According to a media release by the ICA, ICA officers at Air Cargo Command discovered 5,800 tablets of sexual enhancement products.
The documents attached to the enhancement products was declared as “toolbox”. This is a case of false declaration and importing of illegal medication to Singapore.
The parcels were discovered on a lorry and the case has been referred to Health Science authorities for further investigation.
We can only imagine, what other weird items the ICA officer find. We are sure it has been a ‘hard’ day for the officers on duty.
A 35-year-old male was sentenced to 12 years jail and 15 strokes of the rotan after assaulting a 13-year-old girl with special needs.
The 35-year-old was unhappy with his 39-year-old girlfriend when he did not receive a satisfactory answer when he requests for sex from her and turned to her 13-year-old daughter.
The man was staying with his 39-year-old girlfriend and a 13-year-old at a unit located in Sembawang. Due to gag, order no names can be mentioned to protect the victim.
The incident happened back in March 2017, the 35-year-old who had just smoked some methamphetamine (Street names: Meth, Crank, Crystal, Ice, Speed) wanted to have sex with his girlfriend but did not receive a satisfactory reply from her.
On the 28th of March 2017, when the mother was out for work. The man went into the bedroom of the girl and lock the door.
He then threatened the girl with a lighter and told her that he would pour acid on her if she does not comply with his orders.
The man started to molest the girl and eventually removed the girls clothing and raped her.
Later in evening, the girl told the mother what had happened. The mother confronted her boyfriend and he did not admit to what the girl had claimed.
It was then the mother called the Police and lead to the arrest of the man.
According to the media, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced at a PAP convention that the GST will increase from 7% to 9% in the year somewhere between 2021 and 2025.
He added the following statements:
“The responsible thing to do is to be upfront, and tell the people that it will happen. This is what integrity means. We don’t hide from difficult truths”
“If I don’t bring it up, the opposition parties definitely will – so it’s better that you hear it directly from me.”
More details of the GST support package will be announced in next year’s budget.
‼️A fellow cat feeder has been assaulted last night‼️
Description of the offender: – Indian Man in his 30s – Slim Build & Tall – Short & Curly Hair – Wearing White Tee & Dark Colored Pants – Incident took place at Blk 363B Sembawang Cresent – Driving a rented black Volkswagen
Please beware if you’re feeding in the area. This case is now undergoing police investigation. Victim will update me and I’ll update this post too. Do help keep each other safe while keeping our comm cats safe.
What do u do if u happen to be in a same situation.
1. Do not attempt to argue/fight/show violence.
2. Try to take photo/video of the offender without him/her knowing.
3. Call police immediately.
4. Post on cat groups to create awareness. U can don’t reveal exact personal info of the offender. U can mention location, block number, description of the person etc.. For example:
A 30-35 year old bespectacled Chinese man of about 1.7m built living or was visiting block 888 at AMK Ave 8.
5. Lastly, try to feed cats away from heavy traffic. Lead them to quiet corners of the estate.
Please, never ever try to take matters into your hand and get arrogant w the offender as the cats will suffer when u are not there to protect them. Do the right things and stay safe.
[EDIT 1]: Yes, the next time I go back to T2, I will go make a police report. In light of how it went down yesterday, I was just too tired to want to deal with it immediately.
[Edit 2]: Look. At the end of the day, if you don’t want to read the whole story, just read the last paragraph. In summary: I was not going to physically engage/shove a who I believe was a mentally unsound person. God knows how he would have reacted- that isn’t something I wanted to deal with. Furthermore, just because he behaved in such a manner does not justify me using force against him. Anyway, I just feel like the police could have done better in handling the situation in light of the complaints – and since they allow such conduct to go unpunished, this man may continue doing this and cause others to feel uncomfortable. All I ask is that we take such matters more seriously.
[(hopefully, final) Edit 3]: Perhaps I was not sufficiently clear in what I was trying to bring across. Indeed, maybe the policemen really could not have done anything in the circumstances, given the current regulations they have set in place for their modus operandi. Fair enough. I’m not sure that is the case.
Nevertheless, if that is really so, surely there has to be an intermediate option for recourse for victims such as myself, that lies between law enforcement doing absolutely nothing in the situation because their hands are tied, and me bringing a lawsuit against this disabled man which is unlikely to result in any substantial damages (this is really not worth the money or time). Long story short, things need to change. Be it the current regulations for how the police deal with such situations, or how society views problems such as these, the present situation is just unsatisfactory as a whole.]
From approximately 2130h on 9/11/2019 to 0500h on 10/11/2019, I believe I was the victim of unlawful stalking, at Terminal 2 of Changi Airport.
Here is a detailed recount of the events as I best remember them, corroborated with photographic evidence (face censored) of my stalker.
At approximately 2100h on Saturday (9/11), my girlfriend and I headed to our regular overnight study spot at Changi Airport T2, O’Coffee Club. This is a regular late-night study joint frequented by many students, ranging from secondary school students (mostly in the day) and university or polytechnic students. We sat at one of the high tables.
As we proceeded to the cashier to purchase our drinks, I noticed that there was a male individual that appeared to be around 60 years old, with little to no hair, dressed in a McDonald’s uniform, sitting at the corner of the store and was staring at me. He also had some form of apparent disability, but I’m no expert on the matter. All of this raised some eyebrows, but I decided to make little of it at the time. After all, he does have every right to be there, and look at anyone he wants. Fair game.
However, things took a turn for the worse as the night progressed. Shortly after, I went to the nearby E-Gadget Mini shop that was next to O’Coffee Club to purchase a charging wire for my earphones. It was only after I made my purchase that I realised that the same man was standing outside the shop, staring directly at me from the outside and was quite clearly, and intentionally, loitering outside the store waiting for me to come out.
When I made my exit, I attempted to scurry past him but he quickened his footsteps to intercept me. Initially, he asked me questions about my age, whether I was schooling, what kind of house I stayed in, whether I stayed with my parents, and some other things that quite frankly I could not be bothered to understand. After a while, my patience developed into irritation as I did not want to entertain him any longer – I had a lot of work to get on to do.
Again, while this made me feel slightly uncomfortable, I decided to dismiss this incident as one of an old, perhaps lonely man that wanted some company. I told my girlfriend to keep an eye out on the man’s behaviour for me, as my back was facing away from him as him and I returned to our respective seats at O’Coffee Club.
Not long after, at approximately 2300h, I made my way to the toilet. I had not noticed him following behind me, and neither did my girlfriend. It was only after I had relieved myself and went to wash my hands, did the same man walk into the toilet and stared at me from the sink. He proceeded to watch me as he washed his hands.
I felt terribly uncomfortable at this point and hid inside the toilet cubicle, and proceeded to text my girlfriend for help. She approached a member of the airport staff, and after 10 minutes, by instruction of the airport staff, I attempted to brisk walk out of the toilet towards her. Upon my exit of the cubicle, he instantly followed me and tried to show me something on his phone. He spoke in Chinese and with my poor grasp of the language combined with my refusal to listen to what he was trying to say, I did not make out what he wanted from me.
It was clear that the man knew his actions were problematic. He immediately backed off from us when he saw I went to the airport staff, and we noticed how he quickly packed his items and left towards the other side of the airport. At the same time, while we stood there waiting for the advice from the member of the airport staff’s supervisor, it became just as clear to me that the man was either obnoxiously brazen or just (by conjecture) mentally unsound, as he proceeded to wave directly at me from the other end of the airport.
For reference, we were stood next to LlaoLlao, and he stood at Golden Duck.
I was brought to the police station, and it was there that in the company of the airport staff that I reported the incident to two policemen returning from what appeared to be their dinner break. I gave them the brief laydown of the situation, and in response they asked me to show them where he was. The airport staff informed them that he was on the upper floor, and was walking upstairs presumably to look for me from a height. The police confronted the man, and ensured that he took the lift down before returning to talk to me. I was told that because he was quite clearly mentally unwell, and he was a member of the McDonalds staff, and that “when old people get lonely” they can do strange things. I understood, and I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, if he had truly left the airport, I would have had no further qualms.
However, it was not long after that he appeared once again, this time, sitting at the benches at the other side outside O’Coffee Club, and resumed his staring act. Acting on the advice of the police, I called them again to ask them for help. They eventually arrived and confronted the man, who insisted that he did nothing wrong and he had every right to do whatever he wanted in the circumstances.
This is exactly what was relayed to me by one Sergeant Teo who was accompanied by another policeman when they came to check on the situation. I was told that “unless he try to bang on the cubicle door and break it open”, the man had every right to do as he pleased, as “the airport is a public space”. I insisted that perhaps this could have been an ambiguous incident, but his acts of loitering outside the gadget shop, as well as loitering INSIDE the toilet waiting for me to come out for 10 minutes – must surely count towards something that they could have relied on as justification to remove him from the premises. To my dismay, they disagreed. That’s right, instead of doing anything concrete and ensuring the safety of members of the public, they just let it be instead of ensuring that the man leave the premises and stop harassing me.
They told me that he promised not to do anything anymore, and he had to leave for work at 2a.m. So, I endured. True enough, he left for work at 2am, so I continued studying as per normal. However, the story didn’t end there. The man returned at 4am and took up the same spot. We left shortly after at 4:30am, and it was at that moment that when we decided to head out towards the exit doors, that we realised he was following me once more. We took momentary respite at the smoking area, only to realise that he was walking up and down to try and locate me. He went to great lengths, even walking on the road to try and look for me but I took care to stay out of his sights behind the potted plants. He marshalled the area with such intent that I had to walk along the side of the road down to the basement floor, to make my way to the taxi stand. Had I actually gone past him to the lifts, in all likelihood he would have seen me and approached me once more. I did not want to have to deal with that.
In retrospect, I could have confronted my stalker at the end of the night when he followed me again. I could have called the police on him again. But it was late, and I was drained and I had a lot of things to get on to so I needed the rest for the next day. I don’t think it is fair and just that as the victim, I had to remove myself from the premises when I felt uncomfortable, because apparently, him loitering outside the toilet cubicles waiting for me to come out is lawful behaviour. Only when he uses force to break in, can law enforcement step in to ensure my safety, despite them already knowing of his previous behaviour? I find this proposition ludicrous and totally insensitive to the rights of the victim.
Under s 7 of the Protection from Harassment Act (PHA) (2015), stalking is prohibited. Under s 7(3), some acts or omissions, in particular circumstances, are ones associated with stalking:
– following the victim or a related person; – making any communication or attempting to make any communication by any means to the victim; – entering or loitering in any place (WHETHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE) outside or near the victim’s or a related person’s place of residence or place of business or any other place frequented by the victim or the related person; – keeping the victim or a related person under surveillance.
In closing, I believe that law enforcement can do better to protect the victims of unlawful stalking, or even harassment in such situations. It is not difficult, nor is it unjust to remove the perpetrator in such situations, when it is arguably clear and obvious that the perpetrator is deliberately engaging in such conduct. Surely, the police must be able to do something to help victims such as myself.
We deserve that the airport (being a public space as they said) is a safe environment and that my rights are protected. Indeed, the man had a disability, and he had every right to be where he was. The behaviour complained of, however, I believe was sufficient to justify his removal from the premises.
I would like to reiterate the fact that the police refused to do anything after I had explained the extent of the discomfort caused, and the lengths he went to just to follow me. Just because I am a man, doesn’t mean that I am less vulnerable to unlawful stalking or harassment, and just because he is disabled, does not mean that law enforcement should ‘give him the benefit of the doubt’ when what he is doing is clearly deliberate, and when it is clear he has the capability to be aware that his actions are wrong. Disability does not count towards the culpability or intention of the criminal, but rather, a mitigating factor in the circumstances – but it is not the role of the police to assess.
What do I want to achieve from this post? I want the police to take such cases more seriously, and ensure that they watch out for this McDonald’s employee just in case he decides to commit such acts against someone else — for other airport patrons’ safety. I want the police to be more alert and less dismissive. I don’t need monetary compensation or anything remedial of the sort but I hope that someone else will not feel like they have been out of options in a precarious situation like mine.
(I did not manage to get photos of him following me into the toilet, or the other incidents, but if I wanted to get witness corroboration, I can do so easily. Anyone from the man working at the gadget shop, to the lady who attended to me when I was escaping the toilet, would have seen his behaviour.)
The death toll for Dengue fever has climbed to a high of 18 deaths this year, 12 of the death cases happened in the past 4 months.
Update 13/11/19: Nowhere in the article We state that any death cases were in Choa Chu Kang, It meant death cases in the whole of Singapore.
And again as of today, it is still stated that Choa Chu Kang is still the highest in the whole of Singapore according to the NEA website (refer to NEA screenshot at the bottom).
According to NEA, Choa Chu Kang is now the number 1 Dengue cluster zone in Singapore.
As of today(11/11/2019), the amount of people that were caught with Dengue fever in the Choa Chu Kang cluster has climbed to 153 cases since start of the cluster(Correction: Updated 13/11/2019.)
Another video surfaced on Facebook and the Police has arrested local actor and singer Aliff Aziz at around 6.40 AM on the 10 November 2019.
Patrol officers at the area found Aliff Aziz drunk and were arguing another man along Orchard Road. He put up a struggle and was arrested for public nuisance.
He tried to resist and run away. But was later pinned down by the officers
According to a media release by the CNB, an operation against drug offenders was conducted on the 4th of November 2019 – 8 November 2019.
The operation against drug offenders was an island-wide operation
Ang Mo Kio
Bukit Batok
Bukit Panjang
Jurong
Pasir Ris
Senja
Tiong Bahru
Woodlands
and last but not least Yishun.
Group 1 Offenders
CNB officers caught two alleged drug traffickers, two Singaporean male, 38-year-old and 39-year-old on the 6th of November 2019 at Jalan Rengkam (Hougang Area).
The 38-year-old was seen entering a Black car and leaving with a blue plastic bag. The Black car left the scene soon after but another group of CNB officers was on their tail.
After collecting the blue plastic bag the 38-year-old entered another car that is parked at Hougang Street 31.
Image Source: CNB
CNB officers moved in and arrested both male suspects, finding 119 grams of Ice in the blue plastic bag.
Group 2 Offenders
CNB officers from the Special Task Force was assigned to tailed the Black Mercedes car, the Special Task Force managed to intercept and stop the vehicle at a junction located between Pasir Ris Drive 1 and Loyang Avenue.
According to the report, the Special Task Force was able to arrest the two suspect in the car, one 27-year-old and a 29-year-old was arrested. 5 grams of Ice and 10 Tablets of Ecstasy Tablets and a cash amount of $7585 was found.
It is believed that a drug deal happened earlier that lead the CNB to follow the black car.
It doesn’t end here.
A follow-up raid was continued at residential units from both groups finding even more drugs.
This would have been the beginning of a glowing review, unfortunately, it is not. I gave it 1 star because the villa got broken into on the last night of our stay.
We stayed from Sunday (3Nov) to Tuesday (5Nov). We were assigned to Lantana Villa, a 2 bedroom villa.
On Monday evening we were out for dinner at 8 pm and came back at 12mn and discovered very quickly that our things were stolen. We lost money and valuables with extremely high sentimental value. Front desk was informed and very soon we found traces of break-in — damaged window lock (windows are hidden by curtains), bathroom doors are unlocked, sliding doors are not working properly, safety deposit box is cranked open, etc….
I never knew a safety deposit box can be crank open that easily.
The past 3 days (today inclusive) has been upsetting and heart aching, as amongst the things stolen it included my wedding & engagement rings.
It is extremely upsetting to know that despite doing due diligence, i.e. keeping our valuables under lock & key, keeping valuables inside the safety deposit box provided in the room, ensuring doors all locked before leaving the villa, it is still not enough to prevent crime. The burglar(s) came with intent, knew his/her way around very well and obviously knew our whereabouts pretty well.
Why did I say the burglar(s) came with intent? It’s because they even had time to erase traces of their actions by keeping things in the original state as much as possible. It is hard to tell if we don’t pay attention at first glance. For e.g. The burglar(s) had time to break the luggage lock > open up the luggage > go through items that kept in pouches > take out my jewelry box (that’s inside one of the pouches > close the luggage and placed the damage lock back on to make it looks like the luggage has not been opened.
Perhaps they were hoping that we were out partying and will come back drunk and not notice things amiss until the next day and will be too late to do anything since as travelers we would naturally lean towards catching the flight home than go through the hassle at the police station. Well, we’ll never know the truth.
Throughout the ordeal, the hotel staff repeatedly assured us of their security protocol, how much they trust their staff, how this is the first break-in case in the entire 10 years of operations. From the facts I’ve seen, stories I have heard, how the staff reacted (doesn’t seem like a team who first dealt with break-in), I’m sorry but it is very hard to trust everything was said but I had hope that perhaps the local police will prove me wrong.
A police report has been made, CCTV footage has been checked, Bali Aroma is still following up with the police on the investigation and I’m waiting for the status updates. I thank the Duty Manager Heru for accompanying me to the police station and staying with me throughout when the issue was first reported.
I am disappointed at the level of security within the property and the state of the locks within the villa. I have not heard back from Bali Aroma on their service recovery plan and their follow-up investigation results. I wish their current staying guests all the best. I urge the owner to make improvements.
Yes, the villa is beautiful. Yes, the staff makes the stay very pleasant and welcoming. Yes, it oozes local Balinese charm but I want to caution that the extent of old school Balinese charm includes the choice of hardware, ie locks use for villa doors, bedroom doors, bathroom doors, and windows.
