On Aug. 11, 2026, officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) launched an anti-drug operation and arrested a Singaporean man, 25, and a Singaporean woman, 24, for suspected drug-related offences, including exposing their children to drugs.

A small amount of drugs, including cannabis, "Ice" and "Ecstasy", as well as drug paraphernalia were seized.

Acting on information received, CNB officers conducted an early morning raid at a residential unit in the vicinity of Marsiling Lane and arrested the couple.

The items seized were found at various parts of the unit, including the master bedroom, where the couple’s two young sons, aged three years and seven months, were present.

Appropriate arrangements were made to ensure that the welfare of the children was taken care of, and the children have been placed in the care of their next-of-kin, CNB said in its Aug. 13 statement.

CNB officers were seen taking care of the couple’s three-year-old and seven-month-old sons following the raid.

Investigations into the drug activities of the arrested suspects are ongoing.

Superintendent Xanthus Tong, Deputy Commanding Officer of Enforcement ‘J’ said: “Drug abuse is not victimless. Its harms are far-reaching, affecting not just drug abusers themselves, but also their families and loved ones, including young children."

"CNB will take firm enforcement action against those who expose children to drugs, and urge parents to keep their children away from drugs and its associated harms,” he added.

Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, any person aged 21 years and above who exposes controlled drugs or drug paraphernalia to a child, or permits or fails to take reasonable steps to prevent a young person from consuming controlled drugs, shall be liable for prosecution.

A 39-year-old woman in Malaysia was charged in court on Aug. 12, 2026, for allegedly murdering her 16-month-old step-granddaughter.

New Straits Times reported that no plea was recorded from the accused, Nurul Farhana Laili Shah, who was charged with murdering Nur Anggun Dahlia Abdullah.

A Johor police chief said the accused had cared for the baby since birth.

This is because the child's 18-year-old mother, who was not married and still studying at a vocational college in the state, left her in the woman's care.

Found child unresponsive

The Star reported that the child was initially believed to have died while sleeping at home on Jul. 31.

At about 9:30am that day, police had received a report from the victim's step-grandmother, who tried to wake the toddler but found her unresponsive.

"Medical personnel who arrived at the scene attempted CPR before the girl was pronounced dead at about 10:30am," The Star reported the police chief as saying.

"Initially, the case was investigated under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 for neglect resulting in the victim's death," the chief added.

Blunt force trauma

However, a post-mortem found that the child had died from blunt-force trauma to her abdomen and chest.

The wounds and bruises found on the child's body were believed to have been caused by abuse, and made the police reclassify the case as murder, The Star reported.

Following this, the police then arrested the victim's step-grandmother, grandfather and mother on Aug. 2 to assist in investigations.

The three, aged between 18 and 47 years old, had no prior criminal records and tested negative for drugs, the police chief said.

They were remanded until Aug. 12.

On Aug. 11, The Star reported that the prosecution instructed for the accused to be charged with murder.

The victim's grandfather and mother were to be released on bond under Section 118 of the Criminal Procedure Code to be prosecution witnesses.

Penalties

If convicted of murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, the accused may face the death penalty or jail of up to 40 years and, if the death penalty is not imposed, caning of not less than 12 strokes.

The court fixed Dec. 12, 2026, for mention pending the completion of the chemical, post-mortem and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reports.

No bail was granted, New Straits Times reported.

On Jun. 17, 2025, we received two strange emails in our inbox.

They were from a woman, purportedly from Batam.

She claimed she was looking for a Singaporean man, "Tony", who had abandoned her after getting her pregnant and forcing her to get an abortion.

It was sad, of course, but the claims were not substantiated by much evidence. For one reason or another, we didn’t follow up on the story.

Little did we know that all across Singapore, multiple individuals were being subject to different iterations of this story.

Some were measured pleas for help, like the message we received.

But others were more disturbing.

Daily harassment

This year, a number of content creators took to social media to describe what appeared to be quite an astounding level of abuse by this so-called victim.

But this was just the tip of a rather puzzling iceberg.

Since June 2025, more than 40 Singapore residents — and these are just the ones we are aware of — said they have been haunted by the same woman, who allegedly messaged them, individually, every single day.

Victims claimed she sent repeated emails and entered livestreams hosted by content creators to harass them through the comments section.

Even after they blocked her, she’d apparently create spam accounts to continue contacting and harassing them.

In some cases, she would allegedly impersonate her victims online, pretending to be them in order to contact others and pressure them into complying with her demands (i.e. to reveal more information about her Singaporean ex-lover).

In other cases, her harassment would escalate into death threats.

Black magic threats

One Facebook user, Lim, went online on Apr. 2 to claim that the Batam woman had misused her photos to impersonate her online and contact people within her social circle.

The woman allegedly accused Lim of “hiding” her missing Singaporean lover, and went on to threaten her baby.

She even claimed she would use black magic to curse her child, Lim wrote in the post.

To this day, Lim doesn’t know why or how the woman got her number, or why she believes Lim is in cahoots with her ex-lover.

“I do not know her, and I do not know the person she is looking for,” Lim clarified in her Facebook post.

Who is she?

All victims were left asking the same questions: Why were they being harassed, what did the woman want, and to what extent would she go?

And perhaps most importantly, who is she?

When it first started

We traced the earliest public account of this mass harassment back to a local social media influencer.

In a social media post on Apr. 1, Emma (not her real name) described the harassment she had been facing since Jun. 3, 2025.

According to Emma, the woman repeatedly messaged her and commented on her posts, asking to be put in touch with her best friend, Nadia (not her real name).

She alleged that the woman created at least 30 fake social media accounts across TikTok and Instagram to contact her, and even harassed her on Telegram.

In screenshots seen by Mothership, the harasser threatened to kill Emma and her dog.

She also disrupted her Registry of Marriages (ROM) ceremony, by allegedly tracking down her fiancé and repeatedly contacting him during the event.

When she failed to receive a reply from Emma or her fiancé, the harasser escalated matters by emailing her company on Jun. 13, in an attempt to locate both Emma and Nadia.

Emma maintained that she does not have any information about the woman’s missing lover. She also has not replied to the woman’s messages to date.

Others also harassed

A hallmark of the harassment is its almost pyramid-like scheme.

Nadia, Emma’ best friend, was among the first few people to be targeted.

Since June 2025, the 28-year-old said she had received countless direct messages from the woman.

The woman then went on to contact not just direct acquaintances, but also “friends of friends of friends” — a web of victims which included Emma.

In a police report seen by Mothership, Nadia alleged that the woman created at least five fake social media accounts a day to harass her, while also impersonating both her and her friends online.

When asked by Mothership how many people she believed had been affected so far, Nadia said it was “impossible to count”.

Businesses, organisations targeted

Apart from individuals, the woman also contacted businesses and organisations in attempts to find the person she was looking for.

According to Emma, the woman contacted a fitness studio via Instagram in an attempt to locate her and Nadia, whom she firmly believed were hiding her “missing lover”.

As the studio’s account was publicly accessible, the woman allegedly went on to contact the studio’s followers as well.

Emma added that a Singapore-based clothing brand was also targeted with spam calls and messages via platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram.

Speaking to Mothership, the owner of the affected brand confirmed that her staff had been "receiving repeated and distressing messages from this individual for some time".

The messages included harassment, unsolicited obscene photos and videos, and repeated requests for the brand to help locate her lover, "Tony Toong".

Some of the photos sent to staff showed male genitalia, accompanied by claims that they "liked d***" and were therefore hiding Tony.

Mothership also listened to voice recordings allegedly sent by the harasser, in which she could be heard crying and appealing for help to locate Tony, and accusing them of hiding him or having a relationship with him.

Threatened to harm children

The owner added that the situation became "especially frightening" after she received photos of her children alongside messages that made her fear for their safety.

In a screenshot seen by Mothership, the harasser sent the owner a photo of a news report about a missing child, accompanied by the message: "Maybe your child will die like that or missing."

In another screenshot, the harasser threatened to harm another woman's baby if the owner did not take action.

"By that point, the matter had gone far beyond something we could simply ignore, so we lodged a police report in May 2026," she said.

Brand’s customers also targeted

The owner also told Mothership that the woman even began contacting her brand's customers.

She explained that the brand had a Telegram channel, intended to communicate with customers.

But the woman apparently tracked down customers' Telegram accounts via the group and began harassing them as well.

"I felt terrible that people who had simply joined our brand community were affected by something that had nothing to do with them," she said.

The owner said the most recent contact from the individual was on Jul. 16.

Despite her having repeatedly blocked the woman, the latter allegedly continued to create new Telegram accounts to continue to contact the business and its customers, making it difficult to stop the unwanted messages.

The owner added:

"I would also like to make it very clear that neither I nor anyone from [the clothing brand] knows Tony Toong.

We have no personal or business relationship with him, and we are not in a position to locate him or help resolve whatever issue exists between them.

It has been extremely upsetting to see my staff, my children, and our customers pulled into a situation in which we have no involvement."

What does the woman want?

There is a somewhat coherent story behind this perplexing harassment campaign.

While the woman never formally identified herself to us, police reports lodged by both Emma and Nadia, seen by Mothership, identified the harasser as Indonesian citizen Lilis Suryani.

Lilis apparently met Singaporean Toong Jian Heng, also known as Tony, at a Batam KTV outlet that he reportedly frequented in 2025.

This is according to Nadia, who is a former acquaintance of Tony (but who is no longer in contact with him now).

Discussed a meeting in Singapore

So what exactly was the relationship between the two?

In her initial emails to Mothership on Jun. 25, 2025, "Lilis" attached a few screenshots of messages.

They purportedly show the pair discussing the pregnancy and plans to meet in Singapore.

“Lilis” would seek assurances from “Tony” that he would not disappear after she arrived in Singapore, while questioning why he did not want to call her or meet her in Batam.

But he allegedly continued to urge her to travel to Singapore instead.

In one message, Tony asked: “So u want abort or give birth”, later telling her: “Come sg abort”.

Mothership could not independently verify the authenticity of the messages.

Lilis’ account of what happened

A year later, on Apr. 15, 2026, we received another email.

It appeared to be from "Lilis" and contained another plea for help to find Tony.

This time, she provided some more backstory on her relationship.

According to the email, her ill-fated love story dates back to Sep. 29, 2024.

She claimed she had been in a relationship with Tony, whom she "trusted and loved".

However, in March 2025, after finding out she was pregnant, she alleged that Tony subjected her to "psychological pressure and financial manipulation".

This led her to undergo an illegal abortion, she said.

Lasting trauma

“Lilis” claimed that the abortion endangered her life and left her with lasting emotional trauma.

She said that Tony cut off all communication after the procedure, leaving her to cope with the physical pain and grief alone.

In the screenshot attached to the email, “Lilis” received text messages from “Tony” telling her that "the world would be better off without" her and urging her to take her own life.

What does she want?

So what does she want?

From her latest email to Mothership, she appears to be seeking "safety and accountability" for what she described as exploitation and harassment by Tony.

In her final statement, she described herself as "a girl, and a human being whose life has been treated as disposable and unfair".

She added that she hoped the authorities would show that "the law is stronger than those who use fear to hide their crimes" and pleaded not to be silenced.

In the same email, she attached a photo of male genitalia, which she also sent to some of her other victims.

Mothership’s attempts to follow up with her were unsuccessful.

She has not responded to any queries as of the time of publication.

Who is Tony?

So now we know who Lilis is.

The next question is: Who is Tony?

Not every lead Lilis pursued turned out to be a dead end. Though many of the people she contacted had no apparent connection to Tony, some actually did.

Like Nadia, who told Mothership that she was acquainted with Tony through her husband, John (not his real name).

According to Nadia, John first met Tony through a friend from polytechnic. She also met Tony once or twice at social gatherings years ago, but they exchanged only a few words.

When asked what she knew about the couple, Nadia said she understood that Lilis had become pregnant by Tony, but later suffered a miscarriage.

According to Nadia, Tony initially provided financial and medical support after the miscarriage.

But he eventually stopped responding to Lilis, who has since been trying to locate him.

The search for Tony

This brings us to what we know today.

Apart from the harassment, online checks by Mothership found multiple social media accounts featuring photos of Tony.

The social media accounts adopted different personas and identities in their posts, giving varying accounts of how they “knew” Tony.

But they appear to be yet another attempt to track him down.

This is consistent with the pattern of impersonation that the harasser has been accused of.

Indonesians are also affected

The harassment apparently extends to Indonesia as well.

Batam-based news outlet Batamnews had earlier reported on the alleged harassment of various Indonesians.

In response to Mothership’s queries, Batamnews’s CEO shed some light on their investigations.

One of the victims, he explained, was an Indonesian woman living in Batam. She gave her name as Lia.

Lia said she’d initially tried to help Lilis after the latter went to her claiming that she was pregnant and searching for her lover to “take responsibility”.

As Lia used to work at a KTV outlet in Batam with Tony and followed him on Instagram, she initially responded to Lilis' Instagram messages in March 2025.

But Lilis' requests became increasingly unreasonable, and she began to harass Lia’s acquaintances as well. Lia eventually decided to cut off contact.

According to Batamnews, Lia later became a victim of harassment herself after her personal photographs and phone number were circulated in WhatsApp and Facebook groups.

The posts allegedly falsely portrayed her as someone offering sexual services.

Batam Police currently investigating

Lia filed a police report on Feb. 27.

Batam authorities at the time reportedly determined that there was insufficient evidence to establish a criminal threat.

However, Batamnews told Mothership that the case has since progressed.

Following further submissions by the victims, the police have officially accepted the report and are now investigating the matter.

The Batam-based news outlet added that while it does not have an exact figure for the total number of victims, more Indonesians have continued to come forward claiming they were similarly harassed.

Obtained a response from the alleged harasser

Batamnews also managed to obtain a response from Lilis.

According to the outlet, Lilis said she was the victim of broken promises made by Tony, the Singaporean man she has been trying to locate.

She also claimed that Tony had gotten her pregnant, which she said motivated her actions.

So where is Tony now?

What we know is that sometime in April 2025, when the alleged harassment first began, Nadia's husband reached out to Tony for clarity.

Tony responded by sharing Lilis' passport details with Nadia and Emma, allowing them to identify her.

The pair also learnt that he had filed a police report against Lilis in Batam over the alleged harassment, sharing a screenshot of the report dated Aug. 12, 2025.

Tony also forwarded a screenshot to Emma as an update on the situation, sometime around September 2025.

It was, apparently, evidence that Lilis had been questioned by the police at one point, purportedly showing messages sent to Tony by his lawyers, with a photo of Lilis speaking to police officers at a police station.

That was the last Emma and Nadia heard of him.

Trying to find a resolution

To try to put an end to the harassment, Emma and Nadia went to the Singapore police on Jul. 7, 2025.

Emma also sought help from Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in November 2025.

According to her, both the Singapore Police Force and MFA said that, as Lilis was based in Batam, the matter fell outside Singapore's jurisdiction.

She also sought assistance from the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO) to block the spam TikTok accounts.

Despite these efforts, the harassment continued.

In December 2025, Emma contacted the Indonesian embassy for help.

The following month, in January 2026, she travelled to Batam with her husband and Nadia, where they met with Singapore consular officers.

In response to Mothership’s enquiries, Singapore Police Force said investigations are ongoing.

Tony goes missing

According to Emma and Nadia, Tony is the last piece in the puzzle involving possibly more than 100 people.

But they have been unable to contact him after their last message to him in September 2025, with Tony apparently falling off the radar entirely.

In an effort to locate him, Emma managed to trace the local cleaning company Tony previously worked at.

She reached out to company executives, but was told that Tony had since resigned — something which they believe is linked to the harassment.

“Even all his close friends are unaware of his whereabouts,” Nadia told Mothership.

Mothership also tried to reach Tony through the Singapore and Indonesian contact numbers provided by Emma and Nadia, but to no avail.

Tony a fugitive?

On Apr. 20, 2026, Mothership received an email from an anonymous reader alleging that Tony had been a fugitive for over a year.

The reader claimed that reports had been filed with the Batam police, who had allegedly issued three formal summonses for Tony.

They further alleged that Tony had yet to cooperate with the authorities or acknowledge his alleged personal and legal obligations.

The email claimed that certain individuals may have been helping to conceal his whereabouts. It also included a police report, which Mothership confirmed with the Singapore Police Force had been filed.

The emailer did not respond to follow-up emails by Mothership.

Mothership has reached out to Batam police for comment.

MPs were also involved

In March 2026, Emma sought help from her MP, Baey Yam Keng.

To her surprise, she found that Lilis had apparently beat her to it, having already reached out to Baey in an attempt to locate Tony.

This was according to a screenshot that Lilis had sent to Emma.

In response to Mothership’s enquiries, Baey confirmed that Emma had spoken to him about the matter, but there are challenges as Lilis is a resident of Batam.

He added that he had “received a few emails under different names and email addresses” from the harasser, but has since ignored and blocked them.

Emma told Mothership that her friend, another of Lilis’s victims, also recently spoke to Low Yen Ling during a Meet-the-People Session about the matter.

Mothership has reached out for more information.

Death threats continue

On Apr. 7, Lilis allegedly emailed Emma again, demanding two million rupiah (around S$170) in exchange for stopping the harassment.

The email was followed by further death threats and demands for money, leaving her feeling that the ordeal was far from over.

Emma did not respond to the attempt at blackmail.

Even at the time of writing, Nadia and Emma claimed the harassment had not stopped.

According to her, she and people within her social circle have continued to receive messages from the woman on a near-daily basis, as they have since June 2025.

For many of those caught up in what they believe to be an ongoing online vendetta, there appears to be little resolution in sight unless Tony is found.

For now, they can only hope that the Batam police's ongoing investigations will bring some answers and, ultimately, an end to the ordeal.

Aaron Kwok, 60, was in Singapore with his wife, Moka Fang, 39, and their two older daughters.

Fans spotted the Hong Kong singer and actor at Universal Studios Singapore (USS) on Aug. 10.

Photos were shared on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu.

USS & zoo

Kwok was at his two daughters and his in-laws at USS in Sentosa.

One person wrote on Xiaohongshu: "He looks way too young."

Kwok was then seen at the Singapore Zoo on Aug. 11.

Many of those who recognised Kwok also commented on his appearance and physique.

His father-in-law, who is 58, appeared in a similar black polo top as Kwok, but looked older, which was an observation made by online users.

Kwok and Fang married in 2017.

They have three daughters: Chantelle, nine; Charlotte, seven; and nine-month-old Cheryl.

Kwok was previously in Singapore in June 2026.

A woman in Taichung, Taiwan, was almost scammed of NT2 million (S$79,000) after reconnecting with a "classmate" from almost 20 years ago.

The woman, Lin, chanced upon her friend's profile on social media, and had started chatting.

According to Sinchew, what began with innocuous messages pivoted to the "friend" presenting Lin with a rare investment opportunity in a hotpot restaurant.

The "friend" claimed to have special channels to reduce procurement costs and invited her to invest in a hotpot restaurant while guaranteeing a profit with no losses.

Lin didn't think too much about it and agreed to put in the aforementioned sum of money.

Luckily, the bank staff noticed the large sum Lin was trying to transfer and found out that she had no clarity on the investment location or details.

The bank asked her to call the classmate to learn more about the investment, but no one answered.

Follow-up messages were also left unread and unanswered.

The police later determined this was actually done by a scam ring.

A 47-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly hurting her 13-year-old child at a shopping mall in Havelock on Aug. 12.

In response to Mothership's queries, police said they received a call for assistance at 2 Havelock Road at around 2:30pm that day.

A check by Mothership showed that the address corresponds to Havelock 2 shopping mall.

The woman was arrested for voluntarily causing hurt to a person below the age of 14.

Separately, the Singapore Civil Defence Force said it conveyed the 13-year-old girl to National University Hospital.

Police investigations are ongoing.

Photos purportedly show aftermath

Photos purportedly showing the aftermath of the incident were sent to Mothership by a woman who said she runs a shop in the mall and witnessed what happened.

The woman alleged that the mother had hit her child in the public area. A staff member from a tuition centre there was allegedly with the pair during the incident.

The photos show several police officers standing in a corridor at the shopping mall.

One of them appears to show a girl sitting on a stretcher.

A Singaporean man rescued by Malaysian authorities after an alleged kidnapping is wanted in Singapore over a suspected drug-related offence, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said.

The 32-year-old man and a 33-year-old Singaporean woman were rescued in Johor Bahru by the Royal Malaysia Police on Aug. 10.

Malaysian media had earlier reported that the woman, whom they identified as the man’s girlfriend, was 28.

In a media reply to Mothership's queries, SPF said the man is believed to know one of the kidnappers.

Did not have valid travel documents

Based on preliminary investigations by the Malaysian police, the man did not possess a valid travel document, and both the man and woman tested positive for drugs, said SPF.

They are believed to know each other, they added.

The families of both individuals alerted the Singapore police after becoming concerned for their safety, added SPF.

SPF also expressed its appreciation to the Malaysian police for their "swift assistance and close collaboration in securing the safe rescue of both individuals".

Six Malaysians arrested

Six Malaysians, including a woman, aged between 32 and 46, were arrested in the alleged kidnap-for-ransom plot, the New Straits Times reported.

Five of them had criminal records, and four tested positive for drugs, the Malaysian media added.

Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk M. Kumar said during a press conference that the kidnap-for-ransom mastermind was among the six arrested.

The 32-year-old man's mother reportedly lodged a police report on Aug. 10 after one of the suspects sent her a picture of her son, who was blindfolded with his arms bound behind his back.

"He was also slashed on both thighs and the picture was sent to his mother, to indicate the kidnappers were serious in their ransom demand," Kumar said.

The suspects had reportedly demanded S$80,000 for his release, but the amount was negotiated to S$S25,000.

The mother had transferred S$5,000 to her son's bank account, while the remaining sum was to be dropped off at the exchange for his release.

Man detained

The kidnap victim is currently detained under the Immigration Act, while his girlfriend was detained after testing positive for drugs, Malaysian authorities said.

The suspects, meanwhile, have been remanded until Aug. 21.

This is the second case in recent times where Malaysian police have rescued Singaporean kidnap victims.

In an earlier case, a 72-year-old Singaporean man and a 33-year-old Chinese woman were rescued in Alor Setar on Aug. 7.

Six suspects are being investigated in that case.

The police are investigating a case of communicating false information of a harmful thing after a false bomb threat incident at Xinmin Secondary School on Aug. 13.

In response to Mothership's queries, police said they were alerted to the incident at about 8:20am that day.

The police and the school personnel conducted a thorough check at the premises, and no suspicious item was found, they said.

The offence of communicating false information of a harmful thing carries an imprisonment term of up to seven years, a fine which may extend to S$50,000, or both.

"The Police take all security threats seriously and will not hesitate to take action against those who intentionally communicate false information on bomb threats," they said.

Student and staff evacuated

Students and staff of the school in Hougang were evacuated on Aug. 13 morning following a bomb threat, according to The Straits Times.

The school reportedly said in a message to parents and guardians that it was alerted to the threat and immediately activated its evacuation procedures at 8:28am.

All students and staff were accounted for, it added.

Students have since returned to their classrooms, and the regular timetable has resumed.

National carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) has recorded a nearly S$1 billion loss in operating costs less than two years after its 25 per cent investment in Air India.

Bad timing

The investment, made in November 2024, came just months before a fatal Air India plane crash in June 2025.

The carrier was also among Indian carriers banned from Pakistan airspace in April 2025, which has affected many of its routes.

Like many in the airline sector worldwide, it has also been facing a jet fuel crisis in 2026.

According to the Financial Times, quoting an unnamed executive at SIA, "It has been an annus horribilis (a horrible year) for Air India".

They added: "Air India is trying to undergo a major transformation — the likes of which have probably never been seen in the airline industry — while also dealing with all these other issues."

"The timing could not have been worse."

Background

SIA holds 25 per cent of the stakes at Air India.

It was first enlisted by India's biggest conglomerate Tata Sons, who holds the other 75 per cent, as an unofficial adviser when the latter began exploring taking over Air India in 2021, FT reported.

SIA was attracted to the carrier's growth potential. It also saw the opportunity to expand the business outside of the domestic market and took it.

SIA's management reportedly contributed S$822 million of capital to Air India in the early days, then another S$167 million in March 2025.

Multiple incidents have since affected the carrier, contributing to an overall loss of S$945 million in From March 2025 to March 2026.

In response to Mothership's queries, an SIA spokesperson said:

Since Singapore Airlines (SIA) became a significant minority shareholder in Air India, we have been working closely with our partner Tata Sons to support Air India’s transformation programme. This includes providing our expertise to Air India, where necessary.

Our primary focus is on working with our partner Tata Sons to support Air India’s transformation programme, and unlock its significant long-term value.

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Singapore national football team head coach Gavin Lee and Lions defender Irfan Fandi have publicly expressed their support for a campaign condemning ticket scalping on Instagram.

This comes after many fans were unable to secure tickets for Singapore's Asean Championship semi-final against Thailand at Jalan Besar Stadium.

More than 4,000 home-supporter tickets were released for sale on Aug. 12, but were snapped up within minutes amid overwhelming demand.

Shortly afterwards, tickets began appearing on Carousell, with some sellers asking as much as S$1,500 for a pair of Category 1 tickets.

This is around 15 times the original price of S$49 each, and a S$3.49 booking fee.

In response, Singa Brigade, the Lions' official supporters' group, posted a message on their social media pages under the hashtag #SAYNOTOSCALPERS.

The group said ticket scalping deprived "diehard, loyal and genuine fans" of the opportunity to support the national team, adding that supporting Singapore was "more than just watching a game".

They also urged the public to report ticket resellers.

The post read:

"As fellow fans of Singapore, we wanna bring a message.

After seeing scalpers selling tickets, we feel that this is simply not right.

It takes away the chance for diehard fans, loyal fans, & genuine fans who just want to watch their team play.

For us, supporting Singapore is more than just watching a game.

It's about pride, passion and standing behind our team.

So we call upon everyone to help mass report these resellers.

We hope this serves as a learning lesson to all scalpers out there!

SAY NO TO SCALPERS. LET THE REAL FANS BE THERE."

Lee and Irfan later reshared the post on their Instagram Stories in a show of support.

Frustration over the ticketing process

A Mothership reader previously shared that she had been on the website from 10:45am that morning to snag tickets.

After joining a virtual queue, she had to wait again until around 11:20am when she finally entered the page to select her seats.

Although ticket sections would occasionally become available, they would disappear almost immediately when she tried to select them.

She likened the experience to "playing whack-a-mole", a sentiment echoed by several other fans on Instagram.

Despite spending another 40 minutes trying to secure seats, she was unsuccessful.

By 11:45am, the platform displayed a message stating that all seats were "currently reserved by customers completing their purchases".