SINGAPORE, May 27 -- A Singapore bus driver is being showered with praise after returning a diamond ring worth around S$35,000 (RM110,000) to its distraught owner.

According to Singapore's The Straits Times (ST), 54-year-old SBS Transit bus captain Teo Lai Huat found the sparkling solitaire ring at the end of his shift after a passenger accidentally left it behind on bus service 10 earlier this month.

The ring's owner, Clarissa Tan, had been travelling from Siglap to East Coast Road with friends on the night of May 11 when the precious piece of jewellery slipped from her possession unnoticed.

Panic set in the next morning when she realised it was missing.

But in a stroke of luck, Teo had already found the ring near the rear door of th...