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A 27-year-old man was arrested for multiple offences after a dispute which happened on Sunday (June 20) at 230 Balestier Road, the police told AsiaOne. A passer-by on the way home decided to document the incident at around 2am and subsequently uploaded it on their personal TikTok account. According to the TikTok user, the man allegedly wanted to drive when he failed a breathalyser test. The video has been re-shared on a Facebook group garnering over 58,000 views and 300 shares. In the 59-second shaky video, the man can be seen struggling and resisting arrest as police officers attempted to...

As Singapore prepares to enter Phase 3 of its reopening in the coming months, changes are to be expected. By the end of the year, check-ins via TraceTogether will be compulsory at public venues to enhance contact tracing efforts, as more social gatherings are allowed. Group sizes may also increase from five to eight in the future, the multi-ministry task force said on Tuesday (Oct 20). What's the difference between TraceTogether vs SafeEntry? TraceTogether — both token and mobile app — help identify people in close contact with those who test positive for Covid-19 with the use of proximity data...

The Singapore-registered company that says it is close to buying English soccer club Newcastle United admits it doctored photos of former US president Barack Obama in marketing materials used to publicise the newly formed group. Bellagraph Nova Group (BN Group) also said some of the information in those materials was released prematurely or contained errors after Reuters found inconsistencies when speaking to firms and persons BN Group says it is involved with. Speaking on behalf of BN Group's principals, Nereides Antonio Giamundo de Bourbon, head of investor relations, acknowledged that the company had altered photos of Obama to make it...

The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China I t has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned out the Chinese national anthem at a school assembly. Do You Hear the People Sing?, the defiant chorus from the musical Les Misérables, has become a song of protest in Hong Kong and, more recently, mainland China. Explicit references to Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor censured for his warnings about the coronavirus outbreak, and to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, are stamped upon – but lines from the song slip...