SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board has called on all foreigners who have previously contributed to the social security scheme to transfer out their savings following their accounts being closed automatically in April. The board said to date, the majority of 300,000 non-Singapore citizens (non-SCs) and non-permanent residents (non-PRs) whose accounts were closed have yet...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A maid who allegedly beat her employer’s dog which later died was arrested on Aug 26 and charged in a district court on Aug 27. Junny Lal Awn Pui, 26, a Myanmar national, faces four charges under the Animals and Birds Act. The charges accuse her of abusing a 13-year-old male brown...
SINGAPORE: More than two in five people in Singapore believe they will never be able to achieve financial freedom based on their current trajectory, a poll has found. Of the 3,000 people polled, 29 per cent said they will be able to achieve financial freedom, 27 per cent said they have already attained it, while 44...
JOHOR BARU: Police are on the hunt for a suspect who allegedly placed two red pills, believed to be drugs, on another man's motorcycle at a petrol station in Majidee, here. Johor Baru South OCPD Asst Comm Raub Selamat said the incident occurred last Tuesday (Aug 20) when the 37-year-old victim was on his way to...
SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): A convicted oil tycoon’s mansion is being sold for nearly S$4 million (US$3.1 million) off its original asking price, in a sign of the pressure on valuations in Singapore’s high-end market despite a recovery in sales. The so-called good class bungalow, co-owned by Lim Oon Kuin, founder of collapsed oil firm Hin Leong Trading...
Singaporeans love durians. But when a picture posted to Facebook last Saturday (Aug 17) proclaimed the ‘King of Fruits’ as Singapore’s national fruit, Malaysians were less than impressed. The pic was titled ‘National Fruits of Countries in Southeast Asia’ and it also listed the durian as the national fruit of Malaysia and Indonesia. It also showed other Southeast Asian...
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said he is certain that Thailand will continue to progress and prosper under the leadership of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Wong, in a letter on Tuesday (Aug 20), congratulated Paetongtarn on her appointment as Thailand’s prime minister, and said both countries enjoyed strong ties. He said: “Singapore and Thailand share longstanding and...
JOHOR BARU: The state government hopes that the setting up of the Special Economic Zone and the Special Financial Zone here will help address the issue of locals moving to Singapore seeking employment. Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi feels that the factor of salary was among the main reasons for people seeking employment in...
SINGAPORE: A man with mild intellectual disability was sentenced to 15 months’ jail and two strokes of the cane for molesting children in public, including a victim as young as nine years old. District Judge Kelly Ho, who handed Ong Kian Peng his sentence on Wedesday (Aug 14), said Ong knew what he did was wrong,...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng told the High Court on Tuesday (Aug 14) that allegations about the arrest of his son at Singapore Changi Airport four years ago, spread by blogger Papagomo, have been denied by former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador. Lim, 64, said that Abdul Hamid, on...
