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  • Two Indonesians Deported From Singapore For Alleged Plans To Travel To Syria

    Two Indonesians Deported From Singapore For Alleged Plans To Travel To Syria

    JAKARTA: Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority on Tuesday deported an Indonesian man and woman who allegedly had plans to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Both were deported to Batam.

    The man, identified only as MNA, is a 40-year-old native of Medan, reported The Straits Times. The woman, also 40, was identified only as SI, and is known to have lived in West Java province.

    Both had reached HarbourFront Centre on Monday and were held for interrogation before they were deported the next day, said Riau Islands police spokesman Saprono Erlangga.

    The couple had left Batam on a Queens Star speed boat on Monday afternoon. They had planned to continue their trip to Syria after Singapore.

    “They are now under interrogation by police and immigration officers. They planned to go to Syria. Investigation is being carried out intensively on whether they are planning to join ISIS,” Mr Erlangga said.

    This is the second reported case of Indonesians planning to travel to Syria using Singapore as a transit point.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • 10-Hour Wait For Free Cable Car Rides To Sentosa And Mount Faber

    10-Hour Wait For Free Cable Car Rides To Sentosa And Mount Faber

    Snaking queues wrapped around HarbourFront Centre Tower Two for free cable car rides on Monday (10 August) in commemoration of this year’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. The free rides were available for all Singaporeans and Permanent Residents of Singapore from 9am to 9pm on both the Sentosa and Mount Faber lines.

    So popular was the demand that some lined up since 7am, said those in the queue who spoke to Channel NewsAsia at about 4pm on Monday. Waiting time by then had stretched into the 10-hour mark, according to the Singapore Cable Car on Facebook and signposts prominently displayed around the location.

    Queues for free cable car rides at the HarbourFront Centre have not let up despite the Singapore Cable Car’s note that the wait may take about 10 hours. http://bit.ly/1KdeGzR(Video: Loke Kok Fai)

    Posted by Channel NewsAsia Singapore on Monday, 10 August 2015

    “We will not be able to accept more guests on the cable cars today. Please do not join the queue at mount Faber, Harbourfront and Sentosa stations,” the attraction wrote in its online post at about 1.15pm.

    However, apart from some heated moments earlier in the day, queues were generally orderly and the mood on the ground was mildly upbeat. Many had good words to say about the management, while some said the demand should have been anticipated.

    Staff from Singapore Cable Car were on the ground to manage the situation. Apart from stopping new arrivals, they had also been informing whatever new arrivals of the situation. They also said that a separate queue was in place from the beginning of the day for paying customers, but they might also have been affected by the heavy demand.

    Singapore Cable Car also conducted free shuttle bus services at its Mount Faber Station, which saw sizeable numbers queueing up despite the fact that rides from that station were not free.

    A Facebook user, Ronald, who was at the Mount Faber station, had sent photos to Channel NewsAsia early on Monday, saying the queue he was in “was not moving at all”.

    Long queue for cable car rides early on Monday (Aug 10). (Photo: Ronald/Facebook)

    Merely two hours before the free rides were scheduled to end, Singapore Cable Car wrote again on its Facebook page to remind the public not to join the queues at the HarbourFront, Mount Faber and Sentosa stations as it was unable to accept anymore guests.

    “Free rides for Singaporeans and PRs for the Mount Faber line have received overwhelming response … (We) thank all who patiently waited and offer our apology to those who did not get to ride today,” it said.

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com