It was reported on Wednesday how a 68-year-old cleaner, Madam Teo Ino Meo had to forgo her one week trip to Hokkaido with her friends after a local travel agency, Sky Travel & Tours Pte Ltd sent messages to its costumers on Tuesday afternoon, stating that the company had shuttered and that its services would cease immediately. Lianhe Zaobao had …

A 5.0 Ritcher scale aftershock struck Aceh on Wednesday (7 December) at 11.05pm local time (8 December at 12.05am Singapore time). Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that the aftershock centered at a depth of 10 kilometers. Fortunately, no no tsunami warning was issued followed the earthquake. Local media, Detikcom, wrote that people were rushed from inside their houses and evacuation …

By Property Soul A blog reader shared with me that he had put down a deposit to buy a property for investment. When he applied for a housing loan, to his big surprise, the bank told him that he couldn’t pass the TDSR (Total Debt Servicing Ratio) test. “I thought I was financially sound. How could I possibly fail the …

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has issued a statement that expresses Singapore’s condolences towards Indonesia for its recent earthquake that struck Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh on 7 December 2016 at 5.06am. “Singapore is shocked by the tragic loss of lives and serious damage caused by the earthquake that struck Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh on 7 December 2016.  The Government of …

A Singaporean, Mui Chee Mun (53), was sentenced in the State Courts on 6 December to 36 months’ imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining work passes for 37 foreign workers, for a company that was not in operation, and to 24 weeks’ imprisonment for collecting kickbacks from the workers by threatening their work passes to being cancelled, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) …