Scammer going around selling 6 durians for $385!
Some bastards came to our place today and tried to sell some durians to my wife for $15 per durian, claiming that it was MSW quality. My wife agreed to buy some from them and they started opening up the durians but before she knew it they told her that they had opened up 6 […]
Toa Payoh hawker incident: there’s more…
UPDATE: He is the chairman of the private estate’s managing body committee and not chairman of the residents’ committee which the Mainstream Media initial reported. In an article by Lianhe Wanbao, more ugly past of the male lead in the Toa Payoh hawker incident kana dug out. He was reported of knocking into a 60+ year-old neighbour with […]
Why are guide dogs in Singapore allowed on taxis but not necessarily on Grab and Uber?
Last week, a Grab driver refused to accept a passenger accompanied by his guide dog and reacted aggressively after the visually-impaired passenger didn’t want to leave the car. The driver allegedly switched off the car engine and started smoking in the car with all the windows closed. Such unpleasant encounters are not new to owners […]
Man jailed for offering $30 bribe to traffic police not to issue him summons
Despite being rejected by a traffic police, a Malaysian construction worker persisted in offering a $30 bribe to him and stuffed the cash into the officer’s trouser pocket. Sang Jia Weng, 30, was jailed for four weeks on Thursday (May 4) for corruptly offering “coffee money” to Staff Sergeant Zulkifli Bin Dzahari in exchange for […]
Sure boh? Singapore streams in at 9th in online piracy globally
Among the world’s top countries for online piracy in 2016, Singapore came in at ninth, according to a recent study by technology company MUSO, which offers anti-piracy and market analytics. In its Global Piracy Report 2017, MUSO said there were 191 billion visits to piracy sites last year. The global piracy visits per Internet user was […]
Fandi Ahmad: Training ground, funds for overseas stints needed
With new leaders in place at the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), Fandi Ahmad, its head coach of youth, is hopeful that some of the sport’s problems will be fixed ahead of major competitions such as the 2018 Asian Games, SEA Games (2019, 2021) and the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. Tasked with producing […]