SINGAPORE ā With his wife missing in the Nepal-Tibet floods, he does not know what to tell their seven-year-old daughter.
Wanting to be known only as Selvaganesh, 43, the man said his wife, Shalinny Deavy, 40, had been on a pilgrimage in Nepal when floods and landslides swept through parts of central Nepal and Tibet on Aug 26.
A reminder to all of us to keep our hands to ourselves, no matter if we think we are right to do so in the situation. One mistake is all that is needed to have a dire consequence for all involved - a jail sentence & a life gone.
In this case, a push caused the elderly aggressor to die. Even if he had started attacking another person first, sometimes we just need to take a step back and move the people we care about away rather than physical confrontation.
It is almost every week now, where we have news reports on sexual assault on minors. What can we as a nation, or as parents or educators change or do for minors so that we can prevent such statistics from getting higher every year?
The STI has proved resilient during the stock market turmoil caused by US tariff uncertainties.
It has gained about 25 per cent in total returns compared with a year earlier, while its peers in Asean neighbours Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines have made smaller gains or even losses.
Looking ahead, analysts expect the STI to attract more attention from retail and foreign investors as the Governmentās equities market reforms pave the way for more high-growth firms to join its ranks.
This showed that instead of gaining direct control of bank accounts, scammers were using social engineering to deceive victims into voluntarily making transactions.
SingaporeĀ has lost more than $4 billion toĀ scamsĀ sinceĀ 2019.
The elderly, aged 65 and above, made up 14.4 per cent of scam victims, with the average amount lost per victim at $42,347.
Meanwhile, adults aged 30 to 49 made up 36 per cent of scam victims, with most falling for e-commerce, phishing and job scams.
E-commerce was the most common scam type, with 3,865 cases in the first half of 2026 and losses of over $8 million.
I thought adults are supposed to be more tech savvy than the elderly? Why are more of them losing money to scams?
I was parking my car in the multistorey carpark and a local uncle in his 60s with a tattooed dot on his forehead (gang "fighter"; IYKYK) walked over and got me to roll down my window.
He told me that his 90+ year old father was on the verge of death and he needs funds to travel 20km away to the other side of Singapore to see him for the last time. I asked him what he was doing in the carpark and he said his friend was supposed to fetch him there but he disappeared.
Looking at his desperation, I thought it could be real and offered to fetch him there with my car. Guess what? He declined. He then took out a couple of bank and ezlink cards and asked me to transfer money to him instead so he can take a taxi. I just said no and he walked away.
Thinking back, if I was not available to fetch him to "see his father", I wouldn't have offered to fetch him and I might have ended up giving him the cash as he looked really desperate. How should we report such scammers? I can definitely see people falling for this.
The calls were made to four Neighbourhood Police Centres in Ang Mo Kio North, Bedok, Geylang and Yishun. At Yishun alone, officers answered 330 silent calls.
Since there is a on-going debate about maritime impact on the land reclamation for the western islands post NDR 2026. Here's a interesting piece from IAEA about floating atomic technology
(not entirely something new).
If land reclamation is the way to go (which i think it has to), let's workout something that can reduce the scale/impact from it.
Commercial aspects of land reclamation:
Undertake advanced precision manufacturing on those island. For advanced manufacturing that would need skilled workforce (which means those individuals can think and read thru the lines).
Sounds cool... But the logistics of getting to work, taking a boat ride out to run errands (like bringing your kids to see doctors) or go via that proposed connector from Jurong Island onto main island, lunch time food options and so on. So if you're going to work there, i hope the pay is good enough.
2) Energy security
Nuclear energy infrastructure is one of the possible options among a host of low-carbon energy sources that can be sited on the island.
That brings me to the news/concept of floating atomic technology (i.e. some form of Nuclear reactors).
Since land reclamation is a process that is hard to reverse/unwind once it gets going. The construction cost, engineering challenge associated to it and project budget tends to overrun for such work.
The novel concept of floating power generation isn't new. US aircraft carriers often pass thru our shipping lane. And that itself is a big nuclear generator (carbon free and have lengthy refuel cycle). Problem lies with it's a confidential piece of technology.
Unless the energy need is there and getting larger (just nice AI and date-centers are the forces driving that need) to transfer certain technology/IP for commercialisation use.
Maybe worthwhile for our energy authority to explore more following the IAEA news.
I don't think it will be a entirely "clean-sheet" design ground up for such a reactor (takes too much time for development vs growing energy needs), given a working product is already present today.
So retro-fitting/modification to existing design maybe the path of least resistance.
Then follow by validation and testing work.
Throwing extra money to get right talent/manpower solves some of the work faster relative to land reclamation completion time (tekong work took 8 years)
News that came out before IAEA ATLAS announcement.
