Current Affairs

Residents of Sin Ming Court decided to take fate into their hands this time and voted to allow the red junglefowl in the area to continue roaming free. Residents in that corner of Bishan didn’t want the fowls removed from the estate despite complaints of noise caused by the birds. This is a different outcome to what happened back in …

NTUC FairPrice issued a press release yesterday (17 Jun), announcing that both Merdeka Generation (MG) and Pioneer Generation (PG) members will be able to enjoy a 3% discount at FairPrice outlets every Wednesday starting from 1 July next month. This is the first time the discount scheme is extended to MG members. Meanwhile, PG members will continue to enjoy an …

A day after closing down its offices in central Hong Kong in the aftermath of a massive protest against the contentious extradition Bill last Sunday, the city’s government has called upon its staff to resume operations today (18 Jun). “As the roads in the vicinity of the the Central Government Offices (CGO), Tamar have generally become accessible, the CGO will …

The Government will soon be introducing a series of dialogues to help find solutions for young parents to strike a balance between work and life. This is additional to other measures introduced previously like paternity leave in 2013 which allowed fathers to spend more time with their kids, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. DPM Heng made this announcement …

Hong Kong’s former secretary for transport and housing Anthony Cheung Bing-leung has urged Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to announce the full withdrawal of the city’s controversial extradition Bill by Tuesday morning (18 Jun), as she is scheduled to chair a weekly meeting of the Executive Council. Prof Cheung told South China Morning Post in an interview on Mon …

This past week, the city of Hong Kong has made headlines as over 2 million people took to the streets to protest the incendiary Extradition Bill proposed by the Executive Council which many say would impact the city’s autonomy from China. Starting on Sunday 9 June, a record-breaking number of protesters stood their ground, bringing the city to a standstill …

  In a video posted on Friday (15 Jun), Nas Daily commended Singapore for its lack of segregation by virtue of its HDB housing. In the video, Nas shared that he grew up not having a balanced view on diversity due to segregation in his country (Israel). He noted that segregation is a problem in every country. Case in point, looking at …

While speaking at the Building our Future of Singapore Together dialogue at the Singapore Management University School of Law on Saturday (15 June), Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said that the Goods and Service Tax (GST) would have been increased to at least 15 per cent if it weren’t for Singapore’s healthy reserves built up over the years. Earlier …

On Saturday (15 June), Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat took questions directed at him by concerned Singaporeans on a variety of issues at the Building our Future of Singapore Together dialogue at the Singapore Management University School of Law. The event, which was co-organised by government feedback unit Reach and Channel News Asia (CNA), saw the Minister addressing how …

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced that a 28-year old male police sergeant was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head on Sunday, 16 June. In a statement released on Monday (17 June), SPF elaborated that the incident occurred at the Yishun North Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC), 31 Yishun Central. The officer in question had apparently reported …