According to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), they managed to foil an attempt at importing nightstick.

On 13 May, vigilant ICA officers at Pasir Panjang Scanning Station foiled an attempt to import 3 nightsticks and their accessories via an inbound container without a valid licence.

Our officers had noticed anomalies in the scanned images of the container and an unstuffing operation was conducted at the importer’s premises. The nightsticks were uncovered in a consignment declared as ‘sports equipment’.

The case was referred to Singapore Police Force for further investigation.

Penalties:

The import, export and transhipment of arms, explosives and explosives precursors are regulated under the Arms and Explosives Act 1913.

Under Section 13(1) of the Arms and Explosives Act 1913, no person shall, unless authorised thereto by licence, and in accordance with the conditions of the licence and such other conditions as may be prescribed:

• have in his possession or under his control any gun, arms, explosives, poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance;
• import any gun, arms, explosives, poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance;
• export any gun, arms, explosives, naval or military stores, poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance; or
• manufacture or deal in guns, arms, explosives, poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance.

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction:

in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $100,000; and

in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

A netizen shared a story about how he ended up with two different types of STDs after spending a night with a prostitute.

Here is the story

“I lost my job a few months ago and was on a downward spiral, my savings were getting depleted very quickly and my job search was going nowhere.

The nail in the coffin was when I received the news that my mother was diagnosed with stage 1 cancer, which is curable, so there’s some semblance of hope.

My girlfriend of 4 years also told me that she wanted to break up with me because she felt like our relationship was going nowhere.

I felt hopeless in life, as though everything was coming to an end in the worst possible way, and I desperately needed an outlet, or at least something to make myself feel good.

And I was down to my last cent, I couldn’t even afford to top up my ezlink card to go for job interviews, that’s how bad it was.

I borrowed about $600 from a friend to tide me over, and I went out for some drinks and to just distract myself for a little while.

After drinking, I decided to book an escort to “release” some stress. This Taiwan woman charged me $600 for an overnight session, but I managed to haggle the price down to $500.

We slept together that night and we didn’t even use condoms, and the next morning I went home feeling a little better and confident, as I resumed my job search.

A few weeks later I started noticing that it burns when I urinate, and I was also oozing a little bit of pus.

So naturally I got worried, and I then went to get myself tested, and the results came back stating that I had both gonorrhoea and syphilis.

I thought to myself, “this cannot be happening”, how the f could I get two STDs at once, and why the f is this happening now, of all times.

I really don’t know what to do, I’ve been on medication ever since and nobody in my life knows about this yet.

My mother is sick, my girlfriend has already left me, I’m still jobless and now I have two STDs. If God wants to play a joke on me, he really played an epic one this time.”

Editor’s note: You’ve hit rock bottom, so bottom that you might even be underground. But on the bright side, it can’t get any worse and things can only look up from here on out.

Getting disbarred means losing the right to practise law. Meaning he can’t be a lawyer in Singapore.

According to Today, the offender was a local graduate and finished with the highest distinction.

Netizens pitched in and said: “It seems like many of such cases often are highly educated individuals of high IQ but zero EQ. Meaning total no self-control.”

Chief Justice Menon said:

“His misconduct was not a temporary aberration, but evinced disturbing predatory instincts, which cannot be tolerated in society, much less among members of an honourable profession,”

Even though he has completed serving his sentence, a judge ruled that he will be disbarred from practising law. (May 19).

Background:

The lawyer worked in one of the largest legal firms in Singapore, he was previously jailed 4 weeks after he was caught taking compromising photos of his female co-worker.

The incident took place back in April 2017, He took upskirt photos and downblouse photos of his colleague.

He placed his handphone over the neck of his colleague and took photos of the woman’s top from above.

He even showed the photos to another lawyer and returned later to take upskirt photos of his colleague.

There were multiple incidents where he took advantage of the situation and took photos of the victim.

He was eventually caught by the victim doing so and it became a police matter.

A video of a very long queue was filmed and circulating on social media. The queue was at the ICA building and the video was captioned with the text that it was at 6.30 AM

Even an hour later, the queue was still very long.

@ahbengloh89

The queue for passport renewal at ICA now

♬ original sound Ah Beng Commentator

Netizens speak their mind:

I renewed mine online and had it sent to the post office. Is that option no longer available?

This is for people that are appealing for urgent approval. Because of all the appeals, mine got pushed back/delayed too for almost 2 months and I had to queue to get my passport in time for a trip

Sigh. Wish people wouldn’t kiasu so much. Now, some of these people probably do need to go travel urgently but am willing to bet most don’t and could just wait for another 2 weeks or a month or something.

Everyone rushing to get theirs for school holidays? Since now without cutting queue it’s two months waiting period, everyone queuing to cut queue

According to the Ministry of Health, all the local and imported cases of Covid-19 in April (those that underwent genome-wide sequencing) were found to be the Omicron variants.

MOH said on 19 May that 99% of the local cases were the BA.2 strains, including the BA.2.12.1; while the remaining 1% were the BA.1 sub-variant.

98% of the imported cases were from the BA.2 sub-variants, 1% being the BA.1 sub-variants and the other 1% being the recombinant lineages including the XJ and XE strains, which are hybrids of the BA.1 and BA.2 sub-variants.

Two of the imported cases were infected with the BA.4 strain, and MOH also detected two local cases on 15 May with the BA.4 sub-variant, and one case of the BA.5 sub-variant (local).

All three of the cases are confirmed to be the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants, which has been described as a variant of concern by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

MOH also reported 4,578 new cases on Thursday, a reduction from 6,442 cases on Wednesday.

Hospitalisations remained at 302, with 8 patients in the ICU and 49 needing oxygen supplementation, along with 2 deaths.

The week on week infection rate also rose to 1.14, up from 1.05 from a day before.