SINGAPORE: The police are investigating the death of a man along Niven Road on Friday (Nov 1).
The man, 46, was suspected of taking upskirt videos of a woman at Little India MRT station.
He was then detained by five members of the public along Niven Road before authorities arrived at the scene, according to the police’s preliminary investigations.
The authorities, who were alerted to the incident at about 12.45pm, found the man motionless when they arrived.
Police officers along Niven Road.
“When the police officers arrived at the scene, the man was observed to be motionless and had no pulse,” the police said in a statement.
“Police officers performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the man until the arrival of SCDF (Singapore Civil Defence Force) paramedics.”
The man was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic.
Police investigations are ongoing, and the case has been classified as an unnatural death.
Photographs of the scene taken by a CNA reader show several police officers and police vehicles at Niven Road.
A police tent could also be seen at the location, which was cordoned off by police tape.
A photograph taken by a CNA reader shows a police cordon along Niven Road, Nov 1, 2019.
Why I Do What I Do is an original AsiaOne series where we showcase people with uncommon professions and what it takes to get there.
Funerals — they’re something everyone eventually has, but no one plans for.
That’s where Chris Cheah comes in.
Chris, 41, a funeral director, ensures that every aspect of the funeral goes without a hitch, from the collection of the body to embalming and the setting up of the wake.
In his words, “It’s like event planning for the final party of your life.”
GOING OUT WITH A BANG
As the saying goes, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We may all be equal in death but some funerals are definitely more ostentatious than others.
Not only do they live in style, the rich and famous also know a thing or two about elaborate send-offs.
Chris cites a local land developer’s funeral as one of the most memorable ones.
The wake, which spanned seven days, featured food stations manned by chefs and a cornucopia of paper offerings including a jet plane, ship, mansion and a mahjong table.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s newest MRT station, Canberra, will open its doors to the public on Saturday (Nov 2).
Located between the Yishun and Sembawang stations, Canberra is the 27th MRT station on the North-South Line.
It is expected to allow residents in the area to save up to 10 minutes of travelling time towards the city or Jurong East, with more than 17,000 households within a 10-minute walk of the new station.
Built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation at a cost of S$90 million, the exterior of the station was designed by DP Architects to resemble a ship as a homage to the area’s maritime heritage.
The exterior of Canberra station was designed to resemble a ship. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
In the early 20th century, the area was home to the Singapore Naval Base, which became the Sembawang Shipyard in 1968 after Singapore’s independence.
Among the new station’s unique features is an art piece featuring drawings of plants and animals, titled Symbiosis. Part of the Land Transport Authority’s Art in Transit series, the artwork can be found at the facade of the station’s north-bound platform.
The station also allows commuters to access the city-bound train platform directly via an elevated link bridge across Canberra Link, the first such feature for an elevated MRT station.
Earlier this year, a 72m-long crossover track was built between the Sembawang and Canberra stations. This allows trains to cross from one track to another if needed, such as in the case of a fault.
SECOND STATION TO BE BUILT ON EXISTING LINE
Attending the opening ceremony of the Canberra station on Friday was Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan.
Mr Khaw, who is also an MP for Sembawang GRC, noted plans for the new station – Singapore’s 139th MRT station – had existed on paper for many years.
Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan (R) at the opening ceremony of Canberra Station on Friday, Nov 1. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
However, it was not built until a “sufficient number” of residential projects had been launched nearby, he explained.
“As each MRT line is a multi-billion dollar investment, we take a conservative and prudent approach,” he said.
Factors such as projected commuter traffic, estimated time-savings for commuters as well as estimated capital and running cost is taken into account for each new line and station, he noted.
This is done to avoid poor utilisation and unnecessarily high operating costs, said Mr Khaw, noting the authorities have a “heavy responsibility” to minimise the financial burden on both taxpayers and commuters.
“We certainly do not welcome white-elephant MRT stations,” he said.
Mr Khaw also noted Canberra is the first MRT station to be awarded a Platinum rating under the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark for Transit Stations, the highest such rating under the scheme.
The new station’s green features – such as energy efficient air conditioning and lighting systems – also help reduce the cost of station operations and keep train fares affordable, he said.
Canberra is the first MRT station to be awarded a Platinum rating under the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark for Transit Stations. Its green features include energy-efficient air conditioning and lighting systems. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
Canberra MRT station. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
Canberra is the second station to be built on an existing MRT line, with the first being Dover on the East-West Line, which opened in 2001.
One of the stations, Brickland, will be located between the Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Gombak stations. It will serve residents in the Keat Hong and Bukit Batok West areas, as well as the upcoming Brickland district in Tengah.
The other, to be called Sungei Kadut, will be located between the Yew Tee and Kranji stations. It will serve as an interchange with the Downtown Line, and serve upcoming industrial developments in the Sungei Kadut area.
PayNow, PayLah and PayAnyone. What’s the difference? And more importantly, how do you use them?
Banks have been aggressively marketing peer-to-peer payment services that let you make payments and transfer money using your mobile phone. Never again will your friends be able to escape paying for their share of the dinner bill by claiming they’ve got “no cash”.
The trouble is, they all have horribly similar names. How is PayNow different from PayLah, and what how come there’s one more PayAnyone?!
So what do you need to know to start transferring money on your phone like a pro?
PAYNOW
PayNow is a funds transfer service that allows users of nine banks to transfer cash in SGD to anyone else who has an account with one of these 9 participating banks: DBS/POSB, UOB, OCBC, Citibank, HSBC, Maybank, Standard Chartered, BOC and ICBC.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s newest MRT station, Canberra, will open its doors to the public on Saturday (Nov 2).
Located between the Yishun and Sembawang stations, Canberra is the 27th MRT station on the North-South Line.
It is expected to allow residents in the area to save up to 10 minutes of travelling time towards the city or Jurong East, with more than 17,000 households within a 10-minute walk of the new station.
Built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation at a cost of S$90 million, the exterior of the station was designed by DP Architects to resemble a ship as a homage to the area’s maritime heritage.
The exterior of Canberra station was designed to resemble a ship. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
In the early 20th century, the area was home to the Singapore Naval Base, which became the Sembawang Shipyard in 1968 after Singapore’s independence.
Among the new station’s unique features is an art piece featuring drawings of plants and animals, titled Symbiosis. Part of the Land Transport Authority’s Art in Transit series, the artwork can be found at the facade of the station’s north-bound platform.
The station also allows commuters to access the city-bound train platform directly via an elevated link bridge across Canberra Link, the first such feature for an elevated MRT station.
Earlier this year, a 72m-long crossover track was built between the Sembawang and Canberra stations. This allows trains to cross from one track to another if needed, such as in the case of a fault.
SECOND STATION TO BE BUILT ON EXISTING LINE
Attending the opening ceremony of the Canberra station on Friday was Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan.
Mr Khaw, who is also an MP for Sembawang GRC, noted plans for the new station – Singapore’s 139th MRT station – had existed on paper for many years.
Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan (R) at the opening ceremony of Canberra Station on Friday, Nov 1. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
However, it was not built until a “sufficient number” of residential projects had been launched nearby, he explained.
“As each MRT line is a multi-billion dollar investment, we take a conservative and prudent approach,” he said.
Factors such as projected commuter traffic, estimated time-savings for commuters as well as estimated capital and running cost is taken into account for each new line and station, he noted.
This is done to avoid poor utilisation and unnecessarily high operating costs, said Mr Khaw, noting the authorities have a “heavy responsibility” to minimise the financial burden on both taxpayers and commuters.
“We certainly do not welcome white-elephant MRT stations,” he said.
Mr Khaw also noted Canberra is the first MRT station to be awarded a Platinum rating under the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark for Transit Stations, the highest such rating under the scheme.
The new station’s green features – such as energy efficient air conditioning and lighting systems – also help reduce the cost of station operations and keep train fares affordable, he said.
Canberra is the first MRT station to be awarded a Platinum rating under the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark for Transit Stations. Its green features include energy-efficient air conditioning and lighting systems. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
Canberra MRT station. (Photo: Rauf Khan)
Canberra is the second station to be built on an existing MRT line, with the first being Dover on the East-West Line, which opened in 2001.
One of the stations, Brickland, will be located between the Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Gombak stations. It will serve residents in the Keat Hong and Bukit Batok West areas, as well as the upcoming Brickland district in Tengah.
The other, to be called Sungei Kadut, will be located between the Yew Tee and Kranji stations. It will serve as an interchange with the Downtown Line, and serve upcoming industrial developments in the Sungei Kadut area.
PHNOM PENH – The body of a 21-year-old British tourist was found floating in the sea more than a week after she went missing from a Cambodian island, police told Agence France-Presse on Thursday (Oct 31).
Amelia Bambridge was discovered in waters near the Thai border, said Chuon Narin, police chief of Preah Sihanouk province.
“We found the body of the missing British woman,” Narin said, adding it would be taken to nearby Sihanoukville.
He did not speculate what happened to her after she disappeared from a beach party on the island of Koh Rong on Oct 24, but earlier this week said she may have drowned.
Her brother Harry Bambridge confirmed in a Facebook post that he had identified the body.
“It’s my little sister Amelia,” he wrote. “There’s nothing more I wanted (than) to bring her back alive,” he said. “I’m sorry to you Amelia Bambridge the round is on me when we meet again in heaven.”
The discovery brings a tragic end to a desperate search involving more than 100 members of the police, army, navy and Bambridge’s relatives.
SINGAPORE – After buying a $237,000 five-room flat in 1997 with a man who was not related to her, Madam Tan Chor Hong was the only one making the mortgage payments for the past two decades.
In December 2018, co-owner Ng Cheng Hock returned from Japan after spending 18 years in prison there for drug offences.
Madam Tan, 63, said he created disturbances at the flat and sent her death threats, prompting her to apply to court for the property, now worth $450,000, to be sold.
Mr Ng, 59, said that he had agreed to be a co-owner of the flat in order to help Madam Tan – his friend’s mistress – secure a roof over her head.
His only monetary contribution was an initial payment about $7,900 from his CPF account, which was 3.3 per cent of the purchase price. He was later compensated $5,000 in cash.
But he argued that his contribution towards the purchase price was 43.4 per cent, which is worth about $170,000.
Madam Tan said he should get only 5 per cent of the proceeds – about $20,000- based on their respective shareholding indicated in documents and the land titles register.
SINGAPORE – A snake not seen in Singapore for over 172 years was spotted in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve last month, according to a report filed on Thursday (Oct 31).
Dr John van Wyhe, a senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore, found the lined blind snake, also known by its scientific name Ramphotyphlops lineatus, dead on a bike trail at the nature reserve on Sept 16.
Striped and worm-like, but over 50cm in length, the black snake’s discovery changes its previous status of “indeterminate” – or in need of verification – to “extant”, now that its existence has been definitively recorded here in modern times.
“It was quite unexpected to find it in Singapore since it is an uncommonly seen species even in Malaysia,” said Mr Law Ing Sind, who helped identify the snake. “We still don’t know the current population size or how that population is distributed in Singapore.”
The 23-year-old co-founder of the Herpetological Society of Singapore, an enthusiast group for the study of reptiles and amphibians, said the features and habits of the lined blind snake could explain its elusiveness.
SINGAPORE: Three people were rescued from a fire that broke out in a flat in Bukit Batok early on Friday (Nov 1), the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said.
In a Facebook post, SCDF said that it responded to a residential unit fire on the 13th floor of Block 210A Bukit Batok Street 21 at 4.31am.
SCDF firefighters had to do a “forced entry” to gain access to the flat.
A woman in her 60s was rescued from a toilet, while a man in his 60s and another man in his 30s were found standing on the ledge outside the kitchen window.
Firefighters from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) responding to a fire that broke out in a flat in Bukit Batok on Nov 1, 2019. (Photo: Facebook/SCDF)
“A vast accumulation of items in the kitchen limited the working space for the firefighters,” said SCDF.
“This, coupled with the two men being highly exhausted, prevented the firefighters from pulling them safely into the unit.”
A 60m ladder was then deployed to conduct an aerial rescue.
Firefighters secured the two men with ropes from within the unit, before rescuers from SCDF’s elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) rappelled from the unit above and moved the two men into the ladder’s rescue cage.
The men were then lowered to the ground where they were attended to by paramedics.
Subsequently, the three people were brought to the Singapore General Hospital for burn injuries and smoke inhalation.
“FIRE WAS BIG AND FIERCE”
A witness, who declined to be named, told CNA that he heard screaming and shouting coming from the flat when the fire first broke out.
Residents from the block, he said, were evacuated while the fire was being put out by the SCDF.
“The fire was big and fierce,” said the witness, adding that the area smelled very strongly of smoke.
According to the witness, the fire burned for nearly half an hour before it was extinguished between 5.30am and 5.40am. Residents were told to return to their homes at about 6.15am.
The fire involved contents of the unit and is under investigation.
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