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  JOHOR – Authorities in Malaysia are investigating an incident involving a Singapore-registered vehicle that was caught on video travelling against the flow of traffic along the Senai-Desaru Expressway. The event occurred on Saturday, 21 June 2025 , at approximately 11.31am , and was brought to public attention after a 12-second dashcam video of the scene was uploaded to Facebook by a community page named Community Roda Johor . The incident took place around the 55km mark of the Senai-Desaru Expressway . In the video, a white car bearing Singapore registration plates is seen driving in the wrong lane directly toward oncoming vehicles. Despite being approached by the car with the dashcam, the Singapore-registered vehicle did not come to a full stop or make way, instead continuing slowly in the opposite direction, forcing other road users to manoeuvre cautiously to avoid a collision. Kota Tinggi district police chief, Superintendent Yusof Othman , issued a public statement on 22 J...

  On 24 June 2025, a video surfaced online showing a physical confrontation between a man and a woman in a public open-air carpark. The footage has since gone viral, raising widespread speculation and concern about the nature of the dispute, which involved two individuals operating registered Private Hire Vehicles (PHVs). In the video, a man wearing a blue T-shirt and a woman dressed in black are seen grappling with each other on the ground in the middle of the carpark. The woman clings tightly to the man as the struggle continues until both manage to regain their footing. The altercation appears to be physical but without any visible weapons or external interference initially. Shortly after, a senior Chinese man walks into the scene and appears to intervene verbally. He is seen speaking to both individuals, seemingly trying to calm the situation and stop the physical engagement. His presence causes the confrontation to de-escalate momentarily. The man in the blue T-shirt then m...

  A 47-year-old auxiliary police officer from Certis collapsed and died during a National Day Parade (NDP) 2025 rehearsal held at the Padang in Singapore on the morning of June 21, 2025. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and Changi Airport Group (CAG) in a joint statement issued the same day. The officer was part of the OneChangi contingent, which comprises nine companies including Changi Airport Group, Certis, Sats, and Shilla Cosmetics and Perfumes. The OneChangi contingent is participating in the parade and ceremony segment of NDP 2025, which is scheduled for August 9 at the Padang and Marina Bay. According to the official account provided by Mindef and CAG, the incident occurred at approximately 11.23am. The officer collapsed suddenly during the rehearsal. He was immediately brought to the on-site medical post, arriving at 11.26am. Medical personnel, including the duty medical officer, began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on him without dela...

  On June 20, 2025, at around 1:30pm, a shocking act of violence occurred outside a café located at 56 Arab Street, near Haji Lane, Singapore. A 26-year-old man was accused of attacking a four-year-old boy with a glass bottle, injuring the child’s forehead. The boy, a tourist from Indonesia, was sitting with his parents outside the café when the unprovoked attack took place. The man, later identified as Xu Chaoyu, a Chinese national, reportedly struck the boy with a bottle without warning. Witnesses described the situation as chaotic. Videos uploaded by bystanders showed the man laughing to himself while sitting cross-legged outside the café. Several members of the public intervened to restrain him and prevent further harm. As the situation escalated, Xu was seen reaching into his black bag. A vigilant bystander quickly noticed this and intervened, restraining him and confiscating the bag. A knife was later discovered in his possession. Witness accounts confirmed that during the in...

  On the evening of June 21, 2025, at approximately 7:40pm, a violent incident occurred at Block 684A, Woodlands Drive 73, Singapore, resulting in the death of a 33-year-old man and serious injuries to a 31-year-old man. The case is believed to stem from a personal dispute, possibly linked to a romantic relationship. Residents and eyewitnesses reported a loud thud at around 7:30pm, followed shortly by the arrival of multiple police vehicles and emergency responders. When reporters arrived at the scene, the Singapore Police Force had cordoned off the area extensively. A blue tent was set up near the letterboxes of the HDB block to shield the body from public view. Close to the location of the deceased, a knife was discovered lying on the grass. The weapon appeared new, and there were no visible traces of blood on its blade. Initial assessments suggest the knife may have been discarded from a window prior to the fall. Preliminary police investigations revealed that the two men were i...

  On June 20, 2025, a significant fire erupted at 12:54pm in the Kota Puteri Industrial Park near Taman Megah Ria in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The blaze rapidly swept through several facilities within the industrial area, resulting in the total destruction of three major sites: a used engine oil storage facility, a soap processing plant, and a lorry parking lot. A car wash located nearby suffered partial damage, while another unidentified unit escaped without harm. No injuries or fatalities were reported in connection with the incident. According to Senior Fire Superintendent Rosfarawadi Ismani Ismail, Deputy Chief of State Fire and Rescue Department Zone 1, a total of 34 personnel and nine firefighting appliances from five fire stations were deployed to the scene to battle the fire. The affected area was quickly surrounded by emergency responders working to contain the flames and prevent the fire from spreading further within the industrial park. The fire resulted in severe property ...

  On June 20, 2025, a fire broke out at approximately 1:50pm in an unoccupied accommodation block at the Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC) on Pulau Tekong. The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) confirmed in a statement issued on June 21 that the fire had occurred in one of the bunks belonging to Viper Company. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was activated following the fire alarm trigger. However, the blaze was first extinguished by BMTC personnel who responded immediately after hearing the alarm and spotting smoke emerging from the affected area. Fortunately, no BMTC staff or trainees were present in the bunk at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported as a result of the incident. The affected accommodation block was confirmed to be vacant when the fire broke out. Initial response efforts by on-site staff successfully brought the fire under control before SCDF personnel arrived at the scene. Mindef acknowledged the swift actions of the BMTC staff in containing t...

  On June 19, 2025, a 65-year-old male retiree was seriously injured after part of the ceiling collapsed on him while he was using the toilet in his Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat at Block 127 Yishun Street 11. The incident occurred at approximately 4:30am, when the man had woken up to prepare for morning prayers. During the incident, a section of spalling concrete from the bathroom ceiling fell and struck him, rendering him unconscious. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) received a call for assistance at 4:50am and dispatched emergency responders to the flat. The injured man was conveyed by ambulance to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. First aid was administered at the scene, and the man was found to have sustained a large laceration on the top of his head. He received over 10 stitches and also suffered injuries to his shoulder and knee. He remains under medical observation. The man's 34-year-old daughter, named Siti, shared that her stepmother had heard a loud crash follo...

  On June 20, 2025, a fatal road accident occurred along Admiralty Road towards Woodlands Centre Road at approximately 3:15pm, involving two motorcycles, a truck, and a lorry. A 30-year-old male motorcyclist died at the scene, while another motorcyclist, a 56-year-old man, was taken conscious to Woodlands Health Campus for treatment. Emergency responders from the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force arrived shortly after the incident. Footage from the scene showed paramedics covering the deceased with a white cloth as emergency vehicles secured the area. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Traffic in the area was disrupted as police cordoned off the site to begin forensic assessments. The identities of the victims have not been released. Investigations are ongoing to determine liability and the full chain of events in this multi-vehicle collision. Witnesses are urged to contact authorities with any relevant information.

  On October 22, 2024, at approximately 6:20am, a serious accident occurred along a shared bicycle path at East Coast Park in Singapore. Edmund Kwek Jun Wei, a 34-year-old male cyclist, collided with a 48-year-old female runner while travelling at a relatively high speed. Although Kwek was within the speed limit of 25km/h, he was clocked cycling at 22km/h at the time of the incident. On June 20, 2025, Kwek was sentenced to one week’s jail after pleading guilty to a charge of causing grievous hurt by performing a negligent act under the Penal Code. Deputy Public Prosecutor Melissa Heng stated that the incident took place on a straight and well-lit portion of the path. Kwek had been looking down while cycling and only looked up moments before impact, at which point it was too late to avoid the runner ahead of him. The front of his bicycle struck the woman, causing both of them to fall. Kwek was flung off his bicycle, while the woman fell to the ground with severe injuries. The cyclis...

  On June 20, 2025, a police officer in Singapore was sentenced to 13 months’ imprisonment after being convicted of multiple offences involving abuse of police systems and an attempt to solicit sexual favours. The offender, Sean Teo, aged 29, was a police sergeant at the time of the offences. He was sentenced over three charges: unauthorised use of a computer system, solicitation of sexual gratification, and violating the Official Secrets Act. The offences originated from an incident in late 2019. On November 2, 2019, five women and three men were arrested for suspected drug offences in a suite at Marina Bay Sands (MBS). Sean Teo was on patrol duty that day and was not assigned to the scene. However, after hearing about the case via police radio transmission, he unlawfully accessed an internal police report on the matter. Following the arrest, one of Teo’s colleagues shared a photograph taken at the MBS suite in a WhatsApp group among police officers. The image displayed white po...

  A joint enforcement operation between Singapore and Thailand led to the arrest of three individuals on June 17, 2025, in connection with a transnational vice syndicate suspected of trafficking foreign women into Singapore for prostitution. The Singapore Police Force and the Royal Thai Police conducted the operation in Thailand following over two years of coordinated investigations and intelligence sharing. The three suspects arrested comprised two Singaporean men, aged 38 and 36, and a 50-year-old Thai national. They were apprehended in Thailand by the Royal Thai Police for offences under the Thai Criminal Code. Authorities allege that the trio were responsible for operating a regional vice network that managed foreign women for sex work across international borders, with Singapore as one of the key destinations. The investigation, which began in 2023, uncovered that between April 2023 and May 2025, at least 76 women suspected of being vice workers were arrested in Singapore unde...

  On June 19, 2025, a residential fire broke out in a high-floor unit of Block 5, Holland Close, Singapore. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) responded promptly to the emergency, which was reported at around 7:25pm. The fire originated from one of the bedrooms in a unit on the 23rd floor and resulted in four individuals being hospitalised. Firefighters from Alexandra Fire Station were dispatched to the scene and extinguished the fire using two water jets. Although the fire was contained within the bedroom, the rest of the flat sustained considerable damage from both heat and smoke. Two residents, who had already self-evacuated from the unit before SCDF’s arrival, were assessed on site and later conveyed to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for treatment of smoke inhalation. During firefighting operations, two SCDF personnel experienced heat exhaustion. One was transported to SGH, while the other was taken to National University Hospital (NUH). Both firefighters were conscious...

  On June 19, 2025, Gan Qi Xuan, a 26-year-old man, was sentenced to one year and nine months' imprisonment and two strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. He was found in possession of 178 videos and 153 still images containing child sexual abuse material, which he had downloaded from the Dark Web and systematically stored on his electronic devices and cloud accounts. Gan’s criminal conduct was discovered during a police raid at his residence in August 2023. Although court documents did not specify how he came under investigation, the search uncovered significant volumes of exploitative material stored both locally and online. On August 19, 2024, he pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing child pornography, an offence under Singapore law that carries mandatory imprisonment and corporal punishment. According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Koh Yi Wen, Gan first learned about the Dark Web around 2015. During his initial visit to a forum dedicated ...

  Between April and June 2025, law enforcement agencies from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia jointly executed a large-scale operation that successfully dismantled a sophisticated criminal syndicate responsible for perpetrating scam calls across all three jurisdictions. The syndicate had been operating an advanced Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) GSM gateway system that facilitated large-scale fraudulent activity by routing scam calls through local mobile phone networks, thereby deceiving victims into thinking the calls originated within their own countries. This operation was led by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in coordination with the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) and the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP). Singapore’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and Police Intelligence Department (PID) worked closely with their regional counterparts under a cooperative transnational framework. The two-month effort involved sustained intelligenc...

  On June 18, 2025, Muhammad Fida’iy Mohamad Fauzi, a 26-year-old man, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and six strokes of the cane for a violent attack on his 58-year-old father-in-law. The assault, which occurred in June 2024, left the victim with permanent facial injuries. The sentence was delivered in a Singapore court following Fida’iy’s guilty plea to a single count of voluntarily causing grievous hurt. In addition to his custodial sentence and corporal punishment, Fida’iy was also ordered to pay his father-in-law S$8,241.19 as compensation for the medical costs incurred due to the injuries sustained during the incident. The incident began on the night of June 21, 2024, when Fida’iy arranged to meet his father-in-law at around 9:00pm at Loyang Point mall. He intended to confront the older man about a letter received by a neighbour, which allegedly contained personal information about him. Fida’iy suspected his father-in-law had written or sent the letter, although no concre...

  On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, the Workers' Party (WP) convened to restructure its Central Executive Committee (CEC), bringing in four of its new parliamentarians to reinforce its top decision-making body. The changes were announced the following day. The new members include Members of Parliament Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik and Kenneth Tiong, as well as Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) Andre Low and Eileen Chong. Mr Abdul Muhaimin, who was elected in Sengkang Group Representation Constituency (GRC), has been appointed as Deputy Organising Secretary. Mr Kenneth Tiong, who was elected in Aljunied GRC, has been named Deputy Treasurer. These roles mark their formal entry into the party's internal leadership structure as the WP continues its strategy of renewal and succession planning. Meanwhile, NCMPs Andre Low and Eileen Chong have been assigned specific leadership portfolios within the party. Mr Low will serve as Deputy Head of the Media Team, while Ms Chong has been a...

  In a joint enforcement operation conducted by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Singapore Tourism Board last week, eight drivers operating foreign-registered vehicles were caught for providing illegal point-to-point transport services. The enforcement action targeted two major tourist destinations – the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum and Gardens by the Bay. The operation led to the impounding of all eight foreign-registered vehicles involved. According to the authorities, the drivers had been offering unauthorised transport services, commonly known as illegal point-to-point (P2P) services, which are not permitted without a valid public service vehicle licence issued in Singapore. During the operation, the drivers were also checked for any involvement in unlicensed tourist guiding activities. Upon inspection, none were found to be conducting unauthorised guiding services. However, the provision of transport services without a valid licence remains a serious offence ...

  On June 10, 2025, Singapore Customs carried out a major enforcement operation at Gul Drive and seized 7,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes. The operation led to the arrest of three Malaysian men aged 40, 30, and 24. The estimated amount of duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) evaded from this operation is approximately $812,384. Singapore Customs officers had observed suspicious activity at the location involving two Malaysian-registered vehicles. The officers saw three individuals transferring brown boxes between a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) and a prime mover with an attached trailer. Upon conducting checks, the officers discovered 7,400 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed within the trailer of the prime mover and an additional 100 cartons inside the MPV. All three men were arrested at the scene. Both the prime mover and the MPV, along with the illicit goods, were seized by authorities. Further investigations revealed that the two vehicles had entered Singapore sepa...

  On June 17, 2025, Maslina Mohd Yusof, a former employee of the People’s Association (PA), was sentenced to two months' jail after pleading guilty to one count of criminal breach of trust. The 30-year-old woman had misappropriated a total of $8,375 in funds that were meant for the Residents’ Network while serving as a residents’ committee (RC) manager. Her offences took place over an 11-month period from March 2023 to February 2024. Maslina joined PA in August 2021 and was appointed RC manager at the Residents’ Network in November 2022. Her duties included managing cash payments for community courses, events, and interest groups, ensuring these payments were deposited into the Residents’ Network’s bank account within seven days, and preparing financial reports for the various programmes. According to Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Benjamin Low, Maslina began misappropriating funds from March 2023. Her method involved siphoning off a portion of the cash received and depositing only...