This week’s top reads from The Straits Times, April 13, 2024
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Sydney knife attacker shot dead after killing 6 in shopping mall, police say
Police cordoned off the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on April 13.
PHOTO: AFP
S’pore firm behind vape maker’s use of influencers to target products at youth
I was told to scam S’poreans: Bangladeshi man who was trafficked to 3 scam compounds
Mr Abdus Salam is now a survivor empowerment officer with the Humanity Research Consultancy.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ABDUS SALAM
‘I felt fatigued and cold’: Indonesian students duped into doing bogus internships in Germany
Indonesian undergraduate Ramayana Monica is among some 1,900 students who were duped into paying huge fees for the bogus internships.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF RAMAYANA MONICA
askST: What will happen to assets surrendered in $3b money laundering case?
Some of the assets belonging to Cypriot national Su Haijin that were seized by the police in the money laundering case.
PHOTOS: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
Data scientists see largest pay growth in tech: Report
Software engineers brought home median base salaries of $5,000 a month as juniors in 2023 and $11,000 as managers here.
PHOTO: BT FILE
Getting the loo-down: One JC student’s quest to review all of Singapore’s public toilets
Life-changing hobbies: The blind pianist and the artist with no hands
(From left) Madam Tang Lai Mui and her husband, Mr Sim Kah Yong, took their first music lessons thanks to the Temasek Trust-CDC Lifelong Learning Enabling Fund. Mrs Renuka Vadivellu signed up for an iPad workshop with support from the fund.
ST PHOTOS: AZMI ATHNI, HENG YI-HSIN
All aboard! Decommissioned SMRT train to become co-living hotel in one-north
Train Pod @ one-north is set to be Singapore’s first co-living train hotel and will launch in September.
PHOTO: TINY POD
