M’sian man thankful for getting S’pore citizenship, says he was robbed 3 times where he grew up and had to work 3 jobs to cover expenses

 

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SINGAPORE: A man from Malaysia who recently had his Singapore citizenship approved wrote in an anonymous post that he was very thankful.

He added that both he and his entire family had their citizenships approved. “I’m from Malaysia, although many complaints about Singapore but I’m thankful to be here. I’m thankful for the safety, stability, opportunity to save and for having my hard work being paid off here”, he wrote.

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Woman suffers $16K worth of damage to her belongings due to water leakage at storage unit

 

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SINGAPORE: A woman took to social media to complain of a “terrible ordeal” when  $16,000 worth of personal items she stored at Lock + Store Ang Mo Kio, including luxury items and clothes, were badly damaged after a year in storage.

On the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE page on Tuesday (Feb 28), Ms YT Ong wrote that after she had sold her flat and was looking for a new home, she stored her belongings at Lock + Store Ang Mo Kio from January 2022 to December 2022, which cost her $4075.82.

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Leon Perera: We should not feel good about government ‘feel good’ advertising

 

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SINGAPORE: In his speech on proposed budget cuts during the Committee of Supply debates for the Ministry of Communications and Information on Tuesday (Feb 28), Workers’ Party MP Leon Perera (Aljunied GRC) argued that taxes should not be used in funding government advertising aimed to make people “feel good” or think positively of the government.

The funds allocated by the government should instead be spent on driving behaviours, for example, adopting healthier habits or using schemes, Mr Perera said.

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Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching joins “Naatu Naatu” frenzy

 

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SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching is the latest to give in to the worldwide obsession with the Indian song “Naatu Naatu” from the Telugu blockbuster film ‘RRR’.

“Naatu Naatu” has become a veritable phenomenon across the globe thanks to the song’s fast pace, unique composition and unusual choreography. Aside from winning the hearts of billions, it has spawned dance cover after dance cover – one even by the Ambassador of South Korea – and became the first Indian song to be dissected at length by The New York Times.

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Maid forced to clean 3-storey landed house with 7 rooms and 3 bathrooms, with only 3 hours of sleep

 

Domestic worker Kartika Puspitasari shows a scar on her arm from an injury inflicted by a previous employer, at Bethune House, a shelter operated by the migrant worker advocacy group (MFMW), in Hong Kong on October 7, 2022. – Kartika, an Indonesian woman who suffered daily “torture” as a domestic worker in Hong Kong, went to court on October 6 to seek compensation from her employers over treatment that left her physically scarred and mentally traumatised. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic worker called her helper friend crying after she could no longer bear the poor working conditions that her employer subjected her to.

In an anonymous post to Facebook group FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the maid’s friend said that she got a call from the helper who was crying. Writing on behalf of her friend, the maid wanted to know if she should directly ask the Manpower Ministry (MOM) for help. The maid had asked her agent many times for a transfer but it was to no avail.

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