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The islandwide karaoke session that was Sing Together Singapore! saw many take to their windows last Saturday (April 25), cheering and warbling along to the classic National Day hit Home.

But the enthusiastic show of support claimed some unfortunate victims — besides our eardrums.

Singaporeans united to offer their sympathies (and jokes) after a viral video captured an object that looked suspiciously like a mobile phone plummeting down a HDB block during the event.

The clip, posted on Facebook by one Jerry Lindah, was captioned: “Time check 7.55pm and guess what. Someone drop a phone [sic].”

Showing a neighbouring HDB block lit up with flashing lights, the six-second-long clip coincidentally captured an object falling about 20 storeys to the ground as oblivious residents screamed and cheered.

“Eh, a handphone fell,” a woman exclaimed in Malay in the background of the video.

Giving off a bright light as it hurtled towards the ground, the mystery object appeared to be a phone with its flashlight switched on or a torchlight — we’re keeping our fingers crossed that it’s the latter. 

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Retrenchments in Singapore could hit 45,600 this year with the economy in a “deep and protracted recession”, as the country toils at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus with an extended “circuit breaker”, a report from DBS Bank suggested on Monday.

Authored by the bank’s senior economist Irvin Seah, the report said Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) is now expected to shrink 5.7 per cent, with the services and construction sectors bearing the brunt of the “circuit-breaker” extension.

“Should Singapore fail in containing the outbreak, GDP growth could plunge to as low as -7.8 per cent,” he said, calling 2020 the “darkest year” for the Singapore economy since its independence in 1965.

Singapore has seen a rapid rise in the number of Covid-19 infections in recent weeks, with the virus circulating among the migrant worker population. This has led to a suspension of all construction activities, with all workers in the sector put on Stay Home Notices.

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Singaporean actor Erwin Dawson, who has been pursuing an acting career in Malaysia, is spending his newfound free time working as a rider for a food delivery service.

The 30-year-old is currently weathering the Covid-19 pandemic back in Singapore.

In an interview with mStar, he shares he has been cycling at least 20km a day delivering food for a month now.

“All filming in Malaysia has postponed and if I don’t do anything, I have to tap into my savings. So I thought I’d cycle and generate some income.”

The Mimpi Sabrina actor shares his workday. “I work five to seven hours a day, making 10 to 15 trips. Because I’m riding a bicycle, I can’t do as many deliveries.”

The TV star also reveals he does get recognised while on his job.

“When I take the food from the vendors or deliver them to houses, no one has said anything negative so far.

“People have asked why am I doing food delivery and I’d just explain it gets boring at home and I want to do something productive. And they’d wish me well. Some have also asked for pictures.”
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Aside from Sing Together Singapore and the arrest of Twitter satirist @sharonliew86, the local social media landscape was abuzz over the weekend over a particular individual: Ateeqah Mazlan. 

The Suria actress turned aspiring social media influencer found herself in the middle of the storm that’s been brewing for the past few days, or specifically, since the authorities made concrete a ruling that prevents humble home businesses from operating over the heightened circuit breaker measures. 

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Apart from seeking legal advice from lawyers, the public can also turn to free legal help sites like SingaporeLegalAdvice, and Lawapp.sg for more information on matters troubling them amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Here’s a sampling of the general response of lawyers to three specific issues raised amid the outbreak.

ON WRONGFUL DISMISSAL

Q: What should I do if I am dismissed or have my employment terminated by my employer?

A: It is best to keep a record of your correspondence and communication with your employer, so you can consult a lawyer to advise you on your rights.

If the termination is done over the phone, you should write to the employer to confirm what has been said in writing or email, so that the Court can determine whether the termination or dismissal was unfair, said lawyer Nicholas Tang. He added that a termination should always be in accordance with the employment contract.

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SINGAPORE – A 24-year-old university student given probation for molesting a woman at an MRT station had his probation sentence overturned following a successful High Court appeal by the prosecution.

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon on Monday (April 27) sentenced Terence Siow Kai Yuan to two weeks’ imprisonment for his offence, finding that the undergraduate had not shown “an extremely strong propensity for reform”.

Siow, an applied mathematics student at the National University of Singapore, had pleaded guilty to one charge of outrage of modesty in September last year.

He was subsequently given 21 months of supervised probation and 150 hours of community service by District Judge Jasvender Kaur.

Two charges for similar offences were taken into consideration during his sentencing.

Siow was 22 when he committed the offences against a 28-year-old woman during a train ride on the North East Line and at Serangoon MRT station on Sept 12, 2018.

On that day, he sat next to the woman and touched her thigh.When she moved away from him, he touched her again.

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Last Saturday (April 25) saw Singaporeans across the island band together and pay tribute to the country’s front-liners and migrant workers amidst the coronavirus outbreak… by generating a whole lot of noise outside their windows. 

Well, it was supposed to be a mass singalong of classic National Day tune Home. Sing Together Singapore was an initiative led by the media industry to get the country to express solidarity with everyone during the circuit breaker, no matter if they’re observing safe distancing measures by staying at home or if they’re out there working in the frontlines. 

The endeavour to get the choral homage in residential estates fell a wee bit short, however, when most folks decided to take the opportunity to just yell their hearts out in lieu of, you know, actually singing together. 

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Singapore is rapidly building bed space for coronavirus patients in cavernous exhibition halls and other temporary facilities as it faces a surge in cases, mainly among its large community of low-paid migrant workers.

The city state of 5.7 million people has over 12,000 confirmed infections of the virus that causes Covid-19, one of the most in Asia, due to outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing over 300,000 mainly South Asian workers.

One such facility at Changi Exhibition Centre – home to the Singapore Airshow, Asia’s biggest aerospace gathering – could eventually house over 4,000 patients recovering from the disease and those with mild symptoms.

“The entire process of setting up the infrastructure took six days,” Joseph Tan, a member of the organising committee for the temporary facility.

The first patients, mainly from Bangladesh and India, were moved on Saturday into the vast conference hall, partitioned into rooms for eight to 10 people, with metal beds, plastic storage drawers and fans.

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