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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/south-korea-police-raid-bmw-office-over-car-fires-10666918 The move came after reports more than 40 BMW vehicles have burst into flames so far this year, with some parking lots refusing to accept the cars because of fears they could catch fire.

SINGAPORE - 4 females and 1 male were arrested on Monday for their suspected involvement in vice activities in a HDB flat at Ang Mo Kio Ave 6. The police said that on June 2 at about 9.30 pm, officers raided the unit arrested the suspects. The females were between 17 and 26 years old, and had apparently advertised their sexual services online. They were arrested for allegedly providing sexual services in the flat. The 39-year-old man was arrested for allegedly having commercial sex with a minor under the age of 18. Cash amounting to $1,024 and other items including mobile phones were seized from the scene. Investigations against the 5 suspects are ongoing. Any person who contravenes the offence of keeping, managing or assisting in the management of a brothel under Section 148(1) of the Women's Charter, Chapter 353, is liable on conviction to a fine of up to a maximum of $10,000, or to imprisonment of up to five years, or both. Any person who obtains for consideration the sexual services of a person, who is under 18 years of age, shall be punished with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, or with fine, or with both. [email protected] Those who bonked the under 18 girl will be shivering in their pants now once police traced the records. Jialat...

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SAN FRANCISCO - Gizmodo said Monday that California police raided the home of an editor for the gadget blog who revealed details last week of a secret next-generation iPhone prototype. Gizmodo published excerpts from a search warrant that gave police permission to seize property from editor Jason Chen's home that was "used as the means of committing a felony" or "tends to show that a felony has been committed." The search warrant signed by a local judge specifically authorized the seizure of "printed documents, images and/or notations pertaining to the sale and/or purchase of the stolen iPhone prototype." Gizmodo last week said it purchased the iPhone prototype for US$5,000 from an unidentified person who found it in a California bar, where it had been lost by a 27-year-old Apple software engineer named Gray Powell. Chen said in a post on the Gizmodo website on Monday that he and his wife returned from having dinner out on Friday to find police searching their home in the northern California county of San Mateo. "The officers had a computer and were cataloging all the items they took from my home," Chen said. "They told me they were here for a few hours already and had to break the front door open because I wasn't home to open the door." The officers, members of the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, took four computers and two computer servers from the couple's house, according to the posting. Gizmodo has said it returned the iPhone prototype to Apple after the notoriously secretive company asked for it back. Gizmodo also published a letter from a lawyer for its owner, Gawker Media, objecting to the raid on Chen's home and arguing that a "search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist." "We expect the immediate return of the materials that you confiscated from Mr. Chen," said the letter from Gaby Darbyshire, who is also Gawker's chief operating officer. Stephen Wagstaffe, spokesman for the San Mateo County District Attorney's office, confirmed Friday's raid and said Apple had contacted his office to report the crime. But he did not elaborate on investigation details. "The allegation was that there was a reasonable cause that a felony theft had occurred," he said. "This is the beginning of the investigation." Apple, which was not available for comment, is expected to unveil the next-generation iPhone this summer. Trumpeted as a major scoop, Gizmodo's bloggers said they returned the device to Apple after an official request came from Cupertino, but not before taking it apart and reporting on the device's details. According to a search warrant posted on gizmodo.com, the computers may contain photographs of Apple's "prototype 4G iPhone," as well as email pertaining to its purchase, call records, and research on Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who purportedly misplaced the device. In a letter to the police also published on gizmodo.com, Gawker's Chief Operating Officer and legal counsel Gaby Darbyshire asserted the search and seizure was illegal under California law, because Chen works as a journalist for the publication, protecting him from such action. According to Gizmodo, Powell, the Apple engineer, was celebrating his 27th birthday at a beer garden in Redwood City, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, on the night of March 18. Gizmodo said Powell forgot the prototype phone, which had been disguised to resemble the previous model iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, on a bar stool when he left the establishment. Gizmodo said the phone ended up with a person who had been sitting next to Powell at the bar after no one else claimed it. "Weeks later, Gizmodo got it," the technology blog said. Nick Denton, founder of the Gawker blog network, said on his Twitter feed that US$5,000 (S$6,881.50) was paid for the phone. "Yes, we'll do anything for a story," Denton said. "We're proud practitioners of checkbook journalism." According to Gizmodo, features of the new phone, expected to be unveiled later this year, include a front-facing video camera for video chat, a flash and an improved regular cameraa with a larger lens. It also has a flat back instead of curved back, is thinner than the 3GS, is three grams heavier and has a battery that is 16 percent larger.

A friend who just come back from JB said the Shell petrol station, the first one after the Msian immigration kena raided for allowing Spore car top up more than 20 litres of petrol. 2 policeman there chain the place there. Take note....

SINGAPORE Customs has been conducting a series of raids - dubbed post-clearance audits - on parallel importers suspected of avoiding tax by under-declaring the value of cars they import. Over the past two weeks, there have been three raids on importers housed at the Automobile Megamart in Kampung Ubi. The raids follow a widening discrepancy between the declared value of cars sold by parallel importers and equivalent vehicles sold by authorised agents. The lower the declared cost price of a car, the more competitively priced it can be on the retail market. A recent report in The Straits Times pointed out that such price differences could total more than $10,000 per car. Singapore Customs was not available for comment yesterday. The authority rarely confirms or denies such raids, but traders with shops at the eight-storey Automobile Megamart complex said enforcement officers from the agency descended on the premises three times in the last two weeks. Two raids took place yesterday and on Tuesday. Boxes of documents and even computers of as many as half a dozen companies were carted away. Mr Neo Nam Heng, president of the parallel importers' Automotive Importers and Exporters Association, sighed when asked about the raids, which he said had been taking place with rising frequency. 'All importers have to be aware of the consequences of the law,' he said. 'But unfortunately, not everyone is.' He noted that getting a car cleared by Customs has been 'fast and easy' in recent years. 'But getting a car cleared does not mean there's no problem. If you under-declare, there are going to be problems.' The Straits Times understands that under-declaration is fairly common, and the practice is affecting the profitability of businesses that declare correct values. Mr Ricardo Soh, proprietor of parallel importer Ricardo Cars, said: 'It's a bit of a disadvantage for us. If the Government can review the valuation method and have uniform values across the board, it will be good.' Singapore Customs had a dialogue with parallel importers last week to see if under-declaration could be overcome. Mr Neo said traders made some suggestions, including imposing after-sales taxes instead of the current practice of taxing before sales. 'They (Customs) said if there are changes, they can't be made immediately. Laws will have to be changed.' I am wonder which PIs kena raided