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Singapore state media name deceased dictator Lee Kuan Yew “Asian of the Year”

Singapore government-controlled state media, The Straits Times, today named the recently-deceased dictator of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew “Asian of the Year”. Despite twists and selective reporting made by...

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Old lady cardboard collector doze off during lunch

You may view the original post from here. Poor auntie, someone bought her this lunch pack. Before she open to eat, she doss off to sleep. She is one of the senior cardboard collector in the market...

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Temasek Holdings made billion dollar losses after selling NOL

Singapore’s Temasek Holdings made at least a billion dollar losses after selling the national shipping line Neptune Orient Line (NOL) to French conglomerate CMA CGM SA for S$2.26 billion today (Dec...

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Ministry of Health’s Review Committee on virus outbreak: SGH staffs at fault

The Independent Review Committee set up by the Ministry of Health (MOH) blamed staffs at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for the Hepatitis C virus outbreak occurred between April and June....

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Former PAP-appointed NMP: Singaporeans are not good, want higher pay and...

Former PAP government-appointed Nominated Member of Parliament Chia Yong Yong hit out at Singaporeans for demanding work-life balance: “Perhaps I want to ask what would you like to achieve with...

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MINDEF censors photo of conscript’s reluctant look on face

The Singapore Army removed a photo of a conscript looking really reluctant on its Basic Military Training Facebook page, after the photo went viral. Singapore’s National Service is compulsory only for...

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Dear Boss, please give me a good reason why I should not resign

Dear Boss, you want higher productivity but you also want lower salaries and longer working hours. You keep comparing your SME company to a MNC but your flip-flop policies makes me wonder if you have...

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Filipino jailed 16 months for visa scam in Singapore

A 36-year-old Filipino was sentenced to 16 months’ jail today (Jan 7) for making up to 33 charges of false declarations to the Manpower Ministry (MOM). Filipino Celeste Provido Apostol would charge...

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Adult woman slapped 10 year old girl in revenge for her daughter

46-year-old school bus attendant Leong Siew Yin was fined S$1,000 today (Jan 7) for slapping a 10 year old girl who hit her daughter with a recorder. The incident happened on 30 Jan 2015 around 1.45pm...

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HDB now complains against choice of accountant after losing lawsuit with WP

The Singapore government statutory board HDB now complains the choice of accountant appointed by the Opposition Workers’ Party town council. HDB claims that the certified accountant company is...

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Environment Minister call for volunteers as NEA and Town Council is understaffed

After reporting a record of 195 dengue cases in Tampines, PAP MP for Tampines GRC and Environment Minister Masagos Zulkifli now called for volunteers to step up and help distribute repellents to...

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Video: Man arrested for stripping naked in public at Chinatown

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SMRT Train service breakdown again on NSL

Another crippling train service breakdown happened this evening (Jan 9) for more than an hour between Woodlands and Kranji station. Public transport operator SMRT blamed the breakdown to a traction...

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Former Singapore River Explorer employees left unprotected by collapsed company

A failed joint venture company has left its 75 former employees at least S$100,000 of unpaid salaries in overtime and commissions. Two corporations, Leisure Empire and Global Yellow Pages, had a joint...

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SAF Parachutes outsourced to PRC contractors

You may view the original post here. I’d painfully struggled for 2 days, weighing the pros and cons before I made a decision to pen this post. Learnt from my brother-in-arms our former SAF Riggers’...

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Video: Wriggling worms found in Tekka Market’s Nasi Ayam Goreng

A video of live worms wriggling in a fried chicken drumstick at Little India’s Tekka Market is going viral in Singapore’s Facebook community. You may view the original post from here.

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President Tony Tan: GRC, NMP and NCMP are election “innovations” of Singapore

At his speech at the opening of the 13th Parliament today, Singapore President Tony Tan claimed that Singapore’s undemocratic election schemes like the Group Representative Constituency (GRC),...

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New private housing sales fell 49% in Dec 2015

According to the latest stats from Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), new private housing sales fell 49% in Dec 2015, reporting only 384 transactions as compared to 759 in the previous month....

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China-born Singaporean get 3 years’ probation for poisoning Stanford classmates

A China-born Singaporean who was on the government AStar scholarship has been sentenced to 3 years’ probation in United States for poisoning the drinking water of her two classmates in Stanford...

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Singaporean jailed 5 weeks for kicking taxi driver

26-year-old Singaporean Gary Goh Koon Wei was sentenced to 5 weeks’ jail for kicking a taxi driver while intoxicated. At 1am of 11 July 2014, Gary Goh and his girlfriend boarded 41-year-old Alex Ng...

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