$9 million worth of transport vouchers will be available to 300,000 low income households.
$9 million worth of transport vouchers will be available to 300,000 low income households. This is to help these households cope with the latest fare increases by the Public Transport Council. This is the largest Public Transport Vouchers assistance since 2010. S$7.5 million and S$4 million worth of Transport Vouchers were made available in 2014/2015 […]
Buy car and they haven’t transfer ownership? Better check…
If you are buying or selling a car, better insist that the transfer of ownership is done within 7 days. By LTA regulations, the car dealer is required to do so within 7 days anyway, or face fines and/or jail term. Why is it so serious? There’s a scam that goes like this: To get […]
Chairman of Korean IT company made staff get on his knees after shouting and assaulting him
Yang Jin-ho, the Chairman of Korean online file-sharing site, Hankook Mirae Technology, is seen attacking a former employee at the WeDisk office. The near 3-minute video showing a clip of Yang hitting a former IT developer was recorded on 8th April 2015, at the WeDisk office in Bundang-gu in Seongnam and was released on the […]
Singaporean shares his experience of how he was almost robbed in Malaysia
Tony Lau, a Facebook user, shares his experience of how he was almost robbed with a knife pointed at him in Malaysia recently. In case you are unable to view the screenshot above, here’s a summary of what happened, according to Tony’s account: Tony was at the Tuas Checkpoint at 4am in the morning He […]
Indonesian factory workers are out of jobs and blame Uniqlo for it
2,000 workers including Warni Lena Napitupulu (46), were made redundant when a factory in Cikupa city, West Java, Indonesia shuts down. These workers had to work round-the-clock to produce garments for Uniqlo before the Japanese clothing brand decided to stop giving the factory orders, claiming that there are issued with quality and delivery delays. Warni […]
MP Lim Biow Chuan responds to Gary Ho’s post that he allegedly “said nothing” to the hawkers
Gary Ho, a longtime patron of Old Airport Road Hawker Centre, put out a lengthy post on his Facebook account, which recounted his own findings from the hawkers themselves and the allegedly unreasonable practices by the management. If you don’t feel like reading the wall of text, here’s a summary of what he mentioned in […]
Hawker Centre was an idea by Ang Moh Governor Franklin Charles Gimson!
As Singaporean, we are proud of our hawker centre culture, but how many of us know that the idea of hawker centre was the result of a The Hawkers Inquiry Commission which was set up in 1950 by Governor Franklin Charles Gimson. The inaugural public meeting of the Singapore Hawker Inquiry Commission, chaired by T. […]
Man jailed a week for breaking SBS Transit bus door because he needed to pee badly
A 41-year-old Singaporean man was jailed a week for breaking a SBS Transit bus door. According to his lawyers, the man, Chua, was in the bus when he felt he needed to pee badly. Out of desperation and also because he was drunk, he resorted to kicking the bus door and causing it to shatter. […]
30% of Singaporean are NOT satisfied with the companies they work for!
A report by human resources consulting firm Mercer, shows that satisfaction levels among employees in Singapore have declined consistently for the last three years. This is in contrast to the upward trend among employees in the region and worldwide, Mercer’s 2018 Singapore Employee Engagement Index stated. The Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia top the region for […]
Woman reports her mother to police for harassment, who allegedly also killed her grandmother
The following is a story shared by a woman by the name of Mei on her husband Tai’s Facebook account. This story is quite a bit of drama until you thought would only happen in Chinese imperial palace dramas like “Story of Yanxi Palace”. In case you are too busy to read the long story, […]