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2 weeks’ jail for man who attacked 2 buses at Woodlands Depot while drunk

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SINGAPORE - A man who attacked two buses at a Woodlands depot while drunk and caused $6,200 in damages was dealt with in court on Monday (Nov 22). Chinese national Zhu Honglu, 32, was sentenced to two weeks' jail for an act of mischief. A second charge of causing annoyance in a public place while drunk was taken into consideration. Deputy Public Prosecutor Hidayat Amir told the court that Zhu, a construction worker, drank seven cans of Heineken beer at home at about 6pm the day before the incident. On Nov 22 last year, he stood in the middle of the road outside the bus depot in Woodlands Industrial Park at around 1.30am. He saw an SMRT bus returning and started shouting as he ran towards it. When the driver stopped the bus, Zhu pulled apart the windscreen wiper and knocked on the windscreen, before attempting - but failing - to pull open the bus doors. He left after some time but attacked a second bus that stopped for him around 20 minutes later. Zhu shouted at the driver and pulled apart the side mirror on the driver's side of the bus, using it to hit the windscreen, causing several scratches. He kicked the door of the bus in an attempt to open it, but again failed, and pulled apa...

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NEC launches Optical Fiber Sensing Solution using AI

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TOKYO, Jun 30, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today that it has begun sales of the "NEC Intelligent Optical Fiber Sensing Solution," a solution that allows Communications Service Providers (CSP) and optical fiber owners from around the world to utilize optical fiber as a sensor. This solution contributes to infrastructure maintenance by using AI to analyze vibrations detected with optical fibers, thereby enabling the detection of abnormalities, such as fiber damage, and helping to prevent future damages.This solution utilizes NEC's optical fiber sensing technology, which is one of the first technologies of its kind, to enable sensing from existing optical fibers that are conventionally used for communications.In addition to a sensing device attached to one end of the optical fiber, this solution consists of software with a function that detects vibrations and external conditions that may cause an abnormality, and a mapping function that accurately displays location information, such as the latitude and longitude of a fiber section.In recent years, with the spread of high-speed, high-capacity communications for 5G, the importance of o...

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Firm fined $41.5k over damaged PUB water main, causing loss of 1.8m litres of water

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SINGAPORE - Tong Shing Contractors was fined $41,500 for damaging a water main and carrying out works without approval from Singapore's water agency PUB. In a statement on Tuesday (June 1), PUB said the damage to the water pipe led to the loss of 1.8 million litres of water, enough to fill about two-thirds of an Olympic-size swimming pool. The water leak had affected three traffic lanes in Admiralty Road West near the junction of Dahan Road when the incident occurred in December 2018. Tong Shing was carrying out pipe-jacking works as part of a road-widening project when the pipe-jacking machine punctured the water main, which has a diameter of 70cm, at a depth of about 3.7m below the road surface. PUB uncovered a hole with a diameter of 30cm on the water main when it went on site to isolate the leak and repair the damage. Its investigations found that Tong Shing had failed to physically ascertain the exact location and alignment of the water main before the works began. In addition, Tong Shing had proceeded with the pipe-jacking works without submitting a plan to do so for PUB's approval. On Tuesday, PUB reminded contractors that it takes a serious view of water main damage and the...