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A 25-year-old man appeared in court via video link yesterday over allegations that he had set fire to a Singapore national flag recently.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A 25-year-old man appeared in court via video link yesterday over allegations that he had set fire to a Singapore national flag recently.He is said to have used a lighter to set fire to the flag hung along a common corridor on the 13th storey of Block 774 Woodlands Crescent, between 6am and 6.15am on Sunday. It resulted in damage to seven other state flags that had been vertically tied together across seven floors.

In a statement on Wednesday, police said they were alerted to the incident at about 12.40pm on Sunday. Ong is believed to be involved in similar cases in Woodlands. The Singaporean, who appeared before District Judge Terence Tay, was not offered bail and is now remanded at Woodlands Police Division. In an unrelated incident, Chua Chu Kang Town Council said it lodged a police report after China's national flag was displayed at a Housing Board block.

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