Lawyer M Ravi files case in High Court on behalf of husband seeking to use...
International human rights lawyer M Ravi took to his Facebook page on Wednesday (10 July) to announce that he has filed a case in the High Court for Suriia Das to allow him to use his CPF savings from...
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Netizens fume after Transport Minister hinted that public transportation...
While speaking in Parliament on Monday (8 July), Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that the Government is currently subsidising more than 30% of public transport operations, and it would not be...
View ArticleSDP set to launch transformative education policy while PAP continues to...
The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will be launching its new transformative education policy titled ‘Educating for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda for Transformation’ this Saturday afternoon (12...
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Amy Khor wants more elderly Singaporeans to continue working to offset low...
Speaking at the opening of the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy in Helsinki yesterday (9 Jul), Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor said that Singaporeans, who are living longer, can help...
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Singaporean citizens & PRs can leave the country with their CPF money,...
What’s the fine print when someone wants to renounce their Singaporean citizenship to withdraw his CPF monies? One Facebook user Muhammad Joe Abdullah earlier pointed out in the group COMPLAINT...
View ArticleEx-Minister Lim Boon Heng shows the way continuing to work despite in his 70s
At a High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy in Helsinki on Tue (9 Jul), it was reported that Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor wants Singaporeans, who are living longer, to help offset the...
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Phillip Ang: “Public healthcare subsidies are mostly non-existent” in Singapore
On Thursday (11 June), regular blogger, Phillip Ang Keng Hong published an article in his blog where he claimed that there’s no such thing as public healthcare subsidies after he found that the...
View ArticleWhy is Ho Ching’s salary a “state secret”?
Temasek Holdings reported a massive plunge in one-year shareholder returns for the financial year ending March 31. The Singapore state investment firm reported a mere 1.49% shareholder return in their...
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Netizens fume after town council fined a medical clinic S$1,000 for leaving...
On Monday (8 July), WAN Medical Clinic, a clinic situated at Block 416 Bedok North Ave 2, took to Facebook to reveal that it had been fined S$1,000 by the East Coast-Fengshan Town Council for leaving...
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Netizens ridicule survey results that say 8 in 10 Singaporeans are happy with...
According to a survey done by recruitment agency Michael Page, it is said that eight in 10 Singaporeans are happy with their work-life balance. In fact, it also found out that 70 per cent of people...
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Public mocks Chan Chun Sing after he said “political stability, competent...
Despite a poor global economic outlook, Singapore managed to place itself higher than others due to its strengths like its “stable political environment with a competent and united leadership”, said...
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MOM: CPF payouts determined by actual household expenditure patterns
The Manpower Ministry (MOM) defended itself in mainstream media this week (‘Different method used to calculate CPF payout sums: MOM‘, 8 Jul) saying that it uses a different method to calculate the CPF...
View ArticleSingapore’s GDP growth drops to 0.1% in Q2, lowest since 2009’s Great Recession
As the world’s economy takes a deeper dive as it prepares for a looming recession, Singapore’s second-quarter data released on Friday (12 July) showed an dreadful slowdown. According to official...
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Ministry of Law’s guide on statement of opinion vs falsehoods under POFMA...
The Ministry of Law (MOL) released a guide to explain on how the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) will apply by providing examples to illustrate the difference between a...
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Police dismiss claims of racism following incident at Bishan MRT Station,...
In a Facebook post on Wednesday (10 July), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) dismissed the allegations that police officers conducting checks at MRT stations target Malays, saying that the claims are...
View Article“Lennon Walls” spring across Hong Kong, latest form of protest against the...
Since 9 June, the streets of Hong Kong have been filled with millions of protesters marching to oppose the proposed Extradition Bill. This is because Hong Kongers are unhappy with the Hong Kong...
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Upgraded German surveillance malware FinSpy purchased by Singapore company...
Yesterday (11 July), multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky said in a press released that their experts have uncovered new versions of the advance malicious surveillance tool...
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Transport Ministry on profit making of train operators: They can’t sustain...
Yesterday, a member of the public, Mr Adam Reutens-Tan, wrote to ST Forum pointing out that train operators like SMRT and SBS Transit should not be focusing on profits as public service providers...
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Temasek on poor performance of Bayer’s shares: We’re confident of its future...
The Fifth Person, an independent investment website which won the SGX Orb Awards last year, sent a person to attend the recent media event of Temasek Holdings which presented its fund’s performance...
View ArticleTemasek’s investee company Bayer now being sued in Australia
Last month, Australian news media reported that a Melbourne gardener has become the first person to sue Bayer’s Monsanto in Australia over its weed killer product, Roundup (‘Melbourne gardener launches...
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