SIA, Scoot, and many international airlines have rerouted their air travel routes to avoid Afghanistan after the Taliban gained control of the capital in Afghanistan.
Usually, SIA and Scoot flights would fly pass Afghanistan to and from Europe.
However, all these have changed since 15 August 2021 this year.
Normally, it flies pass Afghanistan around the middle of the journey as seen in the map below
However a check on 15 August shows that SIA has actually rerouted its journey, taking an hour more than usual to arrive in Singapore.
Second rerouted flight
SQ308, SIA’s flight from Singapore to London was also noticed to have rerouted its journey away from Afghanistan.
They took the more southern road instead of flying straight over Afghanistan, opting to go pass Saudi Arabia and Egypt before flying straight North up to London.
SIA was also quoted by Channel News Asia that they are “currently not traversing” airspace over Afghanistan and they will monitor and review the situation closely and make appropriate adjustments to the flight path.
Many international airlines also seen avoiding Afghan airspace
A further check on the flight path pattern on most international airlines also have shown that they are all avoiding Afghan airspace.
You can see that they are all rerouting and choosing to fly pass neighbouring Pakistan and Iran instead, and there is a “big hole” in the picture over Afghanistan.
Reason airlines are avoiding Afghan airspace
In view of the ongoing chaos and turmoil ongoing in Afghanistan where the Taliban has taken over city after city, it is no doubt that commercial aircrafts will try to avoid airspaces of war-torn countries.
These comes after previous cases of commercial aircrafts being shot down after flying over areas with conflict ongoing.
For example in 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers on boad.
More recently in 2020, a Ukrainian International Airlines plane flying over Iran was shot down by missiles. All 176 on board passed away tragically.
This is something unexpected as most of the time people normally assume that the subscribers will be men instead of a woman.
Here is the story:
I just found out that my girlfriend is subscribed to 2 GUY OnlyFans accounts! I thought only guys will subscribe to OnlyFans so I was shocked when I found out that my girlfriend is subscribed to 2 guy OnlyFans accounts.
One is a white guy and the other is an Asian guy. Both are straight P stars and look like your typical P star, big muscle, six-pack and well hung. Their content is pretty much your typical P, lots of s*x with different girls.
My girlfriend doesn’t know that I know about her OnlyFans subscription as I accidentally stumbled upon them. She doesn’t strike me as someone with a high s*x drive and I also never hear her gush over guys with big muscles before. So this discovery really came as a shock to me.
In comparison, I’m quite average looking, average physique and my manhood not as big as those OnlyFans stars. So I feel quite insecure knowing that my girlfriend is paying money to see these 2 guys in action. For context, I have been together with my girlfriend for over two years. We used to have s*x once a week during the honeymoon phase but now that our relationship is more mature, our s*x frequency is about once a month. So I think we are quite a typical Singaporean couple.
We are both in our mid-twenties so I was planning to marry her within the next few years but after finding out that she subscribes to OnlyFans, I feel hesitant.
Earlier today MOH reported the 8th death case that occurred in August.
Case 67329, a 90-year-old male Singaporean, has passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection on 17 August 2021.
He had developed symptoms on 29 July, and was detected when he was tested for COVID-19 on 1 August as part of our community surveillance testing.
The following day, he developed shortness of breath and giddiness and was conveyed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he was admitted directly to the ICU for septic shock from COVID-19 pneumonia.
He had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but was advanced in age and had a history of chronic kidney disease and hypertension.Â
In total, 45 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.
A 39-year-old lady barricaded herself in an apartment for three hours during one such operation in Ang Mo Kio.
According to Shin Min Daily News, she was finally arrested under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act.
CNB officers raided a flat in Block 245 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 at approximately 3.20 pm on August 16 as part of an operation, according to Shin Min Daily News.
A 39-year-old lady, on the other hand, refused to answer the door and reportedly threatened to cause harm to herself.
A show that is based on those who are smuggling illegal items featured a Singaporean woman.
But her accent does not sound like a Singaporean but she holds a Singapore passport. She claims that she is working as a full-time teacher but she was caught with a bag full of cigarettes.
At least a few thousand sticks of cigarettes were found in her luggage. Australia is known for expensive cigarettes. Even more expensive than Singapore.
A job ad that was posted on MyCareersFuture and states that the salary is $1 a monthly.
As part of MOM’s rule for fair consideration framework, employers must first advertise on MyCareersFuture and fairly consider all candidates before employing S pass workers.
However, this website has been deemed by many job seekers as a waste of time as most people do not even get a response by applying for jobs from there. It is unclear how effective the job portal is.
Editor notes: I used to apply at this website, I applied 100 over roles and I got 0 responses.
The Changi NPC has posted a post on Facebook warning of scammers using Police images in their Whatsapp to cheat unsuspecting people.
Here is what they said:
The Police would like to alert members of the public to a variant of banking-related phishing scams where scammers would pose as officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on messaging applications.
These scammers would misuse publicly available pictures of SPF officers to validate their identity, in order to convince victims that they were under investigations to get them to provide their banking details.
In this variant, the victims received unsolicited calls via WhatsApp from a WhatsApp account with a profile picture showing SPF officers. During the conversation with victims, the scammer would also provide a SPF name card as proof of his identity.
The victims would be informed that their bank accounts had been found to be involved in criminal activity and were frozen.
Under the pretext of facilitating the release of victims’ bank accounts, the scammer would instruct the victim to provide their bank account details, credit or debit card details, and One-Time Passwords (OTPs).
Victims only realised that they had fallen prey to a scam when they received notifications informing them that money had been transferred from their bank accounts to bank accounts unfamiliar to them or when they discovered unknown transactions made using their credit or debit card.
This year, the Police have received at least 200 reports of banking-related phishing scams where SPF officers were impersonated.
The Police would like to emphasize that SPF officers will never request for bank account details and OTPs from members of the public.
Members of the public are advised to take the following precautions when they receive unsolicited calls to surrender money or banking credentials to others in order to avoid criminal investigations:
1. Ignore such calls and the caller’s instructions.
2. No local government agency will demand payment through an undocumented medium like a telephone call or other social messaging platforms, demand that you surrender cash to unnamed persons, or ask you for personal banking information such as your internet banking passwords.
3. Never share your bank account details, credit or debit card details and OTPs with anyone;
4. If in doubt, call ‘999’ or approach a police officer at the Neighbourhood Police Centre near you.
If you have information related to such cases, please call the Police hotline at 1800-255-0000, or submit it online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.
Please dial ‘999’ if you require urgent Police assistance.
For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline at 1800-722-6688.
Join the ‘Spot the Signs. Stop the Crimes’ campaign at www.scamalert.sg/fight by signing up as an advocate to receive up-to-date messages and share them with your family and friends.
Together, we can help stop scams and prevent our loved ones from becoming the next victim.
A netizen shared a story online after they have been tolerating their neighbours for the past 10 years. Imagine hearing this kind of thing at your home at night.
Here is the story:
From morning till night and now almost 2 am. Knocking. Like this since 2011. Already go CMC same thing happen again and again. On off.
Coming to 10 years ( in August this year). If it is a ghost, does a ghost know how to use a hammer & drill? Sometimes we go down and check and light on in their house.
When we call the police and the police knock on their door, the sound will stop but the police said the door is not open ( as sometimes they feedback to us). This is a soft sound sometimes it can be louder than this in the early morning. We ignore when in the afternoon they knock but when it is done during night time who can stand with it for years. It will not stop for a day it will continue for days.
During the public holidays, weekends are much more worse. Not only this knocking sound, drilling sound at 11 pm also ever happened. Not to mention other noises. 2 court orders are not enough for them.
