Just reading the Straits Times, which has quite an impressive coverage of the crash (i.e. doesn't show any evidence of official censorship) and it refers to an accident involving a Mandarin 737-800 earlier in the day (showing tyremarks where it seems to have veered off a bit).
One question that concerned me: having been through TPE a few times with CX, most SQ flights seemed to have used 06/24, as did basically everyone except CI? Was there a specific reason (i.e. closure) that SQ used 05L/R on that evening?