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Stories you might’ve missed, June 13

Maxwell Food Centre: Mouse falls from ceiling, lands on diners’ table, infestation reported to authorities

 

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Photo: Taken from Google Maps and Canva.com/used for illustration purposes only

Hawkers at Maxwell Food Centre are concerned about a possible rodent infestation, as a family of mice have been spotted scurrying around the ceiling. A mouse also fell onto the tables on separate occasions.

“I am definitely worried. As an F&B operator, we are particular about hygiene as it is extremely important,” said a stall vendor to Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News.

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Resident tells Jamus Lim she felt ‘foreigners were able to secure higher-paying jobs in her company, while Singaporeans scrambled below’

 

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Photo: FB screengrab/jamuslim

In a recent house visit, the residents of one Anchorvale block told Jamus Lim of their current struggles, including one woman who said she felt that non-Singaporeans had taken positions with the highest salaries in the firm she works for, to the disadvantage of citizens.

The Sengkang GRC Member of Parliament added that this type of situation has heightened for some Singaporeans recently, as salary increases have not kept pace with the rising cost of living.

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After passenger questions taxi surcharge, driver complains he was threatened, said he’d drive to police station

 

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Photo: FB/ComfortDelGro – for illustration purposes only

One netizen took to the popular COMPLAINT Singapore Facebook page after she said she had a negative experience with a ComfortDelGro taxi driver.

Mandy Wong wrote in a June 11 post that she booked a taxi using the company’s app.

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All sorts of clowns on the road: SUV spotted with tailgate open for bicycle

 

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Photo: FB screengrab/ROADS.sg

A video of an SUV driver endangering other road users by letting his tailgate door hang open to contain a bicycle got netizens commenting on the “crazy” road sightings.

“How can this be allowed?” asked netizen Yizhong, sharing a video on Facebook page ROADS.sg on Saturday (June 11).

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Maid steals items worth over $8k from employer, including gold bar & $1 makeup

 

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YouTube screengrab for illustration purposes only.

After the employer of a domestic helper found a number of pawn tickets that matched the missing items in their household among the maid’s belongings, she confronted the helper.

The maid admitted to having stolen the items from the employer, which eventually led to her arrest.

Read more here…


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