Thanks for the insight X. I shall follow up with Changi Airport on that avenue of investigation. Here's hoping that is indeed what happened and that my items are hopefully somewhere recoverable at Changi and not in someone elses bag! 

I'm pretty sure it was theft as nothing else from my bag is missing. Furthermore, the theives seemed to have added a random foreign langauge book and a pack of cigarette filters into my bag in exchange for my phone & camera. Out of all the places I fly through that this could've happened I wo...

I just flew from Singapore to Guangzhou on SQ. My luggage came out at Guangzhou wrapped in plastic with my bag opened up. It was obviously not like this when I last saw it (locked it before checking it in of course). My backup mobile phone and a small compact camera inside it have been stolen. Pr...