A new shuttle train service between Singapore and Johor Bahru kicked off on 2 Jul 2015. The service, called Shuttle Tebrau, is operated by Malaysia’s Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) and ferries commuters between the Woodlands Checkpoint and JB Sentral in…
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Woodlands park
Tucked away in a corner of Marsiling close to the Causeway and housing blocks, the Woodlands park was built in 1983, with seven Chinese pavilions and six Malay huts on stilts. But over the last decade, it has developed a…
NAC and the Sonny Liew Incident – The old trick does not work anymore
Background The National Arts Council (NAC) withdrew the $8,000 funding for the graphic novel The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye one day before its May 30 launch, claiming that it “undermines the authority or legitimacy” of the Government, and breached…
Lawrence Wong said that only 15 per cent of the overall student population in each campus reserved for foreigners. Really?
Askmelah Note: I am highly skeptical about the following statement from Lawrence Wong. With the exception of SMU, walk around the campus of NTU and NUS, you will see that it is filled with many foreigners with vast majority coming…
Singapore PM top the list of the highest paid (elected) head of state in the world
Askmelah Note: saw this LHL’s smiling image in one of the tabloid website, not sure if we as Singaporeans should be proud of our “achievement” or rubbing salt in the wounded pride of many lowly paid commoners which can not…
Impact of liberal immigration policies begins to show – social tension on the rise (updated)
[Updated 10Aug 2015] PRC’s pei-du mother accused of having an affair with a local man. [Updated 28 May 2015] China women assaulting and spitting on Simei condo manager [Updated 31Jan2015] Yuan Ching Road deaths: Man sent e-mail to media headlined “Final…
Cost issues ailing Singapore medical tourism
Source: The Straits Times 11 May 2015 I AM not surprised that Singapore has lost its shine among medical tourists (“S’pore ‘losing medical tourists to neighbours’ “; last Friday). Our neighbours are not only significantly cheaper, but they have also…
Capitol Theatre re-opens on 11 May 2015
Capitol Piazza, Capitol Singapore’s retail component of the historic Capitol Theatre It is 17 years after it welcomed its last cinema patron in 1998. The 85-year-old landmark started as a theatre in the 1930s, then became the flagship cinema of…
About democracy, justice and double standard, the same applies to Singapore
Reading the ST article “KL slammed for arrest of 29 after rally against new tax” and the latest development of TRS (“Govt orders shutdown of The Real Singapore“), Askmelah can not help but have to agree with the following statements…
Do more to help older PMETs
Source: Straits Times Apr 25, 2015 RESPONSIBILITY for the increase in the number of retrenchments last year has been placed on ongoing economic restructuring in Singapore (“More workers laid off amid economic restructuring”; yesterday). Since economic restructuring refers to…
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