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Worried for Boon Wan and the HDB
Since Boon Wan’s revelation that HDB was losing money for every flat it sold and the amount was a scandalous billion dollar annually, he has been questioned and ridiculed by many bloggers who simply...
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Look No Further Than Your Own HDB Staff for National Conversation
Recently, HDB decided to hold a National Conversation to engage more Singaporeans on their opinions on housing affordability and monetisation means. Click onhttp://www.mnd.gov.sg/homesweethome/ Most of...
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Boycott our ineffective NTUC union – cancel your membership fees now!
Transitioning is starting a campaign to boycott our ineffective NTUC union and asking our readers who are NTUC members to cancel their membership with immediate effect.The monthly membership fee is $9...
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COC wants May Day protest organiser to submit accounts
On Fri (26 Apr), TNP published a news article (‘Charity watchdog in walks with NGO’), revealing an “internal squabble via e-mail involving people behind the Feb 16 Population White Paper protest at...
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PM Lee: Grow the Economy to Grow Your Wages, Really?
The Straits Times reported yesterday that PM Lee Hsien Loong had said that, “for incomes to rise, the economy must grow … Everyone would like their lives to become better and one important way of doing...
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建屋发展局没有从兴建组屋中获利 — 许文远打什么「花腔」？
在xinmsn，我看到了《许文远：建屋发展局没有从兴建组屋中获利》的时候，内心就如翻到了五味瓶，难过得直想呕吐。在马宝山的时候，这样的陈腔滥调，已经没有市场了。许文远再次祭出这过时的法宝，司马昭之心昭然若揭，人民都是猴子啦！许文远说：这些土地不是免费的。当局必须购买土地和填土，涉及一些成本。为了让土地有价值，当局还必须建造基础设施，这也需要几十亿元的开销。因此，建屋局...
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Heard from a PAP activist, all PAP members are advised not to engage netizens
From teh horse mouth, something interesting about PAP's directive to all ministers, MPs and the like....Almost 1 mth old news that I just found out fm a PAP activist that I met over dinner....fm e...
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Security officer charged with vandalising Cenotaph
A 32-year-old Singaporean man has been arrested for vandalising a national monument.At about 7.17am on Wednesday morning, a member of public had reported to the police that the Cenotaph war memorial at...
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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REAL REASON WHY SALARIES ARE LOW IN SINGAPORE?
Straits Times Says Salaries Are Low Because of High InflationThe Straits Times on Saturday carried an article which wanted to convince Singaporeans to believe that the reason our starting salaries have...
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50 Hougang residents rush to help crying stray dog from AVA officers
TRS reader Ting Ann said about 50 Hougang residents heard the cries of a stray dog and rushed to the scene. It seemed that a spiked rope was being used to capture the dog and the residents were trying...
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Democracy - Are you for REAL?
In Singapore and Malaysia, or most ill-democratic countries in the world, opposition parties are fighting on the moral high ground of Democratic principles. However, for any political parties that...
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Couple sent to prosecutors after cover blown on MRT
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A female senior high school student and a male college student who were filmed apparently engaging in oral sex on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system were yesterday referred...
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Piling dirt on Nizam?
by Salima NadiraPeople like to gossip. And boy, are they gossiping about Mr Nizam Ismail, who recently resigned from the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) over the G’s unhappiness at his...
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PRC jailed for hiring phantom workers & other labour offences
Zhang Xinyan, 40, a PRC director of a cleaning company, Spark N Brite Pte Ltd, has been sentenced to 4 weeks’ jail and fined $2,500 for hiring phantom workers and other offences today.She lied that she...
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Response to MCCY Letter – My Intentions being Misperceived
By Nizam Ismail:I read with disappointment the letter by Ho Ka Wei, Director of Corporate Communications, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth which was published on 29 Apr 2013 in the Straits...
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Mum of driving instructor crushed by tree tells his student: I'll never...
The mother of the driving instructor who was crushed by a tree will never forgive his student, who was driving at the time.Jason Cheong, 25, was killed when a tree fell on his car in Admiralty on...
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Thick clouds of black smoke seen as fire breaks out at Jurong factory
A few TRS readers spotted this cloud of thick black smoke billowing from a factory in Jurong. TRS reader Virusdemon says that the smoke is getting thicker as time passes.TRS reader Virusdemon was at...
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Norwegian "FT" beat up cabby over $4 midnight surcharge
A Norwegian man who grabbed a cabby by the neck, shoved him across a hotel lobby and hurled him into a lift, was jailed for six weeks yesterday.According to a report in The Straits Times, Christian...
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Young obesity doubles death risk before 55
Men who are obese in their early 20s are twice as likely as peers of average weight to die before reaching the age of 55.PARIS: Men who are obese in their early 20s are twice as likely as peers of...
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If a CEO told his shareholders he is losing millions without explaining it,...
Recently I was shocked and baffled by the statement made by Minister Khaw Boon Wan on how HDB is losing millions and MOF have to subsidize HDB because of these losses.What do you think is the outcome...
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