A FORMER senior investigation officer of the Ministry of Manpower was jailed for six months and ordered to pay a penalty of $1,000 on Tuesday for corruption. Gordon Tan Hock Lye, 34, then attached to MOM’s Foreign Manpower Management Division, had pleaded guilty to getting a $1,000 bribe from Chinese national Wu Hui Xia, 42, [...]
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This is a constant reminder to always follow the law in Singapore: This man accepted a bribe in return for taking the rap for a traffic offence was jailed for four months on Wednesday. Tan Poh Heng, 29, now unemployed, pleaded guilty to corruptly receiving $1,200 from housing agent Huang Yongjie, 27, to assume criminal [...]
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A tribute to the “FrancisM” Prayers and condolences for his family….
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The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, General (GEN) Alexander Yano and Flag Officer in Command, Philippine Navy, Vice-Admiral (VADM) Ferdinand S. Golez was in Singapore last February three-day introductory visit as part of their new post. They meet with Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean at the Ministry of Defence [...]
As part of Singapore’s continuous readiness practice, they conduct twice or quarterly emergency drills on various infrastructures including an island wide alarm. And today SCDF has just sounded the Public Warning System to commemorate Total Defense Day. They advised the public not to be alarmed and tune in to local radio stations for an SCDF [...]
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par?o?dy [par-uh-dee] – is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation –> Wikipedia This is something to understand more about Singapore: In Singapore, the majority live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB) [...]
Influenza A (H1N1) is a new strain of influenza virus that spreads from human to human and could spread quickly worldwide leading to a pandemic flu outbreak. The disease was known as Swine Flu because it has some elements of a virus found in pigs. But the World Health Organization now refers to as Influenza [...]
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According to Ministry of Health, Singapore is now at Alert Yellow. The response plan allows a risk management approach appropriate to the transmissibility and virulence of the virus. DORSCON is short for Disease Outbreak Response System and it lists out the list of responses that Singapore will take as a nation when threaten by a [...]
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Well, another bad news for the Filipino community in Singapore. These people do not represent the working Filipino professionals and our sisters in service industry who are legitimately working just to send money to their love ones back home. ON THE surface, they seemed like big-spending tourists that Singapore retailers would welcome with open arms. [...]
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Technorati Tags: singapore scam,psp singapore This happened in Singapore where tight control and security was taken seriously. One of today’s New Paper headline caught my attention and it read: “Woman pays $2,600 for ‘upgraded’ PSP”. A woman went to one of the local shops along Orchard Road to buy a PSP for her 12-year-old daughter [...]
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