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One Singapore couple proved that no global health emergency was going to keep them from throwing one heck of a wedding bash — not even when they had to stay home.

The couple voluntarily isolated themselves after a recent China trip and attended their own banquet on Feb 2 via a live-stream, reported Shin Min Daily News.

Despite mounting global concern over the recent coronavirus outbreak and the growing number of cases in China, they had decided to spend Chinese New Year in Hunan with the bride’s family, returning to Singapore on Jan 30.

And that’s when things began to fall apart.

For one, the bride’s parents could not grace the occasion as they were denied entry into Singapore, the groom told the Chinese daily.

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When someone yells “stop”, goes limp, taps out — the fight is over.

For an elderly man in a coffee shop brawl, however, the sight of his bloodied victim knocked down to the ground wasn’t enough.

In a clip circulating on Facebook on Monday (Feb 3), he was seen attacking another senior in a coffee shop at Upper Cross Street as a crowd gathers near the commotion.

The injured man was seen sitting on the ground as a few people attempted to stop the bleeding from his head by applying pressure to the wounds.

While they did so, the aggressor was seen snatching a beer bottle from a table before approaching the injured man.

As he swung the bottle at the latter, he was stopped by passers-by.

Although several people yelled at him to stop, the agitated man continued to charge at the man until he was pulled away by two women.

He soon broke away from them and continued to grab the other man by his shirt and hit him.

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A domestic helper was seen crying and packing up her belongings after she was allegedly kicked out of home by her employer, and police are investigating the incident.

The police told Stomp that they were alerted to a case of voluntarily causing hurt against a domestic worker along Holland Road on Saturday (Feb 1), at around 1.30pm.

Videos of the incident, which occurred at a condominium, were posted on Facebook and have been viewed more than 630,000 times.

Another foreign domestic worker (FWD) who worked in the same condominium had witnessed the incident and uploaded the videos online.

In the first clip, a maid can be seen falling onto the ground after apparently being pushed. She is also heard crying and repeatedly saying, “You hurt me!”

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After having kept silent the entire journey, the driver suddenly asked his passenger if she had time. Despite telling him that she had a class to attend and was already late, he allegedly drove her to a dead-end and even asked for her to sit in the front seat.

In the passenger’s account of the incident via a police report made, the driver had nearly gotten out of his car but in the end, sat down, apologised and continued driving.

Ellis Phua, the passenger’s mother, shared on Facebook that same night how her daughter had to scold the driver and insist that he send her to school before he sat back down.

Phua’s daughter had booked a private hire vehicle through Grab’s platform on Monday morning (Feb 3) to get to Yio Chu Kang Swimming Complex.

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Nuseir ‘Nas’ Yassin may have set up shop in Singapore a year ago but he doesn’t seem to have caught the kiasi (afraid to die) bug yet.

By that, we mean the 27-year-old travel vlogger and CEO of The Nas Company has not bought into the hysteria that has compelled many of us to rush to the nearest pharmacy and buy every single surgical mask in sight.

In an interview with AsiaOne on Jan 31, Nas was nothing short of cavalier about the coronavirus outbreak that has been labelled a global public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying: “I don’t necessarily panic. I think it’s a panic.”

“The minute 10,000 people die, I’ll start paying attention,” he added.

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Singapore on Monday announced it would put together an assistance package for China, which is battling to stem the coronavirus outbreak, with the island nation’s leaders stressing they had the utmost confidence in Beijing to weather the crisis.

The coronavirus, which was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected more than 17,000 people around the world, killing more than 360.

Singapore’s health minister Gan Kim Yong on Monday told parliament that the coronavirus had become “not just a problem for China but for the world”.

“We have to work together and collaborate with each other. For this reason, Singapore will be putting together an assistance package to help communities in China affected by the novel coronavirus,” he said, without elaborating on what the package would entail.

His comments came just days after Singapore barred all foreign passport holders travelling from mainland China from entering or transiting through the city state, becoming the first Southeast Asian country to do. The United States made a similar move hours later, with Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines following suit over the weekend.

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SINGAPORE – National Parks Board (NParks) officers are looking into the cause of hundreds of fish deaths along a stretch of beach in Pasir Ris.

The silver-coloured fish, as well as several crabs, were spotted washed up at Pasir Ris Park on Monday morning (Feb 3).

Three cleaners were seen along the approximately 150m stretch of shoreline clearing the dead animals into large bags at about 8am.

NParks coastal and marine director at the National Biodiversity Centre Karenne Tun said that based on preliminary findings, the fish were mostly of the Hilsa kelee species, which is part of the cluepid family of wild fish found in Singapore’s coastal waters.

“NParks officers did not observe any dead fish or biodiversity along the surrounding coastal areas along Changi Beach, East Coast Park and Pulau Ubin, including Chek Jawa,” said Dr Tun.

There were also no reports of fish deaths at the nearby fish farms, she added.

NParks officers will continue to monitor the coastal beaches for anomalies and look into the cause of the fish deaths.

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MONTREAL – A meeting of international aviation officials due to be held in Singapore on the eve of Asia’s largest annual aerospace event has been cancelled because of coronavirus fears, participants said, raising doubts that the broader event will go ahead.

The UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and three industry sources confirmed on Monday (Feb 3) that the Feb 10 Singapore Airshow Aviation Leadership Summit had been abandoned.

The news adds to a series of pullouts by companies from the main Singapore Airshow, which is scheduled to begin on Feb 11, under the shadow of the fast-spreading virus.

Speakers at the Leadership Summit were due to include ICAO president Salvatore Sciacchitano, US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator Steve Dickson and International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Alexandre de Juniac.

Organisers said on Monday the broader show would go ahead, albeit with reduced attendance due to travel restrictions. Organisers of both the show and the summit could not immediately be reached for comment after an ICAO spokesman confirmed the summit cancellation.

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SINGAPORE – Mr Li Shengwu will have to make himself available for cross-examination in the contempt of court proceedings against him, said the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) on Monday (Feb 3).

Mr Li, the nephew of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, will also have to answer questions under oath that the AGC has posed to him.

This latest development came after the High Court on Monday heard several applications by both sides.

The AGC had previously asked Mr Li to answer various questions on oath, like whether there were members of the media among his Facebook friends. It also applied for Mr Li to produce certain documents that he referred to in his defence affidavit filed on Sept 24 last year.

In response, Mr Li had refused to answer the questions and applied to have them set aside. He also applied for discovery to obtain certain documents from the AGC.

The High Court dismissed Mr Li’s applications on Monday.

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