A 30-year-old Australian man has been charged in Singapore for allegedly making a bomb threat on a Scoot airline flight bound from Changi Airport to Perth.
When our colleague's friend, Bernard , was told to go to the office early on a Monday morning "for a chat", he had a bad feeling. Monday was not a usual work-from-office day for the company. Friendly chats with HR don't happen early in the morning before anyone else has reached the office. And in the weeks prior, there'd been talk.
The 30-year-old man was charged on Saturday with making false threats of terrorist acts and has been remanded at a hospital for mental illness in the city-state.
Viaano Spruyt realised there was a huge gap in mental health social support after interning at a Singaporean institute, so he created an online platform for people feeling lonely and lost.