A 42-year-old man, Chan Chee Kin, ex CFO of Midas Holdings, the aluminium alloy manufacturer, was sent to prison for four weeks on Monday for taking upskirt videos of women at Orchard Road on June 21, last year.

He was honoured as the best chief financial officer at the Singapore Corporate Awards in 2015. On Sept 25 this year, he pleaded guilty to two of four charges of using his mobile phone to take upskirt videos of women. Chan was at 313@Somerset mall when he saw one of the victims at around 1.25 pm that day. He turned on the video recording app on his mobile phone and stood behind the victim on the upriding escalator. He held his phone under the victim’s dress and took an upskirt video for 2½ minutes. He did it a total of three times.

At about 2.40pm, he was at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station when he saw another woman. He similarly stood behind her on an upriding escalator and took an upskirt video of her which lasted 52 seconds. He then followed the victim to Cold Storage supermarket at Plaza Singapura and continued filming her multiple times.

It was not known how he was identified, but he was eventually arrested that day. In both cases, Chan followed the victims to film them. For the second victim, it was more egregious as Chan had taken seven more videos of the victim after the first at the MRT escalator. A message had to be sent that Chan’s actions could not be condoned, the judge added.

Chan could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined on each charge of insulting modesty.

The SCDF reported that three cars were damaged in a fire in a multi-storey carpark in Toa Payoh on Tuesday morning. The SCDF were alerted to the fire at at the multi-storey carpark in Block 141A, Toa Payoh Lorong 2, at 6.45 am.

The fire was extinguished using two compressed air foam backpacks and a hosereel, said the SCDF. No one was injured. The SCDF said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. It was believed that a man was trying to jump-start his car when the fire occurred.

The three cars involved were a Subaru, a Citroen C4 Picasso and a Nissan. Insurance how to claim?

A 36-year-old man turned from being a helper for a loan shark to collect an ATM card from a debtor to a criminal who used force on the police. Zhou Weili was jailed 10 months and ordered to pay a fine of $90,000 for his actions.

The police had spotted him in his car during his loan shark runner stint and had asked him to step out of his car. Instead of stepping out, he continued driving, causing one police officer, who was holding his car door, to lose his footing and fall to the ground. The officer, who suffered superficial injuries, and his partner continued chasing after Zhou.

While trying to flee, Zhou slammed his car into the bumper and sides of two other nearby cars. It was revealed in court that Zhou became a loanshark runner after he could not pay off his debts owed to a loan shark known as Dominique, and he has been working for Dominique since December 2015.

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Update at 2.25pm: Train service has resumed at 2.16pm.

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 Hi,

My car was waiting behind this truck at the set of lights when I noticed it starting to slide backwards. I horned but the driver clearly did not hear me or notice his truck sliding backwards. Before I could engage in reverse gear, the truck had hit my bumper. He then drove off when the light turned green. I tried to get the driver’s attention by overtaking on the right and horning, but he was completely oblivious. Our vehicles stopped next to each other at the next set of lights but he still did not notice my horning or what had happened before. He eventually drove off.

I was driving with my 2 children at the time who were shaken. Thankfully, my vehicle sustained minor damages. I have lodged a report with the Police and also written to the company that owns the truck. I am looking for anyone who might have a video recording from their in-car camera that can assist.

Thank you.

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A new parliamentary bill will raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 if it goes through parliament.

According to the bill, people who own imitation tobacco products like e-cigarettes will also face fines.

It is currently against the law to import, distribute, sell or offer to sell such products. Those who do so may face up to $2,000 in fines.