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Morning Digest, Apr 26

Ho Ching’s list of best defence against scammers starts with ‘Don’t be greedy’

 

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Ho Ching wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday (Apr 24) what she believes is the best defence against scammers, posting a list that begins with “Don’t be greedy.”

Mdm Ho, 69, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as well as chairperson of  Temasek Trust, is a prolific social media commentator.

Read more here.


Leadership on the Quiet: Women need not become chest-thumping macho men to lead

 

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It was International Women’s Month in March, and it was International Women’s Day on March 8. So, aside from covering the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s media has been focused on women and their achievements in a number of fields.

The Economist, a British weekly news magazine, even went so far as to publish an article that declared Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable.”

Read more here.


 

Thor is in Singapore! — Photo of lightning strike heading straight to an HDB flat window sparks witty explanations from netizens

 

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Photo: FB screengrab/The Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS) and unsplash.com/Mateusz Wacławek

With Singapore in the middle of the monsoon season, photographers are on standby to capture amazing shots of nature’s fury, such as a perfectly-timed lightning strike!

“Looks like it’s heading straight into the house,” wrote Facebook page The Photographic Society of Singapore member Mak Wei Seng in a post on Saturday (Apr 23).

Read more here.


 

Jamus Lim wanted to be garbage collector when he was a young boy, today he dreams of all workers receiving sound, living wages that reward them for honest jobs, done well

 

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Photo: FB screengrab/jamuslim

In a Facebook post about #CleanSG Day at his constituency, Sengkang GRC, Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Jamus Lim wrote that he had once aspired to be a garbage collector as a young boy.

The MP, an Associate Professor in economics at ESSEC Business School, wrote that “perhaps I was enamored by the trucks” by way of explanation for wanting to have been a garbage collector, but added that at present, part of his estate walk routine every week is to inspect rubbish chutes and collect trash, plus holding the now quarterly #SengkangGRC #CleanSG Day.

Read more here.


 

What do I do? — Man seeks advice on how to deal with ‘overly needy’ girlfriend who also ‘invaded his personal gaming space’

 

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A man whose girlfriend “invaded” his “personal gaming space,” leading him to drop a team member and causing their rank to also drop, has asked for advice on how to deal with her. He described the woman as depressed as well as “overly needy” and the man appears to be at his wits’ end because of her behaviour.

“What do I do? Sometimes she even resort(s) to coming over to my place during my work at home just to squeeze out every last drop of time I have left,” he wrote in an Apr 24 post on the NUSWhispers Facebook page.

Read more here.


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