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Who is Justin?
Singapore ― Justin Lee, 17, who killed himself on Sept 16 while facing drug-trafficking charges, was no stereotypical unintelligent juvenile offender, according to a letter that his grieving mother wrote to Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam.
Ms Cecilia Ow, 51, a senior lecturer at a polytechnic, posted the heart-wrenching letter to Instagram on Tuesday (Oct 12), calling for a thorough review of how the police handle juveniles under criminal investigation, and describing as “brutal” her son’s treatment at the hands of anti-narcotics officers.
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Residents at Sembawang dorm left stranded after SLA evicted them, K Shanmugam to the rescue.
FOCUS Adventure, a social enterprise that had converted its Sembawang campsite into a workers dormitory to house Malaysian workers who had nowhere else to go, was asked to leave the site because it was three months behind on its rent.
The company runs corporate training programmes that apply adventure learning outdoors to make such activities as team building more fun and effective.
Following a long back-and-forth, the Singapore Land Authority which is in charge of the site, agreed to let them stay and withdraw its Letter of Termination. That happened after Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam intervened on behalf of FOCUS Adventure.
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Indranee Rajah Vs Raeesah Khan on 1st Nov 2021
“I should not have shared the survivor’s story without her consent, nor should I have said that I accompanied her to the police station when I had not. It was wrong of me to have done so.”
After Ms Khan’s apology, she was asked by Leader of the House Indranee Rajah to clarify some details. The House Leader underlined that Ms Khan had lied three times in Parliament in her Aug 3 speech.
Ms Rajah then asked for the matter to be referred to the Committee of Privileges, to which Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Speaker of Parliament, agreed.
The House Leader added that what happened “does a great disservice to the survivors of sexual assault and rape victims… because it’s hard enough for such women who are victims to tell their stories, and they have great difficulty in getting people to believe them sometimes.”
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Pritam says that there is public feedback on dining capacity: should we increase it to five
Pritam Singh, leader of opposition asks whether we should increase the dining capacity to five instead of keeping at two
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Raeesah Khan apologises for lying in Parliament about rape victim’s story
Singapore — In Parliament on Monday (Nov 1), Workers Party Member of Parliament Raeesah Khan (Sengkang GRC) admitted that she lied in an Aug 3 speech about a rape victim to whom the police allegedly made inappropriate remarks about her clothing and the fact that she had been drinking.
Ms Khan apologised to the Police, the survivor, Members of Parliament, the Workers’ Party, her constituents and her family.
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Traffic Police Knocked Down by Reckless Driver
The officer fell to the ground while the car continued reversing, dragging along the officer’s motorcycle. The Mitsubishi makes a U-turn and continues fleeing the scene. A TP officer was caught on camera giving chase to the errant driver.
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Taiwan leader says island will not bow to China
Taiwan will not bow to pressure by Beijing and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday, following a spike in incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defence zone.
Self-governed Taiwan’s 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.
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Obama hits the stump in US battleground Virginia
Former US president Barack Obama urges voters to back the Democrat in the neck-and-neck Virginia gubernatorial election touted as a test of the party's prospects in next year's midterm elections.
Campaigning in the state capital Richmond for Democrat Terry McAuliffe -- a former Virginia governor vying for his second term -- Obama casts the Republican as a threat to democracy and criticizes McAuliffe's opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin, for backing Donald Trump's fraudulent claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
"I believe you right here in Virginia are going to show the rest of the country, and the world, that we’re not going to indulge in our worst instinct," Obama says
Source: AFP
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COVID-19 health breaches at Jurong dorm under MOM's investigation, riot police deployed
Videos of riot police deployed at a migrant workers’ dormitory at Jurong circulated on social media on Oct 13. Crowds were also seen gathering outside the dorm.
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Only vaccinated persons can enter hawker centres from Oct 13 for dining-in
In the latest announcement, Minister Lawrence Wong made some changes to the current regimen.
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Nee Soon MP Louis Ng on Private Security Industry (Amendment) Bill
COVID-19 has made life harder for security officers, with many having to take on the "thankless" task of enforcing safe management measures, said MP Louis Ng. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday (Oct 5), he said the Private Security Industry (Amendment) Bill will increase protection for them. He also sought clarifications on the Bill. He wanted to know what counts as a security officer's duty, and if the law will apply to functions reasonably connected to a security officer's work. He stressed the need to be clear about this as security officers may be required to perform diverse tasks which are not spelled out.
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PSP's Leong Mun Wai's speech on FICA
PSP's Leong Mun Wai queries the minister on why the bill is rushed and he raises concerns of too much powers vested in the Home Minister.
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