Smoke was seen coming from underneath a carriage of a train at Bukit Gombak station on Sep. 15.

Commuters were subsequently evacuated from the train, SMRT Trains President Lam Sheau Kai said in response to Mothership's queries.

Preliminary checks suggest that the smoke may have been caused by a faulty brake, Lam said.

As a safety precaution, SMRT staff assisted all commuters to leave the train safely.

The train was then withdrawn to the depot for further checks, Lam said.

Train services continued to operate normally afterwards.

There were no reports of commuters needing medical assistance, Lam added.

A video taken by a passenger shows commuters standing on the platform as smoke comes out of the train.

Staff members were seen entering the train for checks.

Three seniors became unsuspecting victims of a crow attack after the bird's nest apparently fell from a tree at Crawford Lane.

Residents in the area noticed that the nest had fallen on the ground outside Block 462 Crawford Lane in Lavender on Sep. 4, according to Shin Min Daily News.

A resident told the media outlet that the crows had been nesting there for some time, and were often heard cawing in the mornings.

After the fall, they began cawing noticeably louder and appeared more aggressive, presumably to protect their young who fell out of the nest, Shin Min noted.

One was also seen pecking at the heads of three elderly passers-by.

An employee of a nearby restaurant reported seeing the crows rummaging through trash cans at night, though she did not witness any crow attacks.

Another employee also told Shin Min the crows have become noticeably more aggressive, which he said was a cause for concern for people who throw their trash outside the back doors.

The Jalan Besar Town Council said it has assisted NParks in moving the crow's nest on Sep. 9.

Both parties will also cooperate in prevention and control efforts where necessary.

Springleaf Prata Place is the chain behind some of the more inventive things that have ever been put on a prata.

Hits include the Murtaburger, the salted egg prawn prata, the eggs benedict version, and portobello mozzarella prata.

The chain has 12 outlets, and its boss, SV Gunalan, known as Guna, recently sat down for an interview on The Rojak Room podcast.

He also doesn't work weekends, which in this trade, takes some explaining.

How he stopped working weekends

His wife's requirement was that he get back to office hours three years after—close to impossible in this trade.

He then decided to build a structure around it.

Staff who have been with Springleaf five years or more are offered a junior partnership in a new shop. They continue drawing their last salary, which is then frozen.

In return, they take 10 per cent of that shop's profits in year one, 20 in year two, and 30 from year three onwards.

They get no equity. That is where his accountancy training proves useful, he said.

"When you want to sell, you don't need to do a valuation or anything."

There were also two things that drove it. He wanted his weekends, and one of his better staff was about to leave.

He said: "I need to come up with something to keep him there as well."

But his summary of the whole arrangement was blunter than that: "I think I'm lazy."

Every batch of dough is made by someone with autism

Beyond the prata, Guna spoke about who makes it.

"Every dough made by Springleaf is made by someone with autism," he revealed.

A team of six to eight people work in the dough room under one supervisor, in four-hour morning and afternoon shifts.

The company also employs people with special needs as packers and dishwashers.

He said 35 per cent of his central kitchen staff have special needs, and that the target is 80 per cent.

To make that possible, the kitchen has been moving towards automation so staff can work without being exposed to open flames. Spices are pre-packed at the company's own spice factory in India, so cooking is a matter of opening a packet and adding water.

He said: "So it's, you can cook, I can cook."

How the hiring works

Springleaf films its cooking processes and sends the videos to the Autism Resource Centre (ARC), which operates under SG Enable. The centre reviews them and identifies clients who might fit.

For the first three to six months, a trainer from ARC supervises and helps them settle in, and remains reachable afterwards.

He said one trainer, Matthew, has been with them for three or four years, and is almost like his own staff.

Guna acknowledged it is not always smooth. Sometimes someone forgets medication and flares up, he said, but his staff are getting better at handling it.

When the host said it was good that he was giving opportunities to people who might not otherwise have them, he said: "I always say we're selling prata. We need good karma."

A separate intiative

Springleaf went further than hiring.

It also ran an outlet called Pronto Prata that was largely staffed by people with special needs.

A social kitchen supplied the staff, and machinery let them handle the noodles and drinks, though a chef still made the prata.

But the point had been to move people from Pronto Prata to regular outlets, and that did not happen.

Springleaf then wound down the arrangement last year.

However, Guna added that they are now looking at other ideas, including working with a coffee machine company on a one-button system.

"90% and above of my customers are not Indian"

Guna also shared what he had learnt over the years running Springleaf Prata Place.

When he opened in 2003, he said, nobody ordered fish curry and everyone went for chicken. Tastes have then shifted and now it runs roughly 70 to 80 per cent fish and 20 per cent chicken.

He has views on spice tolerance that cut against the stereotype.

He said: "Chinese can take spicy food. People come to me and say, 'You can make your curry spicier, we can take it.'"

And then the figure that surprised his interviewers: "Indians, we don't have so many. Actually less than 3 per cent of my customer base is Indians."

He returned to the figure later, when asked about Springleaf keeping its Singaporean identity.

"Like I said, 90 per cent and above of my customers are not Indian. So we're not going into Serangoon Road."

A new prata every August since 2012

Since 2012, Springleaf has launched a new creation every August for National Day. The Murtaburger came and stuck. Then an eggs benedict version, salted egg, an Alfredo, and a pratwurst after a trip to Germany, among others.

Not all of them land, however.

Kimchi prata, he admitted, was a mistake. Chilli crab prata worked but the crab was expensive enough that it had to sell at S$16.90, which he assumed nobody would pay.

Next year, some are coming off the menu and going seasonal.

The one that got away

Springleaf went to Las Vegas once, through a tie-up with Genting, for a reported US$30,000 (S$38,160) a year in royalties.

Training was done through a 60-inch screen, an hour a day.

Guna had friends in Vegas acting as informal quality control, and their reports got worse as the chefs kept changing. The annual visits that were meant to happen never did.

Eventually Genting said it wasn't profitable enough and the two parted ways.

He said: "More than the money, it was our name being there."

From one shop to 12

Guna started in the trade as a child, helping at his family's business. His father, mother, sister and two brothers run Casuarina, making him, in his words, “the outcast”.

He studied psychology at NUS while learning accounting at ACCA part-time, worked two years as an auditor, then two more as an admin manager at a school.

It was his principal who told him his admin work was not good and that he was probably meant to do something else.

He started the prata place with Casuarina, but the collaboration lasted about six months before he took it over alone.

His family let him have the place for free, and he spent two years paying his brothers back. He never repaid his father.

The business was renamed Springleaf Prata Place after a customer suggested naming it for its location, on Springleaf Road.

It now has 12 outlets.

American rapper and Grammy winner Macklemore has been dropped from singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour.

Macklemore, 43, wrote on Instagram on Sep. 14 that he and Sheeran, 35, had "some difficult conversations this past week" as he announced the latest development.

This was after Macklemore made "Free Palestine" remarks and pro-Palestinian comments during a Sep. 4 concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

In response, venue owners notified promoters that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore in the lineup, Rolling Stone reported.

Messina Touring Group, the promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran's Loop Tour, was notified of this requirement.

"After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates," Messina Touring Group said, as reported by U.S. media.

Macklemore was to perform at eight of the 10 shows Sheeran has left on his stadium tour from Sep. 19.

What Macklemore said about Palestine

Macklemore had said earlier in September 2026: "A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: 'Free Palestine'."

"I want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them," he added during the concert.

In response, the Israeli-American Council started a petition urging Sheeran to remove Macklemore from the tour.

Macklemore's revelations on Instagram

Macklemore said on Instagram that New England Patriots owner and billionaire Robert Kraft told Sheeran that he and other stadium owners will not allow him to perform at their venues if Macklemore stayed on the tour.

Kraft had rallied support among some stadium owners, Macklemore claimed.

Macklemore wrote:

Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

In a statement to U.S. media, Kraft said much of his time was dedicated to fighting hate and antisemitism.

He also said he felt "a responsibility to stand up when I believe that line has been crossed".

Sheeran has not commented.

Macklemore said he is not antisemitic and that conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel's actions is to avoid Israeli accountability.

Macklemore's pro-Palestinian stance

Macklemore has been a critic of Israel's assault on Gaza and its occupation of the West Bank.

Macklemore's 2024 song, "Hind's Hall", was in memory of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab who was killed by Israeli troops in Gaza.

Israel's military said in August 2026 that it had opened a criminal investigation into her killing, but such probes do not lead to convictions, rights groups countered.

A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight departing Singapore for New York on Sep. 14 returned to Changi Airport four hours after taking off, following an in-flight medical emergency.

Pilot allegedly unwell

The incident first came to light after a user posted on the Reddit thread r/flightradar24, alleging that flight SQ24, which was bound for John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, had been diverted as the pilot was not feeling well.

According to data from the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, the flight departed Changi Airport at about 12:24pm on Monday.

The flight-route playback showed that about four hours into the journey, the plane diverted and headed back to Singapore.

It eventually landed at Changi Airport at about 9:11pm.

In the comments section, another Reddit user, who said they were onboard SQ24, claimed that a doctor seated behind them had been called to attend to a situation on the aircraft.

About an hour later, passengers were told the pilot had a "medical issue" and that the aircraft would turn back to Singapore, the user claimed.

"The captain was disembarked first with medical staff once landed," they wrote.

Unable to provide more details: SIA

In response to Mothership's queries, an SIA spokesperson confirmed that flight SQ24 returned to Singapore at 9:11pm due to an in-flight medical emergency.

However, they were unable to provide further details about the medical emergency due to customer confidentiality.

According to the spokesperson, upon arriving at Changi Airport, all 144 customers and 17 crew disembarked the Airbus A350-900 aircraft normally.

The customers received the necessary assistance on the ground, including refreshments.

The aircraft was subsequently refuelled and departed Singapore again at 11:58pm, the spokesperson said.

The flight was scheduled to arrive at John F Kennedy International Airport at 9:38am on Sep. 15,

The airline also apologised to customers for the inconvenience caused.

This past weekend marked the first month of the English Premier League’s experiment in streaming, Premier League Plus.

For the first time in the world, the Premier League is offering a direct to consumer service, streaming live matches to Singaporean viewers, albeit with its Singaporean partner Starhub.

For Singaporean viewers, there is a certain sense of ho-hum about the changes. The price hasn't really changed; the link and the app have changed and gained some features, but are broadly similar to what was available before.

There is a concern expressed regularly on social media about whether the stream’s quality would be good enough.

My personal opinion is: it's fine.

It does beg the question, though, for Singaporean punters: why bother if it's not cheaper, and if it’s not better (it’s a little better); if you subscribe to StarHub, you might not even have to change your logins.

There’s a weird sense of being an experiment, but being neither scientist nor test subject, simply being the medium through which the test is administered.

What does the Premier League say?

When unveiling the service at the 2026 Financial Times Business of Football Summit in February, the league’s chief executive Richard Masters shed some light.

While customers might not notice the difference, Masters said that for the league it would involve a whole new set of skills that had previously been left to rights holders, both internationally and in the United Kingdom.

“We’re going to have to be our own customers,” he said, elaborating: “That means delving into things like promotion and pricing… that’s why it’s an important step for us.”

The FT article indicates that while the league had been considering such a move, it had been reluctant to do so for various reasons.

It appears that one of the stepping stones to that point involved the one thing all Premier League fans love to hate (unless you’re a fan of that team. You know the one.), the Video Assistant Referee.

VARiety packs

As reported by Sports Pro, the move to VAR was facilitated by the league building a specialised facility known as Stockley Park.

There, the video stream from all matches is collected for referee analysis, but it also allows for the packaging and distribution internationally.

The Premier League brought its media production in-house from sports marketing firm IMG in 2024, when the 20 Premier League teams unanimously voted to end its relationship with sports marketing firm IMG, which had provided content and broadcast services for over 20 years.

While this certainly paved the way for the league to take things in-house, Masters indicated that the day when it would be the sole distributor of Premier League matches was still some way off.

Instead, the league was focused on optionality, and that “It’ll be a mixed economy over time.”

The Singapore connections

And in truth, Masters doesn’t go into much detail as to why Singapore was chosen, other than saying it was “a very long considered process and carefully chosen.”

He also noted the six-year agreement that the league had with StarHub, which, when he said it, was just after the halfway point of the agreement.

Masters said that the Singapore deal was “really about learning as well as building a business” and that the aim was for it to be replicable in other markets.

One of the few allusions to Singaporean customers was when Masters noted that “lots of existing customers exist within the StarHub platform and they will continue.”

It is never explicitly said, but it reads like a benefit Singapore presented was the ability to introduce the new product into a suitably sizeable market without meaningfully disrupting the customer base.

The Athletic reports that StarHub will also share responsibility for billing customers and handling complaints, making the service’s introduction significantly easier.

Fair enough.

3pm blackout

However, customers in the league’s home country might have to endure disappointment in the future.

The possibility of a direct-to-consumer streaming service, nicknamed Premflix, is strongly desired by many.

In Singapore, StarHub has largely consolidated its football offerings, meaning that if you support a Premier League team, they can provide you with almost all the matches.

But in the UK, to watch all of your team’s matches, you will need at least two services, Sky and TNT Sports, for about S$130 a month.

Not to mention, in the UK, broadcasters are not allowed to show matches that start at 3 pm (10 pm Singapore time) live, due to fears that it will affect in-stadium turnout at football matches across all levels, something which has been called into question on several occasions.

So there is a possibility that the new service has a secondary, ulterior motive: to combat piracy.

The Athletic reports that in the UK there is a 10 per cent self-reported piracy rate, which means that the true number is likely to be higher.

In fact, it has been reported that some UK fans have reacted with outrage over how much better a deal Premier League Plus is, especially as there’s no indication that it will ever reach the UK.

FT described the deals the league had with UK broadcasters such as Sky as the “bedrock” of the league’s business.

Us of lesser cup competitions

It is hard not to sympathise.

This author has chosen to refrain from watching matches (more because I’m a United fan, and the past few years of poor performances meant a lot of 4 am Tuesday morning matches, which I’m too old to stay up for).

But at least with the one-day option, and the relatively forgiving month-by-month option for subscription, I’m happy to have something to think about for the first time in years.

I’m not sure I’ll subscribe, though; I don’t know if I can afford the heart attacks my team provides.

The government is looking into the data and methodology of an academic working paper which found that civil servants in Singapore disproportionately purchased homes near planned MRT stations before they were publicly announced.

The working paper was published by American non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and is titled "Do Social Norms Substitute For Enforcement? Evidence from Public Officials' Home Purchases in Singapore".

In response to media queries, a spokesperson for the Public Service Division (PSD) said that PSD is aware of the working paper and its findings.

PSD is an agency under the Prime Minister's Office.

"We take any integrity concerns extremely seriously. We are currently reviewing the data and methodology within the paper and will refer to CPIB (Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau) if there is a material basis to do so," the PSD spokesperson said.

Working paper

According to the paper's abstract, the researchers looked at "whether pro-integrity social norms can substitute for formal enforcement in deterring misconduct by public officials".

Singapore was selected as the case study as it is widely regarded as one of the world's least corrupt countries and provides a "sharp setting" to examine whether sustained anti-corruption enforcement can produce "self-sustaining norms".

The researchers referred to private-property transactions from legal filings in Singapore and information from the Singapore Government Directory Interactive to identify civil servants and trace their home transaction histories.

They focused on purchases near planned but not yet publicly announced MRT stations around announcement dates to proxy for access to privileged location information.

Based on their assembled data, the researchers concluded that they found clear evidence of informed trading by civil servants.

"Civil servants disproportionately purchase homes near planned — but not yet publicly announced — stations, with the effect concentrated one to two years before public announcements."

They also claimed that these generated "meaningful private gains" and also appear among relatives, which is consistent with information leakage.

Using a large-language model assisted classification, they found that such behaviour is concentrated among mid-level officials.

The researchers also considered whether civil servants are simply better processing public information rather than relying on privileged information, but did not find similar home-purchasing patterns in other groups which they deemed to possess "high information-processing sophistication", such as real estate agents and corporate board members.

The paper also found that legislative changes in 2012 that targeted information security practices and market misconduct, namely the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Act 2012 and Official Secrets Act Revisions (2012), "shut down" such behaviour.

It concluded that "even in high-integrity societies, social norms may not be sufficiently self-sustaining to maintain a low-corruption equilibrium without continued formal enforcement".

Not yet peer-reviewed

The academic working paper was written by co-authors from Stanford University, Columbia University and the University of Hong Kong.

In its preface, the co-authors noted that NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes and have not been peer-reviewed or reviewed by its board of directors.

They also noted that their findings benefitted from discussions with a number of academics, such as economics professor Chang-Tai Hsieh from the University of Chicago, professor of economics and business administration from Harvard University, and academics Ivan Png and Sumit Agarwal from National University of Singapore.

Economics professor Li Shengwu from Harvard University was also mentioned. Li is the son of Lee Hsien Yang and grandson of the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

A married man in Singapore who was in an exploitative relationship with a 14-year-old girl arranged for "threesomes" with his friends and strangers.

The 39-year-old man, who has a history of sexual offending with minors, met the girl online just two months after his release from jail.

The relationship continued over the course of about four years, with the man pressurising the girl to engage in sexual relations with him and others.

The man pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual penetration of a minor, two charges for sex trafficking of a child, and one charge of voluntarily causing hurt to the victim on Sep. 14.

Another 14 charges involving sexual offences will be taken into consideration at sentencing, according to court documents seen by Mothership.

A gag order has been placed on all parties to protect the victim.

Met on mobile app

The man, who worked as a cleaner, was married at the time of the offences and has a son.

He divorced his wife in 2023.

The victim, a secondary school student, was 14 years old when they first met in January 2022 through the Heymandi mobile application.

Despite the victim informing him of her age, the man suggested meeting up.

They met on Jan. 10, 2022, and he asked for a hug and a kiss, which the girl declined.

The two continued chatting over the next few weeks, eventually regarding each other as boyfriend and girlfriend.

At one point, the man also asked the victim whether she was a virgin, and she replied that she was and they discussed having sex.

Engaged in sexual acts

The pair met for the second time later in January at a staircase landing of an HDB block after the girl finished school.

The man initiated sex after showing her a pornographic video, and the girl agreed as she considered him her "boyfriend" and was sexually curious.

The prosecution said that the victim felt that their relationship had become "official" after this "first episode of sex".

The man later revealed to her that he was not actually divorced, as he had previously told her, but claimed to be in the process of divorcing his wife.

The pair continued having sex over the next few months, at no point using protection during any of their encounters.

Threesome fantasies

The man then turned the victim into a "toy for his fantasies of threesome double-penetrative sex", the prosecution said.

The man started to pressure the girl into having threesomes with his friend, whom he had shared such fantasies with before.

While the victim initially refused, the man guilt-tripped her, even threatening to break up with her.

She eventually gave in as she wanted to "save" the relationship.

From 2022 to 2024, the man arranged more threesomes with the victim and his friend.

The man also arranged for similar threesomes with his co-worker.

Sometime between Aug. 13, 2023, and Aug. 12, 2024, he also arranged for the victim to be prostituted out for threesomes with a person he met on the Heymandi app.

They engaged in about three to four episodes of threesomes, with the victim receiving about S$100 to S$150 for two of the episodes.

Also in December 2023, the man advertised for strangers to have threesome sex with the victim on the “Alamak” online platform.

He offered a man known as “Alamak Man” to have sex with the victim, introducing her as his wife.

She was given S$100 for this episode.

Similarly, the victim was made to have sex with two other men on the app separately for payment between 2023 and 2024.

End of relationship

Sometime between April and June 2025, the victim ended her relationship with the man.

He became upset when he found out that she was speaking to other men.

She eventually blocked the man from contacting her, but he was very upset as he wanted to remain in a relationship with the victim.

On Jul. 2, 2025, the man waited for the victim underneath her HDB block and attacked her by punching her on her head when she came out of the lift.

He scolded her for ignoring him and continued to punch her on the head several times until she fell to the ground.

He stopped when a passer-by intervened but continued his attack after the passer-by left.

The victim eventually told him she would unblock him to placate him.

After the assault, the victim told her mother what happened, and her mother brought her to the police station to lodge a report.

The man was arrested on Jul. 3, 2025, and he has remained in remand since.

Raped younger sister previously

The prosecution revealed that when the man was 19 years old, he raped his younger sister, who was then only 11 years old and intellectually disabled.

He was sentenced to a cumulative two years’ imprisonment for his offences against his sister.

The man then preyed on another intellectually disabled girl, 14, when he was 30 years old.

Despite her reluctance to have sex, the man "foisted himself upon her and robbed her of her virginity", the prosecution said.

The man was sentenced to 22 months’ imprisonment for his offence against this girl in 2022.

He then began his current spate of offences involving the current victim barely two months after his last sentence lapsed.

Calling the man a "sexual predator" who is a "menace to vulnerable girls", the prosecution asked to assess the man's suitability for corrective training and preventive detention as sentencing options.

Corrective training involves the incarceration of an offender for a minimum period of 5 years and up to a maximum of 14 years.

It is imposed on repeat offenders to receive training of a corrective character to achieve reformation and prevention of crime.

Preventive detention involves the confinement of an offender for a minimum of 7 years and up to a maximum of 20 years.

This is separate from imprisonment and is imposed when the court finds that a recalcitrant offender should be detained in prison for a substantial period of time to protect the public.

"The grim conclusion from the accused’s criminal history and his current spate of offences is that ordinary imprisonment will not deter him," the prosecution said, adding that his offences have escalated each time he returned to the community.

A 15-year-old boy in Malaysia was acquitted of murdering his 16-year-old schoolmate at a secondary school in Bandar Utama in 2025.

The High Court on Sep. 14 found him to have been of unsound mind during the incident.

The boy will be detained and treated at Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta in Perak at the pleasure of the Sultan of Selangor, the judge ordered.

Defence lawyer addresses media

The boy's lawyer, Kitson Foong, told reporters after closed-door proceedings that the defence had successfully established the requirements for the defence of insanity, while the prosecution had failed to rebut it.

"As a result, the court acquitted the boy of the murder charge on the grounds of insanity," he said.

Foong added that the boy will be treated at a psychiatric hospital "until the Sultan of Selangor receives a report stating that he can return to society and is no longer a threat to society", upon the advice of psychiatric doctors.

Heard voices

The court had accepted the testimony and report of Ian Lloyd Anthony, the forensic psychiatrist and director of Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta

Ian Lloyd found that the boy was suffering from severe schizophrenia, New Straits Times reported Foong saying.

"He was not his normal self. He thought he was God and heard voices," Foong said.

The trial started on Aug. 3, 2026.

A total of 11 prosecution witnesses, including the boy's elder brother, gave testimony.

The defence called two witnesses: The boy and Ian Lloyd.

Boy aware of proceedings

Foong added that the boy understood and was aware of the proceedings as the judge's decision was translated into Mandarin for him, NST reported.

The boy will no longer be held at the Puncak Alam Correctional Centre where he has been detained since being charged with murder.

Foong said the judge personally reminded the boy that he took a life and about the gravity of the offence, and to be grateful for the second chance given to him by the court, whose liberty should not be taken for granted.

The boy acknowledged that he had taken a life, Foong said.

The court also explained every aspect and clarified the issues concerning his mental health, the defence lawyer added, according to NST.

Victim's mother avoided media

The victim's mother was in court, but reportedly left through a different exit to avoid the media.

Foong said he hoped the victim's family would not view the decision as an insult to the deceased: "It is not that we have disregarded the interests of the deceased."

He explained that the judge's decision was based on the charges, the medical report, and expert findings.

Foong said Malaysian law recognised that children below 18 could be treated and rehabilitated.

Background

The boy had pleaded not guilty to murdering his Form Four schoolmate in the girls' toilet of SMK Bandar Utama Damansara (4), Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, between 9:20am and 9:35am on Oct. 14, 2025.

The charge carries the death penalty, or jail term of between 30 and 40 years and 12 strokes of the cane.

The death penalty cannot be imposed on a child who commits an offence while below 18.

However, the person convicted of such an offence can be detained at the pleasure of sultan.

A woman who took part in the TriFactor Duathlon on Sep. 13, 2026 was allegedly left badly injured after a fellow rider collided into her.

The other rider apparently did not stop to check on her after the collision, and continued riding on, according to the woman's sister.

The sister posted about what happened on Instagram, seeking witnesses who might have information to identify the rider for a police report.

In a subsequent update, the sister said the victim has made a police report.

The police confirmed that a report was lodged and they are looking into the matter.

In response to Mothership's queries, the management team of TriFactor, who organised the duathlon, said they are aware of a cycling incident involving a participant at the event.

The collision

The TriFactor Duathlon, which follows a run–bike–run race format, was held at East Coast Park on the morning of Sep. 13.

According to the victim's sister, the incident happened at around 9:30am, during the cycling leg of the race.

The victim recalled a male participant overtaking her from the left, which caused the collision.

After he allegedly rode away, an ambulance brought the victim to Changi General Hospital's emergency department.

She was apparently sent to the hospital alone, without her belongings too, which made the sister "extremely concerned".

The Instagram post included a photo of the victim with a bloodied lip and bruises on parts of her face.

She also appeared to be bandaged.

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Pain and injuries

The sister also reshared what appeared to be an Instagram story by the victim post-incident.

"Apart from the damage to my bike and sunglasses, I'm now dealing with quite a bit of pain and injuries," the victim wrote.

She recounted that she had been thrown off her bike, and there was a lot of blood on the ground.

The victim wrote that she was sad not to have completed the race, and scared and ashamed to talk publicly about what happened.

Her family has asked her to return to Kuala Lumpur, so that they can look after her.

She added that she was being taken care of, and hopes to come back stronger.

TriFactor's response

Initially, the sister said TriFactor Asia did not provide her with a "proper response" nor answered her calls.

She later updated that a person from the company contacted the family regarding the incident.

"At this point, our intention is not to place all the pressure or responsibility on TriFactor Asia.

We simply hope that they can cooperate and assist with the investigation so that the matter can be properly looked into."

TriFactor's management team told Mothership that there were established safety and medical protocols in place at the event.

"Our on-ground safety and medical teams responded immediately, adhering strictly to established protocols.

Preliminary reviews confirm all standard operational controls were fully executed with no operational lapses."

They added that they are in direct contact with the participant to offer their full support towards her recovery.