Ong Ye Kung says next COVID wave is here, possibly due to holiday travel

 

Photo: FB screengrab/Ong Ye Kung

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Tuesday (June 28) that the next Covid-19 wave of cases has arrived in Singapore. However, he added that he does not believe this latest wave will be worse than the wave of infections that struck in February due to the BA.2 Omicron subvariant.

Mr Ong had said on June 2 at the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) annual Work Plan Seminar that the next wave of Covid-19 infections may arrive in a “matter of months.” More specifically, this could be by July or August.

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Woman slams SPF after police officer was caught posing for photo next to dead body

 

 

A woman took to social media slamming the Singapore Police Force (SPF) after an officer was seen posing next to a dead body that was covered by blue tarp.

In her Facebook post on Tuesday (Jun 28), the woman who went by the name Tracy Lim wrote: “Dear Singapore Police Force, is this how police officers are supposed to treat a deceased? By posing ✌️✌️like the body beside was nothing but a background or an accessory to a photo?”

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Court holds debt collection agency that live-streamed visit to Lim Tean’s office liable for defamation, damages

 

Photo: FB screengrab/SDCS HOLDINGS PTE LTD SINGAPORE DEBT COLLECTION SERVICE

A debt collection firm which called its agents “money-recovering avengers” and which live-streamed a collection visit at the office of lawyer and opposition leader Lim Tean last year has been held liable for defamation by the High Court.

The High Court said that SDCS Holdings defamed a company director when it carried out the visit to Mr Lim’s office. The agency has been ordered to apologise publicly via its Facebook page by Justice S. Mohan.

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KF Seetoh meets with local hawkers in New York

 

Photo: FB /KF Seetoh

Founder of Makansutra KF Seetoh made his way to the Big Apple to meet with local hawkers who have decided to set up shop there.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday (Jun 29) Mr Seetoh the advocate for all things hawker wrote: “Meeting and cheering with some of the hawkers in Long Island, New York. Before they begin to rock the woks, plot the pots and wok roll at Urban Hawker”.

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Women call for sex strike against men in retaliation for overturning Roe v Wade (women’s right to abortion)

 

Photo: iStock/Feminist hands holding a protest banner with the message my body my choice over a crowded street. Human rights concept against fetus law and reproductive justice. Stop discrimination and injustice.

The United States has always set the tone in terms of abortion rights, gay rights, and breaking down (in the past) barriers between men and women at work or pushing the women’s agenda forward.

However, things are changing in the United States, as evidenced by the recent Roe v. Wade court battle against abortion in some states, which prompted the Supreme Court of the world’s most powerful democratic nation to overturn a pro-abortion ruling.

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