India, Aug. 10 -- A 25-year-old Chinese national is set to face charges in Singapore after allegedly stealing from a fellow passenger on a flight from Dubai to Singapore.

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According to a report by The Straits Times, the police said on August 9 that they were alerted at around 5.30 am on August 8 to a suspected theft in the business class section of the aircraft.

Preliminary investigations revealed that while the victim was asleep, his wife spotted the man purportedly taking her husband's bag from the overhead compartment. She immediately confronted the suspect, prompting him to return the bag to its place. The woman then inform...