Woman fined for operating pet farm without license
A 42-year-old woman, Choo Pui Lee, licensee of Pretty Pets Kennel, was fined $8,500 by the court on 4 April 2018 for breaching the pet farm licensing conditions and keeping dogs without licence. During an inspection in March 2017, the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) found that Choo had housed too many dogs within its […]
Woman sentenced to jail and fined for animal cruelty
In February 2016, Chng Leng Khim (43-year-old then), was sentenced to 10 days’ imprisonment for animal cruelty. She was also fined $3,100 for failing to comply with order to assist in investigation and for failing to license her pet dogs. After Chng appealed, the High Court set aside her plea of guilt and sent the […]
S’porean cannot tahan financial consultants at roadshows, saying that he is not their cat
A Singaporean male penned his frustrations about financial consultants bugging him at roadshows and his post has been shared 2,000 times on his own Facebook account over the past few days. Here’s his full post: “Just some feedback to Financial Consultants/ Sales people while doing roadshows. 1) If i am walking briskly to the MRT […]
Your taxi troubles may return in June
By the 30th of June 2018, all private hire drivers will have to be licensed by the LTA. And up till now, 34k drivers have not done so. To get the licence, you must: a.) Send in an application to the LTA b.) Pass a test After that you will be awarded the Private Hire […]
Freight forwarder fined $5,000 for causing untrue permit declaration to be made to Singapore Customs
A freight forwarder, Megaton Shipping Pte Ltd, was sentenced by the State Courts on 4 April 2018 to a fine of $5,000 for causing an untrue permit declaration to be made to Singapore Customs. Singapore Customs initiated investigation on Megaton Shipping after Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers detected anomalies in the scanned images of […]
Just because you like to eat like a bird, doesn’t mean your maid has to…
If you’re into eating seeds, quinoa and kale, doesn’t mean your maid has to. Remember to let her cook her own food hor! Check out this damn funny public service announcement from Singapore’s first (and possibly only) celebrity maid… Leticia Bongnino 😛 https://www.facebook.com/michellechongrocks/videos/1288068071337112/ (Relak ah~ the video above takes a while to load) Due to […]
China family did not give up on their long-lost daughter, finally found her after 24 yrs
A China family who resides in Chengdu, finally found their missing daughter after she disappeared 24 years ago. Wang Mingqing and Liu Dengying were fruit sellers and were doing their business at a roadside stall when Mr Wang ran out of change and went to a neighbouring stall to change money for a customer. When […]
Sex for rent: Accommodation for favours
Housing has become so expensive in the United Kingdom that landlords are offering rooms in exchange for sex. Advertisements would offer free room or bed share in exchange for “intimacy”, “benefits” or “fwb” (friends with benefits). Many of these ads are found in London, however such ads are appearing all over the country through sites […]
Public holidays for 2019 is out! 5 long weekends for Singaporeans to relax
Ministry of Manpower has released the gazetted public holidays for 2019 – there’re five long weekends next year! There is supposedly one more long weekend compared to this year. As you can tell, the public holidays that fall on a Friday, Sunday or Monday are: Good Friday, Vesak Day, National Day, Hari Raya Haji and […]
825g of ‘Ice’ worth more than S$74,000 seized at Tuas Checkpoint
On 31 March 2018 at about 10.30pm, an Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer at the Tuas checkpoint noticed that a male Singaporean appeared to be taking a long time for arrival immigration clearance at the automated clearance lane for motorcycles. Checkpoint officers went forward to render assistance and observed that the male Singaporean had […]