Current Affairs

Minister of Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu said on Tuesday (10 December) that she did not find the controversial “brownface” advertisement that sparked public outrage earlier this year problematic. The advertisement, which was an advertising campaign by e-payment firm Nets, featured Mediacorp actor and DJ Dennis Chew impersonating different races. Mr Chew was seen dressed up as different races …

On Tuesday (10 December) a video captured by a vehicle’s dashcam saw an enforcement officer kicking a Personal Mobility Device (PMD) rider off his device along Bedok Reservoir Road. Due to the impact of the kick, the rider was seen flying onto the asphalt road. This shocking footage was shared by community-run traffic website, ROADS.sg. on Tuesday. According to the …

Indonesia has just experienced yet another year of catastrophic fires that have caused immense damage and blanketed the country and its neighbour in a toxic haze. Schools, airports and businesses closed, as six Indonesian provinces declared a state of emergency. This year’s fires blazed over 850,000 ha of land and forest, an area more than 10 times the size of …

About 80 firefighters and three emergency vehicles were deployed this morning (11 December) to battle a raging fire at a building in Tuas Crescent. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a statement that it was alerted to a fire at 48 Tuas Crescent around 6 am on Wednesday. Upon arriving at the scene, SCDF saw the fire raging …

by Danny KEMP and Jan HENNOP Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced calls for Myanmar to “stop the genocide” of Rohingya Muslims as she personally led her country’s defence at the UN’s top court on Tuesday. Myanmar’s civilian leader sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape as the west African state of The Gambia set out …

In a series of Facebook posts between 8 December and today (10 December), artist Christopher Pereira a.k.a “the Treewizard” questioned the building of barriers in his area which makes it difficult for people in wheelchairs to get around. Mr Pereira, who makes political figurines, shared several images of barriers that were put up on areas like ramps and the end …

The woman who was injured during the Bukit Batok fire on 1 Nov, has passed on at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) on Monday. The woman who is in her 60s, was earlier rescued from her unit at Block 210A by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) when the flat caught fire on 1 Nov. The fire was eventually extinguished …

On Tuesday (10 December) the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) calls for Courts of Singapore to be the authority that declares a piece of news as falsehood and impose corresponding penalties to ensure that POFMA is in line with the value of ‘independence’. In a statement on their website, PSP emphasised that the party is founded on the tenets of transparency, …

Local DJ Lim Peifen of Y.E.S. 93.3 took to her Facebook page on Monday (9 December) to dismiss a netizen’s claim who stated that her son received preferential treatment at Jewel Changi Airport’s (JCA) snow walk attraction. Last week, a Singaporean woman named Kailin Ng highlighted in a Facebook post that her son was denied access into the snow walk …

It was reported in the media today (10 Dec) that LTA has awarded a $210 million contract to build two stations on the Jurong Region Line (JRL) to China Railway 11 Bureau Group (‘Chinese firm wins $210m contract for 2 MRT stations‘). The China Railway 11 Bureau Group is expected to start work on the stations next year and complete …