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A "serial predator" who lied about his age online, targeting and sexually assaulting multiple underage schoolgirls, will be jailed and caned. One of his victims was an 11-year-old girl, whom he raped twice in a park toilet: https://cna.asia/4gM9Xx7

👮‍♀Need help with filing a police report, but shy to talk to a human? AI chatbots will make sure you get all the info needed into it at self-help kiosks in police division HQs from Wednesday onwards: https://cna.asia/3IwAMsv

A 57-year-old driver died after a defective airbag sent a metal piece flying into his head after a chain collision. Nearly 200,000 cars here with it were recalled since 2013 — but thousands of them still carry the deadly airbag, made by Takata: https://cna.asia/4nuwdOC

Singapore’s population has reached 6.11 million — a new high. The rise is mainly due to more non-residents, with citizen births and marriages still trending low: https://cna.asia/42bwRIg

Hong Kong activist Nathan Law, wanted under the territory's national security law, was denied entry to Singapore over the weekend. The Ministry of Home Affairs said his presence here "would not be in Singapore’s national interests": https://cna.asia/4mAMYpV

Dancer-actor Cha Hyun-seung, known from Netflix’s Single’s Inferno and Physical: 100, has revealed he is battling leukaemia. The 34-year-old says he is “quietly fighting day by day”: https://cna.asia/3KnJIkp

🚇 Singapore’s first fleet of MRT trains have made their final journeys – that means no more iconic orange seats and manual braking. A captain who spent 31 years at the controls shares his memories: https://cna.asia/46Go969

⚽🎾 Ever played at St Wilfred Sport Centre? After 45 years, the iconic complex in Whampoa will close on Oct 1 to make way for redevelopment: https://cna.asia/3WaEZ8f

Australian telco giant Optus was hit by another major outage on Sunday that lasted more than 9 hours and prevented calls to emergency services. This comes just a week after a similar interruption was linked to 4 deaths. https://cna.asia/3IICsiy

Ready, set, streeeeeeetch - but can Pilates really make your muscles long and lean? Here's what health experts have to say: https://cna.asia/3Wd9LgI

Kevin Chua didn’t consider himself an “artsy person”. Yet, he opened a pottery studio at a Bedok void deck and now it’s a creative sanctuary for families and seniors. Here’s his story: https://cna.asia/46QGRZU

Can you only be considered successful when you in a job that gets your blood pumping each day? Why can't a simple 9-5 job be ... enough? The definition of an ideal job is shifting as CNA TODAY finds out. https://cna.asia/42aWUPH

WATCH: Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan called for reforms to make the United Nations more inclusive at the United Nations General Assembly. https://cna.asia/3IzkWNO

Julian Low was a NUS Merit scholar working towards a medical career that would secure his livelihood when he put it aside to pursue video production and theatre. What made him take this difficult route, to the point of being estranged from his parents for years, to chase after his dreams? https://cna.asia/48zOfdu

Does your child have a pain that doesn't seem to go away and cannot be explained, leading to much frustration? Meet the team at KKH - the first such pain management clinic in Singapore and the region - that was set up to help them. https://cna.asia/3IhRo7j

🎮 Would you play Cyberpunk 2077 or Baldur's Gate 3 on a Mac? More gamers appear to be taking to Apple's devices, and CNA Lifestyle takes a deeper look at the growing trend. https://cna.asia/4nGDNWB

Kidnapped by the mafia on his way to America, Mohit was only freed after his family paid US$1,500. 😱 Many other illegal migrants aren’t as lucky. Undercover Asia follows the perilous route thousands of Indians take through Latin America, in pursuit of the American dream: https://youtu.be/jdgvUiw5yXU

Every year, thousands of Singaporeans head overseas to offer help in disadvantaged communities. But do these short-term volunteer trips really help the local communities as intended? https://cna.asia/3KH3sPZ

🥐☕ Daphne Ling and her husband already run an advertising firm, so it made no sense for the couple to start a cafe from scratch. 5 years on as rental doubled and other costs piled up, resulting in Main Street Commissary's closure, Daphne reflects on why the time spent nurturing the F&B space was still a dream worth pursuing. https://cna.asia/4nxprrh

A 61-year-old man was arrested for his suspected involvement in sending a parcel containing a piece of pork to Al-Istiqamah Mosque in Serangoon. https://cna.asia/42TwceD