Zaihan Mohamed Yusof

Senior Crime Correspondent

Zaihan is The Straits Times’ senior crime correspondent. He joined SPH in 1999 as a photographer, but discovered a love for journalism and became a reporter specialising in crime news and road safety. A recipient of SPH’s Journalist of the Year and Story of the Year awards in 2012, he is known for his investigative reporting on international football match-fixing. He is passionate about motorcycling and has written two books – on road safety and football match-fixing.

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Subsidy schemes for treatment of haze-related ailments for Singaporeans to start on Oct 12

Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung announced on Oct 11 that the Government will be activating both the HSS and PHPC schemes in view of the deterioration in air quality due to transboundary haze.

Retired police officer with distinguished career, including SQ117 hijack response, dies at 86

Jagjit Singh Sundar Singh, who died on Oct 8, leaves two sons and a wife.

Telok Blangah murder: Clinic doctor rushed to help elderly man who was stabbed in the chest

Dr Joel Lee, the doctor at The Local Doctor Clinic, speaks to the media at his clinic on Oct 6. He treated a stabbing victim.

Move over, Paw Patrol: S’pore pre-schoolers learn to run, hide and tell from a Police Pal guide

Juel Lee, six, imitating the character Hammie from the SGSecure edition of the Police Pal book series for pre-schoolers, titled Run, Hide And Tell: An SGSecure Story (bottom left), at MOE Kindergarten at West Spring on Oct 5.

Probe into self-styled wealth guru Jason Fong’s business widens

Wealth guru Takeshi Lim Jian Bin with the couple. Diana Goh has written on her FB about how she was detained at Woodlands Checkpoint in an investigation into her ex-husband’s cheating case.

Majority of residents of brick-faced Tampines blocks vote for paint that matches original colour

The decision was made after more than three-quarters of the residents of the eight blocks had cast their votes for one of three proposed colour schemes.

How food, people-to-people ties and an Indian international school helped Siglap get a park

Yarrow Park was carved from a cluster of five basketball courts which sat on premises previously leased by the Global Indian International School in Cheviot Hill.

Self-claimed wealth gurus who drove Lamborghinis now made bankrupt; investors worry about their $5m

Businessmen Takeshi Lim Jian Bin (left) and Jason Fong Wai Hong at a financial wealth seminar in 2023.

Internet-enabled scams and AI pose challenges, Shanmugam says at MHA scholarship event

Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam (2nd from right) and Commissioner of Police How Kwang Hwee (right) speaking to SPF scholarship recipients Charlene Tan and Raynen Ngoh on Aug 18.

Investors seek answers after boss of vending machine firm declared bankrupt

Lim Jian Bin, who is also known by his online moniker Takeshi Lim, was declared bankrupt on July 14.

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