Hazy Singapore and the conspiracy theories
Singapore PSI levels hit an all time high of 321 last night. This was the 10pm reading. Other than the seriousness of the high number, this reading cause another stir. This 10pm reading was released...
View ArticleIndonesian Foreign Minister on haze issue: Let’s not lay blame on each other
Amid criticism from its neighbors, Malaysia and Singapore, over the cross-border haze and deteriorating air quality affecting the two countries, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa talked tough on the...
View ArticleList of companies in Singapore that made workers stay at home as of 20 June
Gonna update this until we hear official news from the Gov helping the corporations who have no direction over when STOP-WORK ORDER happens for #sghaze.NOTE:1. To ministers I'm friends with on...
View ArticleIndonesia to extinguish fires using cloud-seeding
An Indonesian Forestry Ministry official yesterday said the country plans to use cloud-seeding to extinguish raging fires on the Sumatra island that have choked neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in...
View ArticleIndonesian minister: Singapore shouldn't be like children, in such a tizzy.
A senior Indonesian minister has hit out at Singapore on the haze, saying: "Singapore shouldn't be like children, in such a tizzy."Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono, who is...
View ArticleLIVE UPDATE: PM Lee and the other ministers address the public
LIVE UPDATES ON THE EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCEPrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Ministers Ng Eng Hen and Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be speaking on the haze situation at 3pm, today (June 20). Live...
View ArticleHas The Haze Fogged Up Our Perspective?
With the Pollution Standards Index (PSI) having reached not only record-breaking, but also hazardous levels yesterday, has Singapore finally reached its breaking point?The haze first started when...
View ArticleHaze: Govt should do the right things to win citizens’ trust
<pic credit: AFP>Despite how I felt, that the Singapore Government can do more to tackle haze (http://bit.ly/11m3dMb), last night when the PSI stood at 321, I made the following comment on my...
View ArticleDual citizenship holder: I was "forced" to serve NS and prevented from leaving
I am writing this because of my deeply rooted disgust for your policies.A little back ground of myself. When I was a minor my parents applied for my citizenship at secondary 1.I have always planned to...
View ArticleJoseph Ong vs Warren Fernandez – one arrested, the other not. Why?
The news reported today that the police has issued a “stern warning” to the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the Straits Times’ editor, Warren Fernandez.The warning is the result of a 5-month...
View ArticleIn Memory of Wing Lee Cheong
We received news today of the passing of prominent blogger, Wing Lee Cheong. A post by his family on his facebook page says that he passed away peacfully.Celebration of a Great ManIt is with great...
View ArticleGoh Chok Tong: Singapore Children better learn to survive the tortuous smog...
As the haze in Singapore creeps up to over 400, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has declared that the "the Singapore Child is being suffocated".In his latest Facebook post, he asked how can the...
View ArticleBoycott against Citibank
There is a thread in TRE titled ‘Singaporean should boycott Citibank’ by a blogger calling himself, Angry Singaporean Customer. He is unhappy with the knowledge that Citibank is one of the foreign...
View ArticleNEA Chief: The Haze is not act of nature but man-made
Read the opening remarks by NEA Chief Executive Mr Andrew Tan on June 20, 2013 in Jakarta at the emergency meeting with Indonesia on transboundary hazePak Yuri ColleaguesThank you for arranging this...
View ArticleIndonesia: Heavy rain the only solution to Singapore's haze woes
A heavy downpour is probably the only solution that can curb the haze problem afflicting Singapore and other nations around us, suggested the Indonesian government.Singapore is facing its worst-ever...
View ArticleWhen Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) soared to 172 at 3 pm on Wednesday, Singapore’s worst haze reading since September 1997 when the number peaked at 226. Then at 10 pm last night the PSI hit a new...
View ArticleDr Ng Eng Hen: Panic buying of masks is causing shortages
Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen, chairman of the Haze Inter-Ministerial Committee (HIMC), will be chairing a press conference today (June 21) to highlight main points arising from the inaugural...
View ArticlePhillipore Land
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View ArticleWorker's Party's Statement on Haze
22 June 2013The Workers’ Party is concerned with the haze situation that is affecting everyone in Singapore. We note that the Government has convened a task force to monitor and to act on the...
View ArticleMan arrested for flashing his 'family jewels' to an 11-year-old girl
A man in his 50s was arrested by the police for committing an indecent act after he exposed 'his family jewels' to an 11-year-old girl.The incident took place outside a clinic at Ang Mio Kio Ave 4 on...
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