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有家长日前在社交媒体发文申诉，他到了地铁站想把孩子交给在收费闸门外等候的岳母，但地铁站职员坚持他得触卡过闸门。 （取自Stomp）

陆路交通管理局指出，符合免费乘车条件的儿童目前已可申请优惠卡，方便他们免费进出地铁站收费闸门。

公共交通工作人员会审慎且以同理心执行工作，确保乘客遵守规则。针对近期有家长反映地铁站职员不通融，陆交局说，公交业者SMRT已联系有关乘客解释。

有家长日前在社交媒体发文申诉，他到了地铁站想把孩子交给在收费闸门外等候的岳母，但地铁站职员坚持他得触卡过闸门。这名家长指，他与妻子因工作，偶尔得在周末把孩子交给岳母照顾，以往到了地铁站都会要求职员打开收费闸门区的侧门，让他推着婴儿车出去，把孩子交给在外等候的岳母，而职员都愿意帮忙。

不过，事发当天，地铁站经理坚持他一定要触卡过收费闸门，说是为了保安原因。这名家长说，他把孩子交给岳母后，得再触卡进入地铁站，得因此多支付2元。他后来写公开信给交通部代部长兼财政部高级政务部长萧振祥，提出质疑。

陆交局星期五（6月12日）在社媒发文说，能理解这名乘客要兼顾工作和育儿的心情。但地铁有规定得遵守，以确保乘客安全且舒适，并考虑到公平等原则。公交工作人员会审慎且以同理心执行工作。例如：地铁上禁止饮食，但遇到年幼孩子、年长者因身体状况须喝水，工作人员也会酌情处理。

工作人员多数时候也会出于善意打开收费闸门，协助有需要的家庭把孩子交给看护者。目前，符合免费乘车条件的儿童可申请儿童优惠卡，方便他们免费进出收费闸门。只要孩子的身高在0.9米至1.2米之间；年龄在7岁以下；尚未就读小学，家长就可为孩子申请优惠卡。

陆交局说，SMRT已尝试向有关乘客解释，但他没回应，并在公开贴文中意指SMRT人员不提供帮助，这并不属实。

预计在星期五上午11时至11时50分之间，本地南部、西部以及中部地区料将迎来中度至强度的雷阵雨，并伴有阵风。 （档案照片）

全岛多处料下大雨，公众应谨防突发性淹水。

国家环境局星期五（6月12日）上午10时36分发出提醒，预计在上午11时至11时50分之间，本地南部、西部以及中部地区预料将迎来中度至强度的雷阵雨，并伴有阵风。

公用事业局也同步转发了这项暴雨预警，提醒公众在上述时段出行时注意安全，留意积水或突发性淹水的情况。

公用局在上午11时21分再发文提醒，由于下大雨，公众在接下来一小时里，应避开马里士他路（Balestier Road）至诺维娜坡（Novena Rise）的汤申路一带。

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泰国帕差拉公主生平：热心公益致力于监狱改革

2026年6月12日 11:45 / 联合早报

2019年5月6日，在曼谷大皇宫举行的泰国国王哇集拉隆功加冕典礼的最后一天，提帮功王子（左）、帕差拉吉帝雅帕公主（中）和国王（右）在阳台上向公众挥手致意。 （法新社）

泰国国王哇集拉隆功长女、帕差拉吉帝雅帕公主因多种健康问题，在昏迷三年多后，于星期四（6月11日）晚间在医院去世，终年47岁。

帕差拉公主生于1978年12月7日，是哇集拉隆功国王与前三任妻子所生的七个孩子中的长女，也是国王与他的表妹兼第一任妻子宋诗哇丽唯一的孩子。

帕差拉被当地媒体称为“律师公主”。她拥有泰国法政大学的学士学位，和康奈尔大学的法学硕士及法学博士学位，并在泰国是一名合格的律师。2006年，以她名字命名的帕差拉吉帝雅帕法律教育基金成立，为在她母校就读的泰国学生提供奖学金。

自本世纪初以来，帕差拉公主在泰国公共部门担任过多个职务。其中最引人注目的是她曾担任泰国驻奥地利大使，同时兼任泰国驻维也纳联合国及其他国际组织的代表。

在泰国国内，帕差拉曾在总检察长办公室任职，并被任命为联合国妇女署和联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室的亲善大使。

帕差拉积极倡导监狱改革，致力于消除对前服刑人员的偏见，提倡建立包容、开放的社会环境。

帕差拉尤其关注女性囚犯的福祉。她发起了“卡姆朗杰”（Kamlangjai，意为“精神支持”）公益项目，以为女囚、孕妇和狱中儿童等弱势群体提供基本医疗、精神支持与职业培训，帮助她们在刑满释放后顺利重返社会。

帕差拉还领导了泰国的倡导运动，最终促使联合国大会于2010年通过了改善女性囚犯生活的《曼谷规则》。这是第一套专门针对女性囚犯待遇的规则。

2021年，帕差拉被国王晋升为陆军上将。2025年8月，在她住院期间，她被任命为国王私人皇家安全司令部副司令。

火患涉及了一个面积约有一个足球场大的仓库，并且火势已被控制在仓库内。 （取自民防部队脸书）

新加坡西部卡尔弯（Gul Crescent）一家工厂的仓库凌晨发生火患，民防部队出动20辆应急车和约80名消防员到现场救援，火势目前已受控，暂无人在事故中受伤。

新加坡民防部队星期五（6月12日）凌晨5时许在脸书上贴文说，当局在凌晨3时左右接到通报，指卡尔弯3号发生了火患。

民防部队动用了七支水枪、两台无人驾驶灭火机，以及一个高空消防水炮（aerial monitor）进行灭火，火势目前已受控。（取自民防部队脸书）

火患涉及了一个面积约有一个足球场大的仓库，并且火势已被控制在仓库内。

民防部队后来于早上6时许发出更新贴文，指当局动用了七支水枪、两台无人驾驶灭火机，以及一个高空消防水炮（aerial monitor）进行灭火。

当局随之在早上7时44分更新指出，火势目前已受控，而截至贴文发布时，暂未出现伤亡报告。火患涉及了废料和化学品，局限在仓库内。

Two Guatemalans plead guilty in US migrant smuggling case after crash kills 55

2026-06-12 00:48:53 UTC / Reuters

By Steve Gorman

June 12, 2026 12:48 AM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

A police officer raises his arm to block photographers to to avoid taking pictures at the site of a trailer accident that left at least 49 people dead, most of them migrants from Central America, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas state, Mexico December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jacob Garcia Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

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Defendants each face maximum penalty of life in prison
Tractor-trailer was packed with more than 160 migrants
Crash was one of deadliest migrant incidents in a decade

June 11 (Reuters) – Two Guatemalan nationals pleaded guilty in a Texas ​federal court on Thursday to human smuggling charges stemming from the December 2021 crash of ‌a tractor-trailer in Mexico that killed 55 of the 160-plus migrants packed inside.

Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala, 43, and Alberto Marcario Chitic, 32, who were extradited to the U.S., admitted as part of their plea that they conspired to smuggle adults and ​unaccompanied children from Guatemala through Mexico into the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said.

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In one ​such operation, an estimated 166 migrants were crammed into a tractor-trailer truck that overturned ⁠and slammed into a bridge abutment near the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in Chiapas, Mexico.

Fifty-five of the migrants ​died in the December 9, 2021, accident, opens new tab, including a 16-year-old girl, and dozens of others were injured. Video footage ​of the aftermath showed bodies scattered across the crash site.

Mexican authorities at the time said nearly all of the victims were Guatemalan. Chiapas officials said three people from the Dominican Republic, a Honduran, a Mexican and an Ecuadorean were among the injured.

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Survivors ​said they had been squeezed into the trailer compartment so tightly that most people could only stand. At ​the time, the crash ranked among the deadliest migrant-smuggling accidents in Mexico in a decade.

Canil De Zavala and Chitic each ‌pleaded guilty ⁠to conspiracy to transport an illegal alien to the U.S., causing serious bodily injury resulting in death, according to the Justice Department statement.

Both face a maximum penalty of life in prison when they are sentenced on September 9 in a federal court in Texas, the department said.

“The defendants ran a calculated alien smuggling operation that ​moved people across borders ​like a supply chain – recruiting ⁠them in Guatemala, collecting their money and packing them into cattle trucks and tractor-trailers for a dangerous journey through Mexico,” said John Marck, acting U.S. attorney for ​the Southern District of Texas.

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Marck said that unaccompanied minors smuggled by the network ​were even given ⁠scripted language to recite to law enforcement should they be caught entering the U.S.

The two defendants and three other Guatemalans accused of taking part in the operation – Daniel Zavala Ramos, 41, Tomas Quino Canil, 37, and Oswaldo Manuel ⁠Zavala Quino, ​25 – were extradited from Guatemala to the U.S. in 2025 to ​face charges.

U.S. authorities arrested an additional Guatemalan national, Jorge Agapito Ventura, 33, in Texas in December 2024. Ramos entered a guilty plea in ​April. Cases against the three others are pending.

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Proposed data center near Nashville Zoo sparks heavy pushback

2026-06-11T20:20:00-0400 / CBS News

Nashville, Tennessee— Residents packed a city public hearing in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday night, looking to stop a nearly 70,000-square-foot data center from being built near the Nashville Zoo, arguing it would expose the animals to noise, fumes and bright lights.

The data center would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, right next to a zoo that is home to more than 3,000 animal species, including the endangered clouded leopard.

Country music star and Nashville resident Brad Paisley added his voice to the discourse this week, urging his followers on social media to back an online petition against the project that now has nearly 400,000 signatures.

“It is not too late to stop it,” Paisley said in a social media videohttps://www.instagram.com/p/DZQ1psXiCZz/?hl=en.

Nashville’s Metro Planning Commission held a public hearing Thursday regarding proposed legislation that would ban the construction of large data centers within a half mile of daycare centers, homes, religious institutions, parks and zoos.

“We have to protect, not just animals, but our neighbors, our water supply,” one Nashville resident said during the hearing.

“What’s at stake? I think the health of our animals, and that is our biggest concern,” Rich Schwartz, CEO of the Nashville Zoo, told CBS News. “This constant humming noise, the light penetration, it affects photo periods of these animals, it affects their breeding cycles, it affects their stress.”

Photo periods refer to how the amount of daylight impacts an animal’s environment and physiology.

The company behind the data center, DC BLOX, says it is committed to addressing any issues.

“There is a tremendous amount of misinformation,” Chris Gatch, chief revenue officer for DC BLOX, told CBS News. “… With respect to the generators, we put them on the opposite side of the building from the zoo. We put them in very sophisticated sound attenuation enclosures. We muffle the exhaust systems.”

An explosion of artificial intelligence data centers across the country has created pushback from coast to coast. There are at least 4,349 data centers in operation nationwide, according to Data Center Map, a research group that analyzes the issue. So far, 14 states have proposed legislation banning the development of data centers, per the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“We would be willing to listen, and our attorneys have reached out to them,” Schwartz said. “But I don’t know that there’s any resolution for the magnitude of what they’re talking about putting in right next to the zoo.”

日华恳更名日本台湾友好议员联盟

2026年6月12日 11:53 / 联合早报

与台湾关系友好的日本跨党派议员联盟“日华议员恳谈会”（简称日华恳）确定更名“日本台湾友好议员联盟”。

据日本共同社报道，日华恳星期四（6月11日）在东京都内召开大会，决定把名称改为“日本台湾友好议员联盟”（简称议员联盟）。此举意在展示与台湾加强交流的决心，但有可能引发中国大陆的不满。

有关更名的讨论以非公开形式进行。议员联盟会长古屋圭司（自民党籍）在公布新名称时称，所属议员已超过300人，并强调“这是台湾与日本以不可动摇的纽带相连的证明”。

据台湾总统府官网消息，总统赖清德星期四以录影方式为日华恳2026年度总会致词，感谢日华恳成立53年来，不论是深化台日议员情谊、支持台湾的国际参与，或推动增进两地人民福祉的政策，总是竭尽全力积极为台湾发声，为台日交流合作奠定更稳固的基础。

赖清德并期待未来日华恳继续大力支持台湾，深化双方的合作，共同努力实现“自由开放的印度太平洋”愿景。

台湾驻日本代表李逸洋同日在脸书发文称，日华恳成立53年后，正式更名为“日本台湾友好议员联盟”。这是历史性的一步，象征台湾与日本的关系在长年友谊的基础上，将进一步深化与发展。

尹锡悦涉“无人机事件”一审被判有期徒刑30年

2026年6月12日 10:29 / 联合早报

尹锡悦涉“无人机事件”一审被判有期徒刑30年

4月29日，尹锡悦妨碍执法二审被判处有期徒刑七年，刑期较一审明显加重。 （路透社）

韩国前总统尹锡悦因“制造平壤上空无人机入侵事件”一审被判处有期徒刑30年。

韩联社星期五（6月12日）报道，首尔中央地方法院认定，尹锡悦等人为制造紧急戒严的所谓正当理由，于2024年10月指示无人机作战司令部向平壤实施渗透，旨在诱导朝鲜军事行动，构成一般利敌罪。同时，尹锡悦在指示作战过程中滥用职权的罪名也成立。

2025年11月10日，韩国特检组指控尹锡悦等人在2024年10月指示无人机作战司令部向平壤派遣无人机。特检组认为，无人机在平壤附近坠落，导致作战计划与战力等军事机密外泄。今年4月，特检组以涉嫌一般利敌和滥用职权等罪名对尹锡悦求处30年有期徒刑。

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