SINGAPORE: A woman was arrested , on Thursday ( Aug 29 ) for allegedly taking a knife from a restaurant table and attempting to rob a customer. At 9.34am on Thursday, the police were alerted to a case of attempted armed robbery in a restaurant located along Thomson Road,  , theContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Thirty-five Primary 5 students and two staff members from Catholic High School ( Primary ) developed gastroenteritis symptoms after a school camp earlier this week.  ,
None of them were hospitalised, said the Ministry of Health ( MOH) and the Singapore Food Agency ( SFA ) in a joint statement on Thursday ( Aug 29 ).
From Monday through Wednesday, the Ministry of Education held the Labrador Outdoor Adventure Centre.
A number of children at the P5 tent have been experiencing stomach upset since this morning, according to a text message sent to families on Tuesday afternoon.  ,
The school claimed that the camp’s people had arrived right away and that the damaged people’s families had been contacted in the information seen by CNA.  ,
A test was conducted with the group, and most of them were also.  ,
The university claimed to have worked with the campsite to clean the premises and that it would carefully follow the situation.
MOH and SFA announced that they were looking into the event.  ,
At the ill sea, all impacted students and employees were being watched.
” On day two, when I woke up, I heard a lot of people went to the sick bay because they got sick with fever, diarrhoea, vomiting”, said Catholic High School ( Primary ) student Brendan Law.  ,
” Many people were in the sick bay at the end of the day,” said one doctor.
CNA is aware that the camp’s caterer was also involved in a food poisoning affair in February, when Northbrooks Secondary individuals became sick while attending a college station.
The cook declined to comment, citing the continued SFA research.
The organizers of outdoor education, which represents the Outdoor Learning and Adventure Education Association, claimed the incident may be brought on by a number of factors, including pupils serving food to their contemporaries, a practice practiced frequently in such tents to tell them about leadership.
” We ca n’t rule out that there is a risk of a student having a pre-existing condition, like having stomach flu or having some sort of virus or bacteria, so that there is a risk of them contaminating the food”, said Mr Delane Lim, secretary-general of the association.
” It may not be the food being contaminated. It’s most likely how the meal is being served while it’s still being prepared. We ca n’t rule out that”.
Catholic High informed CNA that as a precaution, it had already scheduled a distinct cook for the incident.
Most of the damaged students and staff members are back to school as of Thursday.
Food safety is a shared responsibility, said MOH and SFA.
” Food users must play their part by adhering to fine food safety procedures while SFA implements and maintains the regulatory methods. SFA did not dare to impose sanctions against errant food traders, they added.
SINGAPORE: The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) said on Thursday ( Aug 29 ) that it would form new platform work associations ( PWAs ) with a “legal mandate” to represent workers such as taxi drivers and food delivery riders.
If the Platform Workers Bill is passed in legislature, it would do the same. It was first introduced on August 6 and will be up before the House the following quarter.
” Under existing rules, software personnel are not recognised as people. As such, they are not allowed to form organizations to protect their interests”, said NTUC in a press launch on Thursday.
Currently, the National Taxi Association (NTA ), National Private Hire Vehicles Association ( NPHVA ), and National Delivery Champions Association ( NDCA ) represent platform workers ‘ interests, but they do not have legal backing.
The PWAs may be legally able to provide more to program workers, according to NTUC.
The Bill proposes , methods to help the housing and pension adequacy of software workers. If passed, it would establish rules for compensation for labor injuries and expand the rights of software providers and employees to prevent accidents.
Additionally, the Bill calls for the establishment of a legal framework for software staff ‘ picture.
The proposed legislation does “reinforce our efforts to safeguard software staff ‘ livelihoods, and enable us to officially represent the areas that matter a lot to them, such as wages, protection and well-being at work”, said NTUC secretary-general Ng Chee Meng.
The new PWAs will strengthen the efforts of the NTA, NPHVA, and NDCA, according to NTUC, including financial aid, closer collaboration and bargaining with system operators to address issues involving good work practices and function safety.
If the Bill is passed, it may give the PWAs the “legal authority to actually represent system employees”, said the rulers of the three organizations.
This means that we will be more vocal and willing to bargain for them for better perks and benefits.
A High Court judge in Singapore issued a judgment on Thursday ( Aug 29 ) outlining what constitutes appropriate conduct when lawyers cross-examine victims of sexual crimes and how safeguarding measures should be taken to protect such victims.
The view explained Justice Vincent Hoong’s justification for rejecting the appeals against his faith and phrase for a teacher who was imprisoned for 14 weeks for abusing a 10-year-old scholar at a fee center.
In lieu of being caned, he was given another two months in jail.
Justice Hoong noted that when the sufferer in the case was questioned about her dress during the harassment.
He claimed that if it revealed the nature of the crime, asking sufferers what they wore is appropriate.
” For instance, the line of questioning may verify whether the stroking was over or under clothes, whether there was skin-on-skin phone and or how it came to be quite skin-on-skin contact”, said Justice Hoong.
Such concerns are needed, he said. However, the inquiry becomes unpleasant when it is premised on or leads to the assertion that the defendant’s clothes in some way led to the physical abuse.
” For instance, any line of questioning that makes the claim that the sufferer had sparked unwanted interest because she was dressed innocently must be rejected,” said Justice Hoong.
He added that there was no lengthy cross-examination of the target, which lasted for half a day.
Although there were some comments that could have been made more appropriate to the fresh victim, the judge said the judge had the right to ask her questions in a thoughtful way and that she had the opportunity to understand her responses at several points.
He said that it should be kept in mind that cross-examination is not intended to unnecessarily bother, abuse, or deceive a witness.
Unnecessary questioning of the victim’s reliability, digging into useless individual history, or insinuating blame can not only traumatize the victim, but it can also sustain dangerous stereotypes about physical violence, according to Justice Hoong.
This may discourage other patients from revealing their identities because they fear they will go through the same suffering, he said.
” It is too often overlooked that the purpose of cross-examination is to elicit information from the testimony to help the cross-examiner’s situation”, said the prosecutor.
While cross-examination is a way to ensure that a witness’s testimony is correctly examined when in conflict with the situation of the celebration cross-examining, it is not intended to be a platform for theatricality or for an advocate to exhibit a talent for hostile or intense, repetitive or harsh questioning.
The trial in this case requested a cloaking measure to cover the victim’s testimony on the grounds that she was under 18 at the time.
The woman was 14 when she testified.
The defense filed an objection to the program, claiming that a cloaking determine implied that there had been” some sort of danger made to the victim” and that she had been afraid to see the plaintiff face-to-face.
A cloaking estimate is a method of allowing the witness to testify in court without having to look at the accused or have the accused glance at him or her. It also refers to a method of allowing the witness to testify while in the same court as the accused.
According to Justice Hoong, an application for shielding measures does not necessarily imply that a threat was made to the victim.
Such a request may be made for a particular category of witnesses, including but not limited to an alleged victim of a sexual offence or a witness under the age of 18.
The judge cited a relevant section of the law that states that a court may impose shielding measures if the witness is afraid to testify in front of the accused, afraid to testify in person, or if giving evidence in front of the accused would aggravate the witness.
If a witness ‘ credibility of the witness ‘ testimony will be questioned due to their fear or distress, the court may also impose shielding measures.
Justice Hoong said it is well-known that giving evidence can re-traumatize victims of sexual crimes, and that special measures like shielding can help lessen the trauma of testifying live in the same setting as the accused.
The Criminal Procedure Code mandates that all alleged victims of sexual or child abuse in Singapore will give testimony in closed court unless they wish to testify in front of an audience.
Justice Hoong argued that the presumption of innocence and the witness ‘ rights are at the center of” the concept of shielding measures in legal proceedings.”
The judge said,” Ultimately, the overriding aim is to ensure justice is served while balancing the need to protect the witness and maintain the integrity of the judicial process, against the fundamental rights of the accused.”
In order to be transparent, he argued that a court that uses a shielding measure despite an objection should clearly state the reasons for doing so.
He said that parties should bear in mind that “effective cross-examination elicits evidence without aggressive, repetitive and oppressive questioning”.
” Ultimately, the pursuit of justice should never compromise the dignity of the individuals involved”, he said.
A man planted 11 bits of cannabis weighing more than 500g in her vehicle despite knowing it could lead to the death penalty because he was unhappy with his separated family and wanted to make her break with the rules.
He revealed his schedule to his ex-girlfriend, saying he had been planning the “perfect murder” for the “past some days” and that he thought it would not “link back” to him.
Tan Xianglong, a 37-year-old Singaporean, was sentenced to three years and 10 months ‘ jail on Thursday ( Aug 29 ) for one count of possessing at least 216g of cannabis- the amount of pure drugs eventually found in the 11 packets.
The Misuse of Drugs Act classifies cannabis as a group A controlled substance.
A second command of fabricating misleading information was taken in consideration.
Tan, according to the jury, lived with his parents and was an IT boss.
He got married to his then-wife in 2021, but their relation deteriorated.
In October 2022, his family moved out of his parents ‘ house, where they had been staying up.
Due to how small the marriage was, they were unable to divorced at the time.
Tan consulted doctors, who ultimately agreed that they could get divorced if one of them had a legal document.
At the time of the drug-planting crime, the pair was undergoing parting trials.
According to court documents, Tan was upset about the amount of loan and interest that had become due to his wedding.
He became irritated with his family because he thought she had not” contributed many” to her. He hired a personal inspector to look into her reported immorality in September 2023.
When this failed, he began having frightful ideas for planting illegal substances in her vehicle to frighten her and put her in trouble with the law.
He understood that if his schedule worked, she would be unjustly detained and accused.
He told his ex-girlfriend in a Telegram chat on October 14th, 2023, that he had been planning the “perfect crime” for the past few days and that he did n’t believe it would be connected to him.
He explained to her that part of his plan was that he would visit the police place. Tan added that he might need to make a speech and call the police.
He also said he was” no sure” if his then-wife would be in the media.
He continued, adding that he had spent “quite a little on this” because he was afraid that he did not have enough money for his program.
On October 16, 2023, Tan discovered a Telegram channel that was selling medicines and obtained a list of the costs.
He observed that cannabis had a 100g optimum weight and was the cheapest medication per ounce. He felt that this was too much, and asked the owner for a “brick” of hemp, which he intended to use to get his then-wife in difficulties.
Although he anticipated it may consider more than the other choices, he believed it would be lighter and more manageable.
The brick of cannabis cost S$ 2, 600 ( US$ 1, 997 ). Tan did not have enough money, so he hired a companion to transfer the funds to the owner before deleting the obscene talk information.
Tan returned home to measure the cannabis after taking it from a clean riser at a housing block.
He discovered that it weighed about 510g. According to his website research, he was aware that his then-wife may face the death penalty if she was found guilty of trafficking more than 500g of marijuana.
In his Telegram chat with his ex-girlfriend, he again alludes to it because he was quite angry with her.
He informed her that he would log out of Telegram and that he would be deleting anything from her cellphone to be safe. Tan added he would not go to” those normal police”, but rather,  , the Central Narcotics Bureau ( CNB) and Criminal Investigation Department ( CID ).
The secret analyst Tan hired discovered her car was parked in a car park in north-east Singapore at around 5am on October 17, 2023.
Tan unlocked her vehicle using a set of keys he had, and unwrapped the hemp.
He closed the middle area of the back passenger seats while putting on gloves as he placed the 11 packets inside it. Due to its size, the brick could n’t be inserted into the armrest compartment.
The vehicle entrance was then locked and he closed and locked it. But, as he was leaving the car garden, his then-wife appeared.
Her in-car cameras smart application alerted her to a “parking influence” to her car.
She noticed Tan walking around her car when she watched the life stream and made the decision to test. When Tan saw her, he walked aside.
The person called the police, claiming that Tan had attempted to open her vehicle before leaving when she had gotten a hold of it.
Tan drove to Buangkok Square Mall, where he threw aside the cement wrap. He texted his ex-girlfriend about how he had seen his partner, and he expressed concern that she might have discovered the marijuana because of its smell. He expressed concern for him that he may have left his fingerprints behind.
Immediately after, the officers called him asking about his abuse.
He lied to the authorities that he had been in the parking lot to change the battery in his vehicle because he thought she might have been having an affair.
The officers called therefore, he informed his ex-girlfriend via Telegram. He admitted to her that he had parked 500 grams of marijuana in the vehicle and that this might result in the death sentence.
When his ex-girlfriend expressed surprise, Tan said he planned to review his wife to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and CNB when she second traveled to Malaysia.
But, he said he could not do this now, as his wife might accuse him of planting the hemp. He questioned his ex-girlfriend about whether he should “faster survey her second.”
His ex-girlfriend advised Tan to fetch the hemp, but Tan felt this would be difficult. He proposed putting off calling the police for a few days in the hopes that his wife did not recognize.
He also suggested calling CNB right away to let them know his family had been using medicines all her life.
Nevertheless, his ex-girlfriend once advised him to fetch the hemp, and he agreed.
Tan returned to the parking lot at around 8 am and entered. He made a U-turn to keep after noticing policemen standing next to the vehicle.
Unbeknownst to him, they discovered 11 bits of fruit problem totaling 523.7 grams in the car.
Around 2 p.m., Tan wanted to go back to the marijuana store because he believed his wife might be sleeping, but he was stopped at his own wall.
Tan’s then-wife was likewise arrested. A search of her chamber turned up nothing revealing, and her mobile phone and car were seized.
The 11 bits of fruit subject were analysed. Although it weighed over 500g, it was found to contain at least 216.17g of hemp.
The trial used a platform for the weight-captured possession of cannabis to justify the request for four years and eight months in prison for Tan.
She claimed that Tan had a “nefarious goal for possessing the medicines, more so than if he had been a straightforward client.”
The attorney claimed that the defendant’s intention to charge the accused party with a serious offence had a great potential for harm to an innocent person.
She claimed Tan’s plan involved some thought and was a little bit powerful, including extensive research into drug laws, how to obtain money to buy them, how to prosecute someone for drug offenses, and how to record someone to the CNB.
Tan also used gloves and deleted chat messages to prevent identification.
The attorney acknowledged that Tan did not intend for the cannabis to be smoked or distributed, but that this does not imply that his crime” should leave the barrier sentencing scheme underlying quintessential drug crimes.”
She said that the accused’s order of a sizable amount of drugs in itself gave rise to the local drug deal by lining the pockets of its vendors and boosting the flow of drugs into Singapore.
For possessing a Class A controlled substance, Tan could have been jailed for up to 10 times, fined up to S$ 20, 000, or both.
SINGAPORE: Cordlife has been given permission to begin its” controlled way” cord blood banking service.
It will not be allowed to collect , check, process and/or business more than 30 models of new rope blood per quarter, from Sep 15, 2024, to Jan 13, 2025.
The Ministry of Health ( MOH) announced these restrictions on Thursday ( Aug 29 ), keeping the interests of its customers in mind.  ,
MOH’s see, which was issued to Cordlife on Thursday, is pending the agency’s written images.  ,
On Dec 15, 2023, the health ministry directed Cordlife to prevent the series, testing, processing and storage of any new cord blood for a period of six months, after it was revealed that , seven of the company’s storage tanks were exposed to temperatures above appropriate boundaries.
In April, MOH said that about 5, 300 thread blood products stored in a subsequent Cordlife tank and clean carrier were deemed “non-viable”.
This is on top of the approximately 2, 200 thread body products that were damaged in the first cylinder, which affected at least 2, 150 customers.
For Cordlife to complete the verification of its innovative cord blood running technique, the suspension was extended by an additional three times on June 15 this time.
According to the government, follow-up reviews conducted by MOH on Cordlife in August revealed that Cordlife has fulfilled all necessary conditions for the application of its cord blood banks solutions.  ,
” C Cordlife, for instance, has improved its event monitoring and increase process, updated its new rope body processing method, and introduced a new temperature monitoring system with tolerable temperature monitoring practices.
MOH has, however, requested that Cordlife use a carefully crafted strategy to gradually increase the number of its services in order to ensure the welfare of its customers. This is also considering that Cordlife has undergone significant changes in its governance, manpower and processes, “it added.  ,
MOH said it will continue to closely monitor Cordlife’s operational stability, staff capabilities and continued compliance with its regulatory requirements, including prior to its next licence renewal on Jan 13, 2025.
A$ 8.5bn ( £6.43bn ) merger between Disney and Reliance Industries has been provisionally approved by the India’s competition watchdog.
The walk, in which businessman Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries may have lot play, will make India’s biggest amusement player which may compete with Sony, Netflix and Amazon.
The combined walk does love broadcasting rights for a majority of India’s sporting activities, including coveted baseball games.
The acquisition is expected to be completed in the next six decades and will be chaired by Mr Ambani’s family, Nita Ambani, according to reports.
The package is” content to the conformity of deliberate changes”, India’s competition watchdog said in a press release on Wednesday.
It had previously raised questions about the power that the merger would give the two companies over the broadcasting rights to cricket, the nation’s most renowned sport with a sizable fan base.
By offering free live streams of bowling games, Disney and Reliance’s streaming services have been drawing American members for years.
The two companies have paid$ 9.5 billion for TV and streaming rights for the Indian Premier League ( IPL), T20 World Cups, and international cricket council games, according to Reuters news agency.
The new object may have raised concerns that the competition watchdog might raise the costs of these games ‘ advertisements.
However, according to reports, the two businesses have pledged to no overcharge advertisers for cricket match streams.
In order to balance out the remaining revenue, they have also announced they will offer seven to eight of their non-sports Television programs, according to a cause.
The two businesses will also be able to broadcast the Wimbledon, MotoGP, and English Premier League or EPL from India as a result of the acquisition.
The offer” creates a great online leisure giant”, Gurmeet Chadha, managing partner of economic consultant Complete Circle, told CNBC-TV18 news channel.
They are well-known for their software prowess and information savvy. They have the approach in terms of transmission. They have some insight into where and what kind of material is consumed, he claimed.
In a nation with 1.4bn people and 90 % online insertion,” this has great, big long-term repercussions”, he added.
Two reporters who ran a Hong Kong pro-democracy news have been found guilty of rebellion.
Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two reporters at the now-defunct Stand News media outlet, was then face a peak prison term of two decades.
This is the first journalist-related rebellion event to take place in Hong Kong since 1997 when it was handed over from the UK to China.
Their newspaper’s journal range supported” Hong Kong native autonomy”, according to the district court judge who found the pair innocent.
In a written statement, Judge Kwok Wai-kin said that Stand News had become a “danger to regional security”.
” It even became a tool to smear and vilify the Central Authorities]in Beijing ] and the] Hong Kong ] SAR Government”, he said in a written judgement.
Stand News was one of a few relatively innovative online media sources that gained traction particularly during the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations.
However, a number of internet stores have closed in Hong Kong since the passage of a contentious national security law, including the well-known anti-establishment publishing Apple Daily. Jimmy Lai, its proprietor, was sentenced to prison in 2021.
Stand News was one of the final openly pro-democratic papers ever to be shut down in December of that year, when seven people were detained and accused of a” crime to publish seditious papers.”
Westward nations have criticized the event and given it a lot of international scrutiny.
The United States has consistently criticized the Hong Kong journalists ‘ trials, claiming that the situation involving the two reporters” creates a chilling effect on others in the media and media.”
SINGAPORE: The National Research Foundation ( NRF ) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research ( A*STAR ) will get new chief executives later this year. Mr John Lim Hua Ern will be CEO ( designate ) of the NRF and chief ( designate ) of the , Public Sector ScienceContinue Reading
A five-time Paralympic gold medallist, Yip will thrive in the finals of the 100m freestyle S2 on Friday at 12.10am Singapore period.  ,
She is one of three Team Singapore paras athletes who has qualified for the upcoming Games. After in the meet, Sophie Quickly and Toh Wei Soong will also use the pool.
In total, 10 Team Singapore para-athletes will compete in six sports at the Paralympics: Boccia, archery, shooting, swimming, equestrian and athletics ( shot put ).
Catch Team Singapore at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 life and on-demand on , mewatch , for completely at , mewatch. sg/paris2024.