President Halimah’s first open house on this Sunday
If you’re hoping to take a wefie together with our new President Halimah Yacob, you can do it on Sunday, 22 October 2017. The Istana will be open for the public to visit as part of its Deepavali open house. And it will be President Halimah’s first open house after she took office last month. […]
Changi Airport Terminal 3 to conduct counter-terrorism exercise
If you happen to be at Changi Airport Terminal 3 in the wee hours of tomorrow morning (17 Oct 2017), don’t be alarmed when you see fire, flashes, and hear gun shots. The terminal will be involved in a multi-agency counter-terrorism exercise between 1am and 3am. The agencies involved include, the Singapore Police Force, Changi […]
Toa Payoh Lorong 1 pervert terrorises young girls
An old man showed an obscene video on his mobile phone to two young girls seated on an opposite table in a coffee shop in Toa Payoh Lorong 1 Block 111 coffee shop on Saturday evening, causing them to be traumatised emotionally. https://www.facebook.com/Lynne.Lin.1818/posts/10212696151811551 The two girls , 15 and 10, did not know the […]
Jialat, this time SPH really made a mess of itself…
Yup, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) really made a mess. The news of their retrenchment late last week really made Singaporeans angry at one of Singapore’s national media organisation. Two other media sites published articles with insider news that really show how poorly SPH handled the retrenchment exercise. https://www.facebook.com/Unscrambled.sg/posts/1775857642459455 https://www.facebook.com/MothershipSG/posts/1667951239911188 Both sites wrote about an […]
IPhone users be careful! Scam Alert!
IPhone users beware! IOS apps can now easily create fake login pop-ups that come up when you try to install or update and app and asks for your Apple ID password. An expert warned that if you input your password into one of thse fake boxes, hackers can steal it and use it to access […]
Netizen’s claims are FALSE: HSA
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has come out to refute the allegations made online about the actions of its investigation officers. Last Saturday, a Facebook post by a Daniel Tan Boon Huat claims that he was summoned to HSA and locked up for 8 hours without food and drink. Yesterday, the Health Sciences Authority responded […]
Don’t leave your e-bike charging overnight…Fire Hazard!
4 people including a 5-day old newborn baby were sent to National University Hospital after an electric bicycle (e-bike) left charging overnight caught fire in the common corridor of an HDB block. The incident happened at Block 231 Bukit Batok Avenue 5 at 3.05am yesterday. The 4 injured included the baby’s parents, the baby and […]
Alert! KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail Scam: LTA
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has issued a warning about an investment scam involving the Kuala-Lumpur Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project that is asking people to invest in the project. Images of fake documents showing the contract for the project claims that it is from the “Land Transport Authority Singapore and Malaysia”. The LTA has […]
Singaporeans getting richer…but can they bring it to the afterlife?
On average, Singaporeans are getting richer according to an annual wealth report by the Credit Suisse Research Institute. Singapore’s adult population has an average wealth of about US$276,885 per person, up 1.4% compared with the middle of last year. We are top in Asia and seventh globally among major economies. Not all of us are […]
Singaporean names, residential addresses and mobile numbers exposed online
This is a reader-contributed post by Ms Tan. She wrote in to warn other Singaporeans whose personal data are revealed online. “Dear Editor, My friend recently alerted me to this site as she discovered that my personal data have been exposed on this website called “Locatefamily”. This includes my name, residential address (including the unit […]