A Singapore Family Court has largely ruled in favour of a father who objected to paying half of his 22-year-old daughter's Australian medical school fees, stating that a court maintenance order is not a "blank cheque".

District Judge Kow Keng Siong ruled that the full costs of the overseas education were "not reasonable", given that the mother had made the decision unilaterally without the father's consent.

Divorce arrangements

According to judgment papers, the couple has been divorced for over a decade. Their daughter is currently a third-year medical student studying in Australia.

Under a 2012 consent order made during their divorce, the father was required to pay S$650 a month in general maintenance for his daughter, who was eight years old at the time.

The order also stated he had to cover 50 per cent of her educational and medical expenses.

However, the father objected as he said he never agreed to bear the education expenses for overseas study, which came to around S$401,000 for a 6-year medicine course.

The mother, who had been funding the overseas study, filed a court application to enforce these orders, claiming her ex-husband had failed to fulfil them.

Studying abroad

The mother argued that the father did not object when their daughter first brought up studying abroad.

She claimed he agreed to support her and offered to pay the tuition in monthly instalments because he could not afford a lump sum.

She further asserted that his explicit consent was unnecessary, as the original court order covered 50 per cent of tertiary education, local or otherwise.

The father strongly countered this, stating that when the order was signed in 2012, he never envisioned his daughter studying medicine abroad.

When the daughter received the Australian university offer in September 2023, she asked him to sponsor her or act as a guarantor for a S$200,000 bank loan.

The mother claimed that before the daughter started her course, she informed the father and he did not object. While he said he couldn't afford the educational expenses in lump sums, he could contribute towards the tuition in monthly instalments.

However, the father claimed that he did not agree to act as a sponsor or second guarantor for an education loan, expressing concern that the costs were beyond what both he and her mother could afford.

He urged her to wait for outcomes from local university applications instead.

Financial concerns

The father added that the funding arrangement was financially uncertain, as the bank loan did not cover the full cost of the tuition, accommodation, and living expenses.

The mother's own evidence showed that total monthly expenses in Australia amounted to an estimated S$11,700.

Furthermore, the father noted that after his daughter started her studies in Australia, he offered to use his Central Provident Fund (CPF) to pay for a local medical course if she successfully re-applied.

However, he declined to act as a second guarantor for the S$200,000 loan, to which the mother and daughter found another second guarantor and enrolled for the course due to the deadline.

The father also submitted that his daughter had sent him a message in 2023 saying she had decided not to study medicine and was considering other options, and claimed that the mother had "unduly influenced" the daughter to change her mind.

In response to this, the mother claimed that the father had increased his monthly maintenance to S$1,800 after the daughter began studying in Australia, he produced no clear written objection to her continuing, or to him contributing to the related expenses, and he also did not dispute three letters of demand sent by her lawyers in 2025 and 2026, each of which sought payment for the daughter's studies in Australia.

Judge's decision

Judge Kow stated that he did not accept either interpretation from both the father and the mother.

The father read the clause narrowly, submitting that it requires his express consent before any liability arises and is in any event confined to local tertiary expenses.

The mother read the clause broadly, contending that it is, in effect, a commitment given by the father in 2012 to bear half of whatever tertiary education the daughter would ultimately pursue.

"Neither interpretation is valid. I accept neither reading. [The clause] does not require the father's consent, but neither is it an open-ended commitment," he wrote.

He noted that the clause is not limited to local universities, and is wide enough to cover foreign tertiary education expenses.

However, the mother’s interpretation essentially treated the court order as a "blank cheque" and an advance approval for the father to shoulder half of any tertiary expenses incurred.

He also noted that the daughter was only 8 years old when the clause came into existence, and the parties could not have reasonably decided back in 2012 on the specific course she would pursue, or where she would study.

Covering half of the Australian expenses would require the father to fork out an estimated S$2,800 a month, taking up roughly 30 per cent of his S$9,500 monthly income.

The judge also noted that while tuition fees and compulsory university charges fall naturally within the clause, other expenses like accommodation, living expenses, travel, insurance, and loan-servicing charges are not automatically "tertiary fees" or "tertiary education related fees and expenses", merely because the daughter is studying overseas.

He also noted that the father's silence does not necessarily mean he had consented to the arrangements.

"Consent is the presence of agreement, not the absence of objection...What the Mother needed to show was that the Father had agreed. What she has shown is that he did not stop her. The two are not the same."

Judge Kow wrote:

"For completeness, I am mindful that the daughter is now an adult. She is entitled to choose her own educational path, and neither parent has a veto over her choice.

That said, her freedom to choose her path is distinct from whether either parent must legally bear the financial consequences of that choice. The law supports educational aspiration, but only within the bounds of reasonable maintenance."

Maintenance fee adjustments denied

The mother requested an increase to S$3,000 a month in general maintenance, stating that she had been financing the education via her credit card.

She added that the immense financial strain had severely impacted her physical and mental health.

The father asked to lower his monthly maintenance from S$650 to S$400 and reduce his share of educational and medical expenses to 30 per cent.

He argued his income of S$9,500 was only about 30 per cent of his ex-wife's, and noted that his share would have been a more manageable S$870 a month had the daughter studied locally.

Though Judge Kow acknowledged that circumstances had changed, he declined the requests from both sides, ruling that the financial stress the mother faced was substantially self-induced because she chose to support the Australian course and take on the loan despite the father's objections.

He also declined to reduce the father's S$650 maintenance fee, noting that there was noting there was no material change in the father's financial circumstances.

In closing

Judge Kow reminded the separated couple that beyond the legal arguments, they remain parents to a daughter they both love.

Addressing the mother, the judge praised her clear devotion and the heavy financial weight she had carried for her daughter, adding that the ruling should not diminish her sacrifices. He suggested she engage in open conversation with the father to plan for their daughter's future welfare.

Addressing the father, the judge noted that while his financial concerns were substantially upheld, his legal obligations under the original consent order and his daughter's ongoing needs do not disappear.

"What you do for her moving forward, beyond what the law requires of you, is yours to decide. Your actions will be remembered, either way."

The judge concluded by urging both parents to work together to resolve their daughter's immediate financial issues, stating that they should both be immensely proud of her academic achievements.

A man who was a former Chinese city official has been sentenced to death for taking more than 2.2 billion yuan (S$418.5 million) in bribes over 30 years.

According to China Daily, 69-year-old Yang Youlin was the former executive deputy director of the administrative committee of the Nanjing economic and technological development zone in East China's Jiangsu province.

On Jul. 6, he was sentenced to death by the Changzhou Intermediate People's Court after being convicted of multiple crimes, including embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering.

The court imposed the death penalty after combining his sentences.

Yang was investigated as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown, reported the BBC.

According to the BBC, he pleaded guilty and expressed remorse.

Exploited positions to embezzle funds

China Daily reported that from 1993 to 2023, Yang held various appointments, including his roles as an adviser to the Nanjing Niushou Mountain Cultural Tourism Zone and as executive deputy director of the administrative committee of the Nanjing development zone.

He used his role to secure project contracts, business operations, land transfers and capital turnovers in exchange for bribes.

From 2001 to 2002, Yang served as director of the construction bureau in Jiangning district and misappropriated a total of 15 million yuan (S$2.85 million).

Yang also abused his power as director of the district's construction bureau and deputy head of the administrative committee of the district's development zone to illegally arrange for land expropriation, demolition and construction projects from 2003 to 2009.

Concealed money obtained from bribes

He also unlawfully rebated land transfer fees, which resulted in 23 million yuan (S$4.37 million) in state financial losses.

From 2014 to 2016, Yang was working as executive deputy director of the administrative committee of the Nanjing development zone when he colluded with others to embezzle 12 million yuan (S$2.28 million).

He also offered more than 25 million yuan (S$4.75 million) in bribes to officials from 2005 to 2023 to gain improper advantages.

He also concealed and disguised 1 million yuan (S$190,142) from bribery by lending the money to a company under his control, reported China Daily.

Circumstances 'extremely serious'

According to China Daily, the court said Yang's crimes warranted the death penalty as the amount of bribes was "extremely large", and the circumstances were "extremely serious".

In sentencing, the court said that while Yang reported criminal activities committed by others, it did not justify a more lenient sentence.

Yang was also deprived of his political rights for life, and all of his personal assets were confiscated.

According to the BBC, death sentences for white-collar crimes in China are rare and are typically meted out when cases concern large sums exceeding 1 billion yuan (S$190.2 million).

Singaporean politician and lawyer Lim Tean was ordered by the Court of Appeal to surrender at the State Courts on Jul. 20 to serve his sentence of three months and one week’s jail for practising law without a valid certificate.

The 61-year-old was convicted of three charges under the Legal Profession Act after he attended court hearings and submitted legal documents on 32 occasions from Apr. 1 to Jun. 9, 2021, without a valid certificate.

Initial sentence

Lim was initially sentenced to six weeks’ jail and a S$1,000 fine in February 2025.

However, he appealed against the conviction and sentence, while the prosecution cross-appealed for a higher sentence.

The judge on Feb. 23 upheld Lim’s conviction and enhanced his sentence to three months and one week’s jail.

In Singapore, those convicted can appeal only their convictions and sentence once.

Lim was ordered to surrender at the State Courts on Apr. 24/

Four questions of law

Lim then filed an application seeking permission to refer four questions of law of public interest to the Court of Appeal.

The Court of Appeal is the highest court in Singapore’s judicial system.

If a question of law of public interest arises out of an appeal to the High Court, the case can be referred to the Court of Appeal to answer the question.

The questions of law mainly revolved around the sentencing framework applied when the judge increased Lim's sentence after his initial appeal.

Lim contended that the judge in his case should not have applied the frameworks referenced, as it was laid down after his initial sentence.

Rejected

Four cumulative conditions must be satisfied before permission to file questions of law or references may be granted.

Lim’s application was rejected by the court’s panel of judges as the four questions of law did not satisfy the necessary conditions for permission to be granted.

The Straits Times reported that his application was refused on Jul. 6.

The panel of three judges comprised Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, Justice Woo Bih Li, and Justice See Kee Oon.

The questions framed by Lim were not questions of law of public interest, they said, and did not meet the necessary conditions before permission is granted.

The judges also said the determination of the questions “would not have affected the outcome of the case”.

Lim’s sentence and the judge’s application of the framework were also deemed uncontroversial, as “it is settled law that judicial pronouncements are by default retroactive in nature”.

Lim Tean

Lim is the co-founder of the People’s Alliance for Reform (PAR), an alliance that includes the opposition party People's Voice (PV), which he founded.

He was the secretary-general of PAR.

He contested in the 2025 general election and lost the contest in Potong Pasir SMC.

A person who is jailed for at least one year or fined a minimum of S$10,000 is disqualified from running for election or holding a parliamentary seat for five years.

An Indian national living in Singapore decided to thank the crew of a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight after reading about a recent molestation case involving an Indian passenger.

He also apologised on behalf of the Indian community.

Sharad Govil, 47, told Mothership he felt compelled to thank the crew while travelling on SIA flight SQ508 from Singapore to Bengaluru with his wife on Jul. 3.

His gesture comes after an Indian national was sentenced to six months' jail for molesting a Singapore Airlines flight attendant during a flight on Feb. 9.

Handwritten note

Sharad told Mothership that he had taken the card from home and decided to pen his gratitude after the meal service during the flight.

In a Facebook post, he said that as Indians and long-time SIA passengers, he and his wife felt it was important to say that the case did not represent their community or the "deep respect and admiration" they have for the airline and its crew.

"Singapore Airlines (SQ) has been part of our life for years. Its crew have looked after us on more journeys than we can count, always with warmth and grace. So we wrote a short note thanking them for their exceptional service, and offering an apology on behalf of our country for an incident that saddened and angered every decent human being," he wrote in the post.

In the letter, Sharad penned: "We were deeply saddened by recent news of misconduct by a passenger from my country — India."

He added that he respects and values the SIA crew and their "excellent service", continuing that "the actions of some of those do not represent us".

Sharad, who is an audiologist at Amazing Hearing, first came to Singapore in 2003 and is now a Permanent Resident (PR).

Crew was moved

Sharad said he did not expect the crew to be so moved by the gesture.

"Each crew member individually came and thanked us, the crew in charge gathered the whole team, and we took a photo together," he wrote.

"To the crew of SQ508, and to every SIA crew that has ever welcomed us aboard, thank you. For your care, your professionalism, and for making every journey feel like coming home, be it Singapore or India."

At least 105 bicycles were cleared from Pasir Ris, some of which were left out in public chained along common staircases, corridors and other shared spaces for years.

This is according to Valerie Lee, MP for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC, who put up a Facebook post announcing the clean-up efforts in response to public feedback.

Lee added that more than 105 abandoned or unclaimed bicycles were removed between April and June 2026.

Why not act faster?

She also addressed feedback on the supposed inaction of the town council in the wake of reports made on such bicycles causing disamenities to residents.

Lee wrote: "Some residents have also asked me why they sometimes see more than one notice being “served” or why it isn't removed immediately after the stipulated deadline."

She explained that as bicycles are private property, the town council officers will first serve notices and give owners time to respond.

Additional notices are also issued in some cases.

This is so as some bicycles may still be actively used even if they have not been moved for some time, while some residents require more time to make arrangements to collect their property, Lee explained.

"Basically - there needs to be some empathy involved in the way we handle such situation," she wrote.

Residents can continue to report abandoned bicycles to the town council, she added.

A Singaporean businessman, who was formerly married to Chinese actress Vicki Zhao, gambled away A$60 million (S$53.8 million) at Perth's Crown Casino in six days.

Huang Youlong is a China-born tycoon and friend of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, reported News.com.au.

According to HK01, the incident came to light after the Hong Kong Judiciary website published a nearly 100-page judgment on Jun. 30 regarding Huang's gambling debt dispute involving millions in intermediary service fees and interest.

He was sued by Crown Melbourne's former vice president of marketing, Michelle Chua Eh Fong.

Chua was pursuing overdue interest at an annual rate of 24 per cent, based on a verbal agreement she claimed she had struck with Huang.

The judge dismissed all of Chua's claims and determined that she was merely a business intermediary who had no right to claim the interest from Huang alone.

Gambled away S$35.8 million in 48 hours

According to HK01, at the time, Huang owned a private jet and frequently travelled for leisure and investment activities.

Chua was tasked with attracting high-net-worth clients and coordinating gambling loans for casino VIPs.

In late February 2015, Huang landed in Western Australia to gamble at the Crown Casino Perth.

However, the casino's credit department refused to grant him gaming credit as Huang already owed debts to other global casinos.

The department asked Huang to find a third party to take over the risk, leading to the entry of the Suncity Group, a junket operator in Hong Kong and Macau, in the transaction, reported HK01.

According to News.com.au, Chua oversaw an "Internal Casino Arrangement" that meant the Suncity Group would obtain A$40 million (S$35.8 million) in chips and also be responsible for recovering the debt.

Huang lost all the money in 48 hours.

Requested further S$18 million to recoup losses

Huang immediately requested an additional A$20 million (S$18 million) to recoup his losses, but lost it as well.

According to HK01, Chua claimed she and Huang reached a verbal agreement regarding the two loans.

The first A$40 million (S$35.8 million) loan from Sun City was to be repaid within three months at an exchange rate of A$1 to HK$6.30, and the second loan of A$20 million (S$18 million) must be repaid within one month.

If either loan was overdue, interest of 24 per cent per annum would be charged.

However, Huang denies having made any verbal agreement with Chua.

Payments

News.com.au reported that when Huang rushed to pay the core A$60 million (S$53.8 million) principal sum to Suncity by 2019, interim payments were chaotic.

In August 2015, Huang attempted to settle the debts by agreeing to purchase a luxury Hong Kong mansion in Regalia Bay for A$13.3 million (S$12 million) and transfer it to Chua as partial repayment.

He added another A$950,000 (S$851,076) on top of the house, stating that it was a "wedding gift" to Chua to express his gratitude for her help in managing his gambling debts.

In another instance, Huang's personal assistant drew three separate "security cheques" each worth A$11.4 million (S$10.2 million) to secure the debt.

However, when Chua tried to cash one of the cheques, it bounced.

Hong Kong judge throws out case

The principal debt was settled in 2019, after Suncity signed a termination agreement confirming the sum was fully repaid, reported HK01.

According to News.com.au, Deputy High Court Judge Alan Kwong threw out the case and said her claims did not "sit comfortably with basic commercial common sense and ordinary logic of events".

"I am not persuaded that it is credible," he said.

Kwong also ordered Chua to pay Huang's legal costs.

Huang, who was not present in court, submitted his witness statements and a medical note.

The note stated that he was in France, unable to attend as he could not take a flight longer than three hours due to chest pains.

Kwong said the medical excuse document was "wholly unreliable" and noted that the French doctor did not bother to list their professional qualifications or diagnosis.

Government-commissioned inquiry found casino unfit to hold license

In 2020, Australia’s New South Wales government launched an inquiry into Crown Resorts.

Following the findings, royal commissions in the states of Victoria and Western Australia were initiated in 2021.

Both inquiries found Crown Resorts were unfit to hold casino licenses due to issues including enabling money laundering, dealing with criminal-linked junket operators and poor corporate governance.

The Perth Casino Royal Commission initially found Crown Perth to be “unsuitable” to hold its gaming licence, but eventually allowed it to keep its licence and operate without penalties after completing a multi-year remediation program.

A man in Hubei province, China fell from the 12th floor of his apartment after a strong gust of wind from a passing tornado blew out his window.

He sustained serious injuries from the fall and is currently undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Incident

According to local local media, the incident occurred on Jul. 6 evening in Huanggang, Hubei.

A severe storm in the city and surrounding areas between 7pm and 11pm left behind a trail of destruction, including broken trees, damages to vehicles and shops, as well as casualties.

Some towns were also reportedly hit by tornadoes.

Man was in living room

At about 8pm, the man, surnamed Zhang, was in the living room of his 12th floor apartment, which had its windows shut.

A strong gust of wind then blew the windows open before ripping out the glass panels and window frames.

The sofa, wardrobe and dining table in the home were also blown out by the wind.

According to Zhang's brother-in-law, he was sucked out of the house through the exposed area and fell onto a green belt in the neighbourhood.

His wife and child, who had been in the bedroom at the time, were unharmed.

Strong winds

Speaking to the media, Zhang's brother-in-law described the unusual extensive damage the winds caused.

According to him, all the south and north-facing windows of the apartment building were destroyed.

Windows and their frames were swept out, while untethered items in homes disappeared.

"It's like the entire building was hollowed out," he said.

Singapore’s state investment company Temasek reported S$49 billion in sustainability-linked investments as of Mar. 31, 2026, an increase of S$3 billion from the previous year.

They make up 9 per cent of Temasek’s net portfolio value.

This was announced in Temasek's Sustainability Report 2026, released on Jul. 8 along with its annual financial year review.

The report outlines the company’s sustainability goals, initiatives, and performance, including ongoing efforts to decarbonise its portfolio and reduce emissions.

For the third year straight since 2024, its total portfolio emissions held stable at 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e).

Sustainable living investments

Temasek has been working to align its investment activities with the "sustainable living trend" by investing in companies whose products and services advance environmental or social objectives.

Of the S$49 billion such investments, S$42 billion was made to businesses with products and services that contribute positively towards Temasek's long-term vision of net zero, nature positive, and inclusive growth.

The remaining S$7 billion focused on companies in high-emitting sectors actively transitioning towards greener products and services.

Over the past year, Temasek deployed S$5 billion in new and follow-on sustainable living investments, particularly in renewable energy and climate technology companies.

They include the Amperesand, a US- and Singapore-based company working to improve grid efficiency and support the needs of megawatt electric vehicle charging, the U.S.'s Luminace, which offers decarbonisation-as-a-service solutions to commercial, industrial, and public sector customers, and China's NARI Technology, which provides smart grid and power automation technologies.

Progress towards its goals

Temasek remains committed to achieving net zero portfolio emissions by 2050, a goal it set in 2019.

At the time, the company also set an interim target of halving net portfolio emissions from 2010 levels, to 11 million tCO2e, by 2030.

Now, it believes it is "unlikely" to meet this 2030 target under current conditions.

In the report, Temasek cited market volatility, higher financing costs, growing global energy demand, and portfolio exposure to hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, power, aviation, and shipping.

"As a result, the transition will be more uneven, contested, and non-linear than previously anticipated," the company said.

Nevertheless, this does not reflect a step back from the long-term net zero ambition, it added.

Temasek said it has started a review its target to ensure that this 2050 goal remains "current, credible, and actionable".

"The review takes into consideration evolving methodologies and best practices in target-setting so that the ambition and assumptions underpinning our net zero commitment remain relevant and viable."

Portfolio emissions from Singapore companies

Singapore-based Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs) contributed 89 per cent of total portfolio emissions, with Sembcorp Industries (SCI) and Singapore Airlines (SIA) accounting for the majority of them.

SCI, Temasek said, plays a key role in developing solutions to support the clean energy transition, and is exploring low-carbon technologies such as green hydrogen and ammonia projects.

Temasek noted that as SCI completed its acquisition of Australia's Alinta Energy and its group of companies recently in June, it expects its emissions to increase in the near term before declining.

SCI thus foresees that it will not meet its 2028 target for emissions intensity and 2030 target for absolute emissions, but will target to achieve an emissions intensity of 0.26 tCO₂e/MWh by 2035.

It also remains committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, Temasek added.

As for SIA, the airline's emissions grew 3.8 per cent year on year, driven by resilient air travel demand, expanded overall operations, and longer routings due to airspace restrictions.

To reduce emissions, SIA has been working to deploy more new-generation aircraft, which is projected to improve fuel efficiency by up to 25 per cent for passenger services, and up to 40 per cent for freighter operations.

At the end of the financial year, 78 per cent of SIA Group's operating fleet comprised such aircraft, and this is expected to reach 90 per cent by 2030.

Deepening engagement

Temasek has been embarking on several initiatives to support their Singapore-based TPCs in climate transition.

It launched the TPC Ecosystem Workforce AI Fluency Programme in 2026, and has been co-developing a playbook under it to strengthen AI skills development in the workforce.

Using its Climate Transition Readiness Framework, Temasek engaged 19 major portfolio companies that made up 88 per cent of total portfolio emissions for the year, encouraging them to develop climate transition plans.

Among them, 15 have set targets to achieve net zero by 2050 or earlier.

Singapore's state investment arm Temasek reported a Net Portfolio Value (NPV) of S$518 billion in 2026, up S$49 billion from 2025.

This also represents a doubling of their portfolio over the past decade.

Temasek closed its financial year on Mar. 31, 2026, and announced the results of its annual review on Jul. 8.

The growth was driven largely by strong performance of listed Singapore-based Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs) and realised gains from key divestments, the company said.

The financial year saw the company investing S$51 billion and divesting S$31 billion, resulting in a net investment of S$20 billion.

Long-term returns remain resilient

Meanwhile, Temasek’s long-term returns remained resilient, with 20-year Total Shareholder Return (TSR) at 6.8 per cent and 10-year TSR at 7.1 per cent.

However, the five-year TSR at 4.6 per cent was weighed down by headwinds in China's capital markets from 2021 to 2024.

The recent events in the Middle East have also impacted the global economy, resulting in a drawdown of 2 per cent on the NPV in the last month of the financial year.

Diversified portfolio

Temasek's portfolio comprises three segments: Singapore-based TPCs, Global Direct Investments (GDIs), and Partnerships, Funds, and Asset Management Companies (PFAs).

Since Apr. 1, 2026, Temasek has operated under a refreshed structure, establishing new wholly-owned entities — Temasek Singapore (TSG), Temasek Global Investments (TGI), and Temasek Partnership Solutions (TPS).

The move was intended to give each entity a clearer focus and allow it to build expertise in its own area.

The firm emphasised that it will continue to operate collectively as "OneTemasek".

Building resilient portfolios

In a more complex global environment, Temasek said it remains focused on building a “resilient and forward-looking portfolio”, providing returns with a narrower range of outcomes.

This means investing in domestic businesses with strong competitive advantages and global market leaders with strong pricing power.

In the near term, it sees compelling opportunities in three areas driven by strong secular trends and offering potential for good returns: Artificial Intelligence (AI), core-plus infrastructure, and private credit.

Harnessing Al

On the AI front, the company said that they have invested in companies benefiting from digitisation for over a decade and sees opportunities with the rapid advancement of AI.

Its Al-related exposure currently represents 6 per cent of portfolio value, which it aims to increase to up to 15 per cent by 2031.

Temasek said it has steadily developed a “disciplined and holistic strategy” to harness AI across its institution, portfolio, and wider ecosystem.

This includes AI-enabling Temasek, such as embedding AI into how the company invests and operates, and AI-proofing its portfolio.

Outlook

On the outlook for Singapore’s market, Temasek said it remains confident in the market's resilience.

While global uncertainty and energy-related disruptions continue to pose risks, Singapore remains well-positioned with strong fundamentals and policy flexibility, the firm said.

Temasek said its focus remains on actively stewarding its TPCs, strengthening their competitiveness and resilience for value creation over the long term.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who officially took over as the chairman of Temasek Holdings on Oct. 9, 2025, commented on the volatile global market.

“This calls for a carefully considered and more disciplined approach to investment that looks for sustained risk-adjusted returns that are resilient through short-term cycles. I am confident that the Temasek team will rise to the challenge by acting with clarity amidst complexity, harnessing our collective strengths to do well, do right, and do good—always acting today with tomorrow in mind, so every generation prospers."

A woman travelling with her six-year-old son in a taxi was forced to act quickly after the driver allegedly lost consciousness while driving along the East Coast Parkway (ECP).

The incident took place at around 12:45pm on Jul. 6.

What happened

In a TikTok video posted later the same day, Winnie Lee recounted how she and her son were travelling from Jewel Changi Airport to Crawford Lane to meet her husband and elder son for lunch.

Speaking to Mothership, Lee said she had initially tried to book a taxi using the ComfortDelGro Zig app but was unsuccessful.

She then decided to walk to Terminal 1 to join the taxi queue instead.

Lee said when she first boarded the taxi, the driver was rather chatty, and they talked about her difficulty booking a cab through the app.

However, while travelling along the ECP, the taxi began veering towards the road shoulder, she recalled.

At first, Lee said she thought overgrown bushes were brushing against the taxi as they had not been trimmed.

"He corrected the car back into the lane, but it only lasted for a few minutes," she said.

She then noticed through the rear-view mirror that the driver appeared to be yawning and looked "a bit sleepy".

Concerned, she decided to talk to him and asked if he was feeling all right.

The driver replied that he was fine, and Lee suggested he pull over to rest.

He then responded by asking: "Where do I stop?"

At that point, Lee said the driver became unresponsive.

"I think he actually became unconscious," she said, adding that she suspected he may have suffered a stroke or heart attack.

The taxi began drifting towards the centre divider, brushing against the bushes at the road shoulder, she said.

Lee said her first instinct was to jump out of the vehicle with her son.

However, she later decided to force open the passenger door, hoping it would create enough friction against the roadside barriers to slow the taxi down.

"Since I didn't know how to drive, I had no idea what buttons to press to stop the car. I had to forcefully open the car door so it would create friction against the metal railing in the middle of the ECP," she said.

Thankfully, the taxi eventually came to a gradual stop.

A passer-by helped Lee and her son out of the vehicle before they called for an ambulance, which Lee said arrived about 10 to 15 minutes later.

Lee added that her son had slept through the incident and was unaware of what had happened.

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Driver receiving medical attention: ComfortDelGro

In response to Mothership's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force confirmed that they received a call for assistance along ECP towards Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) at about 12:50pm that day.

They conveyed one person to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Separately, a ComfortDelGro spokesperson confirmed that the driver had been taken to the hospital and was receiving medical treatment.

"Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time, and we kindly request that their privacy be respected," said the spokesperson.

The spokesperson added that the taxi had been brought to a safe stop and that the company has been in contact with the passengers to offer support.

"We recognise that this would have been an unsettling experience for the passengers and are in contact with them to extend our concern and offer any necessary support."