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The National Environment Agency says four Indonesian company probes tied to the 2015 haze episode remain live as October smoke keeps 24-hour PSI in the unhealthy band.
A car and van collided on a Cairnhill Circle slip road into the CTE at about 2 p.m., flipping the van and sending both drivers conscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital while LTA shut the entrance for recovery work.
Education Minister Desmond Lee said campuses will operate on Monday after NEA’s overnight forecast kept the 24-hour PSI out of the hazardous band that would trigger closures.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said the Institute of Mental Health will become the National Centre for Mental Health Singapore in 2027 and grow at Buangkok through 2040 as psychiatric demand rises.
Parliament passed the Digital Infrastructure Bill on 7 October, putting licensing, cyber reporting and fines of up to S$1 million on large data centres that host Singapore’s digital backbone.
Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong takes the acting helm while Lawrence Wong marks 50 years of Singapore–Brunei defence ties at Muara Naval Base.
A lorry, a car and two motorcycles collided on the expressway toward the PIE at dawn, jamming traffic before the morning rush.
Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong told Parliament that about 4,000 mortgage borrowers, mostly middle-aged HDB owners on bank loans, could face monthly cash shortfalls under MAS’s severe stress scenario—not a live arrears count, but a map for early outreach.
Minister Josephine Teo told Parliament that Singapore is weighing tighter testing and deployment controls for high-risk AI, even as she said no government cyber attack involving unsupervised agents has been reported.
Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told Parliament that new legislation will spell out deterrent sentences for scam facilitators, including youths, after the High Court handed probation to several young money mules in September.
The Oct 6 Order Paper is due online a day before the sitting, with MPs lining up questions on town council sinking funds, lift maintenance and estate works.
Tuesday’s order paper lists nine oral questions on an NBER working paper that linked civil servants in rail agencies to property buys near future MRT sites, plus PSD’s 2007–2011 purchase review.
Flash estimates put the HDB Resale Price Index at 202.4 for the third quarter, down 0.2 per cent from Q2, as transaction volumes stay steady and the November BTO launch approaches.
Jeffrey Siow says the Woodlands–Johor Bahru shuttle should open before Hari Raya Puasa, pulling forward a February 2027 operations date while RTS Operations still runs safety tests through year-end.
LTA will run the Sengkang West Inner Loop again from Saturday, two weeks early, while Sun Xueling extends free morning rail taps on the Northeast Line and SPLRT to 26 December 2027 after 10% of riders shifted off peak.
Singapore and Malaysia said passenger service on the cross-border RTS will slip to February 2027 while independent safety certification and joint regulatory approvals run past the year-end target.
National Development Minister Chee Hong Tat said the October sales exercise drew 31,095 applications for 9,144 flats, including first launches in Mount Pleasant and Berlayar, before the ballot window closed at midnight.
The October disbursement is the third GST Voucher tranche for 2026 and folds in extra U-Save announced after July’s Middle East fuel shock.
The Public Transport Council granted a 7 percent adjustment on 29 September, deferring another 7.7 points while the Ministry of Transport widens voucher eligibility to households earning up to $2,100 per person.
Chee Hong Tat says the new precast catalogue and wider robot trials are meant to shave manhours off BTO builds without cutting corners on safety.
Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told the United Nations that members should explore a framework convention on AI safeguards, with testing standards and room for a new international institution.
Parliament passed the Scams (Countermeasures) and Other Matters Act on 9 September, but banks and telcos still lack a commencement date for disclosure and account-disabling orders.
Singapore is hiring nuclear specialists and reorganising government teams ahead of an external capability review in 2027, but the work remains pre-decisional: no plant, no site and no bill.
HDB is reviewing the jumbo flat conversion scheme after a 1,465 sq ft Telok Blangah unit was listed at S$2.18 million — more than 40 per cent above comparable resale flats. No resale application has been filed, and the listing has since been cut to about S$2 million.
Minister for National Development Chee Hong Tat told Parliament the western island’s reclamation timeline and profile remain undecided as MPs press reef and Orang Laut concerns after Lawrence Wong’s National Day Rally merge plan.
A day after Singapore’s bus nuisance fines took effect, Woodlands Bus Interchange staff issued the first Administrative Notifications of Offences under the S$500 schedule as SMRT and LTA watch whether documentation replaces viral warnings on cross-border routes.
Two stevedoring workers aged 33 and 44 died at Tuas Port on Tuesday after the platform lifting them dislodged from a crane and fell into the sea, prompting parallel police and Ministry of Manpower investigations into Singapore’s deadliest workplace stretch this year.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong endorsed a 22-nation frontier-AI safety statement on Sep 22 calling for mandatory pre-deployment testing and independent evaluation, as Singapore’s AI Safety Institute and AI Tester Accreditation Programme supply the local testing infrastructure.
On Sept 23 the Land Transport Authority’s S$500 bus nuisance schedule is live: operators brief captains on Administrative Notifications of Offences while interchange staff watch for obstruction cases that can climb to S$5,000.
From Sept 23, bus commuters who put feet on seats, blast loud audio, litter or eat on board can be fined up to S$500, with heavier penalties for obstruction at interchanges under rules LTA rolled out ahead of the October 2025 Transport Sector Bill taking effect.
Second Minister Indranee Rajah told Parliament that housing on greenery or heritage land is a last resort when brownfield sites run out, even as HDB presses ahead with Gillman Barracks and Sunset Way after revised environmental studies and a 55,000-flat BTO pledge through 2027.