33 year old man murdered at Senja Road flat.

A 33-year-old man was found dead with slash and stab wounds at Block 636B Senja Road in the wee hours of Monday (Aug 31). 

Police said a 26-year-old woman was arrested in relation to the case, and they have classified it as murder. 

The man and the woman are believed to be Singaporeans and a married couple. They live in a unit on the 15th floor at the flat in Bukit Panjang.

Police said they received a call for help around 1am and paramedics pronounced the man dead at scene at 1.19am. Another family member is believed to have made the call. 

At Block 629, which is opposite the road, forensic officers were also seen collecting evidence. An area at the foot of the block was also cordoned off.

Police officers are still at the unit at Block 636B as of 7am and investigations are ongoing. 

Article: StraitsTime

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SCDF's Medic Gets a Punch in His Face.

First, vulgarities were hurled at him. Then he got punched in the face.

Then, he got punched in the face.

This was what Corporal Arun Raj Manivannan endured just six months into his national service as a medical orderly with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).

And all he did was answer a call for help.

More Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel were abused in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year.

And the SCDF warns anyone who lays a finger on these lifesavers will be dealt with severely.

On Feb 13, Cpl Arun Raj, 20, and Staff Sergeant Yao Hong Bin, 27, found a man near the basement toilet of Jurong Point Shopping Centre, who was complaining of discomfort.

The 57-year-old man was verbally abusive, hurling vulgarities at a security guard.

Although he was cooperative and agreed to be put on a stretcher, the man turned on the paramedics as they placed him onto the gurney and took him to the ambulance.

He continued his tirade as the ambulance drove away from the mall towards the National University Hospital.

As Cpl Arun Raj tried to take the man's blood pressure, the man jerked back his right arm and punched him square on his right cheek.

SSG Yao immediately told the ambulance driver to stop before calling the police.

Cpl Arun Raj was given three days' medical leave and his attacker was sentenced to 10 months' jail on June 29.

Cpl Arun Raj said he was no stranger to verbal abuse and credited this to his past working experience as an inline skating instructor and a lifeguard.

But the punch took him by surprise.

He said: "I was shocked and, of course, I was angry. But as a public servant, we have our own rules. So I just kept calm and patient."

Cpl Arun Raj and SSG Yao are not the only EMS personnel who have been abused by patients and patients' relatives and friends.

Increase

In a statement released on Tuesday on its midyear statistics, the SCDF said there were 10 such cases between January and June this year.

This is four more than the six reported cases over the same period last year and includes verbal abuse, physical abuse or both.

Such assailants pay a heavy price as anyone who verbally abuses a public servant on duty can be jailed up to a year or fined up to $5,000.

Those who voluntarily cause hurt to a public servant on duty can be jailed up to seven years, fined, caned, or a combination of the three.

Two other offenders received stern warnings while the remaining cases are still pending.

SCDF said in the statement that it does not condone any forms of physical or verbal abuse against its personnel and will report any abuse to the police.

Chief Medical Officer Ng Yih Yng said that SCDF's EMS provides critical emergency care to patients in need of medical attention.

He said: "Threatening or abusing the EMS personnel would not only delay medical treatment but also put the patient at risk, especially in the event of a medical emergency."

Cpl Arun Raj, who went back to work after his medical leave, is not giving up.

He said: "Singaporeans look up to us. When they need medical assistance, they call the SCDF. Nothing has changed. I still feel like I need to be there for the people who are looking for us to help them."

SCDF's mid-year report also highlighted an increase in the number of non-emergency calls made.

Although they made up only 4.2 per cent of all calls SCDF has responded to, the number of such calls more than doubled over the same period:from 1,465 between January to June last year to 3,453 this year.

These calls place an unnecessary strain on resources and deprive those who are in genuine need of emergency medical assistance, said the SCDF.

While there is no fee imposed for emergency cases, $274 will be charged for each non-emergency patient taken to hospital by the SCDF

Article from: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/helping-hand-gets-punch-face#sthash.dm1oKex4.dpuf

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KL girl raped by WeChat 'friends'

A 15-year-old girl was gang raped by two men whom she had befriended through the social media site WeChat in Kuala Lumpur, reported China Press.

During the 11pm incident on Sunday, the girl, who had turned up at the house of the "friends" in Sungai Buloh, was slapped and dragged into one of the rooms.

She was then told to take off her clothes before the men forced themselves on her. They even forced her to "clean up" in the toilet before leaving her at a restaurant nearby.

The girl, who informed her father about the incident, later lodged a police report.

Police are looking for the two suspects in their 20s.

Article: http://news.asiaone.com/news/crime/girl-kl-gang-raped-wechat-friends#sthash.O8gAmLQG.dpuf

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Maid Slashed In Throat By Man In Horror Attack

Love hurts but no one said it had to be cut-throat.

A maid was slashed on Sunday by a man, who is alleged to be her former boyfriend, in what is believed to be a crime of passion.

Ms Allen Remedios, 38, was returning to her employer’s home at Block 311, Tampines Street 33, in the evening when she was attacked on the first storey.

The man stopped her, took out a paper cutter and slashed her throat, wrist and palm.

After he fled, she stumbled up the stairs to the second-storey flat, leaving a trail of blood.

DRENCHED IN BLOOD 

Another maid working for the same employer said she heard the door bell ring at about 6.30pm and was horrified to see Ms Remedios drenched in blood when she opened the door. 

“She was standing there with blood all over her. 

“The cut on her left hand was very deep, and blood was gushing out of her throat,” the maid, who wanted to be known only as Ms Rose, 25, told The New Paper yesterday.

“She said, ‘Sister, call boss’, and I shouted for our employer, who came running out.”

By the time their employer, Mr Jose Mari Camacho, 40, rushed out of a room, Ms Remedios had slumped to the floor.

The planning manager said: “I was shocked. I immediately grabbed a towel and told Rose to apply pressure on the injuries and called the police.

“I then ran out of the flat to find out who had done this to her.”

When he could not find the attacker, he went back to attend to Ms Remedios.

“She was still conscious and bleeding heavily. It was a very deep cut and I could see her trachea (windpipe) coming out from her throat, where blood was spurting out of,” Mr Camacho said.

“There were also deep cuts on her wrist and palm. I could see her bones and ligaments. Her thumb and finger were hanging just by the skin.”

An ambulance and the police arrived within minutes and Ms Remedios was taken to Changi General Hospital.

A police spokesman said yesterday they received a call at about 6.30pm and their officers later established that a case of voluntarily causing hurt​ with dangerous means had occurred.

Investigations are continuing.

TNP understands that a bloodied paper cutter about 15cm long was found in the vicinity of the block and the alleged attacker is still at large.

In an update yesterday evening, the police said they were looking for a man to assist with investigations into the case.

The picture of the man provided by the police is a cropped version of a man pictured with Ms Remedios.

Anyone with information can call the police hotline at 1800-255- 0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/CrimeStopper. All information will be kept strictly confidential.

Ms Rose said Ms Remedios broke up with her boyfriend, a construction worker, about three months ago​ and he had been seen loitering at the block for about an hour every Sunday since then.

“She no longer kept in contact with him after they broke up but he was always hanging around the block on Sundays,” she said.

Mr Camacho said Ms Remedios is a good employee and he did not expect something like this to happen.

He accompanied her in the ambulance to the hospital and said that she lost so much blood that the doctors had to do a transfusion.

“She also underwent an operation and is now in stable condition.

“She still can’t talk so I’m not sure what the whole story is.

“But the attack was definitely planned.”

He said that he took emergency leave yesterday as he was worried for the safety of his family and employees.

“The attacker is a dangerous man who obviously had the intention to kill, not just inflict hurt,” he said.

“I hope he is caught soon and brought to justice.

“Desperate men do desperate things.”​

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Fellow maid so rattled, she won't go out

Ms Allen Remedios' colleague is so traumatised by the attack that she refuses to leave the flat.

"I have an upcoming day off next Sunday but I don't want to take it," said the maid, who wanted to be known only as Ms Rose.

"I'm scared to go out because the man is still not caught."

She has been working for the family for less than a year and is now afraid to even open the door.

When The New Paper visited the flat yesterday, her employer, Mr Jose Mari Camacho, opened the door.

He said Ms Remedios, the victim, has been working for the family for about two years and was a good employee.

She was so close to the family that she called him "elder brother" in Tagalog.

DAUGHTER

He recalled how she was supposed to go back to the Philippines last Christmas to spend time with her two daughters, but he asked her to bring them to Singapore instead for a holiday.

"I paid for their tickets and they spent Christmas together with my family," said the father of three.

"She is a hard-working and good worker. We've informed her daughters of what happened and my wife wanted to bring them over, but we're still not sure if that is a good idea."

He said that he was not against her having a boyfriend.

"She's a worker, not a slave. She's separated and has a right to be in a relationship," he said.

"We are all human. But I reminded her of the laws in Singapore and that she should be mindful of them.

"No matter what, she definitely did not deserve to be slashed like that."

- See more at: http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/maid-slashed-throat-man-horror-attack#sthash.7qQAqrym.dpuf

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22 Things Only People With Strict Parents Understand.

1. You were always the first person who had to leave when everyone was hanging out.

2. Asking permission for a sleepover at your friend’s house took 37 hours of mental preparation, a detailed powerpoint presentation of your friend’s family tree, and a signed contract in your blood saying you wouldn’t drink or smoke and would be in bed by 10pm.

3. Whenever your friends would make plans for later that night, you knew your parents would say no because it literally took them 2-3 business days to process whether they would allow you to go out.

4. You would practice asking your parents for permission to do something in the mirror and preemptively come up with answers to questions you knew they’d ask.

5. You also always had to wait until they were in a good mood before asking for anything.

6. You sometimes whipped out the wounded puppy look and would sigh and say “never mind… you’re going to say no anyway” to garner sympathy from your parents before asking for a really big favor. 

7. You would ask your parents once, and only once, if you could hang out at someone’s house. You never understood why your friends would think that “asking them again” would make any difference.

8. You always had to choose between going out on either Friday or Saturday night because there’s no way your parents were going to agree to both.

9. You understand THE PURE, UNADULTERATED PANIC that channels through your veins when your idiot friends change the plans 10 times and you have to keep reexplaining to your parents what you’re doing.

10. You lied constantly. About everything. You still do.

11. You never cursed until you got to college.

12. You never had “The Talk” with your parents. They probably left a book on your bed about your ~changing body~ and let you figure it out.

13. Family dinner conversations revolved around your academics and class schedule—never about your social or love life. As far as your parents were concerned, you didn’t have either.

14. To this day, you still can’t get dressed without wondering what your parents would think about what you’re wearing. Middle and high school were a 7 year war over whether that skirt was too short or if the words on your Abercrombie shirt were too suggestive.

15. Getting one piercing in your ears was the extent of what you could do to your body. If you even thought about dying your hair an unconventional color, getting a tattoo, or even getting a second piercing, hell would freeze over.

16. You probably shared the same first name as at least 4-5 other people in your classes growing up.

17. You always changed the channel if your parents walked in on you watching something where the characters might kiss.

18. Manners were everything. You got the “I don’t want people to think you were raised by wolves” speech almost as often as the “Do not use your phone when you're eating. When you eat, don't talk.” lecture.

19. You’ve spent years dreaming of rebellion in the form of making spontaneous plans or wearing flip flops to the airport.

20. Your impulse reaction to hearing your friends say they had sleepovers with their significant others is open-mouthed shock.

21. You’re careful telling jokes to your parents because their response toes the line between laughing along to immediately going off on a 45 minute rant and probably sending you to your room afterwards.

22. If you miss one phone call, your parents suddenly assume you’re smoking “that marijuana” with “that one friend of yours” they KNEW was going to be a bad influence.

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Student Drunkenly Emails Professor, Wakes Up To The Best Response

We've all been there.

A drunk text to an ex, photos posted to Facebook, blurry and fuzzy with only a hint of memory. Whether it's an impulsive and uninhibited phone call or an embarrassing video on your Instagram feed, it's safe to say that alcohol and technology don't mix.

Student Patrick Davidson took to his email after a night of drinking, sending his professor, Mr. Martin, a note filled with drunken slang, an apology for Martin's less-than-luscious head of hair, and a request for an extension on an assignment.

Message by Patrick Davidson to his professor.

Professor respond to his student Patrick Martin Davidson.

Source: Yahoo!

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When does flirting becomes cheating?

When does flirting cross that invincible line from innocent bantering to dangerous dialogue? After researching the topic, I pulled together the following 9 red flags.

1. When it’s secretive.

If you are deleting your text messages or whatsapp messages — either to him/her or from him/her — that’s a red flag. Because by deleting them, you are guessing that your spouse would be upset if he/she read them, and that you are covering up something. Moreover, ask yourself this question: “How would I feel if I knew my wife (or husband) was corresponding to an attractive man in the way I talk to X?” If you feel an uncomfortable knot in your stomach upon answering that question, there you go.

2. If it has a sexual agenda.

This isn’t always obvious, of course. But if you notice that your correspondence with this person feeds your sexual fantasies (because an affair is often about sexual fantasy), then you are probably in dangerous waters. If the communications consist of subtle sexual overtones, watch out. If it feels like foreplay in anyway, that’s not good.

3. If you’re spending a considerable amount of time talking to him (her).

According to marriage therapist Allyson P., a person needs to consider not only the content of the messages sent back and forth but also the amount of them. For example, if you are texting a “friend”  most of the time in a day, that’s a tad extreme, even if the content is about SpongeBob Squarepants. A friend of mine confessed to me that she would spent two hours every night on Facebook chatting with an online buddy until she realized that was more time than she was spending with her husband.

4. If you are rationalizing.

“He is just a friend,” is a statement that you don’t say to yourself when you’re involved in innocent communication. Do you feel the need to justify a very safe friendship? No. It’s obvious to you and to your mate that the companionship is completely appropriate. However, you may very well be investing in an unsafe friendship if you are constantly wrestling with guilt or feel the need to rationalize.

5. If it’s meeting your personal needs.

If you are getting your intimacy needs met in an online relationship or with a co-worker with whom you playfully banter, you might stop to ask yourself why. Be especially careful if you’re sharing intimate sentiments with that person that you don’t share with your husband, or if you feel like your online companion understands you in a way that your spouse doesn’t. Be on guard if you are getting fed in any way by him or her that you don’t at home.

Better to address the holes in your life and fill them in safe ways, even if you can’t within your marriage. Keep in mind, a good sex life isn’t just about chemistry.

6. If you talk about your marriage or your spouse.

It’s disrespectful to share intimate details about your marriage or your spouse, and especially in a discourteous manner or with a flip attitude. Imagine that your wife was overhearing your entire conversation. Would you still say it?

7. If your spouse doesn’t like it.

You have just won a red flag if a husband or wife has expressed disapproval of your communications with X, because it usually means that either the content of the correspondence or the amount of it is off balance—that the interaction isn’t totally appropriate, or the time spent talking (online or offline) with the person is distracting from family life.

8. If your friend voices concern.

Pay attention if a good friend asks you why you are talking about this person so much, or if she says something like, “Wake up. You are married. He is married. You need to focus on what you have and stop obsessing about what you don’t.” Friends, sisters, and mothers can often identify the red flags before a person is willing to recognize them herself.

9. If your intentions are wrong.

Let’s say your wife is constantly knocking you down, nagging at you, telling you to lose 20 pounds because she didn’t intend to marry a beached whale. The natural, or at least easy, thing to do is to find an attractive woman who will feed your ego and tell you that you’re sexy, funny, smart, and so on. Some folks may unconsciously seek out an admirer to get their spouse to take notice of them. It can be effective! But it’s also manipulative. There are healthier ways to increase your self-esteem and regain the power that you have lost in your own home.

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Singapore student wanted sex in return for 'helping models'

He promised to help them remove their nude photos from the Internet. But they, in return, had to become his sex partners.

Polytechnic student Winfred Quek Xiu Zhi, then 19, had made this "indecent proposal" to two models whose nude photographs he found on a website and even threatened one of them.

Yesterday, Quek, now 21, was sentenced to 10 weeks' jail for criminal intimidation. The court heard that in 2013, Quek messaged one of the models, also 19, telling her that he could help her remove the photos from the website if she were to be his sex partner.

When the girl ignored him, he contacted the second model, a 20-year-old freelancer. Around August 2013, calling himself "Justin", Quek called her and claimed he would help remove her photos, and that he had them.

The next day, he lied to her that he had paid $6,000 for her photos to be removed from the Sammyboy website and wanted her to provide sex to him for free. She initially agreed but changed her mind.

On Jan 5 last year, while exchanging messages, Quek badgered the victim and urged her to "limit the damage" caused by her nude photos being "leaked" on the front page of the website.

He also lied that he had spent thousands of dollars to remove them. In return, he expected her to provide sex to him. He accused her of reneging on her offer and asked whether it would be "good" if her boyfriend saw her nude photos. But she said she did not care.

Quek gave her "one last chance". When she did not reply, he wished her luck and told her: "You will one day remember your stupidity."

Yesterday, District Judge Lim Keng Yeow said this case clearly did not involve just an idle threat. The threat was one of trading the victim's nude photographs publicly or of making them available publicly if his demands were not met.

"(Quek) gave every impression that he had the capability, the motivation and the readiness to carry out his threat so as to strengthen the force of his demands," he said.

He said there was clearly a measure of calculation, deception and premeditation in how the offender went about trying to get the victim to surrender to his demands.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Marshall Lim had earlier objected to probation, which the defence had asked for. He said that this was not the work of a naive or immature individual. Quek, who could have been jailed for up to two years and fined, is appealing. Bail of $15,000 is allowed.

Article from: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/student-wanted-sex-helping-models#sthash.C0v6Sss5.dpuf

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Mother Slaps Boy Who Knocked Into Her Son At School

A pupil accidentally knocked into his classmate on Tuesday (July 21).

It should have been a small incident quickly sorted out between kids. But it turned into something bigger when a parent decided to take matters into her own hands.

The incident is believed to have happened at a primary school in the Bishan area.

The friend of the pupil's mother, Madam Huang, described to Lianhe Wanbao the series of events she says took place after the initial knock.

According to her, the mother of the classmate found out about the incident while dropping her son off at school the next day.

The angry parent then slapped a boy – whom she thought was responsible – in front of his classmates, said Madam Huang.

When she found out she had hit the wrong boy, she continued to look for the real "perpetrator", and slapped that boy as well.

Madam Huang​ claimed the woman told the boy: "This is how it feels like to be slapped."

Shocked, upset

The two boys who were slapped were shocked and upset, said Madam Huang.

Lianhe Wanbao understands that the school arranged for the parents of all three boys to meet on Friday (July 24) and that the woman apologised for her actions.

But the parents of the two boys who were slapped made a police report later that day as they felt the apology was insincere and that the woman's story did not match-up with other details of the incident.

Police confirmed that a police report had been made.

Source: Lianhe Wanbao

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Girl, 17, Raped Twice Because Of Police Error

The police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have admitted that a 17-year-old rape survivor in Jalna town was raped again.

The reason: The police had sent her as bait to catch the suspects, Indian television station NDTV reported.

The police officers who sent the girl back to her alleged rapists are being investigated.

The teenager was allegedly raped at knife-point the first time early this month when she met a male friend she had got to know on Facebook.

Other news reports said two men had accosted the girl and her friend and dragged the girl to a forest before raping her.

They also took her mobile phone and shot the video of the act.

When the girl got home, she told her mother, who lodged a police complaint.

The next day the police, in an attempt to lay a trap, sent the girl back to the same spot.

It "failed" as police vehicles were following too closely, said Vishwas Patil, Inspector General of Police, Aurangabad district.

TRAP

A day later, the police made a second attempt to trap the rapists, but a "miscommunication" meant that the girl was assaulted again.

Said IGP Patil: "The girl was put through the injustice again.

"It is wrong to use a victim, especially a minor victim, as bait."

Police officers involved in the operation say the teen left to meet the accused without informing them and apparently thought that a police vehicle was following her.

The alleged rapists were arrested hours later from a railway station. The police claimed they had received a tip-off.

Mr Vinod Ejjapwar, the police officer who allegedly led the operation to use the rape survivor as bait, has been suspended.

Police sources said preliminary medical reports have failed to establish the first rape.

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I Think A Ghost Is Having Sex With Me.

I am a 48 year old female. I believe I have recently become aware of two spirits that I now believe have been with me since I was a little girl. I feel like I'm going crazy. It's as if I'm suddenly talking to myself and imagining things. Can anyone help me with this? Tell me if it seems real or what... Please!

A couple of months ago I started waking up several times during the night. Every time I would fall asleep, I would wake up with this adrenaline rush feeling in my gut and my groin area would be dripping wet sweaty. 

I thought something was really wrong with me (some kind of illness or something). It didn't seem like hot flashes because only my groin area was sweaty. If I lay awake all night it wouldn't happen. It only happens when I fall asleep. I almost didn't want to fall asleep because I knew I would wake up all sweaty with a racing heart (like a panic attack).

After several weeks of this, one night I woke up in this condition. However, this time, I was somehow aware that what had happened to me was that a spirit presence was somehow involved with me sexually. I was very sexually aroused and orgasmed.

From that point on, when I'd wake up in that condition, I'd say "Oh, it's you again, then I would feel unbelievable sexual energy and would offer myself to him, and it was an awesome experience.

In my mind's eye, I soon began seeing translucent images of him. He is not a man. He is some greenish lizard dinosaur type creature. He is not mean or scary. All he wants is to arouse me and play together sexually. It is as if he wants to transfer sexual energy to me.

Now, out of the clear blue, I will walk in my bedroom and suddenly I will feel a very strong sexual energy come over my groin area and will be aware of his presence. I'll talk to him and start to offer myself to him, and I feel such unbelievable sexual energy pleasure.

He does not talk to me. I think he is purely energy. All there is between us is sharing of intense sexual energy and lust.

Now, a female spirit has come into the picture, and she talks to me. She told me the male was only here to have sex and pleasure with me, but she was here to direct me, and use me for her benefit. 

All of this seems to be imagination or talking to myself. Yet, the sweating, the energy, and the feeling of his presence seem so extremely real.

Please help me if you know whats going on with me.

Source: yourghoststory

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E-cigg To Be Banned

SINGAPORE: From Dec 15 this year, Singapore will ban emerging tobacco products – those which are currently not available in Singapore, and also existing products in the local market, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday (Jun 15).

The ban is a “pre-emptive measure to protect public health against the known and potential harms of such products,” the ministry said in a news release. It added that the ban will be implemented in two phases.

The first phase of the ban will take effect from Dec 15 this year and it will cover products that are currently not available in Singapore. The banned products include:

• Smokeless cigars, smokeless cigarillos or smokeless cigarettes
• Dissolvable tobacco or nicotine
• Any product containing nicotine or tobacco that may be used topically for application, by implant or injected into any parts of the body
• Any solution or substance, of which tobacco or nicotine is a constituent, that is intended to be used with an electronic nicotine delivery system or a vaporiser (also referred to as e-cigarettes)

The second phase of the ban, which takes effect from Aug 1, 2016, will cover existing products in the local market. The products are:

• Nasal snuff
• Oral snuff
• Gutkha, khaini and zarda 

The ban on existing products in the local market will take place later, so that businesses will be allowed to adjust their operating models and deplete their existing stock, said MOH.

Source: Channel News Asia

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