😮 Jack Neo accidentally fractures Jack Lim’s ribs while filming upcoming Liang Po Po CNY movie

The movie centres on Liang Po Po (Neo), a sharp-tongued elderly woman from Singapore, who travels to Malaysia to find employment, and gets into a feud with hot-blooded simpleton security guard Ah Beng played by Jack Lim.

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🇰🇷 Bus crashes into building in South Korea, several feared injured, media reports https://asia1.news/4jNJxwr

🇭🇰 Hong Kong finalises Wang Fuk Court death toll at 168 as authorities mull demolishing blocks https://asia1.news/4pGErDu

😮 US lawmakers arrive in Copenhagen to counter Trump's Greenland threats https://asia1.news/3LudJ2Z

🚇 Circle Line commuters to face longer journeys due to tunnel works

#ICYMI: Train service adjustments on the Circle Line start today until April 19.

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👮88 nabbed in island-wide CNB operation, drugs found in children's bedroom

A total of about 213g of cannabis, 170g of Ice, 1g of heroin, five Ecstasy tablets, 23 Erimin-5 tablets, vape-related products — including 37 pods believed to contain etomidate — and around $1,100 of cash was seized.

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😨 'We've met before in Chinatown': Scammer befriends woman, 55, convinces her into 'investing' $60k

The woman had borrowed money from friends and family, withdrew her CPF savings and even taken out a loan of $10,000 from a company recommended to her by the scammer.

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😱 Woman from China robbed in Thailand, found blindfolded and bound with duct tape in crashed car

She told police that a man from China named Gong Gaopeng, 30, promised to show her a house for sale via WeChat. On the evening of Jan 11, she drove to pick Gong up in Pattaya and, after being showed the house, she decided to buy it.
 
As she was driving out, Gong, who was seated in the back, allegedly pressed a pair of scissors toward her waist and told her to drive to the back of the housing estate, where he bound her with duct tape.

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😠 Two men arrested for allegedly stealing multiple motorcycle side mirrors

The duo, aged 18 and 20, purportedly stole motorcycle side mirrors in Jurong West, Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Panjang.

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😱 Lorry found with 8,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes at Tuas Checkpoint, Malaysian driver arrested

The lorry's consignment was declared as plastic products.

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😰 60 River Valley Primary School pupils get food poisoning symptoms; canteen under central kitchen model

None of the 60 students affected were hospitalised. Most have since returned to school on Friday (Jan 16), with the exception of four students still recovering at home.

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👏 7-year-old boy gets A* grade for O-level equivalent maths exam, youngest ever in Singapore

Theodore Kwan, who will turn eight in June, took the IGCSE Pure Mathematics examination at the Extended level in October last year. If you find the name familiar, that's because he made news in 2025 for attending freshmen chemistry lectures at the Nanyang Technological University.

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🇲🇾 Malaysia Civil Defence Force personnel praised for climbing into ATM to rescue cat

A cat was seen trapped between a gap at the side of the machine.

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🚨 17-year-old leads police on car chase and foot pursuit in Paya Lebar and Marine Parade; hits 5 vehicles along the way

A 17-year-old driver of a Mercedes-Benz A180 led police on a car chase from Paya Lebar to Marine Parade, ultimately ending in a foot pursuit near Still Road South on Friday (Jan 16) night.

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🎮 'We share a common hobby': Grandpa, 76, uses gaming to connect with family

Jimmy, a retired army officer, is the leader of a Counter-Strike 2 team Squad2X2 consisting of four seniors, aged between 64 and 76.

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🌤 Drier weather for rest of January with brief thundery showers possible

Moderate to heavy thundery showers are still expected over most parts of the island in the afternoon and evening on the first few days of the second half of January.

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🐶 16 weeks' jail for man who smuggled 5 Pomeranian puppies from Malaysia into S'pore in car boot

On Jan 16, Bryan Peh Jia Hao, 22, admitted to multiple charges of illegally importing the dogs and failing to ensure they were not confined in a manner that subjected them to unnecessary suffering.

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🚙 Man jailed after crash while driving drunk without licence; asked wife to take the blame

40-year-old Ang Kok Cheng Don pleaded guilty to four charges on Friday (Jan 16).

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🗑 'Like a garbage house': Landlord upset as couple leaves rental home in KL with maggots, diapers and mould

What started as a simple rental agreement became a nightmare for a landlord in Kuala Lumpur after her tenants disappeared, leaving the rental home full of garbage and infested with maggots, apart from overdue rent, according to a Facebook post on Tuesday (Jan 13).

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🍼 Nestle, Dumex infant formula products recalled over presence of toxin

The two affected products are Nestle's NAN HA1 SupremePro and Dumex's Dulac 1. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has detected cereulide toxin in the two products.

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🚁 UK navy launches new crewless helicopter to counter North Atlantic threats

Britain's Royal Navy said on Friday (Jan 16) its first full-sized autonomous helicopter, designed to track submarines and carry out other high-risk missions amid rising North Atlantic tensions, had completed its maiden flight.

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🇺🇸 Small Minneapolis businesses hit hard by ICE crackdown, while corporations stay silent

Business associations say the US$350 billion (S$450.5 billion) regional economy is feeling the effects, from sales declines at small businesses to falling attendance at large companies and agricultural operations.

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