A woman who was behind the wheel in the Chinatown accident which claimed the life of a six-year-old girl is remorseful over the accident, said her husband.The tragic accident occurred on Friday (Feb 6) at around 11.50am along South Bridge Road, at a carpark near the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.Heartbreaking footage circulating online of the aftermath showed a man holding the bleeding girl in his arms, with a woman lying on the ground next to them.According to the police, two female pedestrians, aged six and 31, were conscious when they were taken to hospital, where the girl later died.In an updated statement on Sunday, the police said they have arrested a 38-year-old female car driver for driving without reasonable consideration causing death.

A group of teenagers have come under fire after they were filmed riding Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) on the road.An Instagram video posted by Sgfollowsall on Friday (Feb 6) shows the youths riding PMDs along a three-lane road, overtaking vehicles and switching lanes.Two of them were seen standing on electric scooters, while the remaining five travelled on three electric bicycles.

An outing to McDonald's ended up in a trip to the hospital for one family, after the couple's three-year-old daughter scalded her tongue on hot water.In a Facebook post on Wednesday (Feb 4), former national footballer Ridhuan Muhamad, 41, shared that they had gone to the fast food chain at Ridout Tea Garden in Queensway on Feb 1.«What was meant to be a normal outing turned into a hospital trip after my daughter was accidentally given boiling hot water instead of cold water like we asked for,» he wrote.He added that upon drinking from the insulated water bottle, his daughter cried in pain, frightened. She also «couldn't eat or drink properly» and is now «traumatised at the sight of her water bottle».Videos uploaded in the post showed the girl crying, as well as paramedics attending to the child. A woman speaking in the video could be heard telling them that the girl «was just shaking in pain» after drinking from the bottle.Speaking to AsiaOne, Ridhuan said he had approached the food collection counter and asked a staff member to help fill the bottle with cold water.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force's (RSAF) search-and-rescue unit Rescue 10 was activated on Saturday (Feb 7) morning to evacuate a crew member onboard a vessel who required urgent medical attention. «The patient was safely evacuated to the Singapore General Hospital for treatment and was reported to be conscious and in a stable condition upon arrival,» the RSAF said in a Facebook post.The helicopter's activation happened amid the RSAF's deployment at the ongoing Singapore Airshow, which ends on Sunday.  The RSAF maintains a 24/7 unit, callsign Rescue 10, to respond to life-saving missions at short notice. They are often scrambled to evacuate personnel who require immediate medical attention to hospitals, including from onboard civilian vessels in the vicinity of Singapore.The aircraft used, a H225M medium lift helicopter, achieved full operational capability in April 2024.According to the Ministry of Defence, it has a range in excess of 400nm (740km). [[nid:679303]]

An 85-year-old man is assisting the police with investigations after driving a car along the pedestrian walkway of a National University of Singapore (NUS) building on Friday (Feb 6).The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told AsiaOne that they were alerted to a road traffic accident along Engineering Drive 4 on Feb 6, at 12.15pm.Videos and photos circulating online show the yellow hatchback moving slowly through the building's sheltered walkways and common areas as passers-by looked on in curiosity. In some images, the car appears to have come to a stop inside a canteen, right next to students seated at tables.

SINGAPORE - More scams have hit the food and beverage (F&B) industry this festive season, putting several affected business operators on high alert to minimise damage.The incidents cut across different segments.They range from impersonation of food delivery platforms to scammers seeking payment to take down bad Google reviews to, more recently, the rise of fake restaurant websites that take reservations and online orders.Such incidents are not isolated to Singapore.In South Korea, several news outlets have reported on fake vouchers sold for a meal at the famed Mosu restaurant in Seoul by chef Anh Sung-jae, a judge on Netflix reality show Culinary Class Wars (2024 to present).Chef Anh posted a photo of the voucher on social media in January, urging the public to beware of imposters. The voucher listed a specific date and time, along with his name and signature.Prior to this, the restaurant also faced an impersonation scam in March 2025. It involved someone who posed as a telecommunications company employee rerouting calls made to Mosu's phone number and requesting meal payments from customers.

Bus commuters can expect instances of missing bus arrival timings or longer headways to continue to decrease as the Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) system's performance stabilises.In an update on Saturday (Feb 7), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said that the availability of bus arrival timings has been restored to above 90 per cent.The restoration involved 4,000 buses and its engineers and contractors had to clear the memory cache and manually update firmware for the transmitters, LTA explained.Some transmitters also had to be replaced.LTA said on Jan 28 that the root cause of the issue was a memory cache build-up in the on-board system of some buses.This disrupted data transmissions between on-board bus systems and the central ETA processing servers, and led to missing bus arrival timings.

A man seen golfing at an empty reserve site along Grange Road has both amused and worried social media users.On Wednesday (Feb 4), TikTok user Buildingsledge posted a video showing a man in golfing attire swinging his club at a golf ball.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in a series of e-commerce scams involving Pokemon trading cards.In a media release on Friday (Feb 6) evening, the police said they received 35 reports from victims since October 2025, with losses amounting over $135,000.The victims were allegedly cheated by the man who advertised the pre-order sales of limited edition Pokemon trading cards on Carousell.He was identified by officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division through follow-up investigations and arrested on Thursday.He will be charged in court for cheating on Saturday.If found guilty of the said offence, the man may be jailed for up to ten years and fined.The police added that since Oct 1, 2025, there have been at least 609 cases of e-commerce scams involving the sale of Pokemon trading cards reported, with total losses amounting to at least $1.1 million.

Five persons, aged between 29 and 49, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in vice-related activities, said the Singapore Police Force on Friday (Feb 6) night.The five persons, comprising three women and two men, were arrested between Feb 5 and 6, following raids by officers from the Criminal Investigation Department in the vicinity of Depot Road and Joo Chiat Road.Police said they seized mobile phones, automated teller machine (ATM) receipts and vice-related paraphernalia during the raids.One of the two men, aged 40, will be charged in court on Saturday for allegedly facilitating the operation of the an online vice syndicate.If found guilty of facilitating the provision of sexual services in return for payment or reward, he may be jailed for up to five years, fined up to $100,000, or both.Police investigations into the other four persons are ongoing.The police also warned that they will continue to take tough enforcement action against those involved in syndicated vice activities and will not hesitate to take firm action against offenders in accordance with the law.[[nid:729344]]