A man had already been arrested for threatening his family members with a gun-shaped lighter, and police had seized various toy guns he kept at home.But Poh Jing Yang was undeterred and continued buying such toy weapons online, before being caught again.On Feb 2, the 38-year-old was sentenced to 14 months’ jail and fined $6,500 after he admitted to four charges, including one count of criminal intimidation and two offences of possessing guns without a licence.Under the Arms and Explosives Act, the definition of arms includes any kind of gun from which a shot, bullet or missile can be discharged.Poh also admitted to a separate Customs Act offence involving duty-unpaid cigarettes. Eight other charges were taken into consideration for his sentencing.The court heard that at around 9pm on Feb 10, 2024, Poh went to his uncle’s home and began shouting vulgarities. It was not stated what caused him to do so.When Poh and his uncle got into a verbal dispute, Poh pulled out a black pistol-shaped lighter and pointed it towards his uncle and cousin, shouting in Hokkien and Mandarin: “I will shoot you.”

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers have literally thrown their hammers at «furniture pieces» transported by a Malaysia-registered van during an enhanced check at Woodlands Checkpoint on Jan 22.In a video posted on its social media, ICA officers are seen breaking up «furniture pieces» transported in the back of a Malaysia-registered van.  As the «furniture pieces» were broken up, cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes could be seen concealed within them.ICA said that the vehicle was profiled and directed for enhanced checks where its search and examination officers found more than 150 cartons and 60 loose packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes.AsiaOne understands that such profiling are typically conducted by ICA's Integrated Targeting Centre (ITC). 

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These dedicated spaces are meant to guide expectant parents through prenatal care rooted in traditional Indian practices, from positive thinking and lifestyle discipline to diet and emotional well-being. The idea: shape the mind of the unborn. CM Mohan Yadav announced the initiative Sunday in Indore, placing it under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and linking it to the Union ministry of Ayush.

The findings are based on an analysis of more than a century of lifespan data from large Scandinavian twin cohorts in Denmark and Sweden. Researchers studied identical and non-identical twins raised together and apart, as well as siblings of US centenarians. Most participants were born between 1870 and 1935, a period marked by high mortality from infectious diseases and accidents.

“Non-scheduled flights carry high-net-worth passengers with a fixed objective, an event, a meeting, a function. That creates immense pressure on pilots to land at the intended destination at all costs, even when diversion would be the safer option,” said Capt Manoj Hathi, former senior flight operations inspector at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

La vague de grippe touche à sa fin en Polynésie, mais elle laisse derrière elle un bilan de 13 morts. Le dernier bulletin sanitaire alerte sur une augmentation des cas de gastro-entérites aiguës (GEA) et invite la population à rester vigilante par rapport à la leptospirose.

En milieu de matinée ce lundi, une pirogue de couleur gris, vert et noir, a été découverte échouée sur la plage de Faripuu, à Arue. Le propriétaire de ce V1 est activement recherché. Si vous avez des informations, prévenez les secours en composant le 16.

Une enquête pour escroquerie financière vise le dispositif « Morning star forex ». La gendarmerie recherche des victimes ayant investi en 2024 en Polynésie, séduites par des promesses de rendements et jamais remboursées. Elles sont invitées à se signaler rapidement auprès des enquêteurs.

'Hitler has only got one ball.' That playground song has been passed down through generations of schoolchildren, a way of cutting the monster down to size by attacking his manhood.

Former Liberal cabinet minister Bill Blair resigned as an MP on Monday after it was announced that he has been appointed Canada's next high commissioner to the U.K.

A GO train that partially derailed near Union Station Monday morning is causing mass train delays, with service disruptions likely to last into the evening, Metrolinx says.

Frank Stronach's trial in Toronto gets underway Tuesday on charges of sexual assault against multiple women. Some of the allegations against the 93-year-old billionaire businessman date back nearly 50 years.

Invitée du JT du 1er février, Mareva Georges Marciano, fondatrice de Margaret’s Place, a annoncé l’extension de son dispositif d’écoute. Toujours engagée contre l’ice, elle soutient aussi la mise en service de deux ambulances pour des prises en charge à domicile.

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According to Maria Zakharova, the talks will focus on ways of overcoming the current profound OSCE crisis

This will help to end the conflict in Ukraine, the US president added

According to Joanneke Balfoort, representatives of the Netherlands maintain «functional» contacts with Russian diplomats

The United States will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25% to 18%

«When two large economies and the world’s largest democracies work together, it benefits people,» Narendra Modi said

Sources close to the princesses say they are also 'appalled' and 'embarrassed' about the new photos of their father Andrew crouching over a woman lying on the floor.

Aalia Mahomed, who was 20, died after being hit by a van last March on the Strand in central London. She was in her second year of a BSc in physics and philosophy at KCL.

Musician Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir won a Grammy Award for the second year in a row at the Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles, United States, last night.

The public’s knowledge of editorial practices and the general legal framework governing the media is lower in Iceland than in the other Nordic countries. Icelanders are less aware of which media outlets have a legally defined public-service role, that media organisations must have a legally responsible editor (or “responsible person”), what that role involves, and that people have the right to reply when misinformation has been published.

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