Daily briefing: Jurong Shipyard incident 'abnormal'

The company has revealed preliminary findings.

• CEO of Sembcorp Marine Wong Weng Sun said that the most likely cause of the Jurong Shipyard accident was the failure of the brake system. Find out more here.

• Meanwhile another report cited Wong as saying that this incident was unprecedented and abnormal, and that the company will conduct a thorough analysis to find out the problem. See the story here.

• In a Facebook post by Dr Vincent Wijeysingha, former executive director of Transient Workers Count Too, he said, “I can’t drive my own bus to work powered by petrol I processed myself on a road I laid myself.” Referring to the recent SMRT bus drivers strike, he said workers rights are indivisible and that we are in this together. Read more here.