An operation was conducted to locate a drowning man by the authorities, and a video of the incident was uploaded on TikTok and Facebook.

According to the TikTok video, a search and rescue operation was conducted on April 15 along East Coast Park at night.

Police officers and Paramedics could be seen in the area with a large crowd watching.

A netizen who was on the scene said that boats and divers were on scene and the area was cordoned off with Police tape.

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According to Mothership, the supposedly drowned man was found alive elsewhere.

CCTV footage of at a Sheng Siong supermarket has gone viral, a woman who was seen stacking boxes near a travellator but later leaving it unattended and knocking down two people from behind.

The Chase

The staff was seen chasing the trolley but could not catch it in time. After the first woman was knocked down the staff ran past her hoping to chase after it only to hit a second person that was at the bottom of the escalator.

The timestamp of the video indicated that is happened in 25 Feb 2022 at around 1550 HRS.

Netizens:

• Since beginning of video, the way she’s handling boxes is very sloppy, lazy and careless, she didn’t even care if trolley is closer to slopped escalator and lazy to lock the wheels.

• Common sense is not common anymore. Hope the lady is not hurt badly.

• Nobody noticed that there was another person at the bottom of the travellator n given that it was rolling down the slope at speed which wld cause more injury, it make more sense for the lady to run down after it to stop it. While her other colleague pressed the emergency stop

• Please kindly install stopper lever, for all good trolley and put to lock position, whenever necessary. For safety

• Very very careless. Why unload near a slope?? Never take precaution!

A Poly student was sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to rape.

22-year-old Johnson Hong Siang Yeu met a 17-year-old polytechnic through a mobile dating app and invited the girl over to his home for “guitar lessons”

According to Today News, the accused and victim met on OkCupid. After pleading guilty to rape, Hong, now 22, was sentenced to seven years in prison and four strokes of the cane on Tuesday (April 19).

He was also fined S$2,000 for breaching Covid-19 rules by leaving his home to meet the victim without a reasonable excuse. This was during the circuit breaker period in 2020 when movements and activities were restricted to curb the pandemic.

Background

He asked her to his Woodlands flat on the evening of May 9, 2020, to teach her how to play the guitar. It was their first encounter.

She agreed to meet him outside the flat on a stairwell landing in order to “keep things friendly” between them, and she arrived after midnight.

After about an hour, Hong suggested going to his bedroom, which had air conditioning. She consented as she was sweating, and sat at the corner of his mattress.

Hong then suggested giving her a massage and the victim fell asleep, shortly after the victim fell asleep he hug and molested her. The victim woke up and told Hong to stop.

Hong did not stop and raped her with no protection, the victim cried and told Hong to stop.

She eventually left his place at around 4.15AM and Hong apologised to the victim stating that he wished that the incident could be kept between them.

A motorcyclist was hit by a car at Sumang Walk(Punggol) on 18 April 2022 at around 1817 HRS.

After the rider was knocked down, pedestrians quickly came forward to help the injured man.

Reckless or dangerous driving

If death was caused, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 8 years. If grievous hurt was caused, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than one year and not more than 5 years.

Here are what netizens think:

• Hope the footage owner assist in the investigation. The offender will definitely tell a different story. From the footage, the driver seem nonchalant about the accident, it’s those pedestrians & other drivers that are helping out the rider.

• 2nd lane want to make a U turn. You’re unbelievable.

• Driver tried to make an illegal turn from the left lane that’s not even a right turning lane. Motorist was wrong place, wrong time. With that sudden turn out of nowhere, of course the motorist didn’t have enough time to react because he was probably looking to his right checking for blindspot, before turning.

Taipei – Taiwan may begin permitting quarantine-free entrance to travelers from countries with similar rates of COVID-19 infection as early as July, according to Health Minister Chen Shih-Chung.

If the seven-day or 14-day infection rates on in both Taiwan and country which are arriving “there can be (quarantine-) free travel,” Chen stated at a parliamentary hearing when asked if present entrance requirements might be loosened by the start of summer vacation in July by legislator Tsai Pi-ru ().

However, when questioned whether Taiwan would gradually ease its border restrictions by July, Chen replied, “yes.”

“The pandemic is subsiding in many areas of the world, but the situation in Taiwan is worsening. By July, we might be in a situation comparable to other countries “He stated.

When that moment comes, Chen added, Taiwan would determine entrance requirements depending on a country’s COVID-19 condition for the previous seven or 14 days, keeping limitations in place for high-risk places.

Places with a mild COVID-19 scenario “may not be as eager on bringing in Taiwanese vacationers,” Chen added. “However, we should have no trouble welcoming visitors from those nations.”

Chen, speaking at the Central Epidemic Command Center’s (CECC) regular news briefing on Sunday, projected that Taiwan might witness an overall infection rate of 15-16 percent, similar to Hong Kong or New Zealand, with over 3 million confirmed cases.

Taiwan reduced the quarantine time for arriving passengers and the isolation period for contacts of COVID-19 patients from 14 to 10 days on March 7, and also started allowing persons to quarantine at home if they live alone or are elderly.

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a statement on Facebook that ICA officers foiled a smuggling attempt.

ICA officers noticed anomalies in a Malaysia-registered lorry transporting an empty bowser tank, and discovered 3,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes.

Here is what they said

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On 14 April, ICA officers at Tuas checkpoint foiled an attempt to smuggle 3,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes into Singapore via a Malaysia-registered lorry transporting an empty bowser tank.

Our officers noticed anomalies in the scanned images and directed the lorry for further checks. Their suspicions were confirmed when they uncovered duty-unpaid cigarettes in the tank.

The case was referred to Singapore Customs for further investigation. The Malaysian lorry driver involved was charged in court on 16 April.

Safeguarding Singapore’s borders is a top priority for ICA. Similar concealment methods may also be used by terrorists to smuggle security items into Singapore. ICA will continue to conduct security checks to detect and deter smuggling attempts, to keep Singapore safe.

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