🚙 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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🇪🇺 EU executive weighs idea of quick, but limited membership for Ukraine https://asia1.news/4sGCDgB

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🇩🇪 Alarm in Germany over AI Holocaust imagery

Germany's government and Holocaust memorial institutions have demanded social media platforms stop the spread of fake images which they say are distorting and trivialising history.

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🇺🇦 Over half of Ukrainians oppose pulling back in return for security, poll shows

Ukraine, wary of unmet commitments in the past, is pushing for legally binding security guarantees to prevent any future Russian aggression.

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Poker-faced Powell may have ace up sleeve to stymie Trump's Fed shakeup

A decision by Powell to stay on as a Fed governor would upend decades of precedent in which outgoing US central bank chiefs clear the way, in the spirit of democratic transition, for their successors and resign their separate seats on the Fed's board.

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🇺🇸Judge urges US grant visa to college student deported due to 'mistake'

US District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston imposed the deadline after a lawyer for the administration earlier this week apologised for having violated a court order that should have prevented 19-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza from being sent to Honduras.

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🌊 UN biodiversity treaty enters into force, aims to protect 30% of oceans by 2030

The UN treaty, also known as Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), was finalised in March 2023 after 15 years of negotiations.

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Iran protests abate after deadly crackdown, Trump says Tehran calls off mass hangings

How far either faction has support inside Iran, or might be able to shape events there in the future, is hard to gauge, though analysts and diplomats have for decades regarded both as being far more popular among emigres than inside the country.

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Singapore's former chief planner Liu Thai Ker dies aged 87

Singapore's former chief planner Dr Liu Thai Ker died on Sunday (Jan 18​) morning at the age of 87. The late Dr Liu is widely known as the architect of modern Singapore, having been involved in the planning of 20 out of 24 HDB towns during his time at HDB.

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Indonesian authorities find wreckage of missing surveillance plane with 11 on board

Indonesian authorities said they would deploy 1,200 personnel to searching for the 8 missing passengers and 3 crew members.

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💰 More than $70k cash seized, 6 arrested in islandwide crackdown on illegal gambling

Simultaneous raids were conducted at places including Boon Lay Avenue, Tengah Drive, Pandan Gardens, Bukit Batok West Avenue 8, and Jurong West Street 91 and 93.

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🚔 Traffic police cracks down on lorries without speed limiters on the road

141 out of the 2,434 lorries, which are required to have speed limiters installed by Jan 1 this year, did not do so. Yet, some have chosen to continue driving these non-compliant lorries on the road.

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🚑 1 taken to hospital following 3-vehicle accident near Woodlands Checkpoint

The accident, which took place on Saturday (Jan 17) evening, involved a Singapore-registered car and two Malaysia-registered motorcycles.

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

Finally time to let the umbrellas rest? But take note, brief localised thundery showers may still occur on several afternoons, after the weather turns drier.

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😰 Man dies after being shot 6 times at close range outside Penang car wash

A 38-year-old man died after being shot six times by two unidentified men outside a car wash in Penang on Friday (Jan 16) night. The incident happened at about 10.20pm along Jalan Besar Permatang Keling in Penang's Nibong Tebal.

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🎉 Nathan Hartono ties the knot with Liz Sergeant Tan

34-year-old homegrown singer-songwriter Nathan Hartono announced his marriage to theatre actress Liz Sergeant Tan, 32, in a series of Instagram stories on Saturday (Jan 17).

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