A controversial artist arrested over a satirical monkey drawing
A provocative satirical caricature of an ape portraying Mojo Jojo from the iconic Power Puff Girls cartoon character was trending on Twitter this morning.
The cartoon’s creator, graphic designer and activist Fahmi Reza, was detained by authorities on suspicion of sedition for the satirical depiction of an ape.
Hawker refuses CDC voucher on 1st & 15th of the month ‘because there are many people’ — Customer asks, ‘Huh? What ruling is this?’
Facebook page Complaint Singapore member Myron Chang was buying lunch at Block 632 Bukit Batok Central coffeeshop Happy Hawker. Despite having the CDC voucher sticker clearly posted on the storefront of a hawker centre stall, he was surprised to hear that his voucher could not be used because it was the 15th of the month.
“There is this vegetarian store clearly has the CDC voucher sticker on it, and when I wanted to buy my lunch using the voucher, the aunty attending to me said today cannot use the voucher,” said Mr Chang. “The reason given was they do not accept the voucher on the 1st and 15th day of the lunar month,” he explained.
With Lawrence Wong named as PM-to-be, many other big questions are in the air, including the big one
And so Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai (full name), 49,is on the way to becoming Singapore’s fourth Prime Minister. Bit of surprise the way things turned out for him, considering that he has been in politics for just 10 years. He was not even on any horizon to succeed PM Lee Hsien Loong until lately.
Up to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore in early 2021, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Heng Swee Keat was on the verge of strengthening his position as PM-designate. Like everyone else in the world, he and the Singapore government must have calculated that the virus would go away, maybe, in at most a year. Out came what was thought to be a record Resilience Budget in early 2020 – meant to save lives and livelihoods and confirm Heng as the man to take over Lee’s place.
Motorcyclist rides down from wrong ramp in carpark, but argues & gives middle finger to camcar driver
Dashcam footage of an altercation between a motorcyclist taking the wrong ramp in a carpark and a vehicle driver is circulating online, sparking debate among netizens if the driver’s response to the incident merits the situation.
The video started with the driver approaching the downward ramp with the motorcyclist on it.
Child peeing into bottle in food court sparks criticisms, Netizen ask, ‘Why like that? Toilet is just outside…’
An auntie was spotted holding a bottle for a child as he relieved himself in a food court, the image sparking disgust among netizens who said such behaviour was “unhygienic and uncivilised.”
“Why like that? Toilet is just outside one minute away,” wrote Facebook page Complaint Singapore member Liz Lun in a post on Saturday (April 16).