Man, 43, arrested after insulting and spitting at police during Yishun HDB fire evacuation   Yishun 👀   🗣 https://stmp.sg/cUS5   @stompteam   On July 3, 2026, a 43-year-old man was arrested following a public disturbance in Yishun while authorities were responding to a residential fire.   ### The Incident  * **Location:** Block 381C Yishun Ring Road.    * **The Fire:** The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to a fire in a 12th-floor unit at approximately 5:15 PM. Firefighters successfully extinguished the blaze and rescued a child, who was subsequently conveyed to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital for smoke inhalation. Twenty-five residents were evacuated during the operation.    * **The Disturbance:** While police officers and SCDF personnel were attending to the emergency, the 43-year-old man caused a ruckus on the ground floor.   ### The Man's Conduct  * **Behavior:** Videos circulating on social media show the man, dressed in a red vest and shorts, taunting officers, challenging them to arrest him, and refusing to comply with instructions.    * **Aggression:** The man repeatedly directed vulgarities and inappropriate remarks at the first responders. When police engaged him, he refused to cease his behavior and spat on an officer.    * **Detainment:** The man's disruptive behavior reportedly lasted for about two hours. At one point, he collapsed and vomited before being taken away in an ambulance. He continued to curse at officers even while being detained.   ### Legal Consequences   The man was arrested for:  1. **Public nuisance.**  2. **Using insulting words** towards a public servant.  3. **Using criminal force** to deter a public servant from the discharge of his duty.   Police investigations into the incident are currently ongoing.

🚗 In Singapore, electric vehicles accounted for 6 in 10 new car registrations in the first 5 months of this year, but the ecosystem is still catching up.   From charging infrastructure and payment systems to repairs and resale, here's what it means to own an EV.    https://str.sg/FHNkM   The Straits Times special feature explores how Singapore’s automobile landscape is hitting a major turning point, alongside the growing pains of a rapidly developing electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem.   Here are the full details of what it currently means to own, charge, maintain, and sell an EV in Singapore.   ### The Numbers: A Massive Shift  * **6 in 10:** Electric cars accounted for **60.6%** of all 22,353 new car registrations in Singapore during the first five months of 2026. This is a staggering rise from 45% at the end of 2025 and a mere 11.7% in 2022.    * **The Fleet:** There are now more than **62,650 electric cars** on Singapore's roads, accounting for nearly a tenth of the total car population (~655,000). To put this in perspective, in 2016, there were only *12* electric cars across the entire island.    * **The Players:** There are now **42 brands** offering EVs in Singapore. Chinese carmakers heavily dominate, with five of them placing in the top 10 best-selling car brands locally. **BYD** is leading the pack by a wide margin, selling 5,460 cars in just the first five months of 2026. ### Why the Sudden Surge? The transition has been supercharged by a **"carrot-and-stick" policy shift** by the government:    1. **Tax Incentives & Surcharges:** The state heavily subsidizes EVs while imposing high pollution surcharges on traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.    2. **The February 2026 Policy Tweak:** On February 20, a cut to the early deregistration rebate (the preferential additional registration fee, or PARF) took effect. This change hit petrol-hybrid and traditional petrol cars much harder than EVs, making electric cars the more financially attractive option despite high COE prices.   ### 🔋 1. The Charging Infrastructure   The ecosystem is scaling fast, but gaps remain depending on where you live.    * **The Inventory:** At the end of May, Singapore had **32,000 operational charging points**. Of these, 12,400 are public and 19,600 are on private property.  * **Speed Disparity:** Roughly **88%** of these chargers are slower Alternating Current (AC) overnight chargers, while only 11% are Direct Current (DC) fast chargers.    * **The HDB Gap:** Slower AC chargers are available in over 90% of HDB carparks. However, **139 HDB carparks (around 7%) still entirely lack EV chargers** due to community requests or electrical/technical grid constraints.    * **Looking Forward:** The national target is 60,000 charging points by 2030. The government plans to deploy at least one **fast-charging hub in every single HDB town by the end of 2027**. Advanced 480kW and 542kW ultra-fast architectures (like the 800-volt setups found in newer premium EVs) are slowly being rolled out to future-proof the network.   ### 🔧 2. Tech, Maintenance & Repairs   EV technology has progressed to alleviate "range anxiety," but the repair network is still a work in progress.    * **Range & Performance:** Modern mass-market EVs comfortably achieve between 450km to 500km on a full charge (e.g., the BMW iX2 handles around 478km), making cross-border road trips to places like Johor completely viable.    * **The Features Race:** To win over buyers, EV makers (particularly Chinese brands) pack cars with premium features at lower price points—ventilated massage seats, double-layered acoustic glass, self-parking, and semi-autonomous lane-filtering.    * **Maintenance Bottlenecks:** Because EVs have fewer moving parts than traditional vehicles, routine servicing is generally cheaper. However, structural repairs, specialized battery diagnostics, and complex electrical faults still require proprietary workshop tools or authorized distributor mechanics. Independent third-party workshops are still playing catch-up to train local mechanics to work safely on high-voltage systems.   ### 💰 3. Resale & Depreciation Challenges   The secondary market remains one of the trickiest parts of EV ownership in Singapore.    * **The Battery Question:** Used car buyers are highly cautious about battery degradation. Because replacing an EV battery out-of-warranty can cost tens of thousands of dollars, used EVs often experience steeper or unpredictable depreciation compared to their petrol counterparts.    * **Rapid Tech Obsolescence:** Because EV battery chemistry, charging speeds, and software are evolving so fast, a 4-year-old EV can feel vastly more outdated than a 4-year-old petrol car, further suppressing its resale value.   ### Summary   If you buy an EV in Singapore today, you'll benefit from lower running costs, smoother tech, and better up-front financial incentives. However, your experience will vary heavily depending on whether your home estate has readily available charging infrastructure, and you must be pre pared for a more volatile resale market down the road.

Just 14% of employees in Singapore say they are engaged at work – well below the Southeast Asian average of 25%. What gives?    CNA TODAY finds out: https://cna.asia/4f4zAca   The CNA TODAY article outlines why employee engagement in Singapore stands at a critically low **14%** (compared to the 25% Southeast Asian average and 20% global average). This statistic stems from the **Singapore Workplace Report 2026**, a joint study by the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and U.S. analytics firm Gallup.   The figure has hovered around 14% since 2019, proving it is a deep-seated structural issue rather than a temporary post-pandemic phase. Because Singapore’s economic competitiveness relies on human talent rather than natural resources, experts warn that this isn't just an HR issue—it’s a productivity and national competitiveness concern.   ### Why is Employee Engagement So Low?   While corporate leaders often blame external macroeconomic forces, market policies, or Singapore’s high density of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Gallup and local experts point directly to day-to-day internal issues:    * **Demanding Workloads:** High-stress environments and excessive workloads drain employee enthusiasm.    * **"Unfeeling" Managers:** Many supervisors prioritize immediate business results over people management.    * **Superficial Fixes:** Companies often deploy generic "wellness initiatives" that act like a band-aid rather than fixing deep systemic issues.    * **Misaligned Promotions:** Companies traditionally promote people to management based on technical performance or business results rather than their actual leadership, empathy, or people-coaching capabilities. According to Gallup's global research, **managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement.** A bad or indifferent manager can instantly tank a team's motivation.   ### How Companies Are Turning Things Around   The article highlights that meaningful change only happens when leadership is willing to confront uncomfortable employee feedback. CNA TODAY noted a few local success stories:   #### 1. Overcoming Silos in Flexible Work    * **The Company:** Ngee Koon & LFA Studio (an interior build SME).    * **The Problem:** Their flexible work-from-home policy accidentally created corporate silos. Teams were working from home on different days, stalling project momentum and making simple cross-department collaboration stressful.    * **The Fix:** Instead of scrapping flexibility, management introduced a **common company-wide work-from-home day** combined with weekly cross-team checkpoints. This single adjustment restored team alignment, built a sense of belonging, and made office-bonding activities easier to organize.   #### 2. Transforming Managers into Coaches    * **The Company:** DXC Technology (Global IT services, Singapore operations).    * **The Problem:** Navigating the transition out of a virtual-first strategy post-pandemic revealed massive skills gaps and high productivity pressures.    * **The Fix:** They pivoted their focus toward turning managers from "supervisors into coaches." They partnered with Workforce Singapore (WSG) to provide career conversation training and launched monthly HR-led forums to iron out capability gaps.    * **The Result:** Managers now focus on discussing long-term career aspirations and guiding teams through roadblocks rather than just demanding outputs. Consequently, DXC Singapore saw a year-on-year improvement in employee retention and a noticeable drop in attrition.   ### The Key Takeaway Employee engagement doesn't always require sweeping corporate overhauls. It requires leaders who are willing to listen to local friction points, train managers to support (rather than police) their teams, and take actionable steps toward fixing day-to-day workplace stressors.

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This video tells the story of a bizarre mass murder case that occurred in Tokyo, Japan, in 1951, known as the "Happotei Incident." Here is a summary of the events [00:13]:   The Crime and Discovery   - The Crime: On February 22, 1951, the family running the "Happotei" Chinese restaurant—the 48-year-old owner, his 40-year-old wife, and their two children—were found brutally murdered in their first-floor bedroom [01:01], [02:13]. The victim's heads were severely beaten with a blunt instrument [02:29].   - The Discovery: The restaurant was located right across from a police station [05:49]. The restaurant's apprentice chef, Nagao Yamaguchi, who slept on the second floor, went to the police station in the morning stating that his boss's family hadn't woken up [00:32], [01:13]. Police entered and discovered the scene, finding a blood-stained cleaver wedged into the refrigerator [02:05], [02:37].   - The Stolen Items: Around 30,000 yen in cash, bankbooks worth over 250,000 yen, a lady's watch, and a wallet were stolen from the scene [03:43].   The Investigation and Suspects   - The Apprentice (Yamaguchi): As the sole survivor, Yamaguchi was initially a primary suspect [03:16]. However, police temporarily shifted focus because he co-operated, had no defensive wounds, and argued that his room was hidden away from the killer's notice [03:31], [04:23].   - The New Employee (Ota): Yamaguchi later revealed that the restaurant had hired a new female server named Kaneko Ota just the day before the murder [08:49]. He also claimed that on the night of the crime, he saw a mysterious man with permed hair in Ota's room, whom Ota claimed was a relative [11:26], [11:51]. Ota went missing after the crime, making her and the permed-hair man the primary suspects [12:20], [13:28].   - Yamaguchi Rearrested: The famous detective Sueshi Tamida pointed out several flaws in Yamaguchi's story [13:48]: Yamaguchi claimed he thought the family was poisoned, but he went to the police instead of simply opening the unlocked bedroom door [13:56]. Furthermore, only Yamaguchi's fingerprints were found near the kitchen sink where the killer likely washed up [14:35]. Yamaguchi was arrested but released after two days due to a lack of solid evidence [15:27].   The Twist and Conclusion   - Ota's Arrest: Ota was captured at a Tokyo construction site after trying to withdraw money with a forged seal using the stolen bankbooks [17:48], [18:01].   - Ota's Confession: Upon arrest, Ota flipped the narrative and accused Yamaguchi of being the true killer [18:14]. She claimed Yamaguchi had set her up to get the server job, and on the night of the murder, he abruptly handed her 1,000 yen along with the stolen bankbooks and told her to withdraw the money, after which she fled in a panic [18:51], [19:15]. She claimed the "permed-hair man" never existed [19:46].   - Sudden Death: Before the police could cross-examine Yamaguchi with Ota's confession, Yamaguchi died of cyanide poisoning in custody [20:02]. His death was ruled a suicide, and the police closed the case naming him as the killer [20:08]. Ota received a light sentence of one year in prison (suspended for a year) for harboring stolen goods [20:24].   Unresolved Mysteries   The narrator shares that the official conclusion remains highly contested [20:40]. Witnesses actually did report seeing a mysterious man entering the restaurant that night, hinting that Ota might have lied, and that Yamaguchi may have been silenced by an accomplice who fled the country [20:47], [25:36].