Daily roundup: Woman throws 3 flower pots and rack from HDB block after night of drinking, jailed 4 weeks — and other top stories today

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1. Woman throws 3 flower pots and rack from HDB block after night of drinking, jailed 4 weeks

A 24-year-old woman who threw three flower pots and a rack from the corridor of an HDB block after a night of drinking was sentenced to four weeks' jail.

Melissa Rosabelle Misson was also fined $600 and disqualified from holding or obtaining all classes of driving licences for two years, reported Stomp on Sunday (Oct 11)... » READ MORE

2. Sengkang GRC MP Jamus Lim hospitalised with pneumonia

Sengkang GRC MP Assoc Prof Jamus Lim has been hospitalised since the weekend due to pneumonia.

The second-term MP said in a Facebook post on Monday (Oct 12):  "Some of you may have seen a video of my sniffling away in Parliament last week. As it turns out, that sniffling eventually developed into a bad case of Influenza A, before culminating in full-blown pneumonia." ... » READ MORE

3. After losing $140k in F&B over 14 years, man starts afresh with home-based kopitiam

While most might have called it quits after failing the first time, one man decided that he'll continue trying again and again, even if it means starting from scratch.

In an interview with AsiaOne on Thursday (Oct 8), Kok Bing Hui, who goes by Anders, said that he had run nine different food concepts over the last 14 years — and they have all shuttered... » READ MORE

4. Late Cantopop icon Anita Mui's ashes vanish from monastery, still missing nearly 3 months later

The ashes of late Hong Kong Cantopop singer Anita Mui have reportedly been stolen from a columbarium at Hong Kong's Po Lin Monastery, with no arrests made nearly three months after the disappearance... » READ MORE

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