Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, who are suing Mr Lee Hsien Yang for defamation over his comments relating to their rental of two bungalows on Ridout Road, have applied to serve court papers on him by Facebook Messenger.
Ministers seek to serve defamation papers on Lee Hsien Yang via Facebook
Lawyers acting for the two ministers made the application on the grounds that it was impractical to serve the court papers on Mr Lee personally in Britain.
Mr Shanmugam and Dr Balakrishnan filed separate defamation suits in the High Court against Mr Lee on Aug 2.
WP’s Faisal Manap back at work
Aljunied GRC MP and Workers’ Party (WP) vice-chairman Faisal Manap was back serving residents at a Meet-The-People Session in Kaki Bukit Division on Wednesday, after two angioplasty procedures and a six-week hospitalisation leave.
On Thursday, WP said in a statement on Facebook that Mr Faisal is “revitalised and is prepared to resume his duties”.
In July, it was reported that Mr Faisal, 48, was admitted to hospital for a cardiac condition and was in the intensive care unit.
Accused in money-laundering case set up company so wife can get employment pass
The company owned by the wife of one of the accused in the $1.8 billion money-laundering case was set up so that she could get an employment pass here.
This was revealed by Commercial Affairs Department officer Seah Li Hao in an affidavit to support the prosecution’s application on Wednesday that no bail be granted to the accused, Wang Baosen.
The 31-year-old Chinese national faces two money-laundering charges.
15-year jail for man who raped maid
After suffering five months of sexual abuse at the hands of her employer, a 45-year-old maid packed her things and insisted on leaving the flat.
The man’s brother called the police in an attempt to stop her. When the officers arrived, the Indonesian woman told them that her employer had sexually assaulted her.
On Tuesday, Tan Jeck Tuang, 69, was sentenced to 15 years’ jail after he pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge each of rape and outrage of modesty.
Rise in e-bike accidents as number of riders increases
The number of power-assisted bicycles, or e-bikes, registered in Singapore has more than doubled in the last few years, surging from about 16,000 in 2020 to 37,320 as at end-June 2023.
As the number of e-bikes soared, the number of road traffic accidents involving such vehicles has also risen. The Traffic Police told The Straits Times that there were 157 accidents involving e-bikes in 2022, up slightly from 150 in 2021 but doubling from 78 in 2020.
Of these accidents, some were fatal: three in 2020, another three in 2021, and two in 2022. More recently, in August, a 64-year-old e-bike rider died after being hit by a minibus in Hougang.
Lawyer who allegedly lay on car bonnet charged with harassment
A cyclist, who was employed as a lawyer when she was allegedly engaged in a fracas with a motorist in East Coast Road, was charged with harassment on Thursday.
Nicolette Tan Shi-en, 32, is accused of stopping her bicycle in front of Elaine Michele Ow’s car between 3pm and 3.30pm on June 2. Tan is then said to have aggressively confronted Ow, 49, and opened a door of the car, causing alarm to Ow.
A 39sec video uploaded onto a Facebook page in June shows the cyclist on the car’s bonnet moments later.
