The body of a 50-year-old man who went missing on Jun. 23 was found in waters off Coney Island the following day.

According to a police appeal for information issued that Tuesday, Tony Hou Wen Li was last seen at about 5:20am on Jun. 23 in the vicinity of Block 178 Edgefield Plains.

He was wearing a dark-coloured shirt and shorts, and carrying a black backpack.

In response to Mothership's queries, police confirmed receiving a call for assistance at Coney Island at around 8:50am on Jun. 24.

The man's body was subsequently retrieved from the water and pronounced dead at the scene by a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) paramedic.

Based on preliminary investigations, the police do not suspect foul play.

Investigations are ongoing.

Brunei-born singer and actor Wu Chun took to social media to vent his frustration against Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific after his luggage went missing for three days during a trip to Paris.

The airline has since apologised, and Wu has also confirmed that his luggage has been recovered.

What happened

According to a report by South China Morning Post (SCMP), Wu posted a video describing the incident on Weibo on Jun. 25.

Wu said he was travelling from Melbourne to Hong Kong, but his flight was delayed on the tarmac for almost three hours before take-off, causing him to miss his connecting flight to Paris.

Cathay Pacific subsequently arranged another flight for him to Manchester, from which he would continue on to Paris.

However, Wu said he would only board the plane once it was confirmed that his luggage had been loaded on that flight.

He added that upon arriving in Manchester, a Cathay Pacific staff member assured him that recovering his luggage would be her priority.

The airline had also arranged for him to travel from Manchester to Paris on an Air France flight.

Unfortunately, his luggage was nowhere to be found when he landed.

"I waited in Paris for three days without any updates, so I decided to post this video. I'm sorry," Wu said.

He added that he had made "countless calls", but received responses that were "careless" and "not proactive".

"I was truly disappointed. Even more disappointing was that after waiting for three days, it still had not been found."

Cathay Pacific's response

Speaking to SCMP, Cathay Pacfic said Wu was transferred to another carrier in Europe after missing his connecting flight, adding that his baggage was also handed over for transfer in accordance with standard procedures.

However, due to issues during the local baggage transit process, his luggage was not loaded onto the connecting flight in time.

It added that the luggage was eventually located and returned to Wu following close coordination with the relevant airline and airports.

In a follow-up post on Weibo on Jun. 26, Wu said he had recovered his luggage before leaving France.

"The Cathay staff went through untold hardships to get my luggage back," Wu said. "The next three days, I have to fly to Hangzhou and Singapore for work, I will be greatly relieved."

The incident had also attracted widespread attention online as Wu had appeared in a Cathay Pacific promotional video posted on his Instagram in May 2026, slightly less than two months before the baggage mishap.

According to media reports, he is also a brand ambassador for the company.

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South Korea's first-generation influencer, Lee Joo-hee, has died suddenly at the age of 44.

The news of her death was posted on her social media on Jun. 25.

According to Korean media:

"Yesterday, Lee Joo-hee, who was dearly loved as the wife of a man, the mother of a child, and by many as the head of AAV Collection, left us suddenly."

Her family announced that Lee had passed away a day earlier and thanked those who had shown their concern.

"As she was a person who always shared better things and dreamed of a beautiful and happy world with many people, we still cannot believe this news and are in deep sorrow," her family wrote.

Lee was married with one kid and was also the head of fashion brand AAV Collection.

She first rose to prominence after gaining popularity on social media.

South Korean actress and model Kim Jin-kyung has been forced to disable comments on her social media accounts after being targeted by online abuse following her husband, goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu's performance during South Korea's 2026 World Cup match against Mexico.

South Korea lost 1-0 to the host nation, Mexico. The only goal came after Kim Seung-gyu failed to secure the ball, allowing Luis Romo to capitalise on the rebound and score, according to Kbizoom.

While Kim Seung-gyu faced intense criticism online for the error, some users even directed hostile comments at his wife's social media pages, despite her having no involvement in the match.

Negative comments even made their way into a video documenting Kim Jin-kyung's recent childbirth, with users flooding it with criticism directed at the goalkeeper.

She has since restricted comments on her YouTube channel and social media accounts. Visitors to her pages now see notices indicating that comments have been turned off or restricted to subscribers only.

Missed daughter's birth for the World Cup

The couple married in June 2024 and recently welcomed their first daughter.

Kim Seung-gyu was away with the South Korean national team during the birth and was unable to be present, seeing his newborn for the first time through photographs and video calls.

He reportedly saw his daughter open her eyes for the first time during a call with his wife, shortly before South Korea's match against the Czech Republic.

At a press conference, he publicly apologised to his wife for missing the birth of their daughter, vowing to repay her with strong performances for the national team.

A court has ordered that an infant boy, who was nine-months-old at the time of the hearing, be placed under the supervision of an Approved Welfare Officer (AWO) while remaining in his mother's care.

This comes after the court found that repeated domestic violence between his parents placed him in need of care and protection.

Under the order, the child's contact with his father will be subject to the AWO's approval.

The decision, published in a judgement on Jun. 22, followed a series of violent confrontations between the married couple after the birth of their son in August 2025, as well as concerns over the child's medical care.

The father has appealed against the decision.

Relationship marked by recurring physical altercations

According to the judgment, the couple's relationship had been marked by recurring physical altercations from the outset.

The Protective Service (PSV) submitted that the father's violence escalated after the mother became pregnant, though he disputed this.

In one incident, the father had allegedly said he intended to go to East Coast Park to take his own life, and did not return home for several days.

During his absence, the mother stood in front of a closed-circuit television camera holding a knife in an attempt to prompt his return.

The timing of the incident was contested.

While PSV dated it to August 2025, the mother said it occurred during her pregnancy and that nobody was harmed.

Meanwhile, the father claimed it took place the following month, and that he had been locked out of the home, rather than having left voluntarily.

Assaulted each other while father was holding the baby

On Sep. 18, 2025, the parents became involved in a physical brawl after the father accused the mother of conspiring with others to take their son away from him.

The mother had pulled the father's shirt, punched his shoulder and slapped his face while he was carrying the baby.

The father also allegedly made suicidal and homicidal threats, including saying, "I will kill you and the baby" and "I want to kill myself."

Before police arrived, the father allegedly pinned the mother against a couch, covered her mouth and choked her until she lost consciousness.

The infant was asleep in a bassinet throughout the incident.

The father denied choking the mother, saying the allegation stemmed solely from her application for a Personal Protection Order (PPO).

Multiple family members involved

Five days later, another dispute broke out after the father allegedly ignored the mother's repeated requests to lower the volume of music he was playing in the kitchen.

The mother threw the speaker outside, prompting the father to leave before returning with his parents.

A physical altercation then ensued.

According to the judgment, the father's mother tried to pull the baby away from the maternal grandmother, while his father grabbed the maternal grandmother by the face.

The father then took the child from the maternal grandmother.

The mother suffered injuries to her face and arms while attempting to de-escalate the situation.

The court noted that the infant was physically handled by several people during the confrontation.

Following the incident, the father voluntarily moved out of the matrimonial home.

Around the same period, both parties started filing PPO applications against each other and were granted expedited orders (EOs).

Jammed the locks to prevent wife and son from leaving

The father returned to the home unannounced on Oct. 6, 2025 to stay.

He also disagreed with PSV's proposed safety plan that required him to move out.

On Oct. 11, 2025, after discovering that the mother had changed the locks, he allegedly jammed them to prevent the mother and child from leaving the flat.

The father disputed this account, claiming the key became stuck because the mother held the internal latch, and that he broke the key only while trying to remove himself from the situation.

Five days later, he returned again and switched off the electricity supply while the mother and child were inside the flat in an attempt to gain entry.

He eventually left the matrimonial home for good after that incident.

About a month later, however, he returned to the home again and changed the locks.

When his wife and mother-in-law returned home with his son, the father allegedly tried to remove the infant from his pram.

His mother-in-law intervened, leading to another physical confrontation while she was carrying the infant.

She alleged that the father elbowed her and punched her twice in the left eye, causing a laceration to her eyelid and a fractured nose.

The father denied assaulting her, saying he acted in self-defence to protect him and his son.

The father then barricaded himself inside the home with the child, leaving the mother locked outside overnight despite PSV's advice for her to disengage.

The father alleged that during the standoff, the mother had cut off the flat's electricity and water supply for about an hour and played loud noises outside.

Both parents were arrested at about 7:15am the following morning for breaching their respective EOs.

Their son was said to have remained asleep throughout the overnight incident.

Son had a medical condition

According to the judgement paper, the boy was born with a clubbed left foot and was prescribed a corrective leg brace, which doctors instructed should be worn for 23 hours a day until he turned four.

They warned that failing to follow the treatment plan could result in recurrence of the condition and permanent deformity requiring corrective surgery.

The brace was first fitted on Sep. 4, 2025, but was removed after four days.

The child went without it for about two weeks prior to his follow-up appointment, where doctors observed that the condition had recurred.

Each parent blamed the other for this.

The mother said the father rejected the diagnosis and wanted doctors to stop treatment because he did not believe their son had a clubbed foot.

On the other hand, the father claimed the mother had removed the brace because of caregiver stress and fatigue.

PSV ultimately accepted that the mother had faced legitimate practical difficulties caring for the infant alone after the father left the matrimonial home, particularly before her own mother arrived to assist.

During that period, the brace repeatedly slipped off and she managed only about 12 hours of daily compliance.

As a result, PSV's allegation of medical neglect was directed solely at the father.

Judge's decision

In her judgment, the judge accepted PSV's submission that exposing a child to repeated domestic violence could have serious long-term effects on the child's emotional, cognitive and neurological development, even if those consequences emerged only later.

The judge also found, more likely than not, that the father had deliberately discontinued the child's prescribed use of the leg brace without medical justification or obtaining a second medical opinion, amounting to medical neglect.

Although PSV had sought to remove the child from the family home, the judge concluded that fostering was not the most appropriate arrangement.

She found that each parent was individually capable of caring for the child, and that the primary concern was the danger posed by their conflict when together.

"The real concern was that the parents’ relationship was so acrimonious that it would endanger [the infant's] safety to place him around both parents at the same time. Accordingly, care must be taken before ruling out the possibility of placing the child under statutory supervision under the care of one parent."

The judge also noted that the mother preferred fostering over effectively sharing care with the father, and the father said he would rather the child remain in the mother's sole care than be placed in foster care.

"I therefore proceeded on the basis that there was common ground between both parties, i.e., that in terms of ordinal preferences, both parties ranked placing [the infant] under the mother’s care ahead of fostering [the infant]," she said.

Taking these factors into account, the judge ruled that it was in the child's best interests to remain with his mother under statutory supervision by an AWO, with the father's access to be determined by the AWO.

The father has since appealed the decision.

The parents of the 17-year-old girl who was found dead inside a suitcase in Pattaya expressed their grief and heartbreak while waiting to collect their child's body.

The girl, named Tunchanok Donhomla, was found dead after being last seen entering a building with a 45-year-old Australian man, Simon Carman, on Jun. 25.

Carman was arrested on Jun. 26 at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on suspicion of murdering the girl.

Tunchanok's parents described their desperation when they first heard that Tunchanok was missing, and their initial hope that she was still alive, according to The Thaiger.

First trip

Tunchanok's parents said this was the teen's first trip to the city, and they recalled urging her to stay safe.

The teen, who lives in Kalasin province, had travelled to Pattaya on Jun. 16 with a 19-year-old friend.

The family described the girl as a hardworking, good-natured girl who helped support the family and had never been in any trouble.

She had kept in touch with her family throughout the trip, but stopped contact after her last message around 5:12 pm on Jun. 26.

Her friend later reported her missing.

Heartbreaking journey

The teen's stepmother recalled their desperation as they drove down from Kalasin to Pattaya.

They learned that police were searching for a foreign suspect after he had been seen wheeling a suitcase out of his room.

The family clung to hope that she might still be alive and could not bring themselves to believe their child could be inside the suitcase.

When police later confirmed that the girl was found inside the suitcase, her family reportedly stopped the vehicle and wept along the road.

Suspect apologised to family

In a video filmed by local police, Carman was seen apologising to the teen's family and saying her death was "out of my control".

He said he felt bad for what happened, adding:

"It was out of my control. I know you'll be very sad, upset, same-same me. It shouldn't happen and I hope you're okay. I know you're not, but I hope."

He also told them to caution other girls to be "careful," then said he didn't want to speak anymore.

An Indonesian domestic helper who fell in love with a Singaporean man while working here has been sentenced to two months' jail after marrying him despite already being married with six children back home, according to Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News.

Aminan Sidauruk, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of bigamy, with a second charge of falsely declaring she was unmarried taken into consideration during sentencing.

Already married since 1992

According to Stomp, Aminan had wed a man in a Catholic ceremony in Indonesia on Aug. 6, 1992. The marriage was never dissolved.

She left Indonesia between 2010 and 2012 to work overseas, leaving her six children behind in her husband's care.

Met Singaporean man online

In early 2025, while working as a domestic helper in Singapore, Aminan met a Singaporean man online. The two developed a relationship and decided to get married.

On Jul. 25, 2025, the Singaporean submitted a marriage application to the Registry of Marriages (ROM), declaring Aminan was single despite knowing she was already married.

On Sept. 2, 2025, the couple appeared before ROM to make a statutory declaration, with Aminan claiming she had never been married. Their marriage was officially registered on Oct. 27, 2025.

Tip-off led to arrest

Police received a tip-off from ROM that Aminan might have committed bigamy. She was arrested on Apr. 15, 2026, following investigations, per Shin Min.

Prosecution vs defence

According to Stomp, Prosecutors sought three to four months' jail, arguing Aminan's actions had caused harm to her husband and six children in Indonesia.

They also noted she had repeatedly misrepresented her marital status in both the marriage application and the statutory declaration, suggesting the offence was premeditated.

The defence, however, requested one to two months' jail, saying Aminan had registered the marriage out of genuine love for the Singaporean man, that the marriage lasted only a few months, and that she had acknowledged her wrongdoing and pleaded guilty.

The body of a 17-year-old girl in Pattaya, Thailand, was found in a suitcase along a railway line.

Thai police have since arrested a 45-year-old Australian man, Simon Carman, on Jun. 26 at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, according to Australian Broadcasting Channel News (ABC News).

Carman allegedly picked up the 17-year-old, named Tunchanok Donhomla, from the Beach Road vice strip in Pattaya on Jun. 25.

CCTV footage later showed the pair holding hands and going to Carman's room before Carman appeared the next evening with a black suitcase in tow.

Met in Pattaya

When Tunchanok did not make any contact for more than 24 hours, her friends reported her missing, Pattaya News reported.

Police traced her last steps to the building she entered with Carman, where the pair was seen entering at around 3:34am on Jun. 25.

CCTV also showed Carman leaving the building at 9:34pm with a black suitcase and loading it onto a black motorcycle.

They then traced the motorcycle's route via CCTV and located the suitcase about 4.2km away.

The 17-year-old girl was found dead with injuries consistent of an assault inside.

Arrested at airport

A travel ban notice was issued for Carman, who was eventually arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

He reportedly denied the accusation when he was first arrested, only coming clean when presented with CCTV footage.

Carman also had visible scratch marks on his neck and arms.

Claimed self-defence

Carman reportedly told police that he had acted in self-defence.

He claimed to have invited the girl back to his long-term rented condominium after meeting her at Pattaya Beach around 3am on Jun. 25.

Once inside, she allegedly received a phone call and later told him she wanted to leave as she was on her period.

She allegedly asked Carman for 500 baht (S$19.40) in compensation but later demanded more money, leading to a heated argument.

Carman claimed that the girl then grabbed a kitchen knife and pointed it at his neck.

He claimed this led him to use his left hand to grab her hand while using his right hand to choke her neck until she became still.

Carman insisted he had no intention to kill her and acted only in self-defence.

Police have charged Carman with intentional murder, concealing or disposing of a body, and abducting/taking a minor (aged over 15 but under 18) for indecent purposes.

He has been remanded in custody by Pattaya Provincial Court for further investigation.

As the ongoing dispute within one of Thailand’s wealthiest families continues, questions have been raised about the century-old law at the centre of the matter.

The mother of Siranudh “Psi” Scott, the alleged victim in the case, had in February sued her younger son under Thailand’s unique “Ungrateful Child” law.

Chiranuj Bhirombhakdi, the matriarch of the Singha Beer family, had initiated the lawsuit over an inheritance dispute involving assets from his late grandfather.

She also accused her son of damaging the family's reputation after Siranudh publicly accused his elder brother, Sunit "Pi" Scott, of sexually abusing him during his teenage years.

Neglectful children

The century-old "ungrateful child" law, as reported by AFP, via the Malay Mail, and the Telegraph, is intended to protect parents from neglectful children.

It enables parents to revoke gifts if their children are considered “ungrateful, physically abusive, neglectful in old age, or responsible for serious reputational harm".

In her suit, Chiranuj argued that Siranudh has damaged the family's reputation.

She is looking to reclaim millions of dollars worth of land gifted to Siranudh by his late grandfather, Chamnong Bhirombhakdi, who was himself the youngest son of Phraya Bhirombhakdi, the founder of the Singha Beer empire.

The lawsuit prompted Siranudh to reveal more details via social media about the alleged abuse, including a four-minute audio clip involving a confrontation with his elder brother Sunit.

Tore up contract

Siranudh, 29, said that his brother and a nanny subjected him to sexual abuse between the ages of 12 and 24, allegations that he said he showed his family proof of.

But instead of taking action regarding the abuse, he was made to sign a contract promising his silence, in exchange for five million baht per year (S$195,500).

Earlier in June, Siranudh publicly tore up the contract, saying that his family could not "buy my voice, buy my humanity."

Siranudh added that his mother called him an "ungrateful child" because he dared speak out about his abuse.

Expert opinion

AFP spoke to several experts about Thailand's ungrateful child law, with an anthropology professor at Chulalongkorn University, Jiraporn Laocharoenwong, saying that the English translation of "ungrateful" or "ingratitude" did not convey the much stronger moral meaning the term had in Thai.

“It refers not simply to failing to appreciate someone's kindness but to betraying or violating a relationship of care and obligation.”

Many such cases usually occur within wealthy families, and Pimyaphat Jullaphan, a Thai family lawyer, said that most are resolved through court-mediated negotiations rather than judicial rulings.

The focus in these cases, he said, is on compromise in order to help repair family relationships rather than to declare a winner or loser.

Such cases usually occur when children are deemed to have failed to take care of their parents, something which is considered one of Thai culture's highest values.

Western societies, he said, do not always have a direct equivalent.

Parental obligations

However, it was noted that Thai law also obliges parents to care for their children, although the ability for children to seek redress against delinquent parents was limited.

Jiraporn said that the case involving Siranudh and the Singha family invited Thais to consider the conditions under which a familial moral debt is "created, challenged, or even broken."

Siranudh himself has argued that the law reflects an outdated view of family relationships, and has "no place in a liberal society that places importance on the welfare of children".

"Looking at the fine print, this law is an attempt to kind of silence any damage done to a family name. Anything remotely damaging to the name is considered disobedient possibly by the law," he told AFP.

Siranudh and his mother are due to appear in court on Jul. 8, after several failed rounds of mediation.

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Tower Transit Singapore (TTS) celebrated its 10th anniversary today (Jun. 27) by unveiling Singapore’s first-ever wedding bus.

For its very first special event, disability advocate Alister Ong proposed to his girlfriend, Jasmine, amidst decorations by Singaporean design firm Med Karlek.

Ong, 33, lives with cerebral palsy, and is also a public speaker and a board member of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore.

Proposals and bus rides

The wheelchair-bound Ong proposed to his girlfriend of seven years just in front of TTS's special electric bus.

The new "wedding bus" was bedecked with pastel flowers and quirky decorations like a “priority seat” sign with stylised bride and groom logos, and long ribbons trailing behind the bus.

Ong and Jasmine said that the decision to incorporate a bus into their proposal plan was a straightforward one, as they both recalled the role that buses had played in their relationship.

Over the course of their seven-year relationship, Ong would send Jasmine home on the bus, before making the journey home himself, often catching the last bus to do so.

Jasmine reminisced about the many meaningful conversations they had shared, and how “much of our love story has been intertwined with public transport.”

Accessibility

To mark the occasion, TTS and designer Med Karlek had consulted the couple on the decorations for the bus.

Ong also expressed his thanks to TTS, saying he appreciated that they had made the event very accessible, with the Bulim Depot having several accessibility features such as slopes, ramps, and elevators.

Ong commented that as a wheelchair user, he was “thankful that public transport has been more accessible” over the years, pointing out the wheelchair spaces on buses (where they were speaking to press), as well as ramps on buses which make it easier for him to board and alight.

10 years on the road

The event also saw TTS unveil new bus captain uniforms, mental wellness programmes, and the pilot of a Bus Executive Officer scheme, which combined active bus driving with a supervisory role in operations.

Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow was present to deliver an opening speech, as well as to observe Ong and Jasmine’s proposal.

Siow recalled his time working in the Ministry of Transport as a civil servant between 2012 and 2017, where he saw TTS join Singapore’s transport framework.

Paying tribute to TTS, he credited them for taking “the leap” in partnership with the Singapore government, and for bringing “new thinking to our shores”.

Available for charter

As for Ong and Jasmine's love story, TTS said it would continue to celebrate the occasion with them by sponsoring the official wedding ceremony, which will also take place on the bus.

The wedding bus will soon be made available as part of a two-hour charter service around Singapore, for other couples to celebrate their own weddings.

In addition to floral decor and full bridal livery, the bus also comes with a red carpeted aisle, onboard TV and karaoke system, as well as a collapsible registry table.