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Singapore Airlines Ltd. has introduced tighter cabin restrictions when aircraft hit turbulence after one passenger died and scores were injured on a flight from London earlier this week.

From severe turbulence hitting a Singapore Airlines flight to an Indonesian couple’s strange twist of fate, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation suit, according to a written judgment published on Friday.

Taiwan has become “one of the most dangerous flashpoints” in the region as US-China rivalry intensifies, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Friday.

High levels of blue-green algae have been detected in the lake, according to the alert, with algal bloom expected to remain until there is significant rainfall to flush the lake. Warning signs have been installed at the lake and people are urged to avoid direct contact with affected water.

Singapore has maintained its gross domestic product growth forecast for the year at a range of one to three per cent as its economy grew by 2.7 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the fastest pace in 18 months.

SEOUL, - Singapore Airlines has tweaked its in-flight seatbelt sign policies and altered at least one flight route after a turbulence incident this week killed one person and left dozens more hospitalised, according to the airline and flight data.

Passengers on a Singapore Airlines flight that hit extreme turbulence over Asia suffered skull, brain and spinal injuries, the head of a Bangkok hospital said Thursday. Twenty people remain in intensive care in the Thai capital, where flight SQ321 made an ...

The plane, bound for Singapore, had to make an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Images taken there show emergency services swarm the jet but Mr Kitchen, believed to be from Thornbury, Gloucestershire ...

The reality, statistics show, remains that getting on a Boeing or Airbus SE jetliner is still exponentially safer than the drive to the airport. Last year, there wasn’t a single fatality among the 37 million commercial airline flights.

We have never treated people with these kinds of injuries caused by turbulence. Seventeen surgeries have already been performed – nine spinal surgeries and eight for other injuries. All passengers in the ICU were in a stable condition,

Adelaide man Keith Davis and his seriously injured wife are visited by the head of Singapore Airlines in a Bangkok hospital, as they seek a medical evacuation to Australia.

What a close brush with disaster, readers will think. What a potential loss to English letters and the Clerkenwell restaurant trade. Relax. This happened in one of the safest countries on Earth. I got my infant meanderings out of the way in Singapore.

A Bangkok hospital says many of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence need operations on their spines.

"I remember kind of waking up on the floor, and listening to people crying," Josh Silverstone, who was on the flight, said.

Passengers have described the “sheer terror” of the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying and injured people lying paralyzed on the floor of the plane.