A full-time Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) National Serviceman was found unconscious at the training yard of Marina Bay Fire Station on Sep. 6 at about 8:10am.

He was identified to be 20-year-old LCP Muhammad Nur Ilham Mohammed Iswadi.

According to a statement from SCDF, he was on duty at the time of the incident.

SCDF personnel at the fire station immediately administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He was subsequently conveyed to Singapore General Hospital, where he passed away.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said that they received a call for assistance at 70 Marina View at 8:15am.

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

SCDF shared that LCP Muhammad Nur Ilham enlisted on Feb. 10, 2026 and completed the firefighter course at the Civil Defence Academy on Aug. 7, 2026.

He was then posted to Marina Bay Fire Station on Aug. 18, 2026.

"SCDF is saddened by his death and extends our deepest condolences to his family. We are providing all necessary assistance and support to the family during this difficult time."

Police investigations are ongoing.

A 61-year-old man got into a fight with a coffee shop's workers and stall owners at Bedok North.

When the police arrived, the man also shoved the officers before he was eventually handcuffed and taken away.

According to Shin Min Daily News, the man was believed to have drunk about two to three bottles of beer before he got into an argument with a female employee at the coffee shop.

The incident took place around 8pm on Sep. 4 at Block 204 Bedok North Street 1.

Physical fight

A diner, named Liu (transliteration), told the Chinese news outlet that after the argument, the man became violent and fought with the female staff.

Liu said that the two fought for a while, then stopped. Half an hour later, the stall owner arrived and asked the man what had happened.

The man apparently said a few words, but when the woman interrupted, the man became agitated and even attacked the stall owner.

"My friend saw that the owner's glasses were knocked off his face. Two employees who stepped forward to break up the fight were also assaulted," she added.

"The police arrived quickly, but to our surprise, the man even shoved the police officers."

Another witness, Chen (transliteration), shared with Shin Min Daily News that the man attacked the female staff before getting into a physical fight with two other staff.

During the fight, the man also bumped into a table where customers were eating, knocking over several bowls and plates.

Chen shared that this was the first time he saw someone assault the staff.

"One female employee had a cut at the corner of her mouth and was bleeding, while another employee said she could not lift her arm," he told Shin Min Daily News.

Disarray

When a reporter arrived at the scene, the man was undergoing a breathalyser test before he was handcuffed and taken away by the police.

The coffee shop was also in disarray, with spoons, plates and food scattered underneath a table.

Several police officers were also questioning people at the scene.

One male staff member, assaulted by the man, was being examined by medical personnel, and the two other injured female staff members were examined before they were taken to hospital.

In response to Mothership's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call for assistance at around 8:05pm.

SCDF conveyed two persons to Changi General Hospital while two others were assessed for minor injuries and both declined to be sent to the hospital.

Laksa stall owner helps

Shin Min Daily News reported that the laksa stall owner at the coffee shop stepped in to help police subdue the man.

Speaking to the Chinese news outlet, the laksa stall owner said he only noticed what was happening when he heard a female employee scream.

He shared that when the police arrived, the man refused to cooperate with the officers, resisting arrest and assaulting the officers.

The laksa stall owner added that the man pushed a police officer and became increasingly aggressive, so a few people rushed forward to help.

"I grabbed him from behind and pinned him to the ground. He continued struggling throughout," he said.

A regular

Stall owners at the coffee shop told Shin Min Daily News that the man was a regular customer and had never caused any trouble before.

An employee at the Indian food stall said the man often came to the coffee shop to eat there.

However, the man normally had a good temperament and had never caused trouble before.

Another stall owner added that the man was a nice person, Shin Min Daily News wrote.

"We don't know whether he drank too much or was under a lot of stress. His behaviour suddenly became unusual."

Arrested for using criminal force

In response to Mothership's queries, the Singapore Police Force said it received a call for assistance around 7:45pm.

When they arrived, officers found several men engaged in a scuffle and intervened to break it up.

In doing so, a 61-year-old man pushed two officers and knocked the spectacles off one of them.

He subsequently also uttered vulgarities at another officer.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the 61-year-old man had a minor altercation with a 32-year-old man and two women, aged 29 and 25, and assaulted them. Two other members of the public intervened and tried to stop him.

The man was subsequently arrested for using criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging his duty and voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty.

He will also be investigated for voluntarily causing hurt and intentional harassment.

The two women sustained minor injuries and were conveyed conscious to the hospital.

Police investigations are ongoing.

While out enjoying the Singapore Night Festival, an Australian tourist discovered, to her dismay, that she had dropped all her cards.

These included her bank cards, driver's license, hotel key card, and other cards she regularly carried.

Speaking to Mothership, Katherine Doyle had spent more than three hours on Sep. 5 wandering around the Singapore Night Festival, taking in all the various installations and even visiting several museums.

She was at Bras Basah, surrounded by people, when she noticed her phone felt different.

Doyle looked inside her phone case and saw that all her bank cards, driver's licence, travel card, hotel key card and other cards she carried were gone.

Lost her cards at Bras Basah

Doyle immediately began retracing her steps and scanning the floor for any sign of her dropped cards.

She also asked the security guards on duty and the festival performers if anyone had handed them anything.

While they offered helpful suggestions, there wasn't a specific place for lost items.

So Doyle continued her search for another 20 minutes in the crowded festival.

"Do I retrace my steps even further back? Do I ask the main stage to make an announcement? Do I try and find the police station? Do I cancel my credit card yet?"

At one point, she walked past two young men who seemed to be looking down at a phone or a map.

Lucky to meet Good Samaritans

One of them looked up, and they caught each other's eye.

The man then did a double take, and Doyle noticed he was holding a pile of cards.

He asked if her name was Katherine, confirming that they had picked up her items.

"I think I said "oh my goodness" three to four times as I couldn’t believe we’d had the good fortune of crossing paths in the crowd," said Doyle.

"I think I took them by surprise when I threw my arms around them, thanking them over and over again. I explained that I was a tourist, and that I had been starting to panic as I’d lost everything."

The two men told Doyle they found her cards and were on their way to her hotel after identifying the hotel key card in the stack.

When she asked how she could repay them, the two men simply replied: "Don't worry about it".

"I had always heard that Singapore was an incredibly safe place, and that Singaporeans were known for their honesty and kindness.

These two young men could have simply handed the cards in somewhere and gone on with their evening. Instead, they took the time to work out where I was staying and were making their way to return them to me personally. I was incredibly grateful."

Doyle added that it was a "perfect ending to an already wonderful night" and "a lovely reminder of why tourists hold Singapore and its people in such high regard".

The kindness the two young men displayed will be what she remembers most about Singapore.

Nepal's army said a joint rescue team comprising its personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued a Chinese man from a 225-meter hydropower tunnel on Sep. 5.

A video shared on X by Nepal's prime minister shows the man being evacuated by a helicopter and later being attended to by an army medic.

According to AP News, the man being carried out of the tunnel is a farmer named Lu Haitao.

In audio shared by Chinese state media CCTV, Lu could be heard telling an officer that he repeatedly shouted whenever he saw the rescue crews' lights, but they could not hear him.

Lu added that he could not believe it when the rescuers eventually shone the light on him.

Lu's sister told Chinese media that her brother was a farmer from Henan province in central China before heading to Nepal in February 2026 with another villager.

She added that she was thrilled to see her brother's photo on the news, describing his rescue as a fortunate turn of events amid the tragedy.

Rescuers also pulled a 64-year-old woman from her home on Sep. 5 in Nuwakot district.

Local authorities said that rescue efforts have focused on 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, with about 900 workers missing and about 500 believed to be trapped in various tunnels.

Specialised teams from India, China, South Korea and the U.S. have been searching through debris in hopes of finding survivors.

Devastating floods

On Aug. 26, flash floods and mudslides swept through mountainous areas along the Nepal-Tibet border.

The deluge, which consisted of mud and rocks, swept through the Lhende Khola river valley.

At least 19 bridges and about 40km of roads were washed away, along with homes and other critical infrastructure.

There was no warning, as it was not raining at the time.

Security camera footage from the Nepal-China border area showed a massive wall of water and debris rushing through the area, with people seen running to escape the surge.

Another video circulating online showed passengers inside a bus as floodwaters swept through the surrounding areas.

According to CNN, the US Geological Survey initially reported shaking in the region as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake along the Nepal-China border, north of Kathmandu.

At around the same time, what was described as an "avalanche" of ice and rock tore down a mountainside and into the Lhende Khola River, a tributary of the Bhote Koshi River, which flows from China into Nepal through deep gorges.

While the cause of the Nepal flood wave remains to be determined, a team of international scientists believes a huge chunk of glacier sheared off and fell into the valley below.

In an official situation update posted on Nepal Tourism Board’s website on Aug. 27, the board said a preliminary agency-wise record received from trekking and travel companies had identified 644 travellers reported missing from affected areas.

Nine of those reported missing are Singaporeans.

"The information is being verified and cross-checked with travel agencies, guides, local authorities and security agencies," the board said.

Local authorities are also working to verify the whereabouts and safety of the missing tourists, it added.

According to Nepal's disaster management agency, at least 1,300 people were killed in the flash floods, and more than 5,000 remain missing.

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Workers' Party MP Kenneth Tiong has clarified his Air India questions and comments, stating that his concerns were purely commercial and condemning racist comments surrounding the subject.

He explained his position in a social media post on Sep. 5, in response to Senior Minister and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam questioning the intent behind his Aug. 26 social media post on the Indian airline.

The comments

SIA holds a minority 25.1 per cent stake in Air India, the latter of which recently reported a S$3.2 billion loss and was asking for nearly S$1.9 billion worth of fresh equity from its shareholders.

On Aug. 26, Tiong had posted on social media, stating that he would not support nor expect any future use of Singapore's state-owned investment company Temasek’s funds to prop up Air India via Singapore Airlines.

Tiong said, "No one, least of all Singaporeans, owes Air India a living,” And that “If Singapore Airlines wants to continue its bet on Air India, it should do so on its own two feet and not on Temasek’s.”

Speaking to the media on Sep. 5, Shanmugam addressed racist online comments about missing Singaporeans in the Nepal floods and about Singapore Airline's Air India investments, saying they were “shameful, nasty, and totally unacceptable.”

When asked if Tiong's post had crossed any racial or xenophobic lines, Shanmugam said, "I think you best ask him what he intended and what he meant.”

He said that Tiong ought to do his homework and “look at SIA's letter and the facts that I put out today, and ask if he is being responsible.”

SM Shanmugam also said that Tiong is entitled to his views and to ask questions about SIA and Temasek Holdings, the majority shareholder of SIA.

"But neither his views, nor that of any minister, or any other MP, should substitute for the commercial judgment of SIA's management and board of directors," he underscored.

"Once governments or politicians start directing individual investment decisions, commercial discipline will be compromised," Shanmugam explained.

"Decisions will become politicised – shaped by political considerations, rather than commercial judgment. In the end, Singaporeans will bear the cost."

Kenneth Tiong’s reply to Shanmugam

Tiong replied later that day, saying that he had read Shanmugam's comments.

Tiong said he wholeheartedly agreed with Shanmugam that racism had “no place in our society.”

Condemning comments about Singaporeans missing in Nepal as shameful, as well as any attacks on anyone's motives because of their ethnicity, Tiong said that he condemned them without reservation and that “our hearts go out to the victims of the Nepal disaster and to the families waiting for news.”

He said that he had always said that a person, upon taking the oath of citizenship, was part of the Singaporean family and nation, and that any attempt to draw a dividing line between the native-born and naturalised will fail.

“It will fail because that is not in the culture or history of this country. More importantly, it will fail because it is morally wrong.”

He said that it was unfortunate that questions about the Air India deal had become entangled with racist comments, and that his concerns “were and are purely commercial.”

He then elaborated on his concerns in two points.

Air India investment

Firstly, he said that Air India had lost more than S$3.5 billion in 2025, with SIA's share of the loss being over S$800 million.

Air India was now asking its shareholders for an additional US$1.5 billion (S$1.9 billion) to fund a turnaround that its own chairman said might take up to 10 years.

He then said that SIA had S$10.5 billion in cash against S$10.7 billion in debt and that Temasek owns half of SIA.

This meant that SIA could afford to make the call to reinvest in Air India, but it left the question of how many more times similar occurrences would happen and who would pay for such investments and losses when SIA could not.

Previous backstop

Secondly, Tiong said SIA had been in a similar position before, saying that Temasek had backstopped SIA’s 2020 S$8.8 billion recapitalisation when the airline needed money.

Parliament had also approved hundreds of millions in wage and aviation support.

He said that then Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat had called SIA a strategic asset and that the government would consider more direct support if necessary.

Tiong agreed that it was the right call at the time, “but it meant that the line between SIA's money and Singaporeans' money holds only until SIA runs out of it.”

Questions to be answered

He said it was prudent for Singaporeans to ask what happens if the deal went bad and whether Temasek would again act as SIA's backstop.

He questioned what it would mean for Singaporeans' taxes and their quality of life, and whether asking the reserves to underwrite a loss was essentially “directing an investment.”

He said that asking these questions was what Parliament existed to do, and that he would ask these questions of the government on Sep. 8

Concluding, he said that “Singaporeans are best served when we can hold two things at once: Zero tolerance for racism and hard questions about money.”

“We should not let the two get mixed up. If we do, both causes suffer.”

A private-hire driver in Singapore could be heard raising his voice at a female passenger after she apparently told to focus on driving when he was allegedly texting during the ride.

The incident was shared on the @sgfollowsall Instagram account, where the woman alleged that the driver of the ride-hailing car had his phone mounted on the dashboard stand but WhatsApp was actively open.

He was allegedly texting, with the GPS navigation window minimised to a small corner.

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Raised voice

At the time, the car had entered an underground expressway tunnel directly behind a large heavy truck and was travelling at around 60 to 70km/h, the woman said.

In addition, the car was supposedly trailing directly behind a large heavy truck entering the tunnel.

"Please focus on driving," the woman apparently told him upon seeing him actively texting behind a heavy vehicle.

Replying daughter

Since the map was minimised, the woman alleged that the route ended up being less efficient and took a longer time.

However, her primary concern was her safety.

She claimed the driver took offence once she asked him to focus on driving, raising his voice, and becoming hostile.

He argued that he was "just replying to his daughter", the woman said, claiming that the driver said she was making an issue out of nothing.

The driver could also be heard saying that he did not even dare to move or touch his phone after what the woman said.

"You were texting while driving," the woman responded.

The woman claimed that the driver also allegedly shouted insults, asking if she was "too precious to sit in his car".

He supposedly then told her to alight from the car if she was unhappy.

Another part of the video also showed the driver allegedly telling the woman to report him if she wanted to.

Possible threat, safety issue

The woman then raised three issues from the incident and wanted to know how other commuters felt.

Firstly, she asked if having a phone mounted gives a driver the right to read and type WhatsApp messages while travelling at expressway speeds.

She asked: "Even if the phone is not handheld, isn't active messaging behind a heavy vehicle considered driving without due care?"

Secondly, she questioned if threatening to drop a passenger off inside an active underground expressway tunnel with no walkways or shoulders is an actual road safety and regulatory violation.

Thirdly, she asked what would be the right response to a driver's alleged distracted driving behind a heavy truck.

She asked: "Has asking a driver to focus on the road become something commuters are expected to stay silent on just to avoid aggressive escalation?"

Netizens were split on the incident, with some agreeing that the driver was in the wrong, but others felt merely texting was acceptable.

One netizen also pointed out that the woman could report him if she wanted to, but said she should not have recorded him.

The founders of an eatery selling Malay cuisine currently have no plans to rebuild, one founder told Mothership after the restaurant burned down in a fire on the morning of Sep. 3.

This occurred merely four months after they opened the eatery, which serves up Malay cuisine.

Adi Rusydi Abdul Rahman, 36, and Arrell Tan, 27, friends who started Mee+ together, shared about the incident in a few Instagram posts, as well as on TikTok.

Fire broke out

The fire started from the store's electrical distribution box (DB).

Both were safe as they were not in the eatery during the fire, Rusydi, who was behind the camera in a video, said.

The Instagram video went on to show the aftermath of the fire, with glass shards scattered around the restaurant, as well as blackened floors and ceiling.

A man in the United States was duct-taped to the seat of a plane after he acted in a disruptive manner mid-flight, CNN reported.

A ziptie was also applied on his wrists.

Photos and videos of the unusual restraints on him were posted online.

What happened

American Airlines Flight 618 was travelling from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to Newark when the crew reported the passenger disturbance, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement, as per CNN.

The man was seated in the first-class section, it was reported.

The plane was diverted to make an emergency landing in Baltimore on Thursday night, Sep. 3, 2026.

The incident occurred more than halfway into the flight as the man reportedly started acting belligerent.

Tried to control situation at first

A fellow passenger said a flight attendant tried to control the situation, but the man became more agitated.

He even started to hit the passenger next to him and then hit a woman who tried to intervene, the eyewitness said.

The man also used “racial and homophobic slurs”.

When the man tried to get more physical to fight off the passengers trying to subdue him, even trying to bite them, he was duct-taped.

The passengers made sure not to tape over his mouth in case it hindered his breathing, CNN reported.

Terrorism concerns

One of the passengers who acted to restrain the man said the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in a week's time was already on the passengers' minds, which made the situation even more concerning.

The Maryland Transportation Authority Police met the plane after it safely landed at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

An FBI statement said one man was arrested.

The man was not named.

The flight continued on its way to Newark after the man was removed.

Duct tape and flexible handcuffs are found on many commercial planes for in the event restraining violent or disruptive passengers is required, CNN reported.

A 71-year-old man was found dead in his unit in Block 570 Choa Chu Kang Street 52 on Sep. 3.

Neighbours had called the police after noticing takeout containers hanging uncollected outside the unit for days, and smelling a foul odour, Shin Min Daily News reported.

Shin Min's reporters could still smell the odour along the corridor hours after the police arrived at the scene.

In response to Mothership's queries, the police said they were alerted to a case of unnatural death at the location at 1:10pm that day.

The man was found motionless in the unit and was pronounced dead at scene.

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

Police investigations are still ongoing.

Lived alone and rarely went out

According to a neighbour's helper, the deceased lived alone and rarely left his house due to his large size.

He would often order food to be delivered for all three meals, and get essentials delivered from supermarkets as well.

"He always shut his front door. I had not seen him for a few months," the helper said. "Sometimes I would notice takeout hung at the door, but not long after, he would open the door to collect them."

On Sep. 1, she saw takeout hung there again, but this time, it was not collected even after days.

Over the next two days, neighbours started noticing a foul odour. They grew concerned that something had happened to the elderly man, and decided to call the police.

"[My employer] and I would often sit outside our unit to cool off," the helper told Shin Min. "These two days when a gust of wind came, we would smell the odour. We never imagined it was because Uncle had passed away."

A woman was left frustrated after a man allegedly double parked his car beside hers along a small road near East Coast Road, preventing her from driving out for about 50 minutes.

She shared the incident with Mothership, calling the car owner's behaviour "very ignorant" and "selfish".

It happened on the morning of Sep. 5, after she had parked her white car along the road at 8:30am to go to a nearby gym.

When she returned to her car at 9:30am to go home, a black car was parked right beside the car that was in front of hers, she said.

This obstructed the way out for her car, leaving her stranded.

The woman explained that the part of the road she parked along had no yellow line.

As the rest of the road was fully occupied except for an area with double yellow lines, she believes the man decided double park there to avoid that area.

No apology

The owner of the double parked car apparently left a business card on top of his car's dashboard.

According to the card, seen by Mothership, he is a project director of a construction company.

The woman called the number on the card for about 20 times without an answer before someone finally picked up at around 10:15am.

He hung up the call without a word, she said.

About five minutes later, someone claiming to be the car owner's colleague arrived to "help" move the car.

"[The car owner] didn't even have a decency to clean up his dirty job or feel apologetic about it," the woman said.

She advised the colleague to "properly educate" the car owner on proper driving etiquette, and to apologise for double parking.

The colleague then apologised before moving the car.

The woman was glad she did not have an emergency or an important appointment that morning, as the incident would have delayed her.

"[But] whether I have any appointment or emergency to attend to is not the point or excuse for this kind of behaviour.

If we accept this kind of behaviour, it's only a matter of time something serious will happen."