A 25-year-old male motorcyclist and his 21-year-old female pillion are dead following an accident where their motorcycle reportedly self-skidded along Yio Chu Kang road in the wee hours of Jun. 25, 2026.

According to a Xiaohongshu post, two police tents could be seen on the left lane of a two-lane road.

The video, which appeared to be taken from a bus, showed a police motorcycle a short distance behind the tents, with two police vehicles lined up behind it.

A number of officers could be seen surrounding the tents, and the lane was cordoned off by traffic cones.

2 dead

In response to Mothership's queries, the police said they were alerted at about 3:35am on Jun. 25 to an accident involving a motorcycle, which was believed to have self-skidded along Yio Chu Kang Road towards Upper Thomson Road.

Responding to Mothership's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted at about 3:30am on Jun. 25 to a road traffic accident along Yio Chu Kang Road.

A 25-year-old male motorcyclist and his 21-year-old female pillion were pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic.

Police investigations are ongoing.

A seriously ill child under the age of 12 has been euthanised in the Netherlands.

This is the first time the procedure has been carried out on a patient in this age group.

The euthanasia took place at the end of 2025, according to a parliamentary letter by Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans, The Telegraph reported.

The letter, first released by Dutch media, did not include any information about the child's age, identity, or medical details.

Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002 for newborns under the age of one, as well as for patients aged 12 and above.

In 2024, the law was expanded to bridge the gap, legalising the procedure for children under the age of 12.

It is strictly limited to children suffering from incurable terminal illnesses who face extreme, unalleviated pain with no prospect of recovery.

Parental or legal guardian consent is mandatory for minors.

A review committee has examined the case and spoken to the attending doctor, Hermans stated in her letter.

The committee has since submitted its findings to public prosecutors, who will decide whether the doctor fully acted in accordance with the law, Hermans said.

She added that the committee’s official report is expected to be released to the public shortly.

A 45-year-old man in Singapore was arrested on Jun. 23 for his suspected involvement in a loanshark harassment case.

In a police news release, the police said they were alerted to the incident at around 6pm on Jun. 20, at a residential unit along Tampines Street 12.

A debtor's note had been pasted on the door of the unit.

Parts of the note read:

"Owe money pay money!!

This time for warning. Inform this house unit.

Don't sabo u all!

Second time I come will be ugly!!!!"

Officers from the Bedok Police Division subsequently identified the suspect through ground enquiries and footage from police cameras, leading to his arrest.

The note, as well as a mobile phone, were seized as case exhibits.

The man is expected to be charged in court on Jun. 25 under the Moneylenders Act 2008.

First-time offenders convicted of loanshark harassment face a fine between S$5,000 and S$50,000, a jail term of up to five years, and up to six strokes of the cane.

The police reiterated that they have zero tolerance for loanshark harassment, warning that anyone who vandalises property, causes public alarm, or disrupts public peace and safety will be dealt with severely under the law.

Members of the public were also urged to steer clear of loansharks and to avoid working with, or assisting them in any way.

Anyone with information about suspected loanshark activity is encouraged to call the police at 999.

A fire broke out on a floating fish farm near Pulau Ubin and Pulau Ketam.

The incident off Pasir Ris occurred on the evening of Jun. 24.

In a photo sent to Mothership, the farm could be seen ablaze.

Emergency response vessels were also present.

In response to queries from Mothership, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to the fire at about 8:10pm on the day of the incident.

The fire, which involved a section of the floating fish farm, was extinguished by marine vessels from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and Airport Emergency Service.

Members of the public from neighbouring fish farms had also rendered assistance to contain the fire, SCDF said.

No injuries were reported.

Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing.

Limp Bizkit will be playing a show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Dec. 9, 2026.

It will be the band's only Asia stop.

The concert will be at National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil.

Tickets are priced from RM398 (S$124.90) to RM786 (S$246.60), on sale from Jun. 30, 12pm (Malaysia time).

“We are proud to make Malaysia the destination for fans across Asia to come together and witness a truly iconic band live on stage,” said Keeran D, head of special projects at Hitman Solutions, a concert promoter and event management company.

Teasers

Hitman Solutions teased the band's upcoming performance on social media earlier in the week.

The company's founder Rohit Rampal also posted online a video of him presenting the band's frontman Fred Durst with a miniature Royal Selangor keris.

Limp Bizkit formed in 1994 in Jacksonville, Florida.

They are one of the late 90s/ early 2000s nu metal pioneers.

They made a surprise comeback in 2021 with the release of "Still Sucks", a new album in more than a decade.

The Philippines has temporarily banned the online game "GoreBox" after one of the two students who allegedly shot up a school, was found to be an avid player.

The shooting left three dead and 20 others wounded.

The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre under Secretary Renato Paraiso said on Jun. 23 that the ban was a precautionary measure, Bloomberg and Associated Press reported.

“We cannot ignore possible online influences that may have contributed to this tragic incident,” Paraiso said.

Shooting

On the morning of Jun. 22, two students, aged 14 and 15, armed with handguns, opened fire in a high school located in Tacloban City, the Philippines.

Both of them were apparently friends who were bullied, and they had no prior criminal record.

According to local police, 15 of the 20 injured were shot, while the others were injured as they stumbled and jumped out of a window to dash to safety.

One of the armed students used a 9mm pistol belonging to his aunt, a police officer, in the attack.

The other student used a .38 calibre revolver.

As there was reportedly only one guard on duty at multiple entrances and exits, the pair were able to bring the firearms into the school.

Most of the dead and wounded were female students.

At least 40 shell casings were recovered at the scene of the attack.

The 14-year-old would be exempt from criminal prosecution under Philippine law, which sets the minimum age of 15 for a minor to be criminally liable and only if authorities determine that a suspect was clearly aware of the crime committed and its repercussions.

"Gorebox" game

According to its Steam listing, it is a “chaotic physics-driven” sandbox game.

It allows players to experiment with various weapons on “semi realistic active ragdolls which react to wounds and scenarios”.

The game depicts “realistic blood pooling” and dismemberment.

On Mar. 11, F2Games, developers of "GoreBox", removed its multiplayer mode due to exploiters, bot raids and security vulnerabilities deemed “too deep to fix”.

A Singaporean woman slapped, punched, and scratched the domestic helper she employed as she was upset with the way she performed tasks.

According to CNA, Hazel Phang Fong Yen, 67, was sentenced to four months' jail on Jun. 24 after she pleaded guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a domestic worker with a second similar charge taken into consideration.

Phang was also ordered to pay S$4,440 to the victim, 27-year-old Myanmar national Man Sian Hoih Cing.

Phang will serve another four weeks in jail if she does not pay.

Punched victim once on her eye

According to court documents seen by Mothership, the victim started working for Phang in August 2022 when she was 23.

Phang lived with her husband and mother in a flat.

In September 2022, Phang asked the victim to check the expiry date of a food item and perform another task.

The victim performed the other task but forgot to check the expiry date, which angered Phang, leading her to slap the victim's cheek.

Phang slapped the victim again on another occasion in September or October 2022, as the victim did not hear Phang's mother ask for assistance.

In a separate incident around the same time, Phang asked the victim to clean soap bottles in the toilet.

The victim sprayed the bottles with water.

Phang became upset at the victim for cleaning the bottles in such a manner and punched the victim once on her eye.

Scratched victim's neck & chest, drawing blood

In October 2022, while the victim was hanging bedsheets to dry on a pole, Phang scolded her for hanging the heavier sheets at the end of the pole.

According to court documents, Phang scratched the victim's neck and chest region, which started bleeding.

On Oct. 15, 2022, Phang told the victim to water the plants at around 6pm.

At the time, the victim was cooking and cutting fruits for Phang's husband.

When Phang realised the plants were not watered, she became angry and scratched the victim's face at least twice, near her cheek and under her nose.

Medical report stated victim had blunt trauma to eye

The next day, Phang's niece visited the flat and saw that the victim was bleeding.

She told her father, who was Phang's brother.

He took the victim to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) to seek medical attention.

The TTSH medical report dated Feb. 2, 2023, stated that the victim was presented to the emergency department on Oct. 16, 2022.

The victim was diagnosed with blunt trauma to her eye, facial bruising and multiple abrasions over her face and chest.

The victim's wounds were dressed, and she was discharged with medication.

The victim took photos of her injuries.

After she was discharged, the victim moved in with Phang's relatives.

Centre for Domestic Employees staff lodged police report

On Dec. 27, 2022, the Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE) contacted the victim as part of a routine well-being call.

The victim informed CDE that Phang had hurt her, and CDE staff lodged a police report and brought her to Alexandra Hospital (AH) Urgent Care Centre on the same day.

The AH medical report dated Feb. 4, 2023 found scars on the victim's upper lip, left cheek and chest wall as a result of Phang's actions.

Phang was arrested on Sep. 9, 2025 and released on bail on the same day.

S$470 monthly salary

The victim's monthly salary was S$470, and she was unemployed for two months from the date that the police report was lodged, from Dec. 27, 2022, to Feb. 28, 2023.

Phang paid the victim her salary of S$470 and pocket money of S$72.30 on Dec. 8, 2022, for the period between Nov. 9 and Dec. 8, 2022.

She also paid the victim another S$289.20 for the period between Dec. 9 and Dec. 27, 2022.

Sentencing

The deputy public prosecutor sought four to six months' jail for Phang and a compensation order of S$4,440.

The compensation sum consists of S$940 for the victim's two-month-long unemployment period and S$3,500 for her pain and suffering in the two charges as she was scarred on her face and chest.

According to CNA, Phang's lawyer, Kalaithasan Karuppaya from Regent Law, sought a fine of S$10,000 or three months' jail.

He said Phang was remorseful and lives with her 70-year-old husband, who is a prostate cancer survivor.

The couple have no children, and Phang has been unemployed since her health started to worsen — she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2022 and suffers from other conditions as well.

He said that Phang was also the primary caregiver for her 103-year-old mother until she died in 2024, reported CNA.

Kalaithasan added that Phang was underweight at 38kg and frail, arguing that any jail term would greatly jeopardise her recovery and rehabilitation.

An offender can face up to three years' jail or a fine of up to S$5,000 or both, for voluntarily causing hurt.

Phang could have faced up to double the penalties as the victim was a domestic helper.

A fruit stall in Tampines has been giving away up to 1,000kg of free durians daily since Jun. 19.

The giveaway is set to run until some time in August 2026.

Durian Ninja, located at Block 827 Tampines Street 81, started the daily giveaway for anyone who turns up to queue, according to Shin Min Daily News.

Stall owner Kee Eng Chai (transliteration), 25, told Shin Min the initiative was mainly aimed at getting more young people interested in durians.

"More than half of those queuing are elderly, but we are also seeing younger people joining the queue, which is exactly what we hoped to see," he said.

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No one left out

Co-owner Huang Bolin (transliteration), 37, said the stall wanted to give back to the community, adding that people of all ages go through tough times.

The giveaway originally started at 4pm on the first day, but has since been shifted to 6pm after transport delays held up delivery.

Kee told Shin Min:

"Two to three lorries deliver the durians each day, and the timing can vary. They also need time to unload after arriving, so we moved the start time to the evening to avoid making people wait too long."

800kg to 1,000kg of durians daily

The stall gives out between 800kg to 1,000kg of durians each day, mostly kampung varieties from Bentong in Pahang and Muar in Johor, according to Shin Min.

Kee said the peak durian season means there is enough supply for the giveaway through August.

Videos online showed queues forming one to two hours before the start of the giveaway.

Each person was initially allowed to take three durians, but the limit was later reduced to two to ensure there is enough for everyone.

Some were seen holding plastic bags provided by the stall while standing next to baskets of durians.

Mothership has reached out to Durian Ninja for more information.

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After a video of a man riding a HelloRide bicycle along a canal made its rounds online, the bike-sharing service clarified that he was a staff member retrieving the bicycle.

In the early morning on Jun. 23, HelloRide received a report from a member of the public that one of their shared bicycles was in a canal near 139 Lorong K Telok Kurau, the CEO of HelloRide Singapore Hayden Choo said in response to Mothership's queries.

The company confirmed the bicycle's location via the GPS tracking system and then arranged for an operations team member to recover it.

They also filed a police report in the hopes of determining the culprit.

Video

The sight of the team member riding the bicycle inside the canal drew some attention.

The user who posted the TikTok video of the incident on Jun. 23 had thought the man was trying to cycle to the sea and was taking a shortcut through the canal.

Towards the end of the video, the man got off the bike and pushed it up the slope out of the canal.

HelloRide explained in the comments that a bike was reported in the canal, and their team headed down to retrieve it.

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Retrieval

The team member was sent to the canal equipped with recovery equipment, including a rope and retrieval hook, Choo said.

Initially, he was unable to recover the bicycle using these equipment as the bicycle was located some distance from the canal bank.

But it was eventually recovered safely and removed from the canal the same day HelloRide received the report.

The bicycle was later inspected by the operations team and found to have no damage. It has since been returned to service.

Choo said that incidents of this nature are "extremely uncommon" for the company.

"We will continue working to ensure our bicycles remain properly accounted for and available for users," he added.

The Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) has issued a rare "red" alert, its highest risk rating, in its annual Haze Outlook report.

In a Jun. 24 statement, it warned of severe transboundary haze across the rest of 2026, affecting Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

The report identified August to September as the "peak danger period".

The heightened risk is driven by a combination of factors, including the returning El Niño phenomenon and a surging demand for biofuels, said the research institute and think-tank.

The report evaluates haze risks by consulting governments, businesses, think-tanks, and non-governmental organisations.

Rare alert

This marks only the second time the SIIA has triggered a red alert since the annual report launched in 2019.

The last time the institute issued a red rating was in 2023, a year that ultimately saw a spike in regional haze incidents.

According to the report, the coming months could bring "one of the hottest and driest dry seasons on record", increasing the danger of land fires that could spread out of control.

The report also suggested that given the prevailing conditions, 2027 may end up being the hottest year on record.

Why so hot?

Historically, the most severe haze episodes have occurred when El Niño and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) overlapped, such as in 1997, 1998, 2015, and 2023.

The IOD is a climate pattern characterised by fluctuations in sea surface temperatures across the Indian Ocean.

El Niño conditions are under way as of this month, while the less-predictable IOD remains a possible compounding factor.

However, the report noted that either climate pattern alone can trigger severe haze, as seen during the IOD-driven dry spell in 2019.

Biofuel boom

Other factors, including human activity, may also affect the incidence of haze.

In January 2026, Singapore faced several weeks of hazy conditions following the spreading peat fire in Johor, Malaysia.

SIIA warned that in the months ahead, growing biofuel demand caused by disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz may increase incentives for unsustainable land clearing among some producers.

These pressures are expected to persist even if the Middle East conflict resolves.

Khor Yu-Leng, associate director of SIIA, explained:

"The fuel crisis is also driving demand for biofuels, with Southeast Asian countries increasing the percentage of vegetable oil in diesel at the pump.

This trend will continue even if the U.S.-Iran agreement holds, as countries now want energy independence."

ASEAN cooperation

Despite the forecasts, "we must not be fatalistic", said Simon Tay, chairman of SIIA.

Indonesia has strengthened its institutional response to forest and land fires, and businesses have expanded fire prevention measures in recent years.

The think-tank called for regional cooperation and sustainable land management to minimise risks and strengthen climate resilience.

“ASEAN needs to take greater ownership of this challenge as the region enters a potentially severe dry season and faces the longer-term impacts of climate change," he said.

"There is much that can be done to prevent the worst and strengthen climate resilience, energy and food security, and regional cooperation... Supporting solutions with adequate funding will be critical.”