Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he is “unsure” if the Lee Family Feud has been revolved in an interview with US news agency CNBC. But his brother, Lee Hsien Yang, says PM Lee has made “no attempt” to resolve the issue. PM Lee’s siblings Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling had accused him of being a “dishonourable” son who abused state mechanisms to put them in fear for their future...
In today’s “social media society”, being a policeman is difficult lah – matas are getting eyeballed for whatever they do. Take this chap, Minghui Ming, who tried to shame a mata chia that turned on its siren and beat a red light. Posting a video online, Minghui said sarcastically, “mr officer , rushing to somewhere?” Now, Minghui said that this is “sg, not...
This man was so desperate for a peek at panties that he literally put his head on the escalator line for it! On Tuesday (17 Oct) the upskirt pervert was caught loitering at The Sail @ Marina Bay at about 6pm. He then followed a lady in a dark grey skirt up the escalator, bent his body down and tilted his head up to peek in between her legs. At one point, he bent his body so far foward until his head...
Why did the ah pek cross the road on his e-bike? Doesn’t matter lah – what matters is that ah pek, 62-year-old Mr Wong, is now in hospital because when he rode his electric bicycle across the road yesterday at around 7.50am, a car smashed into him. The incident took place at the junction of New Upper Changi Road and Bedok North Avenue 3. It’s unclear who had the right of way at the time. An...
Public Transport Council Chairman Richard Magnus has possibly given the biggest hint in his latest blog post that public transport fares might be raised. Mr Magnus said that cheaper fares for off-peak public transport commuters could become a permanent feature. At the same time, he spoke of differentiated pricing – where peak hour commuters will be made to pay more than off-peak hour commuters. And...
We don’t know whether to feel sorrier for the wild boar or the 44-year-old uncle it attacked. After all, both were just minding their own business when their paths crossed. It wasn’t love at first sight. The man was walking outside a condominium at Hillview Avenue today at about 8.43am when he spotted the wild boar coming his way. He tried to run away but fell down, and that’s when the wild...
National Geographic has featured Singapore as one of the world’s happiest places in the November issue of its magazine. Why so? Because Dan Buettner, the writer of the article, believes people in Singapore “feel secure, have a sense of purpose, and enjoy lives that minimize stress and maximize joy”. Said Buettner: “Success for Singaporeans lies at the end of a well-defined path: Follow the...
Mdm Tan is neatly dressed, carries a clutch bag and pushes a trolley. From appearances, it’d be hard to tell that this 80-year-old ah ma sleeps on the streets of Chinatown – most would think she’s just lepak0ing there to while away the time. Mdm Tan usually sleeps on a stone bench in front of the CK department store in the area. This, despite having 7 children and 18 grand-children. Speaking...
A Comfort cab was caught making a dangerous manoeuvre on the expressway that could have seriously injured a motorcyclist. The incident took place last night at about 9.15pm. Amir Akyd was turning out of the expressway when a Comfort taxi on his right side suddenly cut across the road divider and almost hit his motorcycle. He said: “SHD3418T…First you exit at high speed…then u try to...
Raised voices and flailing arms, but fortunately, this lady in red and the motorised wheelchair rider she was quarrelling with didn’t come to blows. The motorised wheelchair rider had boarded the train at Bishan MRT station and was heading in the direction of Dhoby Gaut. When the train arrived, he rode his motorised wheelchair into the train and reversed into a bay designated for wheelchairs. An...
He had entered into an open relationship with his girlfriend, but grew angry when she started seeing other men and told a friend he wanted her to “die an ugly death”. Then, when his rage boiled over one evening, he really killed her. 28-year-old Neo Chun Zheng stabbed to death his 23-year-old air stewardess girlfriend Soh Yuan Lin with a 9cm-long knife along the common corridor outside his flat...
65-year-old retiree Mr Tan was lepak-ing on the sofa in his living room and about to head to bed when he heard an “explosion” from his kitchen. After getting over his “stunned like vegetable” initial reaction, he went to investigate and found that floor tiles in his kitchen had cracked for no apparent reason. The incident took place on Friday (13 Oct) at about 9pm. Mr Tan, who stays in a HDB...
LYNN LIM: Anyone knows this elderly man who can be someone’s father or grandfather ? Anyone know why did he want to do this ? This man showed lewd obscene video to 2 young girls age 15 and 10 at Toa Payoh Lor 1 blk 111 coffeshop. Date 14 oct 2017. Time 8.45pm The 2 girls are traumatized and the 10 years old kept crying. The man shouted at the girl’s mother to go report police if not happy...
Speaking a week after the first ever flooding of an MRT station in Singapore, SMRT CEO Desmond Kuek says SMRT needs to iron out “deep-seated cultural issues” and regrets that many major disruptions have been attributed to “human error”. SMRT has since “re-deployed” its vice-president of maintenance, Ng Tek Poo, following the flooding. Besides the flooding incident on Saturday (7 Oct) which...
