Current Affairs

On Sunday (21 April), local urban farm OnHand Agarian took to its Facebook page to announce that the company will be ceasing all dealings with the National University of Singapore (NUS) in response to how the school handled its recent sexual misconduct case. One of its student, Monica Baey, recently made national headlines when she exposed a fellow male student, …

The Prime Minister’s Office announced yesterday (23 Apr) that Heng Swee Keat would be promoted to Deputy Prime Minister on May Day. He will remain Finance Minister and continue chairing the Future Economy Council and National Research Foundation, PMO said. Current Deputy Prime Ministers Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam will relinquish their roles but remain in the Cabinet as …

Before Chinese New Year, hubby told me he had prepared new banknotes and red packets like what he did every year. I also passed him the red packets from my relationship manager. “We can’t use those. Mine are special ones. I have to schedule an appointment at their priority banking branch in Orchard to collect these. See, they are all …

by ValueChampion Amidst the longest bull market in history, investors are constantly chattering about whether the market has reached its peak. While Warren Buffett has shied away from making commentaries about the market, here’s what one might infer from his actions. Amidst the longest bull market in history, investors are constantly chattering about whether the market has reached its peak. While many …

I just read the book Financial Freedom: Talks With People Who Don’t Have To Work Anymore. The author Gisela Enders interviewed seven Germans who generate enough income from investments to cover their living expenses so they no longer have to work for money. It was originally written in German and being translated into English. (Which European will talk to strangers …

by Andri Sulistyo with Kiki Sirigar JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Political hopeful Yayat Abdurahman bet that he would be a winner among some 245,000 candidates in Indonesia’s huge election last week, but his dreams of public office are fading fast as the votes get tallied. So the stressed-out candidate checked into an Islamic healing centre where a cleric prayed for his …

A week after the story of the NUS student who was filmed in the shower made headlines, local gender equality advocacy group AWARE came out with a statement echoing public outcry for how the case was handled by the authorities and the university. AWARE said it was “distressed” to head about what had happened to the victim, Monica Baey, and …

National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate Monica Baey, who is currently in the limelight for highlighting her case of being filmed by a male student while she was taking a shower in the hostel, said that she is glad with the support that she has been receiving, and hoped that her case will be reopened. In addition, she also wish …

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam recently posted on Facebook regarding “a major step in leadership succession” taken today (23 April) for Singapore’s future. In an earlier announcement by the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr Heng Swee Keat will be promoted to Deputy Prime Minister with effect from 1 May 2019. It said …

Just leaving it out here for readers to compare the two comments made by Minister of Home Affairs and Law, K Shanmugam on the alleged egg-throwing threat which the police took action upon and the case of outrage of modesty which the police choose to issue a 12-months conditional warning.