A man got his foot stuck between the plates of an escalator in Bugis Junction on Wednesday (Nov16) at about 9pm.

Stomp reader Maohuan, who witnessed the scene, submitted a video to the citizen journalism website showing the rescue process. He stated that the man was dressed “in formal attire with a jacket and tie, with leather shoes”.

According to a statement from SCDF, officers were alerted to the incident at 9.16pm on Wednesday.

Read also: Boy’s toes get caught in escalator at Toa Payoh Hub

It dispatched a fire engine, a Red Rhino, an ambulance and a support vehicle to the scene.

“SCDF released a Malay man in his twenties, using hydraulic rescue tools and he was conveyed to the Singapore General Hospital,” the statement added.

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Boy’s toes get caught in escalator near Toa Payoh HDB Hub

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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s exports in October contracted sharply as sales to major markets fell, raising the risk of a recession in the trade-dependent economy amid heightened uncertainty around global trade in the wake of Donald Trump’s US election victory.

The affluent city-state’s economy has been on the ropes in the last two years as exports fell away amid slow world growth, and Trump’s upset had added another layer of doubt on trade given his protectionist policy stance.

Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) skidded 12.0 per cent last month from a year earlier, the trade agency International Enterprise Singapore said in a statement on Thursday, far worse than the median forecast of a 3.5 per cent decline in a Reuters poll. “What this number highlights to us is that the cyclical slowdown is also much bigger than what we have been predicting,”said Vaninder Singh, an economist for RBS in Singapore.

Singh said the exports data raised the risk of a recession and added to the chance of further monetary policy easing.

The central bank in October held policy steady despite a surprisingly sharp economic contraction in the third quarter.

But the growing risks of a recession has even raised the prospects of an off-cycle easing, ahead of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s next policy review scheduled in April, some analysts said. “If the weak NODX continues, if you see in the IP numbers it also mirrors what you see in the NODX data, I would say that an easing will probably come sooner rather than in the scheduled April meeting.” said Michael Wan an economist for Credit Suisse, referring to industrial production.

LOOMING TRUMP RISK

Exports to the European Union contracted 28.6 per cent from a year earlier as sales of pharmaceuticals, non-electric engines & motors, as well as personal computers tumbled.

Shipments to China and the United States extended their slide though the pace of declines eased.

US President-elect Trump, who campaigned on a protectionist policy stance, is seen as a further risk to Singapore, analysts said. “The Q4 growth could be negative if we see materialisation of Trump’s protectionism. That would significantly disrupt Asian supply chain,” said Weiwen Ng, an economist for ANZ in Singapore.

Fiscal stimulus measures could come earlier than monetary policy steps, NG said. The government is expected to announce the next year budget in the first quarter.

Singapore’s domestic borrowing costs have already been rising pressured by the recent global bonds rout, so further easing by MAS could add to upside pressure.

Since the MAS manages monetary policy by adjusting the exchange rate rather than interest rates, a weaker Singapore dollar could spur capital outflows and dry up local liquidity.

The three-month Singapore interbank offered rate , a benchmark used to set interest rates on mortgages, rose to 0.91 per cent, the highest since July. “Any easing in exchange rates could tighten financial condition, which is not what they want,” Ng said.

SINGAPORE – Former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei told lies and half-truths to the police to hide his use of a second phone line to communicate with his former boss Kevin Swampillai and associate Samuel Goh after they were pulled up for interrogation by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), prosecutors say.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Kiat Pheng, in his cross-examination of Yeo on Wednesday morning (Nov 16), said that Yeo, despite being warned by the CAD to not talk to the witnesses, communicated and arranged to meet the two men using a second line because he knew CAD was investigating him for “illicit transactions”.

Yeo continued to maintain his innocence on day 10 of the trial against him for the role he played in a massive money laundering operation linked to scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) fund. Advertisement

His former superior, Yak Yew Chee, a former BSI private banker to elusive Malaysian tycoon Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, last Friday became the first person convicted in the 1MDB probe. Yak pleaded guilty to four of seven charges, including forging documents and failing to flag suspicious transactions allegedly related to Low.

On Wednesday, Yeo, who is facing four counts of obstruction of justice, admitted on the stand to lying to the CAD about not using a second phone line, but maintained that he did so on instructions by Mr Swampillai because of the possibility that his primary line might be tracked by the government.

BSI Bank caught in 1MDB scandal

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Yeo said he was afraid he would get charged if he told the truth about using a second line.

“So you would rather lie to the CAD? … And you’re not afraid of committing another offence by lying to the CAD?” DPP Tan asked.

“Yes I was very confused. I didn’t say the truth because I was afraid I would get charged for using a second line. And I wasn’t allowed access to my lawyer,” Yeo said.

But DPP Tan pointed out that even when Yeo had the opportunity to get legal advice, Yeo didn’t mention that he had bought the second line to communicate with Mr Swampillai.

“Only when you were confronted with the call tracing records in court, and the testimony of Swampillai and Sam Goh, that’s when you realised the game is up,” DPP Tan said.

Yeo disagreed. He continued to maintain that Mr Swampillai and Mr Goh were lying in their testimony to “save their own skin”.

In response to DPP Tan’s suggestion that Yeo met both men because he knew the CAD was investigating him for illicit transactions, Yeo said he disagreed.

“None of my transactions are illicit,” he added.

This article was first published on November 16, 2016.
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SINGAPORE – The police are investigating the use of Singapore and Malaysian flags by participants of an event at Hong Lim Park on Sunday (Nov 13) that was held in support of the upcoming Bersih 5 rally in Malaysia.

During the Yellow Sit-In event, the 15 or so participants laid a Singapore flag and a Malaysian flag on mats. They also held the flags up and took photos with them.

The police said on Wednesday (Nov 16) that several people are assisting in investigations “into offences under laws regarding the display of Singapore’s and Malaysia’s state flags”.

Advertisement Bersih, a Malaysian group seeking electoral reforms, will hold its fifth rally this weekend to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak over his alleged involvement in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad saga.

The organiser of the Singapore event, civil society activist Jolovan Wham, told The Straits Times he was stopped by the police after the event.

He said he was taken to the Kreta Ayer Neighbourhood Police Post for questioning and saw several other event participants there.

The police wanted to know the the participants’ nationalities, why the event took place, and if the foreigners were mere observers, said Mr Wham. He was also questioned on the use of the flags.

Under the National Emblems (Control of Display) Act, the public display of the national emblem of any country, including flags, is prohibited except by certain people, such as diplomats, and when a an order is published in the Government Gazette to allow it.

Offenders can be fined up to $500 and jailed up to six months.

This article was first published on Nov 16, 2016.
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