📱 Apple joins foldable phone race with $2,530 passport-shaped iPhone Duo

Buyers in Singapore can expect to pay $3,099 for the 256GB iPhone Duo, with prices rising to $4,899 for the 2TB option.

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🤔 Changes to political salaries: Workers concerned over timing of pay hikes, says labour MP Yeo Wan Ling

Labour MP Yeo Wan Ling told Parliament that while Singapore's economic numbers might look healthy, workers felt that this was not necessarily how it was felt by them on the ground.

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💵 Pritam Singh agrees with one-off 9% wage raise for ministers, but maintains salaries should be pegged to MPs' pay

Workers’ Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh also stated the party agrees with raising the monthly allowances for elected Members of Parliament (MPs) to $18,500, up from $13,750, on account of inflation.

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🛵 46 non-compliant devices seized during active mobility enforcement operations in August: LTA

During the operations, active mobility enforcement officers also detected some 231 offences.

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🇳🇵 Nepal-Tibet floods: $560,000 humanitarian package from Singapore arrives in Nepal

Nepali Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Mahabir Pun was present to receive the package, symbolically handed over by Assistant Commissioner of Police Patrick Tan.

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🤩 Austin Lin visits Singapore for brand event, looks forward to recharging in 2027 after fulfilling year

Taiwanese actor-singer Austin Lin said time has flown since his last visit to Singapore a year ago due to non-stop work, adding that he hopes audiences look forward to his upcoming projects.

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😢 Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines leaves dozens missing and at least 5 dead

The ferry MV June Aster was en route from Manila to the tourist hotspot of Coron when a fire broke out on Wednesday (9 Sept) night.

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👮 Man subdued by police officers at Tiong Bahru Plaza found with vape

The police told AsiaOne that officers were patrolling at 302 Tiong Bahru Road around 8.30pm on Monday (Sept 7) when they approached the man for a routine check.

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🌍 Nepal puts climate justice at centre of global pitch for flood aid

Nepal is presenting its formal funding and climate justice case to global agencies and foreign embassies ahead of Prime Minister Balendra Shah's address at the United Nations on Sept 24.

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Tan See Leng reflects on leaving private sector amid ministerial pay debate: 'I just felt I had to give back to the country'

In Parliament, Minister for Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) Dr Tan See Leng said he views public service as “a special but tough calling”, which he found out when he joined the Government in 2020.

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⏳ Never a politically convenient time to raise salaries, but unreasonable to leave them unchanged for 15 years: PM Wong

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also turned down the idea of picking a salary benchmark lower than the figure proposed by the independent committee.

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📚 Primary 1 registration: 12 schools in areas with less public housing to get new 2-track scheme from 2027

The Ministry of Education (MOE) will introduce a new two-track scheme for Phase 2C Primary 1 (P1) registration at 12 primary schools from the 2027 P1 Registration Exercise.

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🛢 Brent settles at over $126 a barrel as Middle East conflict intensifies

Both Brent and WTI benchmarks closed at their highest since May 22.

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😮️️️️️️ US trial against China's Huawei opens with prosecutor calling the company a criminal enterprise

A US prosecutor told jurors that Huawei conspired to steal trade secrets from five American companies to gain an unfair competitive advantage and grow its business.

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😷 Haze update for Sept 10: 24-hour PSI in central region remains in unhealthy range

Air quality in Singapore's central region re-entered the unhealthy range at about 11pm on Wednesday (Sept 9) night, and continued through Thursday.

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💵 Public sector salaries must remain realistic or administrative, political leadership quality will decline: SM Lee

If public sector salaries are allowed to "fall out of line", then quality of administration and political leadership will decline slowly, but irreversibly, he said.

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🧑‍🚒 Former Ah Boys to Firefighters actor Kiki Darling apologises for keeping mum about sexual assault conviction: 'I'm not the same person I was that time'

Kiki Darling, who quit his leading role in Jack Neo's Ah Boys to Firefighters recently, wrote in an Instagram post today (Sept 10): "I promise to be transparent and I promise to be clear, and I promise no more hiding."

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👩‍🍼 Bonnie Loo tackles babysitting for a day, admits feeling like she 'failed everything'

Although it is not her first time meeting Toto, local actress Bonnie Loo admitted: "Actually, I have no confidence at all".

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🏍️ 2 taken to hospital after motorcycle rear-ends car on BKE

In the video posted on social media, the motorcyclist and his pillion rider were flipped head-over-heels upon impact with the rear of a silver Toyota Wish.

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🤑 Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $6,320 if GOP wins https://asia1.news/46j9uOr

📱 'Inappropriate and rude': Content creators get flak for pranking dancers at *Scape

Do you 🫵 think their prank was funny, or plain annoying?

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