Category: Social Ills in Singapore

This category shares all the social ills we witness in Singapore including wastage, poor social net, social enclave, suisides etc etc

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

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

Rude passenger verbally abused taxi driver

Singaporeans react to video of rude passenger bullying taxi driver  Video of passenger scolding taxi driver goes viral – Outraged netizens even claimed to have found the man and revealed his details. However, the Facebook page of the man appears to have

Rubbish problem in Singapore

Jdents that Singaporust another one of those incieans and its inhabitants show the lack of civil consciousness, the root cause of the problem is the years of availability of army of cheap foreign cleaners which resulted in the Singaporeans’ poor mentality of

Why the old Singapore is better than the new one?

Askmelah has to agree with Mr Victor Mills on many of his views of the old Singapore were better. People were happier then (Pre-1990 and somewhat less between 1990-2015 and worst after LHL took over the reign), here are the

S’PORE KTV HOSTESS EARNS WHOPPING S$16,000 PER MONTH

Published by farhan Source:  AllSingaporeStuff.com  Tue, 20 Jan 2015 Unless you are a hostess, you would not really understand the risky nature of the job. So declares Miao Miao who works as a freelance nightclub hostess, flitting between three main

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