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Elderly cardboard collector earns S$3 a day in Singapore
In a media interview with Chinese papers Shin Ming Daily, an elderly cardboard collector revealed her daily routine, shedding light on abject poverty in Singapore. 67-year-old Dong Ah Lan earns around...
View ArticleSingapore rated “AAA” for creditworthiness, but little concern for CPF holders
US-based credit rating agency Moody yesterday (Dec 8) rated Singapore “AAA” for creditworthiness and gave a “stable” outlook for the country’s economy. The “AAA” rating means investors interested in...
View ArticleHouseholds poverty jumped 7%, welfare cost jumped 10% in FY2015
In the latest welfare figures from the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) today (Dec 9), the number of households on welfare jumped 7% from 27,461 in FY2014 to 29,511 in FY2015. 87,000...
View ArticleMinistry of Finance lie that Singaporeans’ lives have improved, figures shows...
According to the newly-published biennial Singapore Public Sector Outcomes Review, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) claimed that the lives of Singaporeans have improved but the statistics provided in the...
View ArticleExclusive Chinese Emperor-like welcome ceremony for Health Minister Gan Kim Yong
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong was given an exclusive Chinese Emperor-like welcome ceremony at the S$2 million Teochew Festival 2016 held in Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Hall last evening (Dec...
View ArticleCambodia: Singapore government made falseful declaration of illegally-sourced...
On November 2016, the Cambodian government posted an official demand for explanation from the Singapore government after gathering evidence founding that Singapore made falseful declarations of...
View ArticleBCA: HDB is responsible for failing to maintain checks on building
Following an investigation on an incident where a 5m-length concrete structure collapsed from the 4th-storey of a HDB block in Tampines, the Building Construction Authority ruled that the Housing...
View ArticleIncome inequality led to poor children performing poorer in school
Singapore took the accolades of being the top-ranking in all 3 categories of Reading, Maths and Science in 2016 – but not without a hefty price tag. According to a research paper by Blackbox in 2012,...
View ArticleS$119 million SAF vehicles still detained, Lee Hsien Loong refuse to apologise
Another week of silence, another week of failure. Despite having S$119 million worth of SAF vehicles paid for by taxpayers, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong still refuses to apologise to China...
View ArticleYoung Singaporeans giving up job search rise 71%
According to the latest employment figures by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the number of Singaporeans aged 30 and below giving up job search rose 71% to 1,200 in 2016 from 700 in 2015. Termed as...
View ArticleSingapore Government: No compulsory annual bonuses for cleaners until...
Singapore’s ruling party PAP Government set the stage for General Election GE2020 by mandating that compulsory annual bonuses for local cleaners will only start from 2020. According to the government...
View ArticlePAP MP: It is a moral hazard to help the unemployed with benefits
Singapore’s only elected opposition party, the Workers’ Party (WP), proposed in parliament yesterday (Dec 12) a national unemployment insurance for only Singapore employees that provide 40% of the...
View ArticleSingapore Judge of Appeal: Oops I think we wrongly jailed a Bangladesh worker...
In a written judgment made last Thursday (Dec 8), Singapore Judge of Appeal Chao Hick Tin referred to a particular case of a Bangladesh worker who was sentenced to 4 weeks’ jail for providing false...
View ArticleSMRT Managing Director: Train reliability has improved since 2013
Using a new measurement method called the “mean kilometre between failure”, the Managing Director of SMRT Lee Ling Wee claimed that train reliability has improved since 2013. Despite increasing...
View ArticleSingapore recession: Not enough jobs, long-term unemployment worst since 2002
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore posted its worst unemployment figures today (Dec 13) with job seekers outnumbering job vacancies by 9.89% and its long-term...
View ArticleEast-West Line breakdown between Pasir Ris and Outram Park
Again on a peak hour morning, the East-West Line (EWL) train services see another major disruption affecting 15 stations today (Dec 14). In a twitter post on 8.39am, SMRT wrote to add a 20 minute...
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High Speed Rail linking KL and Jurong signed, MRT linking Johor and Woodlands...
At a joint press conference yesterday (Dec 14), Singapore and Malaysia signed a deal confirming the construction of a high-speed rail (HSR) between Kuala Lumpur and Jurong. The 350km-long track will...
View ArticleAustralian TPG vows “tremendous value” to Singaporean mobile market
From 2018, Singaporeans can see greater value from the market entry of a new telco without suffering under state companies Singtel, M1 and Starhub, which were long accused of being in cahoots ripping...
View ArticleMAS survey: Singapore dollars weakening, economy to worsen in 2017
According to the latest quarterly-held survey of economists by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Singapore dollar will weaken and the economy is expected to worsen in 2017. 22 economists,...
View ArticleSurvey: Singapore become more expensive
According to a recent cost of consumer goods survey conducted by UK-based group ECI International, Singapore has become more expensive and it’s ranking jumped two places to 16th in the world this year...
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