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A drug abuser who had to undergo reformative training in 2019 ordered cannabis from overseas via Telegram after he had served his sentence.

Anton Andrievsky's parcel was sent from Britain before it was intercepted at SingPost Centre in Eunos Road in September 2025.

When confronted, the American offender, 28, told the Singapore authorities he had ordered the drug from someone named "Yaz" for his personal consumption, and had done so on around three other occasions.

During reformative training, young offenders are detained in a centre to undergo a strict regimen that can include foot drills and counselling.

Local singer Kit Chan turned 54 on Sept 15 and to celebrate it, she stayed home.

In an Instagram post on the same day, Kit said she chose to spend her birthday alone in a "self-imposed home quarantine" because of her Sept 19 concert at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

"With the haze and the possibility of catching something, I have decided to just stay home," she said.

"But staying home is never boring, between practising my songs, exercising and taking care of the mini food garden on my balconette. Those beautiful, luscious plants not only provide ideas for meals, they also bring much joy, just from looking at them thrive under my care."

A former PE teacher at a secondary school who sexually exploited his student in hotel rooms and a school camp was sentenced to 16 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane on Sept 16.

The 45-year-old man had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual penetration of a minor.

Another 12 charges for sexual offences against the same victim were considered during sentencing.

The incidents started in 2022, when the victim was 14 years old and the man was her physical education teacher.

A 44-year-old man will be charged in court with vandalism on Thursday (Sept 17) after he allegedly threw a rock at a glass door at Police Cantonment Complex (PCC), shattering it.

Police said in a news release on Wednesday (Sept 16) evening that the incident took place at about 10.55pm on Tuesday.

They added that the man, who was believed to be intoxicated at the time of the alleged act, had thrown a half-kilogramme rock at the glass door of PCC's main entrance, causing it to shatter.

A photograph of the aftermath shared by the police shows the shattered door covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

Showers over parts of Kalimantan, where hotspots have been detected, contributed to improvements to Singapore's air quality on Wednesday (Sept 16), although haze risks remain.

Data from the National Environment Agency (NEA) showed that 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) at 11am was in the moderate range for all regions in the city state.

At 5pm, 24-hour PSI was between 71 and 89, with central Singapore recording the highest reading of 89. Readings of between 51 to 100 denote moderate air quality.

Meanwhile, one-hour PM2.5 concentrations — an indicator of fine particulate matter in the air and a measure of current air quality — is in the normal band for all regions except for central Singapore, which has a concentration reading of 59.

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Mediacorp actress Denise Camillia Tan put her endurance and stamina to the test on the morning of Sept 12, scaling 40 storeys in just 16 minutes — all for a good cause.

A Facebook post by her management company The Celebrity Agency showed clips of her making her way up the One Raffles Quay building, with several people dressed in black cheering her on from different floors.

The post captioned: "Forty storeys, 16 mins — well done Denise Camillia.

"As a Club Rainbow (Singapore) ambassador, Denise joined Reach for Rainbow 2026 Climb Day, flagging off the waves before taking on the challenge herself! Climbing for a meaningful cause, one step at a time."

More than 100 exotic animals, including axolotls, leopard geckos, tarantulas and pig-nosed turtles, were seized during coordinated raids targeting six individuals suspected of illegally selling or possessing wildlife.

The National Parks Board (NParks) said on Wednesday (Sept 16) that 101 specimens were recovered from the six individuals' residential premises during simultaneous raids conducted on Sept 14.

The operation was part of one of NParks' largest seizures of illegally kept wildlife in recent years.

The operation was conducted after the animals were advertised for sale on online platforms, noting that several of the species are also protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).

A diner has raised concerns after allegedly finding a dark, mud-like substance around the joints of crab claws in a bowl of crab rice vermicelli at a restaurant.

The diner claimed that staff at Chicken Pie Kitchen & Don Signature Crab initially described the substance as dirt before later identifying it as seafood paste used in the soup base, according to an anonymous post in the Complaint Singapore Facebook (FB) group on Sunday (Sept 13).

According to the same post , the restaurant said its chef had inspected the crab and determined that the residue was homemade seafood sauce that had accumulated around the crab shells and joints during cooking.

The restaurant then offered a "full 1-to-1 replacement", according to the post.

JAKARTA — Indonesia's wildfires could go on until early November with the rainy season expected to arrive late, Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni told local media on Wednesday (Sept 16), as he urged people to stop using fire to clear land during an extended drought.

Indonesia is battling its most intense wildfires in 11 years, with "super El Niño" weather conditions parching the country's forests and fields.

Fires have been raging for weeks, especially on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Raja Juli warned at the beginning of September that El Niño-linked dry weather would peak this month, complicating efforts to contain the seasonal fire outbreaks.

State media outlet Antara cited Raja Juli as saying on Wednesday that the dry weather is expected to continue for at least another one and a half months.