A 20-year-old Singapore motorcyclist who was riding to Port Dickson was killed after an out-of-control lorry struck him along an expressway on Sunday (May 21) morning.In a media statement issued on Sunday afternoon, Batu Pahat police chief Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah Sani said the incident happened at about 5am at the 82.4km mark of the North-South Expressway near Batu Pahat. The Singaporean rider, Lutfi Adib Yusof, encountered a breakdown and had stopped on the emergency lane of the expressway, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Shahrulanuar.«He was suddenly hit by a lorry from the same direction which was believed to have lost control before the accident occured,» the police chief said.He added that Lutfi suffered serious head injuries and was pronounced dead on the way to the Sultanah Nora Ismail Hospital.The 45-year-old male lorry driver, a Malaysian, did not suffer any injuries. Police investigations are ongoing. [[nid:737102]]editor@asiaone.com 

Fitness enthusiasts who frequent Clementi Stadium will have to find a new exercise spot soon.In social media posts uploaded on Monday (June 1), Minister for Education Desmond Lee announced that the 43-year-old stadium will be closed from July 7 until 2030 for redevelopment works.The redevelopment was previously mentioned by Lee in 2024, when he was then Minister for National Development. In his posts, Lee, who is MP for West Coast-Jurong West GRC, said the repurposed stadium will feature a new running track, a softball field, a multipurpose field for baseball or football, as well as sheltered courts. 

Five people were taken to hospital after a taxi and a car collided at a junction near Gardens by the Bay on Monday (June 1) afternoon.The accident, involving a Comfort Delgro taxi and a Lexus LBX hybrid car, happened at about 2.30pm along Marina Gardens Drive outside the entrance to Gardens by the Bay South. Map showing where the accident between the Comfort Delgro taxi and Lexus hybrid car took place on Monday (June 1) afternoon. GRAPHIC: Google Maps, AsiaOne When AsiaOne arrived at the scene at 2.35pm, both the taxi and car were stopped near the middle of  the junction.The curtain airbags of both vehicles were deployed.

The Union of Security Employees (USE) is standing in solidarity with the two female security officers who were involved in an altercation with a Hong Kong school principal last week.In a Facebook post on Saturday (May 30), the union said it visited Safra Jurong «to show our support» to the officers. «During the interaction, the women officers shared how challenging the situation was.»Their singular focus was to stop the children from alighting in an unsafe zone along a busy main road at evening peak hour," said the union.  

A total of eight drivers, aged between 25 and 51, will be charged in court on Tuesday (June 2) for speeding offences involving heavy vehicles not fitted with speed limiters.The police said in a news release on Monday that the alleged offences were committed between April 2025 and February this year.Six cases involved bus drivers who exceed their vehicles' imposed speed limit of 60kmh. Of these, five allegedly drove along the Pan Island Expressway or the Bukit Timah Expressway between 74kmh to 77kmh, while a 51-year-old male driver purportedly drove along Sheares Avenue towards Central Boulevard at 81kmh.The remaining two cases involved the drivers of a cement mixer and a prime mover, which have an imposed speed limit of 40kmh and 50kmh, respectively. The first driver allegedly drove along Sheares Avenue towards Central Boulevard at 55kmh, while the second driver purportedly drove along the same stretch of road at 67kmh.If found guilty of speeding, the drivers could be fined up to $1,000, jailed for up to three months, or both.

The Traffic Police have continued their crack down on owners of heavy vehicles who failed to install speed limiters on their vehicles by the statutory Jan 1 deadline.Earlier in January, police said 141 of 2,434 heavy vehicles had failed to do so by the deadline. These lorries were registered before January 1, 2018, and have a maximum laden weight of between 5,001kg and 12,000kgA speed limiter is designed to limit a vehicle's maximum speed.In an update on Monday (June 1), the police said they have taken enforcement action against 67 heavy vehicle owners for speed limiter-related offences. Police investigations revealed that the owners had failed to fit their vehicles with an approved speed limiter and also failed to produce their vehicles for inspection.Those who fail to ensure a speed limiter is fitted can be fined up to $1,000 or jailed up to three years. The offence of failing to produce a vehicle for inspection carries a penalty of three months jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.

Barely a month after SGFR Store opened its ninth outlet in Jurong Point, the popular snack and candy retailer opened its 10th outlet at Lot One Shoppers' Mall in Choa Chu Kang on Sunday (May 31), once again drawing a huge young crowd.Videos posted on the brand's TikTok and by those who attended the opening show a mostly young crowd gathered outside the fourth-floor store. They grooved to music while making the juggling hand gesture tied to the viral «6-7» meme. Co-founder Luqmaan Haakim said in a video post on Saturday that the first five people in the queue will each receive a Samsung Galaxy A07 phone, and also be gifted popular snacks such as crunchy gummies, twister gummies, mochi meltz, spicy fries and Dubai chewy cookies. There were also gifts for the sixth to 20th person in the queue. And there were indeed those who were willing to queue.TikTok user Xinxiang posted a video taken at about 2.50am on Sunday showing some ten youths seated in an open area on the ground floor near MacDonalds, waiting for the mall to open at 10am.