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🇸🇬1 in 3 Singaporean travellers fight over money after group trip: YouTrip survey   Travelling with friends may sound fun — until money gets involved   READ: https://asia1.news/4riWi5S   Follow @AsiaOnecom for all the latest updates.   Here's the full details of the YouTrip survey report released 17 Sep 2026:       📊 Survey Overview   - Conducted by: YouTrip (multi-currency payment platform) - Respondents: 1,000 Singaporeans - Key finding: 1 in 3 Singaporean travellers have gotten into disputes over expenses after a group trip       🔍 Top Causes of Money Disputes   Reason %  Late repayments 54%  Incorrect calculations 53%  Unfair splitting of expenses 49%    👥 Group Size Matters   - Groups of 6 or more are 1.5× more likely to clash than pairs - 21% say conflicts were bad enough — they wouldn't travel with the same group again   💸 Budget & Spending Realities   - 88% exceeded their personal budget on group trips - Why overspend? - "Living in the moment" — 68% - Lost track of who paid — 37% - Real-time tracking is too much hassle — 35% - No clear overview of group spending — 30%   ✅ What Would Help?   - Clear expense-tracking tools - Real‑time shared view of costs - Automated splitting & instant settlement - Agreeing on budgets & payment rules before the trip       Source: AsiaOne / YouTrip, 17 Sep 2026    

Lim Tean’s bailor Leong Sze Hian has forfeited a sum of S$45,000 after the lawyer allegedly absconded to Malaysia.   https://cna.asia/4xtonZw   Here are the full details:       Case: Leong Sze Hian — Bail Forfeiture, 17 Sep 2026   Parties   Role Person Details  Bailor Leong Sze Hian, 72 Socio-political blogger; represented by Lim Tean in 2020 defamation suit by PM Lee Hsien Loong[__LINK_ICON]  Principal / Accused Lim Tean, 61 Lawyer, founder of Peoples Voice, opposition figure[__LINK_ICON]  Judge District Judge Chay Yuen Fatt State Courts  Prosecution DPP Bryan Wong Sought full forfeiture    Bail Amount — S$45,000 Total   - S$30,000 — monetary security (cash/cash equivalents) in one case  - S$15,000 — non-monetary security (pledged property such as jewellery/watches) in another    Background — Lim Tean’s Conviction & Sentence   - Jul 2024 — Convicted: practised law without valid certificate; appeared in court 32 times for clients during 2021  - Feb 2025 — Sentenced: 6 weeks' jail + S$1,000 fine - Feb 2026 — High Court increased sentence to 3 months & 1 week — original sentence "manifestly inadequate"  - Apr 2026 — Declared bankrupt; fined S$30,000 over client money handling  - 6 Jul 2026 — Court of Appeal dismissed his legal reference application; ordered to surrender 3 Aug 2026 at 12pm    Timeline of Abscondment   Date Event  ~2 Aug (day before) Leong contacted Lim; offered to send him off. Lim messaged: no need, will make a statement then report for jail[__LINK_ICON]  3 Aug (Surrender Day) Lim did NOT appear. Warrant of arrest issued. Lim's lawyer told Leong Lim had transferred two cases to him[__LINK_ICON]  6 Aug Lim arrested in Johor Bahru, Malaysia by Royal Malaysia Police[__LINK_ICON]  11 Aug Handed over to Singapore Police; began serving sentence[__LINK_ICON]  Sep 17 — Hearing Court orders full S$45,000 forfeiture  — Ongoing 2 men charged last month with conspiring to arrange illegal departure; remanded, due in court this month[__LINK_ICON]  — Note Lim not yet charged in relation to abscondment itself[__LINK_ICON]    Leong’s Arguments Against Forfeiture   - "I had no reason to believe he was going to run away"  - Maintained constant contact over 6 years; nearly daily contact in the month before surrender  - Contacted Lim the day before, but not on the surrender date itself — only reached out after IO contacted him - Personal hardship: slipped disc, high BP; wife had two major cancer operations + other conditions  - Claimed prosecution relied only on logs/WhatsApp, missing other communications    Prosecution’s Position   - Leong failed to maintain required daily contact; did not check in on surrender day - Bailor’s core duty: ensure accused does not leave Singapore without court permission  - Full sum should be forfeited   Court’s Decision & Reasoning   ✅ Full S$45,000 forfeited    - Judge: By standing bail, Leong accepted fundamental duties: enforce bail conditions & face forfeiture if failing  - Agreed Leong did not meet obligations as surety - Personal circumstances sympathetic but no basis to reduce sum — duties are clear   Political Context   - Lim contested Potong Pasir SMC in 2025 General Election; came 3rd  - Leong issued POFMA direction (2024) over housing grant post        Source: CNA, 17 Sep 2026      

The 71-year-old paedophile who sexually abused 11 girls over 33 years, including his daughter and granddaughters, has been sentenced to 21 years' jail.   The judge described his acts as "particularly heinous" and "appalling", citing his brazen sexual abuse and continued offending even after previous prison stints. https://cna.asia/4h7j9y1   Here are the full details of the case:       Case Summary — Sentenced 17 September 2026   Offender   - 71-year-old Singaporean man, cannot be named due to court gag order protecting victims' identities  - Diagnosed paedophile; IMH report confirms sexual attraction to pre-pubescent girls and that he poses a danger to children  - Suffers from myelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer; life expectancy reduced — estimated 13% chance of living beyond 2031  - Uses a wheelchair; no caning imposed due to age (above 50) and illness    Victims — 11 girls total   Group Number Details  Biological daughter 1 Abused from ~1997 (age 6–7); raped in 2005 (age 15)[__LINK_ICON]  Granddaughters 2 Victimised in 2023; ages as young as 5[__LINK_ICON]  Nieces 4 Abused over the period[__LINK_ICON]  Enrichment centre students 4 Centre run by him & wife 1997–2021    - All victims were aged 5–10 when first targeted - Abuse spanned 1990 to 2023 — 33 years    Key Offending Timeline   - 1997 — Began abusing his daughter; raped her in 2005, telling her silence would keep the family together  - Aug 1999 — First jailed for similar sexual offences  - Mar 2020 — Second jail term; released then diagnosed with paedophilia in 2021  - 2023 — Molested 5-year-old granddaughter; showed pornography to & abused her sister; threatened they would "no longer be favourite" if they told  - Aug 2023 — Granddaughters disclosed abuse → daughter revealed her own decades-long abuse → full extent uncovered    Charges & Plea (24 July 2026)   - 33 charges total; pleaded guilty to 10 (rape, sexual assault by penetration, obscene acts with child, showing pornography to minor, unnatural sex, outrage of modesty)  - Remaining 23 charges taken into consideration at sentencing   Sentencing Hearing — High Court, Justice Mavis Chionh   Party Submission  Prosecution (DPP Jiang Ke-Yue & Ronnie Ang) 32–36 years' jail[__LINK_ICON]  Defence 15 years' jail citing illness & mercy[__LINK_ICON]  Judge’s Decision 21 years' jail[__LINK_ICON]    Judge’s Reasoning   - Rejected both extremes, applying the totality principle: - Prosecution figure would be disproportionate & exceed sentence range for the most serious single offence (8–20 years)  - Defence figure too lenient; judicial mercy not appropriate  - Sentence must not be crushing or amount to life imprisonment; terminal illness factored in but not a free pass  - "Particularly heinous" — repeated brazen abuse, persisted after two prison terms, ceased only when caught  - No remorse or rehabilitation; "neither his age nor condition had put a stop to his depraved conduct"    Outcome   - 21 years' imprisonment from 17 Sep 2026 - No caning - IMH confirms he remains a danger to children - Case described as tragic breach of trust by someone family & students relied upon        Source: CNA / The Straits Times / Mothership, 17 Sep 2026

Read somewhere that all those world leaders and teams who had gone to India for BRICS summit, tio food poisoning when they went back home after jiak vegetarian food or something   Dunno how true.    Really got special skill to give food poisoning and laosai bugs