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

 

Photos: YT screencaptures

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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Fight between youths leaves one lying flat on Cuscaden Road, but another comes back to kick him in the head

 

Photo: Reddit screengrab/u/Curiouschibai.

SINGAPORE: A video of a fight between several young people was posted on social media over the weekend, showing at least seven young men slugging it out with some pounding on one particular youth in black, who ended up lying motionless on his back on Cuscaden Road (between Orchard Road and Grange Road). Several young women were also present at that time, with one falling and wailing towards the beginning of the clip.

The words “Hope he’s not dead,” are written across the bottom of the 54-second video, posted on the Singapore Happenings Reddit thread on Sunday (Feb 26) by u/Curiousch*b*i.

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WP’s Louis Chua: Soon we’ll be having more than 1 coffeeshop and 1 convenience store in Rivervale

 

Photo: FB screengrab/Chua Kheng Wee 蔡庆

SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party MP Louis Chua (Sengkang GRC) announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday (Feb 28) that the BTO project Rivervale Shores will soon be handed over to residents, albeit progressively, from the next few months till the third quarter of this year.

“Existing residents will have something to look forward to as well! Soon we will be having more than one coffeeshop, and one convenience store in #Rivervale…but there’ll be eating houses, restaurants, a supermarket, and some retail shops at Rivervale Shores too. These will be tendered and fully operational hopefully by the middle of 2024,” he added.

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Property agent tries her best to sell ‘cheapest private residential land’ in SG—but there’s a catch

 

Photo: TikTok screengrab/propertygiant

SINGAPORE: The video on TikTok of the “Cheapest 999 years private residential land in Singapore” has gone viral in the past few days, which is not surprising, given current property prices.

However, despite the 1,945 sqft Punggol Rd property having a price tag of less than one million dollars, it comes with a huge warning: the buyer can’t build a house on it.

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