SINGAPORE: A child was taken to hospital after being freed from an escalator at a shopping mall in Buangkok on Saturday (Feb 22).
BEIJING: A family in eastern China has accused a mall of negligence after a two-year-old boy had two of his fingers severed on an escalator at the mall in early February.
A 41-year-old man was arrested for being a public nuisance after he was witnessed urinating on the handrail of an escalator at Outram Park MRT station on Jan 10.
A malfunction caused some parts of an escalator to “pop out” at Kuala Lumpur’s Mid Valley Megamall on June 28, according to a social media post.
SINGAPORE: A nine-year-old boy was injured and taken to the hospital after the rubber shoe he was wearing got trapped in an escalator at the Jurong Point shopping mall on July 14.
JAKARTA: For more than three months, millions of Indonesian eyes were focused on social media, but not on content related to the 2024 election: on daily posts urging authorities to repair an escalator that had been out of service for over 100 days at Bekasi railway station in Bekasi, West Java.
OLD buildings are now being upgraded with outdoor escalators, as public demand grows for facilities for people with mobility impairments.
SINGAPORE: A man used his mobile phone to secretly record upskirt videos of multiple victims in public, and the police found child pornography in his possession when he was arrested in July 2021.
KOTA KINABALU: Firemen were sent to a hypermarket in Likas after a six-year-old girl accidentally got her hand stuck in an escalator on Friday (June 27).
SINGAPORE: A three-year-old boy fell and got his finger stuck in an escalator at City Plaza mall in Geylang on Jan 2.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Three people were injured after they fell while riding an escalator at Clementi MRT station on Thursday (Oct 5).
A Nagoya city ordinance requiring people to stand on escalators rather than walking on them went into effect on Sunday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Batu Caves Hindu Temple Management will build an escalator at the tourist attraction this year as an alternative to the 272 steps for devotees and visitors to reach the Sri Subramaniar cave temple.
MANILA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Several people in the Philippines were injured when an escalator at a sprawling mall that was taking them one floor up abruptly slid backwards, causing a terrifying pile-up.
Several people in the Philippines were injured when an escalator at a sprawling mall that was taking them one floor up abruptly slid backwards, causing a terrifying pile-up.
Installation of 350-metre moving mountainside walkway helps tourists enjoy views better, reach peak fasterEscalators cut journey time to peak but critics say they remove joy of hiking, detract from natural beauty of area
A VANDAL has tried to disrupt the use of an escalator at the Sri Rampai LRT station, just five days after it was repaired.
BANGKOK: A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar midday on Friday (March 27), police said, and possible casualties are not yet known.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar midday on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed, and prompting Myanmar to declare a widespread state of emergency.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): As many as 27 people sustained injuries from losing their balance and falling down an escalator at the Surasak BTS station in Bangkok on Saturday (Aug 20) evening.