‘WHY NOT 18? – TIME FOR A CHANGE’ — Lee Hsien Yang makes the case for lowering the voting age in Singapore

 

Photo: FB screengrab/Lee Hsien Yang

In a much-shared Facebook post, Mr Lee Hsien Yang, the Prime Minister’s brother and the younger son of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew wrote that it is “way past time” for the country “to involve young people in democracy, political participation, and their own future.”

Mr Lee also noted in his Tuesday (Sept 6) post that there are only seven countries around the globe where the voting age is 21 or older, of which Singapore is one.

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Hawker stall allegedly refused to give elderly woman her change for economy rice; server insists she only paid $5, but aunty says she gave $10

 

Photo: Fb screengrab/ complaintsingapore

A woman took to the COMPLAINT Singapore Facebook page recently to warn the public, especially the elderly, about a negative experience her mother had when a hawker stall server did not give her change she said was due her.

While Ms Diana Soh’s mother said she paid $10 for the economy rice she ordered from Teochew Curry Mixed Veg Rice at Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre on Aug 25, the attendant said she had only paid $5.

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Customer says she found piece of ‘glass’ in her bak kwa floss mooncake

 

Photo: TikTok screengrab/@sin_ngoh

Things can show up in the most unexpected places, but surely it’s the stuff of nightmares to find foreign objects in one’s food.

A customer named Prichelle Pei, who goes by @sin_ngoh on TikTok, said in a Sunday (Sept 4) video that she had found what she believed to be a piece of glass in a bak kwa floss mooncake from Bee Cheng Hiang.

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‘Aiyoh this Myanmar chap very daring hor’ — Netizens react to man suing PUB Singapore for $578K after his bike got caught in drain grating

 

Photo: Unsplash/Aditya Wardhana (for illustration purposes only).

A man is suing the PUB, the national water agency, after getting injured in January of last year when the wheel of his bicycle was caught in the grating of a drain.

Maung Maung Aung Soe Thu, 42, a citizen of Myanmar, is seeking at least $578,000 in damages in a negligence lawsuit.

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Pritam Singh enjoyed talking to Singaporean who worked for former UN undersecretary-general, helping thousands of Vietnamese refugees; asks if anyone else has a similar story to share

 

Photo: FB screengrab/Pritam Singh

In a recent Workers’ Party outreach, Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh met a Singaporean who used to work for Mr Shashi Tharoor, a top Indian diplomat and writer who has served as an MP in his country for over a decade after a stint as a high official in the United Nations.

The WP chief wrote in a Sept 6 (Tuesday) Facebook post that at the party’s most recent Hammer outreach, a weekend activity wherein its newsletter is distributed, he met a man named Wallace, who said that Mr Tharoor is “a very good boss and a good man.”

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