The former chief of air force was fined S$5,000 and disqualified from driving for five years for driving negligently and colliding with a 44-year-old Indonesian domestic helper pushing a two-year-old boy in a stroller.

Goh Yong Siang, 74, pleaded guilty on Jul. 1 to one of two charges, driving without reasonable consideration, causing grievous hurt, The Straits Times reported.

The other charge, which involved driving without reasonable consideration, causing hurt to the boy, was taken into consideration during sentencing.

Footage

The incident occurred on May 17, 2024.

Goh had failed to keep a proper lookout when he made a right turn at a pedestrian crossing along Pasir Panjang Road towards Telok Blangah Road, at the junction with Harbour Drive.

In dashcam footage from Goh’s car played in court, the domestic helper was reportedly thrown into the air upon impact and landed on the ground.

Her face was bleeding, and the car's windscreen was cracked as a result of the collision.

Both the domestic helper and the boy were conveyed to the National University Hospital.

She reportedly sustained multiple injuries, including a deep facial laceration, a ligament tear and a knee contusion.

The domestic helper was given 42 days of hospitalisation leave.

The boy’s parents declined medical leave on his behalf.

Both of them were apparently crossing the road when the green man signal was on.

The prosecution sought a fine between S$4,000 and S$5,000, noting that while the woman suffered grievous hurt, she is unlikely to suffer any permanent disability.

A 51-year-old Singaporean man fatally ran over his 32-year-old Bangladeshi acquaintance, with whom he had dealt contraband cigarettes.

This was after the Singaporean man believed that he had been implicated following a raid by the Singapore Customs.

The foreigner later died from his injuries after he was repatriated to Bangladesh.

Toh Sze Ee pleaded guilty to using a dangerous weapon to cause grievous hurt on Jun. 29, The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao reported.

Acquaintances

Toh and the victim, Hossen Selim, were acquainted through dealing with contraband cigarettes.

In February 2023, Selim was arrested during a raid by Singapore Customs.

Toh managed to evade arrest.

He reportedly suspected that Selim had provided information to the authorities that implicated him.

He then arranged to meet Selim to confront him.

Confrontation

On Mar. 16, 2023, at about 5pm, Toh drove a rented van along Kaki Bukit Avenue 5, towards Kaki Bukit Road 4.

He had no valid licence to drive a van.

Selim was cycling on the other side of the road, towards Kaki Bukit Road 5.

Toh then made a U-turn, colliding with Selim.

Dashcam footage recorded from a tipper truck and a parked private bus captured the collision.

The van was seen moving away from the left side of the road to avoid colliding with the rear of the parked truck.

Toh later stopped about 40m down the road and alighted to check the front of the van.

Selim sustained serious injuries, including multiple rib fractures, skull fractures and a broken neck.

He later died in Bangladesh in 2025.

Associate

Toh then contacted his associate, Teo Kim Chiew, with whom he also dealt contraband cigarettes.

Toh told him he had knocked down a Bangladeshi at Kaki Bukit Avenue 5.

When Teo arrived at the scene, a passerby had called for an ambulance, which conveyed Selim to Changi General Hospital.

Toh later met Teo in Tampines, telling him that Selim suddenly cycled into his path.

Both men drove separately to an abandoned warehouse in Defu Lane 12 to dispose of the contraband cigarettes in the van.

The vehicle was then abandoned on the road outside the warehouse.

A few days later, Toh also told his girlfriend, who asked about the incident, that Selim had suddenly turned right and he could not brake in time.

Asleep

Toh was initially charged with attempted murder.

However, the prosecution reportedly amended it to one of voluntarily causing hurt using a dangerous weapon or means at the end of the trial.

Toh claimed he was a drug addict and fell asleep behind the wheel due to methamphetamine withdrawal, which the judge rejected.

A psychiatrist also assessed that it was unlikely that Toh had fallen asleep due to fatigue as a withdrawal symptom.

Toh did not meet the diagnostic criteria for stimulant withdrawal on the day of the incident.

The judge also noted that Toh was able to socialise, coordinate contraband cigarette deliveries, utilise a navigation app and complete a U-turn before the collision.

Furthermore, Teo sought to change his account, saying that Toh had mentioned he had fallen asleep behind the wheel.

The judge said Teo just changed his account to help Toh.

“I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the accused remained in control of the van at the material time, and that he intended for the van to collide into, and run over, the victim.” The judge reportedly said when convicting Teo.

Toh’s sentencing was adjourned to a later date.

When someone says "cruise holiday", I'll admit my brain still defaults to buffet lines, deck chairs and a slightly older crowd.

What it does not picture is me getting put through a Hyrox-style workout by Netflix fitness star Amotti somewhere off the coast of Melaka.

Yes, that Amotti — the winner of Netflix’s Physical 100 Season 2, known for his discipline, dedication to fitness and very intense workouts.

And yet, that is exactly what's happening this July on Dream Cruises’ two-night cruise to Melaka and back.

To mark its 10th anniversary, Dream Cruises is throwing a year-long party at sea called "A Decade of Dreams", so if your idea of a good time involves both chilling at sea and sweating it out, this might be the one to look out for.

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From Jul. 26 to 28, Amotti is coming onboard the two-Night Melaka cruise from Singapore for a series of fitness workshops and a meet-and-greet.

I'll be honest, going on a holiday usually means giving yourself a break from the gym, but who wouldn’t want to challenge themselves doing burpees on the open sea with the guy who makes it all look so easy?

(Also, not going to lie, a bit of eye candy never hurt a holiday.)

The workshops with Amotti are going for S$25 per person on a first-come first-served basis, so this is one to lock in early.

Other sports and wellness activities

It’s not just Amotti to look forward to, however.

The June to August line-up for Dream Cruises — fittingly called Celebrate the Dream — is basically a floating lifestyle festival.

Other things you can look forward to on the cruise during this period include a family-friendly pickleball clinic that's open to all ages and skill levels.

On the wellness front, there are pilates sessions and Wander Flow Yoga — a music-led yoga session that blends movement with mindfulness.

You can also look forward to letting loose by racing down the waterslides, settling in for a round of bowling, or losing an afternoon to a foam party on the pool deck.

The cruise also sports FIFA World Cup 2026 screenings, broadcasted live throughout the ship — at the main lobby, Zouk Beach Club and the Zodiac Theatre — so you won't miss a single goal even while at sea.

And if you'd like a little culture to balance things out, Forever Broadway brings the biggest hits from New York and London's stages onboard, in collaboration with Broadway Asia International.

Catch Kiiras performing live in October

From September to December 2026, Dream Cruises will move into the next phase of its anniversary celebration, called “Dream Lives On”, and this is where things go full pop culture.

Rising K-pop girl group Kiiras, the six-member act behind debut track "KILL MA BO$$", will perform live at sea from Oct. 25 to 27 on a special K-pop-themed Melaka sailing.

Guests on that cruise get a meet-and-greet, and free live performances on a first-come first-served basis and exclusive merch. If you're a K-pop fan, consider this your heads-up.

For those who enjoy Korean entertainment beyond just K-pop, or if you've ever yelled at your screen watching reality dating contestants make questionable choices, Dream Cruises is also launching “Inferno at Sea” in August, a dating series where six men and six women will come onboard a five-night cruise to compete and be matched.

Beyond that, there’s the 10X Music Festival at Sea, with 10 themed spaces each celebrating a different music genre — from Hindi disco to hip-hop. Dream Cruises has even released a 10th anniversary music video, "A Decade of Dreams", to set the tone for the year-long celebration.

Round that off with selfie rooms built for your camera roll, an Oktoberfest at Sea with steins, pretzels and live music included, along with Future Food and Belvedere cocktail nights for the grown-ups.

Short getaway without needing to fly

So, should you go?

Perhaps to help the group chat move from “maybe” to “booked”, note that Dream Cruises has launched a limited-time 10th anniversary promotion with special rates for the 2nd to 4th guests in the room at just S$10 per person (selected sailings only).

And if you're a DBS/POSB cardholder, there's an extra 5 per cent off on top of all the promotions with the promo code “DBS5”.

In short, it makes it a little easier to rope in your partner, besties, family members, or that one friend who keeps saying they "need a short break".

The Genting Dream sails year-round out of Singapore (and now Kuala Lumpur via Port Klang too), with two, three, four and five-night itineraries to spots like Penang, Phuket, Bali, Redang, Koh Samui and Bangkok too.

With the celebrations running all the way from March to December 2026 — spanning themed programmes, wellness activities and lifestyle experiences across the year — there's a sailing for just about every mood.

Those plans that never quite make it out of the group chat? This is your sign to finally make one happen.

Explore the full "Decade of Dreams" line-up, the sailing dates and the latest promotions over at the Dream Cruises website, or speak to your preferred travel agent to book.

Just maybe stretch before you board.

This branded article by Dream Cruises made this writer google "how to survive a Hyrox workout".

The contractor involved in the unauthorised clearing of saplings planted by volunteers as part of the National Parks Board's (NParks) OneMillionTrees movement has been issued a 24-month conditional warning following the completion of NParks' investigation into the incident.

They had also bore the cost of replanting the saplings, which was completed on Jun. 9, 2026.

Project supervisor misunderstood instructions

In an update, NParks' group director for enforcement and investigation Jessica Kwok provided more details as to how the incident occurred.

Kwok shared that the contractor was engaged to carry out cyclical replacement of the boardwalk at Lower Peirce Reservoir, and needed to identify a location that was near the trail entrance to store their materials.

"NParks had communicated to the site supervisor that the area (at the planting site) proposed by the contractor was not suitable for their storage space. Additionally, NParks had identified a suitable location for storage, on the condition that no trees or plants would be affected," Kwok added.

Kwok said that NParks' investigations showed that the unauthorised clearing was "due to an error by the project supervisor who was covering the duties of the site supervisor on overseas leave".

"Although the site supervisor had communicated NParks’ directions to him, the project supervisor had misunderstood the instructions, and stored the materials at a site which NParks had earlier assessed to be not suitable," Kwok explained.

Contractor agreed to bear cost of replanting

The area that was cleared measured 40.5 square metres.

The site on which the volunteers planted the saplings totalled 165.5 square metres.

The contractor and project supervisor later admitted their error, Kwok said.

They also agreed to bear the cost of replanting and maintaining the cleared plot.

Contractor may be charged in court if they offend again

A 24-month conditional warning was issued to the contractor by NParks after "carefully considering the facts and circumstances of the matter".

"This was their first offence. However, if either the contractor or project supervisor commits another offence during this period, they may be charged in court for both the original and new offences," Kwok said.

Replanting completed

The affected plot has been replanted with 60 new plants, and replanting was completed on Jun. 9, 2026.

Kwok shared that the plants comprise species originally planted during the 2025 volunteer activity, as well as three new species that are food plants for the Raffles banded langur and a variety of forest birds.

The 2025 volunteer activity was organised by the Raffles Banded Langur Working Group as part of their anniversary celebrations.

The species of saplings selected for the activity also included food plants for the primates.

Kwok added that NParks has verified that all the species planted during the original 2025 activity can still be found in the area.

Two station managers attended to a commuter who collapsed at Woodlands South MRT station and performed potentially life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

The incident, which occurred on Jan. 21, was shared by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in a Jun. 30 post to highlight the efforts of the station managers, Navin and Faizal.

Commuter collapsed

Navin said a transit security officer informed him that a commuter had collapsed.

The man showed signs of cardiac arrest and appeared unresponsive, he said.

Another station manager, Faizal, used the automated external defibrillator (AED) to perform CPR on the passenger.

He admitted: "That's the very first time that I performed CPR on someone."

"He was struggling to breathe," Faizal also noted.

Paramedics soon arrived.

Commuter's children thank staff

Reflecting on the incident, Navin said: "I think this is one of those experiences that tests you as a station manager when you need to remain calm under pressure and have the presence of mind to respond swiftly and confidently."

The commuter's children returned to the MRT station on the same day to inform Faizal and Navin that their father had regained consciousness.

The children also thanked them for their help.

"Looking out for commuters is part of our job, but it's also something we genuinely care about," Faizal said.

"Great service isn't all about grand gestures. Sometimes its simply being ready to step forward when someone needs help," Navin said.

LTA lauded the duo for their proactiveness and revealed that public transport workers received over 31,000 compliments from commuters in the first quarter of 2026.

A 46-year-old woman was arrested after a fire broke out in a Sembawang Housing & Development Board flat on Jun. 30 at about 5:15pm.

Preliminary investigation into the cause of the fire indicates that it was deliberately set.

What happened

Footage of the incident online showed heavy smoke and bright flames billowing out of the unit's windows.

In response to queries from Mothership, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to the fire at around 5:15pm.

The fire involved the bedroom of a 10th-floor unit at Block 512 Wellington Circle.

SCDF personnel extinguished the flames using a water jet.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) confirmed with Mothership that the 46-year-old woman was conveyed conscious to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation.

She was subsequently arrested for mischief by fire, and both police and SCDF investigations are currently ongoing.

A foreign worker in Singapore has won a lawsuit against his former employer over unpaid overtime after a tribunal found that he had worked between 13 and 15 hours a day, every day of the week, for months.

Although the company denied liability and claimed the worker had not worked any overtime at all, the tribunal ruled in the worker's favour and awarded him S$20,000.

The company was also ordered to pay S$400 in legal costs and S$60 in disbursements.

Worker's claims

According to a judgement published on Jul. 1, the claimant is a Bangladeshi national who was employed by an unnamed company from December 2023 to Dec. 8, 2025.

He worked at a Bangladeshi restaurant operated by the company.

Although the employer did not provide a written record of the key employment terms, both parties agreed that the employment was governed by the Ministry of Manpower's in-principle approval (IPA).

Under the IPA, the claimant was expected to work 44 hours per week, six days a week.

He received a basic monthly salary of S$1,500, and a fixed monthly allowance of S$500.

The IPA also stipulated an overtime rate of S$11.80 an hour.

The claimant, however, said he regularly worked between 13 and 15 hours a day, excluding breaks, seven days a week throughout his employment.

For his claim, he sought overtime pay only for the period between Apr. 1 and Dec. 8, 2025.

During that period, he said he accumulated 1,848.8 hours of overtime, amounting to S$21,815.84 in unpaid wages.

Evidence provided

The claimant produced an attendance table covering Apr. 1 to Dec. 8, 2025, prepared with assistance from a non-profit organisation.

The records showed that he worked every day during the period, generally from 5am to 9pm on Mondays to Saturdays, and from 7am to 9pm on Sundays.

When asked why he had only begun keeping records from March 2025, the claimant explained that the company had switched from a punch-card attendance system to a facial recognition system around that time.

Under the previous system, he was occasionally able to obtain completed punch cards from his supervisor and photographed them for his own records.

However, under the new system, he no longer had access to attendance records and began recording his daily clock-in and clock-out times by hand.

In response, the company called three witnesses: its office manager, its director and a chef who worked at the same restaurant.

All three said the claimant never worked overtime.

The office manager said the claimant never worked beyond the contractual 44-hour work week and would leave after completing his eight-hour shift, with the chef taking over his duties.

She added that employees would be paid in cash the same day if they worked overtime.

She also said the company did not make or keep any records of the claimant's working hours.

The chef testified that he himself worked about 11 hours a day, six days a week, and was paid in cash for two hours of overtime daily.

Despite regularly working overtime himself, he maintained that the claimant never did.

The director largely echoed the evidence given by the office manager and the chef, but argued that the claim was brought in retaliation after the company cancelled the claimant's work permit.

He described the claimant as "a troublesome employee" who had fought with customers on three occasions, and also criticised the non-profit organisation assisting him.

Findings

Tribunal magistrate Joel Tan said one aspect of the claimant's account initially stood out — that he had allegedly worked 13 to 15 hours a day for an extended period without making a formal complaint until after his employment ended.

The company used this point to contend that the claimant's account was inherently improbable and motivated by retaliation

Tan said he had initially found the argument persuasive.

However, upon further reflection, he concluded that an adjudicator should be cautious about judging how someone from a very different social, cultural and economic background might respond to difficult working conditions.

"Employees tolerate poor working conditions for all manner of reasons — fear of conflict, hope that things will improve, reluctance to risk a steady income, difficulty with finding alternative employment, or simple resignation that complaining will achieve nothing."

None of these are uncommon responses for any employee in Singapore, he said, adding that such considerations are often even more significant for foreign workers.

"A foreign worker with unpaid overtime or lack of rest days may, quite reasonably and rationally, consider that it is better to keep a bird in the hand — in the form of one’s monthly salary — than two birds in the bush — by pressing for overtime pay or rest day pay and risking repatriation."

Tan said the only documentary evidence relating to the hours worked was the attendance table submitted by the claimant.

He found the table credible, noting that the claimant gave a detailed and internally consistent explanation of how the records were prepared and why he began to keep handwritten notes.

The photographs of the punch cards were also found to be "authentic contemporaneous records" that supported the attendance table.

Though the company claimed it did not keep records of employees' working hours, Tan found this difficult to accept in light of the photographs of the punch-cards.

He also rejected the company's assertion that the facial recognition system was used only for employees of a related company operating an adjacent restaurant.

Instead, Tan found that the company had maintained attendance records but had simply refused to disclose them.

He was also critical of the company's position that the claimant had not worked any overtime at all.

"Even setting aside the attendance records, when a former employee brings a claim of this magnitude — every day worked, no rest days, overtime hours numbering in the thousands across months — she or he takes on a correspondingly greater risk of being contradicted," he said.

"The broader the claim, the easier it becomes for an employer to find at least one day, or one record that does not fit. In the age of digital communication, such evidence would not be difficult to come by. A message, a roster, a record of any kind showing that the claimant was not at work on a particular day or worked fewer hours than she or he claimed."

Yet, the company failed to produce a single well-supported example contradicting the claimant's account, saying employees' schedules were communicated verbally and face-to-face.

Tan said this was difficult to reconcile with the company's own evidence that workers had no fixed working hours or rest days and were informed of their schedules only a day in advance.

If that were true, he said, it was hard to believe there would be no digital communication over nearly two years of employment supporting the company's version of events.

Tan further noted that the restaurant had only three employees: a cleaner, the claimant and the chef.

With the restaurant operating from about 6am or 7am until around 11pm daily, he said he had "considerable difficulty" understanding how an effective shift system could have existed if the claimant had indeed stopped work after only eight hours.

The tribunal ultimately allowed the claim in full and awarded the claimant S$20,000, together with S$460 in costs and disbursements.

Four Singapore companies will be charged for fraud by false representation, believed to be linked to an ongoing probe into Nvidia chip fraud conspiracy.

These companies are Aperia International, A-Speed Infotech, and Aperia Cloud Services (II) — collectively known as the Aperia Group — and Luxuriate Your Life.

In relation to this case, the police said in a Jul. 1 news release that they have issued a prohibition of disposal order against a Good Class Bungalow (GCB) valued at about S$55 million.

CNA reported that the GCB is located at 12 Chee Hoon Avenue.

They also seized funds in bank accounts under investigation valued at roughly S$1 million.

Individual charges

Four individuals from the companies' leadership have previously been handed charges, and will face additional ones.

In February 2025, Alan Wei Zhaolun (CEO of Aperia Group), Aaron Woon Guo Jie (Head of Sales of Aperia Group), and Li Ming (the alleged controller of Luxuriate Your Life) were charged with fraud by false representation in relation to purchases of servers.

In April 2026, Jenny Lim, the CFO of Aperia Group, was also charged with conspiring with Wei and Woon to commit fraud.

Between November 2023 and February 2025, they allegedly misled suppliers Dell, Super Micro Computer, and Asus that one of the Aperia Group companies would be the end-user of the servers.

As for Li, investigations revealed that he falsely represented to Super Micro that his company Luxuriate Your Life would hold and lease to other companies the servers purchased from them.

AI chips fraud probe

In January 2025, Bloomberg reported that United States government officials were trying to find out if DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, used intermediaries in Singapore to purchase Nvidia chips.

The U.S. has banned the export of high-end chips Nvidia chips to China due to concerns that they could be used for military purposes.

According to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in February 2025, Nvidia stated "there is no reason to believe that DeepSeek obtained any export-controlled products from Singapore".

When Wei, Woon, and Li were first charged for fraud, Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said investigations revealed that the servers involved in the case may contain Nvidia chips.

The chips were embedded in servers supplied by Dell and Supermicro to the individual's Singapore-based companies, then sent to Malaysia, CNA reported.

Money laundering

Lim, Woon, and Wei will also face charges for money laundering.

Lim and Woon each face one charge for each acquiring about S$1.2 million in their personal bank accounts.

This sum partly represents benefits from criminal conduct amounting to about S$1 million, the police said.

On Jul. 6, Wei will also be charged for acquiring about S$5.8 million in his personal bank accounts, in part representing criminal benefits of about S$3.2 million.

He also allegedly converted property worth about S$55 million, in part representing criminal benefits of about S$38 million, for the purchase of a GCB.

The parent company of a firm that owns several Singapore outlets of Anytime Fitness and Body Fit Training (BFT) will be charged with failing to pay the Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions of its employees on time.

According to CNA, the parent company of gym operator ReFormd, Watchtower Holdings, will be facing 14 charges for allegedly failing to pay 13 employees their CPF contributions on time between July 2025 and January 2026.

ReFormd owns 16 BFT outlets, 14 Anytime Fitness outlets and five personal training gyms in Singapore.

There are 55 BFT franchise outlets in Singapore, including those that are set to open, reported CNA.

Watchtower Holdings previously convicted

According to CPF Board documents, Watchtower Holdings was previously sentenced on Dec. 18, 2025, on two charges of late payment of CPF contributions for employees.

The company was fined S$2,400.

The CPF Board told CNA that investigations and the recovery of outstanding payments started in August 2025.

It received four reports related to the company from April 2026 to June 2026, three of which have been resolved, reported CNA.

A portion of the outstanding CPF payments have since been recovered.

In a statement to CNA, the CPF Board said: "We will continue to follow up with the company and its director to recover any remaining arrears."

Company in process of settling remaining outstanding payments

The director of Watchtower Holdings, Monica Angkodjojo, told CNA that the company is in the process of settling the remaining outstanding amounts payable to the CPF Board.

"We acknowledge the seriousness of the matter and take our obligations to our employees very seriously."

Angkodjojo declined to comment on case details and said the company expects to settle all outstanding amounts by Jul. 7, ahead of the agreed Jul. 10 deadline.

She said: "Since identifying the issue, we have strengthened our internal compliance processes and implemented additional safeguards to ensure this does not happen again."

Penalties

According to CPF, enforcement action will be taken against employers who fail to make CPF contributions by the 14th of the following month (or the next working day if the 14th falls on a weekend or public holiday).

Employers may be fined between S$1,000 and S$5,000, jailed for up to six months, or both, for failing to make CPF contributions on time.

Repeat offenders can be fined between S$2,000 and S$10,000, jailed up to 12 months, or both.

Directors of the company can also be charged, and face the same court fines and/or imprisonment.

The next court hearing has been scheduled for Jul. 30, according to CNA.

A man from Taiwan's New Taipei City was sentenced by the High Court to nine years and eight months' jail on Jun. 30, 2026, after he asked his girlfriend to commit incest with her three sons.

This took place over three years from 2020 to 2023, which saw both lovers initially sentenced to 10 years and 6 months' jail, ETtoday reported.

The man, who reached a partial settlement with the victims, later had his sentence reduced after an appeal, while the woman's sentence remained unchanged.

Instigated lover to commit acts

In 2020, the man who was dating his lover learned that she had three sons who were in high school or junior high school.

According to ETtoday, the woman and her three sons slept in two bunk beds in the same room.

Wanting to satisfy his desires, the man asked her to commit incest with her sons and film videos of the acts before sending him the videos for his viewing pleasure, setn.com reported.

The woman agreed, and in January 2020, she sexually assaulted her eldest son, who was a high school sophomore at the time.

Learning disability

She filmed the act and sent the video to the man, who asked her to do the same to her second son.

The woman did so and also sexually assaulted her youngest son, who woke up during her act but pretended to sleep upon realising it was her.

In addition, the woman's second son was subject to her acts more than 10 times over three years.

However, due to his learning disability, he did not know how to respond despite knowing his mother's acts were wrong, according to ETtoday.

Father made police report

After three years of committing the acts, the sons' father discovered his wife's affair, ETtoday reported.

Outraged, he made a police report.

Both lovers were then indicted on charges of domestic violence and sexual assault.