Aqil Hamzah

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Aqil Hamzah

SINGAPORE – The police are investigating 49 people for suspected money laundering activities involving the use of cryptocurrency accounts. The suspects – 35 men and 14 women – are aged between 18 and 58, the police said on June 12. They were nabbed during an islandwide operation carried out between May 13 and 30 by officers from the police’s Anti-Scam Command, who worked alongside digital payments firm StraitsX. More than $200,000 was seized as a result.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Aqil Hamzah

SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will ramp up inspections in certain “high-risk sectors” and is asking firms to carry out a voluntary safety timeout, after five workplace deaths were recorded in May. The number of deaths was an increase from the three during the same period in 2024, which showed the need for “stronger ownership and accountability,” the ministry said in a Facebook post on June 11.

2 weeks ago | sg.yahoo.com | Aqil Hamzah

Aqil Hamzah11 June 2025 at 7:15 am·1-min readSINGAPORE – The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will ramp up inspections in certain “high-risk sectors” and is asking companies to carry out a voluntary safety timeout, after five workplace deaths were recorded in May. The number of deaths was an increase from the three during the same period in 2024, which showed the need for “stronger ownership and accountability”, the ministry said in a Facebook post on June 11.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Aqil Hamzah

SINGAPORE - The people running The Online Citizen’s (TOC) website, Facebook, Instagram, and X pages will continue to be barred from deriving any financial benefits from the running of its platforms till 2027. In a statement on June 11, the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) said TOC’s website and social media pages - which were labelled as Declared Online Locations (DOLs) - had first been declared as such in July 2023, and was due to expire on July 21, 2025.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Aqil Hamzah

SINGAPORE - A 26-year-old Singaporean man has been barred from carrying out any fundraising activities after he was found to have breached multiple regulations. Starting from June 10, Mr Eugene Liow Chia Hau will no longer be able to raise funds for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes, said the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) and Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) in a statement that same day.