsiaOne's queries, the police said that two male car drivers, aged 44 and 57, and seven car passengers aged four to 77, were conveyed conscious to Changi General Hospital. Investigations are ongoing. Three of the passengers are children, including a four-year-old. According to footage of the accident taken by AsiaOne around 11am, a white vehicle is flipped on its side, and a dark blue car with a dented hood is nearby. A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) ambulance is also at the scene. A young boy is standing on the kerb. SCDF personnel is seen helping five other people, including a young girl, out of the flipped car. After taking them to the kerb, they are checked by an SCDF personnel carrying a medical bag. A man in a black shirt is also seen limping away after closing the door of the blue car.

SINGAPORE - Three women who were allegedly involved in organising a procession without a permit along the perimeter of the Istana, which is a prohibited area, were charged in court on Thursday (June 27). Mossammad Sobikun Nahar, 25, Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori, 29, and Annamalai Kokila Parvathi, 35, had purportedly organised the procession to show their support for the Palestinian cause, including soliciting attendance online. Annamalai was charged with one count of abetment of organising a public procession in a prohibited area, while Mossammad and Amirah were each charged with one count of organising a public procession in a prohibited area. They are offences under the Public Order Act. Court documents showed Mossammad and Amirah had purportedly organised the procession along the perimeter of the Istana on Feb 2, 2024, between 2pm and 3pm, to publicise the cause. Annamalai allegedly conspired with Mossammad, Amirah and a number of other individuals, including Ms Alysha Mohamed Rahmat Shah and Ms Anystasha Mohamed Rahmat Shah, to organise the procession.

A Yishun resident was rudely awakened by a loud bang underneath her block at about 7.20am on Thursday (June 27) when a white BMW car crashed into the void deck.  Christina Chua, a resident living at Block 476A Yishun Street 44, said that she went to check out the scene after she was roused from her sleep.  «I couldn't see what happened because it was under my block,» said Chua, who lives on the second floor.  «But later on I saw police cars and a tow truck moving the car away.»  Speaking to AsiaOne, Chua said she does not recognise the car, and does not know who the owner is. The 22-year-old, who is unemployed, added that her elder sister also heard the crash while she was leaving the house to head to work.  Photos taken by an AsiaOne reader shortly after the accident show the car parked at the void deck. The entire area was also cordoned off by the police.  Another video taken by Chua shows the car getting towed away, as curious onlookers stood at the side watching. The bumper and hood of the white convertible were badly dented. 

Was he making some dough on the side? Photos showing a driver using a Gardenia truck to move furniture have recently sparked questions from members of the public. According to a post on Facebook group SG Road Vigilante on Monday (June 24), the person who shared the photos wrote: «Gardenia Bread company now offering home moving services too. So unhygienic.» In the photos, a truck with Gardenia branding is seen parked on a double-yellow line in the vicinity of a HDB block. A man appears to be loading or unloading the truck with the plastic-wrapped furniture behind him. While some netizens wondered if this truck may have simply been running an advertisement for Gardenia, others suggested that the man might be an employee using the Gardenia van for a side gig. «Could be helping friends and relatives during his off days,» one netizen said. «However, if he is using company assets for personal purposes, that's a big no-no without permission.» A comment also accused the person who posted the photos of being «kay poh (a busybody)», and interfering with the driver's «rice bowl (income)».

SINGAPORE - At least 60 victims have fallen prey to a scam targeting businesses in the renovation, food and beverage, retail and service industries, with at least $831,000 lost since April 12. The police on Wednesday (June 26) warned of the re-emergence of bulk order scams, which usually begins with scammers posing as customers of renovation contractors, restaurants or other businesses. These scammers call or text the businesses via WhatsApp under the pretext of making bulk orders or reservations, and would typically request for additional items, or an item from a brand that the businesses do not stock, or quantities that retailers are unable to fulfil on short notice. The scammer would then recommend a fake supplier for the victims to buy the items from. The police said in some cases, scammers would pretend to be Singapore teachers looking for contractors for painting or plumbing jobs, to buy items like bicycles or tyres, or to engage photography services.

The housewife had packed her unwanted items into five boxes and placed them neatly beside a recycling bin on the ground floor of her HDB block last Thursday (June 20). But passers-by later started picking through the items to look for «treasure», causing a «mountain of trash» to build up, Wu Shiyan (transliteration), who lives at Block 125 Pasir Ris Street 11, told Shin Min Daily News. The 45-year-old said: «I already told them not to rummage through the discarded items as the cleaners will have a hard time clearing it, but they wouldn't listen.» Indeed, four town council cleaners reportedly had to work overtime - until as late as 9pm - over three days to clear the mess. One worker recounted: «On Thursday, we cleared three barrels of rubbish, which included DVDs and audio equipment. »On Friday, we cleared another three barrels, where there were fragments of glass and ceramic. Saturday was a little better, but we still cleared two barrels."

A durian stall in Hougang is offering the popular Musang King variety at a heavily discounted price for seniors and lower-income customers. On Tuesday (June 25), Lexus Durian King announced on their Facebook page that it is selling Musang King durians at $5 each to Pioneer Generation customers and CHAS (Community Health Assist Scheme) card holders. To redeem the deal, customers should flash the relevant cards at the flagship stall at 1001 Upper Serangoon Road. Each person can buy up to two durians. The promotion is valid while stocks last, the stall's co-director Stella Soh told AsiaOne on Wednesday. 

A worried dog owner was upset when the car in front of the pet ambulance carrying her sick dog refused to give way. In a video posted to Facebook group SG Road Vigilante on Wednesday (June 26), a pet ambulance from the Royal Animal Rescue (RAR) can be seen driving down the rightmost lane along the East Coast Parkway.  The caption under the video said that the dog in the pet ambulance was having an emergency and was on oxygen support while heading to a 24-hour vet hospital. Given the circumstances, the driver of the ambulance had turned on its blinking lights to alert other drivers on the road. However, a black car driving in front of the pet ambulance seems to have no intention of giving way. Stating that the dog had eventually died, its owner wrote: «The driver still didn't give way even after the ambulance sounded its horn multiple times. Is it because it's not a human ambulance? Animals are also living things, it's a life too.» «Every car was being nice and giving way after seeing the ambulance's blinking lights, yet this driver refused to give way.»

SINGAPORE — The maid who was with a four-year-old girl who was killed in a car accident in January had jaywalked with her in River Valley, despite being told not to. A coroner's inquiry into the death of Zara Mei Orlic was held on June 26, after she had died on Jan 23 when a car hit her at Institution Hill at River Valley. During the inquiry, it was revealed that Zara had dashed across the road when the accident happened. Zara had suddenly appeared between two stationary vehicles parked along Institution Hill, which is a two-lane road, when a car driving from the opposite direction hit her. Traffic Police station inspector (SI) Muhammad Firdaus Suleiman was called as a witness. He said the maid, who was holding the hand of Zara's two-year-old sister, was three steps behind Zara and yelled for the car to stop when the collision occurred. When assisting officer Jeanice Lim asked how long it took for Zara to be visible in the in-car camera footage to when she was hit, SI Firdaus replied that it was one second.

SEOUL/SINGAPORE — Congestion at Singapore's container port is at its worst since the Covid-19 pandemic, a sign of how prolonged vessel re-routing to avoid Red Sea attacks has disrupted global ocean shipping — with bottlenecks also appearing in other Asian and European ports. Retailers, manufacturers and other industries that rely on massive box ships are again battling surging rates, port backups and shortages of empty containers, even as many consumer-oriented firms look to build inventories heading into the peak year-end shopping season. Global port congestion has reached an 18-month high, with 60 per cent of ships waiting at anchor located in Asia, maritime data firm Linerlytica said in June. Ships with a total capacity of over 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent container units were waiting at anchorages as of mid-June. But, unlike during the pandemic, it is not a buying flurry by house-bound consumers that is swamping ports.

A taxi driver got into an argument with two men after he declined to ferry them to their destination. The reason for his refusal? Because the men reeked of alcohol, reported Shin Min Daily News. An eyewitness surnamed Deng said he saw two men in their 40s and 50s and a Trans-Cab driver being questioned by the police when he passed by a taxi stand near the OG department store in Chinatown at about 5.30pm last Saturday (June 22). «I believe they had a dispute, and someone called the police,» he added. «When I walked past [the area] again at 6pm, they had left.» According to the Chinese evening daily, nobody was injured, and the discourse was settled privately. A Trans-Cab spokesperson told Shin Min that the company regrets the unpleasant experience. They added that their drivers can only refuse service when they are changing shifts. It is an offence for taxi drivers to refuse to pick up passengers without valid reasons, according to a media reply by LTA in 2019.

He may have been in a rush, but his haste could have cost him his life. A cyclist was knocked over by a car when he tried to cross a road in Ang Mo Kio while the traffic light was green, according to a video uploaded to SG Road Vigilante on Tuesday (June 25). In the video which was purportedly taken at 5.50pm on Tuesday, the cyclist attempts to cross the road from the right - heading towards Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park - just as the traffic light turned green for vehicles. Although he's fast enough to avoid traffic coming from his right, he fails to do the same for traffic from his left. Despite multiple cars having already driven through the pedestrian crossing, the cyclist tries his luck and tries to cycle straight through traffic. He gets past the car on the third lane, which slows down for him, but didn't have such luck for the driver on the fourth lane, who ends up driving straight into him. The cyclist is flipped on his side and thrown onto the car's windshield before he tumbles off the car's hood. His bicycle is sent flying a couple of metres away; a motorcyclist loses control of his bike on the wet road as a result.

SINGAPORE – The Covid-19 wave, driven by sub-variants KP.1 and KP.2, is clearly waning, and the falling number of infected patients admitted to hospitals and intensive care units in the past four weeks is evidence of this. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said he was “naturally worried” when hospitalisation cases rose rapidly to about 280 in May when the wave first started. “We were entering the mid-year travelling season then. If the severe cases double twice, from 280 to 560 to over 1,000, the equivalent of one regional hospital will be occupied by Covid-19 patients with severe illness,” Mr Ong said on Facebook on June 25. “This will adversely impact our healthcare system, which is already very busy, and lengthen waiting times further.” He added: “Fortunately, the number of hospitalised cases reached 370, and then started to taper off. The downward trend has persisted for four weeks now.” The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital fell to 136 in the week starting June 16.