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Maid says she can’t handle 3-storey bungalow, 2 dogs and washing car daily, desperately wants new employer

 

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A foreign domestic worker who wrote that she was unable to handle working in a 3-storey bungalow with two dogs and a car desperately asked netizens for advice on how she could be transferred to another household quickly.

In a post to Facebook group FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the helper wrote, because she was required to do the chores in a 3-storey bungalow that included dealing with two dogs and washing the car every day, she asked her employer to release her. She added that she was now with her agent.

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SMRT drivers shocked at 53% increase rental fees in less than 2 months, no choice but to accept revised contracts

 

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After thousands of hours of service, putting their health and safety at risk amid the Covid-19 pandemic, SMRT drivers are shocked at the rapid increase in fees instead of the company’s promise of a “new and fairer contract”.

In the last six months, drivers have had three different contracts offered to them and subsequently retracted. Each new contract came with a different, higher fee, said long-term SMRT driver Sherwin Tan to The Independent Singapore.

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Food delivery rider steals 2 deity statues from Woodlands because they looked ‘pretty’, claims the gods also allowed him to take them home

 

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Food delivery rider Lin Jiaqin, 26 was caught on surveillance camera picking up the two statues from the altar located in the car park of 38 Woodlands Industrial Park E1 on Sept 21, 2019.

It was reported that the building’s manager purchased the statues for S$1,888. Two days after the theft, the manager was informed that the statues had disappeared.

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Hawker Chan increases roast pork rice price by 40 per cent — No Michelin Star for them again

 

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A customer ordering from Liao Fan Hawker Chan’s outlet at Plaza Singapura’s Kopitiam food court was shocked that the price of roast pork rice jumped from S$5.80 to S$8.10.

“I checked and found that this rice dish is no different from what was served before, other than an extra half an egg now,” said the customer to Chinese language newspaper Shin Min Daily News.

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Ong Ye Kung: Blood stocks still running low even after 1,700+ blood donors step up after appeal, so ‘eligible blood donor, please come forward’

 

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Despite a 45 per cent increase in blood donations following a public appeal by Health Minister Ong Ye Kung last week, he announced that blood stocks are still “not at healthy levels.”

He urged eligible blood donors to come forward to help save lives.

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