Five women arrested for operating unlicensed massage establishments
The Police have arrested five women, aged between 32 and 43 in enforcement operations conducted against massage establishments (MEs) between 3 and 6 April 2018. During the operations, Central Police Division checked 27 MEs located along Tanjong Pagar, Jalan Klapa, Kitchener Road, Coleman Street, North Bridge Road and Telok Blangah Crescent. 13 MEs were detected […]
Lexus sports car driver lost control and crashed into lamp post near church; no one was injured
A Lexus sports car made a spin and crashed into a lamp post outside the Church Of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour at 31 Siglap Hill on Sunday evening. Mr Avery Wong, the person who captured the accident on video, said that he was in his friend’s car when the noticed the white Lexus. The […]
Mobike to join SMRT seed-funded startup mobilityX in develop innovative transport solutions
Mobike, the world’s first and largest smart dockless bikeshare company, and mobilityX, an SMRT seed-funded startup that provides an integrated MaaS solution to commuters and companies, today 6 (April, 2018) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on platform integration, data sharing and analytics to optimise operational efficiency as well as organising shared bicycles […]
91 arrested in CNB 7-days island-wide operation
The Central Narcotics Bureau carried out a seven-day island-wide operation – from the morning of 30 March to the morning of 6 April 2018 – which saw the arrest of 91 suspected drug offenders. About 434g of cannabis, 335g of heroin, 54g of ‘Ice’, 114 ‘Ecstasy’ tablets, 64 Erimin-5 tablets, two pieces of LSD and […]
Police National Serviceman charged for cheating
A 36-year-old National Serviceman was charged in court, for submitting fraudulent make-up claims to the Singapore Police Force (SPF). The Police detected that a National Serviceman had submitted claims for attending In-Camp-Training (ICT) on 9 November 2017, even though he did not complete his ICT. The man had also falsely claimed that during the period […]
Qing Ming had a grotesque origin
We burn paper houses, maids, cars and yes, even entire banks to the dead. But in the past, the Chinese burnt the real things for deceased royalty. Historical documents show that in the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046BC), sacrifices for the dead required the burning of actual things. Commoners were buried with animals such as pigs and […]
RSAF jets escort Scoot jet in alleged bomb threat
Two RSAF F-15SGs scrambled and took off within minutes when the pilot of a Scoot plane declared a bomb threat on board. Flying en route to Hatyai, Scoot TR634 left Changi Airport at 1.20pm and landed safely at Changi Airport at 3.23pm. All passengers and crews from flight TR634 have disembarked safely. The passenger who […]
OMG! Someone actually made a crispy rendang!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! It actually exists! Check this out: It’s a Western fail, but someone has actually gone out of his way to make a real-life crispy rendang! Yenni Law, 43, runs a restaurant in Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur and has made this parody of a dish in honour of Materchef U.K.’s Gregg Wallace. […]
Have you cancelled on a reservation before?
Have you made a reservation at a restaurant and then cancelled it? Bjorn Shen, the proprietor of restaurant Artichoke faced one too many cancelled reservations and decided to impose a cancellation charge. In an impassioned post on Facebook, the restauranteur spoke of how cancellations got so bad that they lose 1/3rd of revenue. 32 last minute […]
Two former Royal Plaza on Scotts employees charged with corruption
Two former employees of Royal Plaza on Scotts were charged with corruption on Wednesday (4 April 2018) after they allegedly received payments for referring the hotel’s transport jobs to a limousine company. Frankie Chan Li Fah, a 33-year-old former Guest Services Assistant Manager of M/s Royal Plaza were charged with 8 counts of corruptly obtaining […]