By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Overlapping roles can be efficient but safeguards needed” (Straits Times, 31 Dec). Key officers at town councils are often also employees of the managing agent It states that “The key officers at town councils are often also employees of the companies hired to manage the estates. This double-hatting by the staff …

Three of of Swiber Holdings vessels had been seized in an arrest moved by a syndicate of banks in Singapore on 22 December. All three vessels were arrested at ASL Shipyard, the litigant in the arrest is United Overseas Bank (UOB), acting as security agent for the syndicate of banks that had extended financing to the vessel owner in relation …

Amos Yee said on Friday (30 Dec) he regretted inflammatory posts that landed him in jail twice in his home country, he said that the videos he made which insulted Singapore’s late prime minister and various religions were in bad taste. “I told you, it is hate speech, it is overly rude, it isn’t good activism,” Yee told Reuters by …

London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) Singapore had been named Best Private School in Accountancy and Best Private School in Hospitality & Tourism at the Training & Education Development (TED) Awards ceremony on last 1 December. LSBF in Singapore was established in 2011 with the support of LSBF in the UK, under the royal patron, His Royal Highness Prince …

By Property Soul What’s the biggest headache of first time landlords? Slow economy? Soft market? Sibor rise? Bad agent? No tenant? Try again. If you had been a landlord before, you would agree with me that no tenant is still better than bad tenants. As the saying goes, being single is far better than being stuck in a bad relationship. …

SBS Transit announced that eleven of its bus services – 33, 54, 63, 80, 124, 145, 147, 166, 197, CT8 and CT18 – will be diverted in and around Chinatown, due to road closures for the Chinese New Year festive celebrations. The affected dates are: Saturday, 7 January 2017, 2.00pm to 11.00pm: Chinese New Year Light Up and Official Opening …

SBS Transit has announced that it will be adding 40 more trips a week to the North East Line during the weekday morning peak hours to cater to growing demand for rail services which will commence from Tuesday (3 January 2017). SBS said that from Mondays to Fridays (excluding public holidays), 7.30am to 9.30am, 30 trains will be in service …

National Ennvironment Agency (NEA) has announced that the year 2016 is set to be the hottest year on record in Singapore since temperature records started in 1929. The mean annual temperature recorded at the Changi climate station (as at 29 December 2016) is 28.4°C, exceeding the current record of 28.3°C set in 1997, 1998 and 2015. Temperatures soared in the …