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WENCHANG, China - China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.

In 2020, Chang'e-5 marked the first time humans retrieved lunar samples in 44 years, and Chang'e-6 could make China the first country to retrieve samples from the moon's "hidden" side.

The launch was attended by scientists, diplomats and space agency officials from France, Italy, Pakistan, and the European Space Agency, all of which have moon-studying payloads aboard Chang'e-6.

China is banned by US law from any collaboration with the US space agency, NASA.

SINGAPORE – A 22-year-old man was in the early hours of May 3 arrested for drunkenness in public causing annoyance, after latching onto the rear of a moving armoured security vehicle.

He held on for about 850m between Victoria Street and Stamford Road, until he was discovered by the auxiliary police force officers in the vehicle, the police said.

The security officers then got out of the vehicle, at which point the man “immediately stepped down and walked away”, police added.

Investigations revealed that the man – who appeared intoxicated – had tried to enter the armoured vehicle at about 3am that day in Queen Street when the auxiliary police force officers were loading ATM cash cartridges into the armoured vehicle.

A Singaporean man almost became the target of a lynch mob in Batam on April 29 after he was suspected of trying to kidnap a child.

When he came out of the store, the bespectacled man gave some of his sweets to a child who was playing nearby.

An individual saw this and accused GW of trying to kidnap the child.

Locals started to crowd around the trio and the mob became more hostile as it grew in size.

But the Security Association Singapore (SAS) has taken offence at how security officers are portrayed in the clip.

It also took issue with how the security officers in the video are being yelled at by the superior.

"Security officers were able to work such overtime hours only because MOM had, at that time, issued overtime exemptions to security agencies.

"It is SAS' view that the SGAG video is not the correct way to raise or address such issues.

12 under investigation for manipulating obscene photos in extortion scam.

A two-week operation by officers from the Central Police Division identified 12 suspects in an extortion scam which involved the use of manipulated obscene pictures.

'No water, no power': Hong Kong tourist vows never to return to Singapore after stay at Downtown East resort.

The Xinjiang beauty, who turned 32 yesterday, was spotted by netizens celebrating her birthday in Singapore.

If you love Sichuan food, you'd be pleased to know that Wo Wo Dian has opened its very first store in Singapore at Raffles City Shopping Centre on May 2.

Together with a family of fifth-generation culinary experts, Wo Wo Dian still uses the same traditional recipes that have been handed down for more than 130 years.

Some popular steamed bun flavours to try include the Century-Old Traditional Pork Bun ($8.90) and Century-Old Traditional Sauced Pork Bun (7.90).

Best known for his 2019 boys love drama TharnType: The Series, Thai actor Gulf Kanawut will be making his way to Singapore for his first fanmeet here this month.

Tickets are priced at $168, $238, $288 and $428 for Silver, Gold, VIP and SVIP tickets respectively.

For Silver-tiered ticket-holders, the group photo session with Gulf, 26, will include 20 fans in total, while Gold and VIP ticket-holders will get photos in groups of 15 and 10 respectively.

Additionally, Gold and VIP ticket-holders are given a pass to attend the soundcheck and mini talk session, exclusive pass and lanyard and also stand a chance to win a signed poster.

After toiling hard at work, the family behind popular hawker stall Botak Cantonese Porridge are finally going on a much-needed vacation to Yunnan.

On top of that, Hwee Yi revealed that her parents, Ngoh Jook Guan and Ivy Lim, will begin planning for their retirement.

Over a decade ago, Jook Guan was selling mixed vegetable rice while Ivy was running a porridge stall at Golden Mile Hawker Centre.

Eventually, they set up Botak Cantonese Porridge together at The Hawker Centre @ Our Tampines Hub.

Shortly after achieving an all-time high resale flat price of $968,000, Sengkang has crossed the million-dollar line in the same month.

This is the first time a resale flat in that estate has reached the million-dollar mark.

A five-room HDB flat on Compassvale Drive, just a kilometre away from the latest record-breaking flat, was previously the estate's most expensive resale flat at $968,000.

The median resale price for a five-room and executive flat in Sengkang is $629,000 and $775,000 respectively, according to HDB records.

Popular South Korean singer Sandara Park, who went by Dara in the disbanded K-pop girl group 2NE1, will be making a public appearance this coming Monday (May 6) for the Waterbomb Singapore 2024 open press conference.

One of the largest summer festivals in South Korea, Waterbomb typically hosts performances by K-pop, K-hip hop and EDM acts with epic water gun battles in between.

Even though the lineup for Singapore will only be revealed at Monday's event, it was confirmed that more than 10 acts will be in attendance.

While all the early-bird tickets are sold out, you can still try for the standard ticket sales.