🙎‍♂️🎥 Male Nanyang JC student who allegedly filmed girls in toilet suspended; police investigating

He claimed he was "studying" when he was caught.

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🔥 Fire burns down Bedok Reservoir funeral wake after cortege leaves for cremation

Singapore Civil Defence Force said the fire involved items placed at the void deck

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🇸🇬🇦🇺 Singapore, Australia complete negotiations on economic resilience and essential supplies protocol

The protocol reflects the priority that Australia and Singapore accord each other with respect to trade in such essential supplies.

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Singaporean, 46, convicted of importing over 1kg of cannabis in 2018 hanged

He entered Singapore from Malaysia via Woodlands Checkpoint by car on July 12, 2018.

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🚢 Iran declares Strait of Hormuz 'completely open'

Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said in a post on X on Friday that passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared "completely open" for the remaining period of the ceasefire, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon.

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🚘🔑 'Take car keys away from him': Dazed driver goes against traffic in JB, vape allegedly found in car

In a video, a black sedan emitting smoke can be seen driving against the flow of traffic with its front bumper crumpled.

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🇲🇾 Malaysia may consider Cabinet pay cuts if economy worsens due to Middle East conflict: PM Anwar https://asia1.news/41BZ3Dt

🏍️ Motorcyclist admits performing 'Superman stunt' by riding in a prone position along ECP https://asia1.news/42dEIEB

✈️ 'It was worthwhile': SIA employees on their experiences during repatriation flights from the Middle East https://asia1.news/3Qk3SPe

🌎 Trump says Iran war should end 'soon', says Hezbollah should support truce

"We're going to see what happens. But I think we're very close to making a deal with Iran," he told reporters, adding if an agreement was reached and signed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, he may go there for the occasion.

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✈️ Paramount announces Top Gun 3 at CinemaCon

Greenstein and fellow co-chair Dana Goldberg also confirmed that Top Gun 3 will be "reuniting Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer" — who produced the 1986 original and 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

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🎶 Charli XCX declares dance floor "dead", shifting to rock music

The 33-year-old singer finds it exciting to challenge herself by pushing the boundaries of her sound.

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🌆👩‍❤️‍👨 This couple conducts heritage tours in Singapore that are off the beaten track, we find out why

In August 2024, they left their corporate jobs to focus on the tour business full-time after the birth of their son Theodore in November 2023.

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🚢 'No tolls, no restrictions': Illegal weaponisation of Strait of Hormuz will set dangerous precedent, says PM Wong

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Singapore feels the situation acutely as the city state sits along the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, which are among the world's busiest maritime routes

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📈 Apple's iPhone shipments in China surge 20% in Q1, data shows

"As most rivals raise prices, Apple stands out for value, with Chinese consumers knowing its products last at least three years," Ivan Lam, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research.

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😱 Australian former soldier gets bail on Afghanistan war crime charges

Police arrested and charged Ben Roberts-Smith, 47, with five counts of war crimes last week over the murder of five unarmed Afghan civilians between 2009 and 2012.

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🇨🇳 China turns Taiwan's own voices against it in information war

On Douyin, China's version of TikTok, a news outlet run by the Chinese Communist Party posted a 51-second video of Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun accusing President Lai Ching-te of inviting Chinese aggression.

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Migrant worker tattoos Lee Kuan Yew on neck to honour the country that changed his life: 'First pain, now gain'

A migrant worker who wanted a portrait of Lee Kuan Yew tattooed on his neck was initially turned away by a tattoo artist — who asked him to return the next day “to see if he was serious”.

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🌎 Trump draws Marie Antoinette comparisons as he leans into the gilded trappings of the presidency

He wanted to talk about a monumental issue of a different kind, hoisting up large artist renderings of the US$400 million (S$509.2 million) White House ballroom he's building, complete with hand-carved "top-of-the-line" Corinthian columns.

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💵 As commodities reshape geopolitics, currency pecking order gets a reset

These commodity currencies — so called due to their close correlation to the fortunes of their countries' main export commodities — include two of the best performers among 10 developed market economies: The Norwegian crown and Australian, or Aussie, dollar.

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🚔 'Blur' vape user tries to enter wrong Sengkang flat at 1.25am, stumbles around for half hour until cops arrive

The youth attempts and fails to unlock the Stomp contributor's gate, then staggers away and returns to try again repeatedly.

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🧯 Postgrad student taken to hospital after fire at NTU laboratory

The fire took place in a fourth-floor laboratory, and that it contained the contents inside a fume hood.

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