Among all the town councils, the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) paid the highest rates to its managing agent (MA) — for both residential and commercial units — for three out of the past four years, figures from the Ministry…
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According to women’s rights group AWARE, NIVEA’s recent TV advertisement about a Singaporean woman being shunned for her dark armpits actually promotes “shame and insecurity about our bodies”. NIVEA’s 3 minute long advertisement films a young, attractive Malay woman, who…
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Singapore’s High Court on Thursday fined a prominent dissident blogger $8,000 for “scandalising” the city-state’s judiciary in an online commentary. Alex Au, 62, was punished over an October 5, 2013 post insinuating that hearing dates on a constitutional challenge to…
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SINGAPORE — The punishment of caning is not unconstitutional, the apex court ruled yesterday, throwing out the latest in a string of legal challenges mounted by convicted drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong. After he became the first to escape the…
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It was reported that yesterday alone (3 Mar), SMRT was hit by two train service incidents, both during peak hours. In the early morning, a signalling fault at HarbourFront station on the Circle Line stopped all trains between Haw Par…
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