home

Probation for teen who took part in group attack on boy in youth home

aseanpr 6 12 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - A teenager who ganged up with his twin brother and two other offenders to attack a 14-year-old boy in a youth home when they were residents there in 2018 went on to commit drug-related crimes the following year. The 19-year-old Singaporean was on Monday (Dec 6) sentenced to 21 months' probation after he earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and three drug-related charges. He also has to remain indoors from 10pm to 6am every day and perform 60 hours of community service. On Nov 29, his twin brother was sentenced to 15 months' probation after he pleaded guilty to one count each of assault and using abusive words on a public servant. The two brothers were initially accused of being part of a group that forced the victim to bend over before another youth allegedly inserted items, including a highlighter, into him. These sexual penetration charges were later withdrawn and the pair were given a discharge amounting to an acquittal for them. This means the two brothers cannot be charged again with the same offences. The cases involving at least one of their alleged accomplices are still pending. Details about the youth home and victim cannot be disclosed due to a gag ...

Teen given probation over attack on boy while they were residents in youth home

aseanpr 29 11 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - A teenager, his twin brother and two other offenders ganged up on a 14-year-old boy while they were residents in a youth home and rained blows on him because they felt he was arrogant. Details about the youth home and victim cannot be disclosed due to a gag order. The identities of the two brothers, now 19 also cannot be revealed as they were below 18 when they committed their offences in 2018. One of the brothers was on Monday (Nov 19) sentenced to 15 months' probation after he pleaded guilty on Nov 1 to one count each of assault and using abusive words on a public servant. As part of his probation, the Singaporean teen must remain indoors from 10pm to 6am every day and perform 40 hours of community service. His twin brother had pleaded guilty on Nov 8 to two counts of assault and three drug-related charges. He will be sentenced on Dec 6. The two brothers were initially accused of being part of a group that sexually penetrated the victim by inserting objects, including a highlighter, into him. The charges were later withdrawn and the pair were given a discharge amounting to an acquittal. This means the two brothers cannot be charged again with the same offences. The se...

Man with upper respiratory tract infection unlawfully left home for tattooing session

aseanpr 26 11 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - A man who was issued a medical certificate (MC) after he was diagnosed with acute upper respiratory tract infection in a clinic last December decided to skip his Covid-19 swab test and took a bus home. Instead of staying indoors the next day, Tan Fu Yu left his Ang Mo Kio flat and took a private-hire car to a Sin Ming Road tattoo studio to get his chest inked. Tan went for a polymerase chain reaction test for Covid-19 only on Sept 19 this year and tested negative for it. Court documents did not disclose why he took the test about nine months after receiving the MC last December. On Friday (Nov 26), the 20-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty in a district court to leaving his home without a reasonable excuse despite being given a relevant MC. Deputy Public Prosecutor Jane Lim said that Tan went to Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic at around 3pm on Dec 8 last year to seek treatment for a dry cough and an itchy throat. A doctor later diagnosed him as having an acute upper respiratory tract infection and told him to undergo a swab test for Covid-19. The doctor also issued Tan with an MC, excusing him from work or school for three days. The MC also stated that Tan was required by law to...

Some parents keep kids at home, but overall pre-school attendance remains high

aseanpr 22 11 月

4 minutes

SINGAPORE - Madam Shannon Loh has been keeping her two young children at home since March. "Their pre-school strongly encouraged parents to keep children at home if they can, so we withdrew them. We saw no point in paying school fees since the kids were mostly at home," said Madam Loh, 42, a part-time nanny. The private childcare centre had also stopped all outdoor activities last year. "Since we can keep them home, there's no point exposing them to the school environment, which may not be safe," Madam Loh added. As Singapore battles waves of Covid-19 infections in recent months, some parents of young children have chosen not to send them to school, fearing that they may bring home the virus. Madam Loh cut down on her assignments as a nanny to take care of her children, a six-year-old girl and four-year-old boy, during this period. Her husband works from home as a manager in the security industry. "We try to keep to the childcare schedule - wake up at 7am, have nap time and play time, and a bit of learning here and there," she said. "We do some gardening and outdoor activities too." The couple do not plan to let their children return to school this year. "Our daughter will have to ...

What’s needed in new laws to ensure fair play at the workplace in S’pore?

aseanpr 13 11 月

1 minute

SINGAPORE - After he spoke in Parliament in July about giving more teeth to Singapore's fair employment guidelines, labour MP Patrick Tay received many e-mails from workers who had experienced or witnessed discrimination at work. There was the PME - professional, manager and executive - who saw a foreign human resources director recruit people from his home country for positions that Singaporeans could have easily filled, such as head of customer service. Please subscribe to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.

These homes are built with big 3D printers

elean 17 10 月

1 minute

(NYTIMES) - Mr Pedro Garcia Hernandez is a carpenter in the south-eastern Mexican state of Tabasco, a rainforest-shrouded region of the country where about half of the residents live below the poverty line. The 48-year-old ekes out a living making about 2,500 pesos (S$168) a month from a tiny space inside the home he shares with his wife, Patrona, and their daughter, Yareli. The home has dirt floors and, during Tabasco's long rainy season, it's prone to flooding. Dust from the construction projects coats nearly everything in the home, clinging to the bedroom walls, the pump toilet and the counters of the makeshift kitchen. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.

Stuck at home and jobless, 26-year-old found passive income in crypto

elean 16 10 月

1 minute

SINGAPORE - When the pandemic hit last year and left Mr Ng Yu Jie stuck at home without a job, a seemingly improbable solution popped into his head - dabble in cryptocurrency to generate some income. Mr Ng's first step was to invest $350 in Ripple (XRP) on trading platform Torque when each unit cost about 20 US cents or 27 Singapore cents. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.

Most of MWS Christalite Methodist Home Covid-19 cases either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms

aseanpr 11 10 月

2 minutes

SINGAPORE - The residents at Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) Christalite Methodist Home, who tested positive for Covid-19, are recovering at hospitals and community care facilities. Its spokesman told The Straits Times on Monday (Oct 11) infected staff members are recovering at government quarantine facilities. The welfare home cluster has 91 cases as at Saturday's (Oct 9) update from the Ministry of Health (MOH). MOH had said 84 were residents and seven were employees. The first case was confirmed on Sept 27. An MWS spokesman said almost all its infected residents and staff are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms. Residents on the Day Release Scheme have also not been allowed to head out for work since June 18, said the spokesman. The scheme enables residents to work outside the home to prepare them for reintegration into the community. Social outings for residents have also been suspended since May 8 and visits to the home have been halted since Sept 13. The spokesman added the home has been on lockdown since it was informed of the first positive case and new admissions also been suspended since. Admissions will be reviewed after the lockdown is lifted, she said. All activit...

Home recovery the default Covid-19 care arrangement, except for certain groups

aseanpr 9 10 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - The Covid-19 Home Recovery Programme (HRP) will be the default care arrangement for everyone, except certain groups, from Sunday (Oct 10). The following groups of people will be excluded from this arrangement: 1. Partially or unvaccinated individuals aged 50 and older; 2. Vaccinated people aged 80 and older; 3. Children below one year old, and those aged one to four years who have been assessed to be clinically unsuitable for home recovery. This was announced by the multi ministry task force tackling Covid-19 on Saturday (Oct 9) at a virtual press conference. Since the start of HRP on Sept 15, more than 19,000 individuals have been recovering at home. More than 8,000 have fully recovered. "As our population has become more familiar with the HRP, and our healthcare professionals have become more experienced in handling the medical needs of those on HRP, it is timely to extend the HRP to a wider range of individuals, especially for those with mild or no symptoms," the Ministry of Health (MOH) said. This will allow the ministry to better prioritise resources to take care of the severely ill or vulnerable patients, without compromising care to those who may be younger with ...

TraceTogether ‘not cleared’ issue for Covid-19 home recovery patients to be resolved soon: Ong Ye Kung

aseanpr 4 10 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - People who have recovered from Covid-19 at home, but find that their TraceTogether app still shows they are "not cleared", will have this issue resolved in the next few days, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung in Parliament on Monday (Oct 4). The alert will be synchronised with their discharge dates, meaning that it will automatically disappear on the day they complete their home recovery, he said. This means that vaccinated people will be able to resume normal life after 10 days, while non-vaccinated people will be able to do so after 14 days. Mr Ong was responding to Ms Jessica Tan (East Coast GRC), who said she had received several requests for help on the issue. Once a person tests positive for Covid-19 in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, the TraceTogether app test status will show that he is "not cleared". This prevents the person from entering most buildings, including for activities such as dining and grocery shopping. Typically, the test status would be cleared once he takes a second PCR test and obtains a negative result. But many patients on home recovery are not offered such a test. Mr Ong explained that fully vaccinated people are automatically discharg...

Recovering at home from Covid-19 was a good thing in a bad situation for this Singapore family

aseanpr 3 10 月

5 minutes

SINGAPORE - My son, who will turn 12 in January, caught Covid-19 on Sept 22. It started with a cough, then a fever and concluded with a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. As the person closest to him, I was also diagnosed on the same day. After we tested positive, we quarantined ourselves in my room. But we were freed from the room shortly after, when, the next day, my husband also tested positive. The happy part of this story was that, on Sept 15, about a week before we caught Covid-19, the home recovery programme kicked in. When my son and I tested positive, we applied to stay home together. My husband did the same too when he got his results. Initially, there was a bit of confusion over what to do because we were given scanty instructions, but we sorted things out ourselves by reading the Ministry of Health (MOH) website. We then hunkered down for self-isolation at home. The home recovery scheme is to lighten the load of medical personnel and facilities, but I am sure being at home also played a very big part in our recuperation. For a few days after testing positive, we were knocked out by flu-like symptoms such as a fever, headache, runny nose and fatigue, and noth...

Aqara Partners with Leading Operator Maxis to Accelerate Smart Home Adoption in Malaysia

indie 28 9 月

4 minutes

New York, NY, Sept 28, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Aqara, one of the larger provider of smart home products and solutions, announced its partnership with Maxis, the leading Malaysian telecom service provider. The two companies join force to introduce the latest smart home technologies and solutions to millions of Maxis customers. A comprehensive suite of Aqara products has been made available for Maxis customers, starting from 15th September 2021. Dozens of Maxis stores, where Aqara products are showcased and sold, also provide Malaysian consumers the opportunity to experience the cutting-edge smart home technologies in person.Maxis is the leading converged solutions provider in Malaysia providing a variety of high quality digital services encompassing voice, data, and solutions. Maxis offers an enriched lifestyle to its customers with innovative device ownership options, converged services and digital lifestyle solutions. As smart home technologies becoming increasingly popular among Malaysia consumers, the partnership between Maxis and Aqara is expected to bring Maxis customers a connected and digital lifestyle. Aqara is Maxis' first partner in the smart home segmen...

Office crowds thin out, businesses brace for tougher times as tightened Covid-19 curbs kick in

aseanpr 27 9 月

5 minutes

SINGAPORE - Closure is on the horizon for Good Old Taste, a cafe at The Arcade shopping mall in Raffles Place, as it copes with the latest round of Covid-19 curbs that kick in on Monday (Sept 27). A year-long "go-no-go" Covid-19 measures regarding working from home and dining in at food and beverage (F&B) establishments has crippled its business permanently. Its manager Ms Linda Koh, 50, said that the latest state of heightened alert - limiting diners to groups of two regardless of vaccination status, and requiring employees to work from home - could just seal its fate. "We're waiting to die and just leaving it up to fate," Ms Koh said. Since the lockdown, which took place from April 7 to June 1 last year (2020), its business has shrunk by 75 to 80 per cent. If the latest tightened Covid-19 measures keep up for another three months, Good Old Taste cafe, which has been operating at The Arcade over the past 23 years, will shut its doors for good. When The Straits Times visited the Central Business District on Monday, trains along the North-South and Downtown lines and office buildings were noticeably less crowded. Another wave of Covid-19 community infections has brought Singapore ba...

First Covid-19 stepped-up community care facility in Tampines starts receiving patients

aseanpr 23 9 月

2 minutes

SINGAPORE - The first patients arrived at Singapore's first Covid-19 stepped-up community care facility (CCF) in Tampines when it opened on Thursday (Sept 23). At around 11am, three Covid-19 patients were seen making their way out of specially hired vehicles along Tampines Street 22, where the facility is located. Staff donning personal protective equipment (PPE) rolled out wheelchairs to receive two of them, both elderly women, one of whom wore a fever patch on her forehead. The drivers of the three vehicles also wore PPE. The front windows of the cars were rolled down. The third patient was an elderly man, who wore a cap. The CCF, at the site of NTUC Health nursing home, has been fitted with 250 beds meant for Covid-19 patients who are generally well but have underlying health conditions that require close monitoring. These patients will include the elderly and those who have chronic illnesses such as cardiac, neurological or respiratory diseases. Infected nursing home residents will be prioritised for admission to prevent further spread in such facilities. The CCF will have more medical and nursing staff than a typical nursing home. The Ministry of Health said that existing resi...

New simulation training centre at Tanglin Police Division for front-line officers

aseanpr 23 9 月

3 minutes

SINGAPORE - Front-line police officers now have greater access to simulation training with the opening of a new satellite centre at Tanglin Police Division. Officers can practise reacting to various emergency scenarios, such as when people are trapped in their homes, attempt suicide, or if a suspicious parcel is spotted in public. Launched on April 9, the satellite centre is an addition to the simulation centre in the Home Team Academy (HTA) in Choa Chu Kang that opened roughly three years ago. HTA's simulation centre focuses primarily on training officers to manage large-scale security incidents, such as riots, and joint operations. The new satellite centre extends simulation training beyond this group to include front-line officers who operate on a smaller scale - responding to 999 emergency calls, for example. Around 10 such sessions have been conducted so far. As in a virtual reality game, officers in different rooms watch scenes unfold in 3D on their screens as they react and communicate through their headsets. The satellite centre is split into three sections - the control room, command post and on-scene pods. The directors of the exercise - up to two of them - are stationed ...

Luxury properties in S’pore selling like hot cakes

elean 19 9 月

7 minutes

Singapore may have leapfrogged many advanced cities, including Hong Kong, to be one of the most popular investment destinations for the rich and famous. Over the past decade, efforts to build the country's economic infrastructure and financial hub have raised its global profile and allure to wealthy investors. Why does Singapore appeal to the super-wealthy? And why are the ultra-rich buying luxury homes despite the economic uncertainties? Exponential growth in luxury home sales Luxury home sales have risen to a new high in more than 10 years. According to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) data, private home sales in the core central region (CCR) jumped by almost 25 per cent quarter on quarter in the second quarter of this year to 1,930 units, the strongest quarter since the last quarter in 2010 when 2,014 units were transacted. They climbed by more than 4.5 times year on year. In the first half of this year, almost 3,500 luxury homes were sold, surpassing the annual sales from 2018 to last year. The landed housing segment has similarly seen a demand surge, with over 2,100 properties transacted islandwide in the first seven months of this year, almost triple the 780 transactio...

Renault plans to cut 2,000 jobs in France as it shifts to electric cars

elean 17 9 月

2 minutes

PARIS (BLOOMBERG) - Renault plans to eliminate 2,000 more jobs while still making nine new models in France as the struggling automaker reshapes operations in its home country and shifts to electric vehicles (EVs). The company is in talks with French unions to cut 1,600 engineering and 400 support positions between next year and 2024, according to a statement on Thursday (Sept 16). During the same period, it will recruit 2,500 people, including in data science and battery chemistry. With the French state looming as Renault's largest shareholder, chief executive Luca de Meo has a fine line to walk in his effort to turn the company around. The carmaker announced last year it would eliminate about 14,600 jobs worldwide - including 4,600 in France - and lower production capacity by almost a fifth. While Renault plans to add to that tally, it also intends to make nine new vehicles at home by around 2025, most of which will be EVs slated for a hub in northern France. These include the new Megane, Renault 5 and Kangoo, as well as a sports utility vehicle and another car it did not elaborate on. The manufacturing plans depend on reaching agreement with unions. In a nod to the pressure it i...

Huisen and Xiaomi Formed A Strategic Cooperation to Develop Smart Home Business

indie 16 9 月

4 minutes

HONG KONG, Sep 16, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - According to industry sources, Huisen Household International (02127.HK) has formed a strategic partnership with Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) to jointly develop smart home business in various application scenarios, including office, hotel, apartment, elderly care institutions, educational institutions, and households, etc.According to the sources, Huisen will develop a smart furniture plan to combine with Xiaomi's IoT platform in terms of product development and marketing, and both parties will jointly carry out business partnership of smart pre-renovation (providing smart home solutions before the actual renovation) and smart renovation. Meanwhile, Huisen's smart furniture products will be showcased in Xiaomi Smart Life Experience Pavilion.This partnership demonstrates Huisen's prosperous expectations of its smart home business. Huisen's interim financial results reveal that the company will strive to gain insight from market trends and make timely adjustments to the business strategy to expand its business coverage, including research and development investments in smart home products to accelerate company's growth.Market ex...

Singapore crosses 80 per cent Covid-19 vaccination milestone: Ong Ye Kung

aseanpr 29 8 月

2 minutes

SINGAPORE - The nation's Covid-19 vaccination rate has reached a new milestone, with 80 per cent of the population having received two doses of the vaccine as at Sunday (Aug 29). Revealing this in a Facebook post on Sunday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said: "Singapore has taken another step forward in making ourselves more resilient to Covid-19." Mr Ong said more than 4,300 homebound individuals have received their Covid-19 jab by the home vaccination teams. The Health Ministry receives about 700 requests for home vaccinations each week and it has tripled its home vaccination teams from 11 to 33 teams with help from 200 volunteer doctors and nurses and the Singapore Armed Forces, he said. As a result, waiting time has been halved from eight weeks to four weeks, he added. "We aim to complete all home vaccinations by end-Sept. That will be another important step forward," he said. On Friday, the Health Ministry said that three unvaccinated seniors died of Covid-19 complications on Thursday and Friday. Two were "non-ambulatory and had limited movement outside of their homes", the ministry said in its nightly update. More on this topic Related Story Number of home-vaccination teams tri...

22-year-old woman jailed 3 weeks for breaching Covid-19 order to stay home

aseanpr 24 8 月

2 minutes

SINGAPORE - A 22-year-old woman was not allowed to leave home after she was issued a medical certificate (MC) for acute respiratory infection. But Norliana Hazuliani breached the order, claiming that she could not get along with her mother at home. The Singaporean, who was sentenced to three weeks' jail on Monday (Aug 23), did so even though she was electronically tagged and monitored after committing other offences earlier, including theft. She pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to comply with a Covid-19 Stay Order. One more similar charge and another of exposing others to the risk of infection were taken into consideration during sentencing. The court heard that Norliana went to Clementi Polyclinic on Oct 10 last year as she had a cough and a runny nose. She was given an MC for four days and told not to leave home during that period, unless she received a negative Covid-19 swab test result. But she left home on the very day the MC was issued. She was out for nearly 12 hours between Oct 10 and Oct 11 last year. She took public transport and private-hire cars to visit six areas near public housing flats in Jurong, Clementi, Sengkang and Bedok. Norliana received a negative Covi...

Copyright © 2020 ASEANPR.Com All rights reserved.