Current Affairs

The Auditor-General’s Office of Singapore recently released 2018/19 annual report reveals a miscalculations of Medifund assistance for B2 wards since 2013. One hospital in particular handed out an extra S$119,100 in assistance between April 2017 to March 2018. The report, which presents audit findings on a broad swathe of agencies, ministries and bodies of the government, notes that the AGO …

Getting a new ATM card in the mail just before your existing one expires seems serendipitous. At least it was for one POSB customer until they realised that the new card they received was a PAssion POSB debit card which is a tie-up between the bank and the People’s Association. The customer, Ng Gim Yeow said in a letter published …

From 7 May, the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) began accepting views from Singaporeans as part of its second feedback round on the implementation of fifth-generation (5G) network. Upon gathering the results from the public consultation exercise which ended last Tuesday, it was revealed that the public is concerned about the health impact of 5G mobile networks, with some urging …

CPF’s statement misleading, says Suriia Das whose application to withdraw his CPF savings to continue paying for his wife’s cancer treatment was denied by the CPF Board. Mr Das’ wife Mdm Sarojini Jayapal was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016 and the couple have been fighting against the illness with everything they have since then. Having emptied out both their …

With all the recent discussions surrounding protests and demonstrations, on whether or not a movement such as the one in Hong Kong would ever be replicated in Singapore, one has to wonder what the founder of Singapore would have said about Singapore’s reticence to public assemblies. In an interview back in 1967 on NBC, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan …

A set of measures to stem the increase in moneylending activities targeting work pass holders were launched by the Ministry of Law on Monday (15 July), including restrictions on the supply of loans by licensed moneylenders (LMLs) to foreigners, a reduction of the aggregate loan cap for low-income foreigners, as well as new restrictions on LMLs’ lending and advertising practices. …

Human rights and law reform organisation Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) released a statement today (16 July) calling for Singapore authorities to withdraw “baseless allegations and unwarranted threats” against Malaysian lawyer and founder of LFL N Surendran who has been representing Malaysians death row prisoners, including Pannir Selvam Pranthaman. It appears that the Singapore-General’s Chambers has made the accusation in a …

A member of the public, Gabriel Cheng Kian Tiong, wrote to ST Forum today (16 Jul) questioning People’s Association on why a facility of community club was used by foreigners to further their political causes. “A community club is basically a place for citizen-oriented activities and the fact that Myanmar nationals used it for their political causes in this instance …

The media reported on Monday that the joint venture project between Singapore and India to build the new Amaravati capital city for the state of Andhra Pradesh has been stalled by the Indian state government (‘New state government reviewing Amaravati plans‘, 15 Jul). The project is a joint development between the Singapore Consortium led by Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp Development, and …

After the close of the markets last Friday (12 July), it was reported that Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) third-quarter profits dropped by 44.1% from $46.91 million last year 3Q to the present $26.2 million. While their digital media segment posted good improvement in revenues, the traditional print advertisement revenue declined by a 16.7%. Additionally, the circulation revenue was also lower …