In response to SingPost’s public apology over their shortcomings in recent months, regular finance commentator and retired banker Chris Kuan questioned their excuse of saying “peak season” is the reason why they have been slacking in their service. Releasing a statement on their Facebook page yesterday (14 January), SingPost revealed that the November-December peak season was extremely busy for them …

Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan warns countries dealing with the Republic to not take Singapore’s consistency, and some would say predictability, for granted. “We will always take appropriate measures to safeguard our interests. And any country dealing with Singapore must assume that it is cost-free to embark on any adventures or antics against us. There will be consequences,” he said. …

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Monday (14 January) that the food and beverage behind famous restaurant chain Penang Culture has been fined S$94,500 for falsely declaring salaries in work pass applications. On 27 December 2018, GD Group was convicted of seven charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, with another 13 taken into consideration during sentencing. In …

It has not been a good time for Singapore Post (SingPost). The mail company has been receiving plenty of attention from the public, but for all the wrong reasons. Yesterday we ran a story on how the company apologised to a business man after attempting to cover up their failure to deliver his flyers after the man paid S$7, 000 …

Singapore Post (SingPost) is back in the limelight for another bad publicity when its staff was caught red-handed trying to dupe a small business owner, who had paid S$7, 000 for flyer distribution, and was informed that his flyers were distributed, but in reality it wasn’t. Johnson Tan, a massage parlour owner, had engaged a service from SingPost that prints …

The second summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to happen soon and Singapore is one of the shortlisted venues, along with Vietnam. On Sunday, Trump revealed that the US is already ‘negotiating a location’ for the summit which he expects will take place early this year. To make things convenient, …

Taiwanese-based Singaporean activist and blogger Roy Ngerng Yi Ling wrote on his Facebook page yesterday (10 January) that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong singled out blogger Leong Sze Hian to sue him for civil defamation, for merely sharing an article on Facebook, and he should be penalised for this action. Ngerng pointed out that there were almost 10,000 individuals who …

On 10 January, Lee Hsien Yang (LHY) took to his personal Facebook page to question the need for Attorney-General’s Chamber (AGC) to use public resources on a private matter, and to do it after all these years. He is referring to the latest family dispute in the Lee’s family where the AGC lodged a complaint of 500 pages to Law …

In the latest development of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong versus Leong Sze Hian law suit, PM Lee had filed his Defence to Mr Leong’s counterclaim for abuse of process of the Court and chose not to reply to the Defence put forth by Mr Leong. Instead, he filed another application to strike out the counterclaim. Mr Leong, financial consultant …

Lim Tean, Founder of political party People’s Voice, is all set to organise a rally titled Abuse of Process at Hong Lim Park on 26 January from 4.00pm to 7pm. Announcing this news on his Facebook page, the Singaporean politician and lawyer, said that one of the speakers that will be joining the rally is Leong Sze Hian. Leong, who is …