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A 49-year-old man was arrested on Monday (Dec 8) over his alleged involvement in a case of loanshark harassment on Sunday.

In a statement on Dec 9, the police said that they were alerted to a case of loanshark harassment at a residential unit along Jurong West Street 64.

"The main gate of the unit was secured with a bicycle lock, splashed with red paint, and a debtor's note was also placed on the gate," the police said.

The man was identified through follow-up investigations and images from police cameras.

The fir trees are up, the streets are glowing with bright lights, and Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas is playing in almost every shop you step into.

That's right, Christmas is just around the corner, and everyone is winding down and enjoying the year-end holidays.

If you're looking to soak in the festivities with your loved ones, here are eight events in Singapore to add to your calendar.

Theme park enthusiasts can celebrate the holidays with their favourite characters at Universal Studios Singapore (USS) with A Universal Christmas, which runs till Jan 4, 2026.

A 44-year-old Malaysian man was arrested on Dec 1 for attempting to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes into Singapore.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday (Dec 9), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said that its Integrated Targeting Centre had identified the Malaysia-registered car at Woodlands Checkpoint for enhanced checks.

During the checks, ICA officers uncovered more than 370 cartons and 1,600 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed within various modified compartments of the car.

Based on photos, the compartments include the engine bay, behind the door panels, under the seat cushions, and behind the vehicle's entertainment system.

As a renowned and experienced host in Taiwan, Bowie Tsang has always felt the need to schedule and plan ahead for her hosting assignments, including preparing the questions she needed to ask.

But while filming the upcoming Singapore-Taiwan collaboration travelogue show Rail Life Story, where she embarked on a pilgrimage to Spain's Camino de Santiago, she realised it was the first time she didn't have to prepare beforehand.

Speaking to AsiaOne recently while she was in Singapore for the Asia TV Forum & Market to promote the show, the 52-year-old said: "During this trip, I wouldn't know ahead of time who I would meet, so I couldn't prepare beforehand. In addition, because of the language barrier, we had to communicate through a translator most of the time, so I also became more relaxed.

"Usually when I host, I would be fixated on asking certain questions to make myself feel like I had completed the task, but this time round, I didn't have a mission to complete, I just had to travel to the destination.

A total of 10 men, aged between 17 and 32, have been charged by the police on Tuesday (Dec 9) over their suspected involvement in a series of unauthorised attempts to change residential addresses through the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) e-service.

On Jan 11 this year, ICA revealed that the home addresses of about 80 people were changed online without their knowledge.

This occurred after scammers allegedly obtained the victims' NRIC and SingPass details.

The perpetrators then used the stolen or compromised SingPass accounts to change the residential address of the victims through the "Others" module of the e-service.

Flight delays and diversions from Changi Airport due to bad weather have seen a sixfold increase — rising from nine incidents between January and November 2024 to 55 in the same period this year, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on Tuesday (Dec 9).

In a joint statement with the National Environment Agency (NEA), the two agencies announced the establishment of a new multidisciplinary aviation meteorological programme.

Said CAAS and NEA: "The programme brings together aviation and meteorological experts, as well as aviation companies and unions, to build research and development and operations capabilities."

The two agencies envision these efforts to lead to better prediction, mitigation and management of the effects of weather on air traffic control, airlines and airport operations.

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Police in Meerut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have come under public criticism after a CCTV video of two officers dumping a dead body outside a shop went viral.

In a video uploaded on X on Saturday (Dec 6), two men are seen stopping outside the shop on a motorcycle while another two arrive soon after on an e-rickshaw with the body.

Two of the men then proceed to carry the body and place it outside the shop, before getting back on their vehicles and leaving the scene.

The police said that CCTV cameras installed at the Shastri Nagar L-Block crossing caught two police officers arriving on a motorcycle around 1.50am on Dec 5, reported Indian news media NDTV.

Nicholas Hoult was involved in a "terrifying" race car crash this year.

The 36-year-old actor — who has two children with his wife Bryana Holly — was driving a Ferrari around the Daytona International Speedway track in Daytona Beach, Florida at the time of the incident, which left his family horror-stricken.

According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Nicholas told the audience at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday (Dec 8): "I had my first crash at Daytona this year.

"It was terrifying for my wife and children.

Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz is working on a new film "within the world of Oz".

The 77-year-old composter has confirmed he and Winnie Holtzman — who wrote the book for the iconic Broadway musical and served as a co-writer on its big screen adaptation — have started work on another project set in the same universe, which was originally presented to him before either Wicked or Wicked: For Good had been released.

He's quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying: "It's a little bit premature to discuss, but not that premature.

"It is not a Wicked sequel, but it is a story which, if it goes ahead, occurs within the world of Oz.