Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told reporters after a tour of Changi General Hospital and Saint Andrew’s Community Hospital on Wednesday (6 December) that he expects to see sharp rise of government expenditure on healthcare in the next three to five years. He said that with the country’s ageing population and advancing medical technologies, government spending in this area would go up even …

Lai Yew Thiam, a friend of non-practising lawyer Ravi Madasamy also commonly known as M Ravi, was sentenced to four weeks’ jail on Thursday (7 December) after pleading guilty to two counts of housebreaking. Mr Lai, 56, has been in and out of jail since 1978 for crimes including theft, drug, and traffic-related offences. Armed with a screwdriver, the man admitted that he …

by Chris Kuan Finance Minister Heng Swee Kiat again. “Govt spending on healthcare set to go up in 3 to 5 years” reports the MSM. Healthcare expenditures will go from $10b in 2016 to $13b in 2020 due to ageing population and advances in healthcare. But before you start thinking this is new government spending, it is not. It was …

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced that a 43-year-old naturalised Singapore citizen was served with a Notice of Proposed Deprivation of Citizenship under Article 133(1) of the Constitution (“Notice of Proposed Deprivation”) on 7 December 2017. MHA said that this individual obtained Singapore citizenship (SC) by registration in 2003 through the Family Ties Scheme, however, it noted that …

by Tan Tatt Si Only when one potentially puts someone else in harm’s way, can one feel more responsible for the recommendation and opinions one so freely dishes out. I learnt that recently, donning my smarter-than-thou hat and recommending a friend to upgrade her iPhone operating system (iOS), and that caused her pain and sorrow having to revive her dead …

North-South Line (NSL) experienced yet another service disruption this morning, as indicated by many tweets from commuters since 7:00am with no official announcement from the transport operator, SMRT. Many noted that they had to wait up to 10 mins during the peak hour and highlighted that there was overcrowding on the train platforms. However, commuters noted that they were not …