Current Affairs

The iconic State Courts Building at 1 Havelock Square closed its doors on Friday (13 Dec) after 44 memorable years of operations since it was built in 1975. The State Courts held a ceremony at the State Courts Atrium – a favourite meeting point for lawyers, court users and staff and a place that has witnessed numerous events in the …

Busting yet another attempt at smuggling in duty-unpaid cigarettes, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) found 32 packets of cigarette boxes hidden in four loaves of bread on the morning of 8 December. ICA officers saw a traveller at the Arrival Bus Hall carrying four loaves of bread and behaving suspiciously, which prompted them to conduct further checks on him. …

Apple CEO Tim Cook featured Singaporean athlete Theresa Goh in a tweet yesterday (12 December), describing the paralympian as “ a force inside and outside the pool”. Mr Cook also mentioned loving how Ms Goh uses the Apple Watch in her training. When you bring everything you are to everything you do, it’s amazing what’s possible. Paralympian @theresagoh_ is a …

A member of the public Tan Keong Boon wrote to ST Forum on Tue (10 Dec) asking why Merdeka Generation member cannot enjoy subsidy when referred by a private general practitioner (GP) to a specialist at a government hospital (‘Healthcare cost: Help those who have lost co-pay option‘). “I was disappointed to learn that patients do not enjoy this subsidy …

Calling out Straits Times for the “Team Singapore Report Card” published in their print newspaper, Facebook user Sharmaine Chan asked “Is this how we repay our athletes who dedicate their blood, sweat and tears to the sport they love?” Ms Chan shared a couple of images on her Facebook page yesterday (12 December) of the so-called ‘report card’ that ST …

Non-profit Happy People Helping People (HPHP) invited politicians to join in their yearly “A Mile In Their Shoes” event in which people experience cardboard collecting for five hours to better understand the struggles that elderly Singaporeans face every day. To make it a bit more special next year, HPHP decided to invite politicians from the various political parties including the …

Singapore Red Cross (SRC) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) are calling for blood donors to help restock the low levels for all blood groups, particularly type O. On Wednesday (11 December), SRC and HSA said in a statement that the amount of type O blood in stock is only at half of the needed level, noting that the universal blood …

The Manpower Ministry (MOM) released a report today (12 Dec) revealing that the unemployment rate has gone up. The unemployment rate for Singaporeans has gone up from 3.2 per cent in the previous quarter to 3.3 per cent in the last quarter (Jul-Sep 19). Including Permanent Residents (PRs), the unemployment rate for the local residents went up from 3.1 to …

Commenting on the incident where a Certis Cisco Auxillary Police Officer kicked a PMD rider off the road, the Land Transport Authority said in a Facebook post that it does not condone any behaviour that deviates from the established rules of engagement. According to LTA, a team of LTA Active Mobility Enforcement Officers (AMEOs) and APOs was conducting enforcement duties …

Yet another case of a National University of Singapore (NUS) student insulting a woman’s modesty has hit the news. This time, 25-year old Ryan You Jun Chao was in Court on Wednesday (11 December) to face charges for breaking into the toilets and taking photos of two women. The offender faces two counts of trespassing and another two counts of …