Customer calls out ‘unfair’ full-price charge for ‘more meat’ at mixed rice stalls
Singapore — A customer has complained about pricing practices at mixed rice stalls, observing that unfair pricing has been ongoing for years and has become more prevalent recently.
The extra costs at food and beverage establishments have often been highlighted on social media. Customers say that the extra charges imposed don’t match the value added to the meals they purchase.
Parents call out “new kind of stress” in new PSLE scoring system for students aiming top grades, though benefiting average students
Singapore — A total of 98.4 per cent of the students who took the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year under the new scoring system will go on to secondary school, it was announced on Wednesday.
Parents with children who sat for the PSLE exams this year have highlighted a new kind of stress for students aiming for top grades at the Achievement Level (AL) range.
Michelle Yeoh, once staunch Najib supporter, co-producing 1MDB scandal TV series
A series based on a best-selling book about Malaysia’s historic 1MDB corruption scandal is in the works, with no less than Michelle Yeoh, one of the most famous Asian stars, as co-producer.
In 2018, Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s book Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World became a New York Times best-seller and was named the Financial Times 2018 Book of the Year.
Netizens slam ‘Healing the Divide’ founder after reports of alleged instigation to flood public hotlines amid pandemic
Singapore — After the police said in a Nov 25 media statement that a 45-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man are under investigation for allegedly encouraging people to overwhelm public hotlines with feedback amid the ongoing Covid pandemic, including one belonging to the Ministry of Health (MOH), netizens expressed their anger.
The man and woman are understood to be Ms Iris Koh and her husband, Mr Raymond Ng, according to The Straits Times (ST).
Pedestrian awarded $2 million in damages after being knocked down by car
Singapore — A man who was severely injured when a car slammed into him when he was walking on a footpath in Hougang was awarded more than $2 million in damages.
Now 30, Muhammad Adam Muhammad Lee had been at a kerb on a footpath in Hougang Avenue 2 when the accident happened on April 3, 2015.