A 35-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman will be charged in court on 10 November 2022 for their suspected involvement in separate cases of shop theft.

1. On 4 January 2022, the Police were alerted to a case of theft at a petrol kiosk along Geylang Road. A 35-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Preliminary investigations revealed that the man was in possession of a wireless charger, valued at $49.90, which was from the petrol kiosk. The man will be charged with one count of theft-in-dwelling under Section 380 of the Penal Code 1871.
   
2. On 12 July 2022, the Police were alerted to a case of theft at Plaza Singapura. A 67-year-old woman was arrested at the scene. Preliminary investigations revealed that the woman had, in her possession, various items from multiple shops located at the shopping mall, and taken bottle of tone-up cream from a store at Junction 8 on 3 June 2022. The items had an estimated total value of more than $500. The woman will be charged with five counts of theft-in-dwelling under Section 380 of the Penal Code 1871.

In addition, Tan Wee Siong (“Tan”), a 42-year-old man, was convicted in court on 23 September 2022, and sentenced to 31 months’ imprisonment, for his involvement in a series of theft-in-dwelling cases. Between June and July 2022, the Police received multiple reports of items stolen from shops at multiple shopping centres. The locations include People’s Park Complex, Funan Mall, Chinatown Point, and Parkway Parade. The stolen items had an estimated total value of more than $1,800.

Through follow-up investigations and with the aid of images from CCTVs and Police cameras, officers from the Central Police Division and Bedok Police Division established the identity of Tan and arrested him on 10 July 2022. He was charged in court on 11 July 2022, and subsequently convicted for:

1. Five counts of theft-in-dwelling under Section 380 of the Penal Code 1871; and
   
2. One count of theft-in-dwelling with common intention under Section 380 read with Section 34 of the Penal Code 1871.

The offence of theft-in-dwelling under Section 380 of the Penal Code 1871 carries an imprisonment term of up to seven years and a fine.

When it comes to family, they are considered the most important and trusted by most people. But some incidents contradict the statement and raise an eyebrow.

A father is facing 13 charges of sexual offences for allegedly committing against his own biological daughter.

From 2012 to 2019

The alleged incidents happened to the girl from when she was 4 years old till she was 12 years old.

It started when she was still in kindergarten and he allegedly told her to perform an “act” on him in the toilet.

When she was in primary school, he allegedly started showing her indecent videos/content.

When she was between primary 4 to primary 6, he allegedly raped her and performed a number of acts on her in various locations such as at home multiple times, in the car and in the office.

According to Straits Times, the 36-year-old father is contesting the charges.

Here are some of the charges he faces:

• rape
• aggravated sexual assault by penetration
• showing pornography to his daughter.

The incident came to light when she told her friends and one of her friends told the victim’s mother and the school was alerted, The trial takes place in the High Court and some of her friends are witnesses, reported CNA.

In total there are 46 witnesses, which include school staff.

The girl is now 15 years old now and the father cannot be named to protect the identity of the daughter.

A video emerged online showing a couple of drivers having a dispute at Tuas Second Link during a traffic jam, and a little girl from the backseat flashed a middle finger at the OP.

The second driver had hit the first driver’s car, according to 8World News, and resulted in them having an argument.

The OP who posted the video onto Facebook, said that the other driver had hit their car and acted as though he had done nothing wrong.

The OP then scolded the driver and the girl at the backseat who flashed a middle finger at them.

A video also showed the other driver appearing to be squeezing into their lane, with the OP asking the other driver angrily why was he cutting into their lane when they didn’t do the same to him?

Both sides then threatened to report the incident to the police.

The OP then asked their driver to “just hit the other driver” so they can lodge a police report and claim his insurance.

Update: The OP’s Facebook post has since been taken down.

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) announced on 9 November that more than 11,000 of their employees would be laid off, in line with the layoffs at other tech companies such as Twitter and Microsoft, according to CNBC.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that those who are affected would receive a severance package.

Explaining his reason for the mass firing of employees, Zuckerberg cited high inflation rates and a weak advertising market as the reason.

“Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected.”

“I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that. I know this is tough for everyone, and I’m especially sorry to those impacted.”

He also called the higher investments in e-commerce a “big mistake”.

During the pandemic, Meta hired aggressively due to a huge increase in social media usage, and their workforce rose to 87,000 workers at the end of September.

Retrenched workers will get a severance package of 16 weeks of base pay, with an additional 2 weeks for every year of service, and the company will also pay for all of the remaining time off.

According to sources on LinkedIn, the layoffs have also affected Meta employees in Singapore, with at least 10 employees fired.

A couple in Malaysia were forced by their parents to throw a lavish and expensive wedding, and they took a loan of RM40,000 (SGD$11,927) to do so.

6 months into their marriage and after their wedding, the couple is now struggling to repay the loan that they took out for the extravagant wedding.

A woman shared her confession on the Emosi Twitter page and said that she had been crying because of this instead of enjoying her marital bliss.

She said that it all started when she and her husband took a loan for their wedding and that they are working ordinary jobs as a contract worker and a clerk respectively.

The couple had wanted to have a small wedding with about 100 people, but her parents said that they have many relatives who would be offended if they didn’t invite them.

Her husband (then fiance) then spoke to her parents and they told him that they wanted to invite about 1,000 people and want the wedding to be held at a hotel.

They then suggested the couple take a personal loan for the wedding, which her husband then did so to fulfil her parents’ wishes.

But they are now struggling to repay the loan and are working extra jobs just to pay it back, with her husband working as a food delivery person after he returns home from work.

The woman is also doing online dropshipping to earn some extra money to pay back the loan, and they are regretting taking the loan for the wedding and bowing down to their parents’ pressure.

Derita buat loan utk majlis kahwin. Hidup tak bahagia, asyik fikir hutang. pic.twitter.com/JJshVgbQSH

— Emosi (@ConfessTweetMY) November 8, 2022