He has failed in taskforce negotiation.
He is trying to be funny by asking the public to switch to fans in the concrete jungle of SG.
Trying to up Pritam in public transport PR stunt that failed spectacularly.
It's not even 1 year after the last election last year.
Hear me out.
I get the intention behind the 10-cent deposit scheme. Improve recycling rates, reduce waste, all good goals. But the way it’s being implemented right now feels unnecessarily complicated and not very practical.
Some issues I’ve noticed:
But beyond the inconvenience, I’m more concerned about the bigger picture.
These machines and the system behind them can’t be cheap. It makes me wonder:
Honestly, it feels like we might be overengineering a problem that could have simpler solutions.
For example:
I understand the idea is to change behaviour through incentives, not just convenience. But if the system is inconvenient or confusing, won’t people just give up on it?
Curious what others think:
Interested to hear both sides! Maybe I’m missing something here.
Police already say clearly to them no display of Israeli or Palestinian symbols at Speakers' Corner for the April 11 event. Straits Times even reported on it. Then this one go and put masking tape over the shirt like that counts as covering? The Palestine symbol still can see clear as day lah, the fist, the flag colours, everything. Masking tape some more, not even properly covered. And then proudly post on Instagram story with the Straits Times article side by side, like daring the police. Got Palestinian scarf on the shoulder also. This kind of behaviour is just deliberately poking the authorities and then act blur when kena called out. You want to protest, fine, but don't act like you above the law.
every time george yeo drops another 2,000-word fb essay glazing beijing, this entire sub loses its collective mind. you guys immediately start foaming at the mouth, screaming about CCP shills and foreign interference.
but honestly? i’m just sitting here taking notes. the man is running an absolute masterclass in securing the bag.
he ate that 2011 aljunied loss, packed up his desk, and instantly monetized his geopolitical worldview. we're all down here sweating over 9% GST, monitoring BTO lottery results, and doing mental math to see if we can afford the fish at the cai png stall. meanwhile, george casually vacuumed up $2.1 million SGD in a single year as executive chairman of kerry logistics over in HK.
and his corporate board lineup is actually hilarious. you guys are fighting for your lives trying to claim $3 cashback on shopee; george is chilling on the board of pinduoduo. he literally chairs their corporate governance committee. oh, and he threw huawei singapore onto the resume just for the aesthetic.
then there’s the professional yapping circuit. event organizers are wiring this guy 20k to 80k USD a pop just to stand in front of anxious billionaires and spout the exact same shit your boomer uncle rants about at the kopitiam after downing three warm tiger beers. he is getting paid global CEO money to tell rich expats that the west is crumbling and they need to kneel to the motherland.
but the absolute peak of this hustle was his taiwan side-quest. bro flew straight into taipei, looked the locals dead in the eye, and told them to join a "chinese commonwealth." the taiwanese govt basically chased him to the tarmac with a broom and branded him a mouthpiece. do you think he lost a single second of sleep? he probably just chuckled into his champagne in SQ business class on the way to his next board meeting. minus 1,000 social credit from taipei, plus one million actual, spendable dollars to his UOB account.
the funniest shit is when the local geopolitics nerds scramble to defend him in the comments. "erm, actually, he isn't bought! he was saying these pro-china things 20 years ago as foreign minister!" yeah, no shit. that's what makes him a god-tier hustler. he used his MFA tenure as a two-decade free trial to build his portfolio. the absolute millisecond he became a private citizen, he ripped his opinions off the public domain and shoved them behind a massive corporate paywall. absolute gigabrain maneuver.
some journalist even tried to corner him in an interview a while back, asking if he was biased. most politicians would do the pathetic PR wayang. not george. he looked straight at the camera and went, "Me pro-China? I accept the label." pure, shameless, weaponized transparency.
so stop blowing your blood pressure reading his hot takes. you are raging on reddit for free, while somebody out there is wiring him offshore funds to write them. don't hate the player. respect the grind.
Sounds like a fun job honestly
> "No. We write about wealthy people, that is what we do," said Ms Lim in response. "We wanted to be fair and accurate. Shaming is not what we do.".
I think this sets a very chilling precedent.
Free speech already so many limitations, not also need to worry some rich person read the article don't like it and sue the reporter?
Hey r/singapore. Some of you might remember me from an AMA I did a few years back. I’m a mortgage broker turned property agent. Today I’m not here to talk shop. I’m here to talk about something that broke me a little.
**I used AI to correct my grammar and structure.**
Got a call this morning. HDB had done a routine inspection on a unit I manage and found 14 people living there. Legal maximum is 6. My client depends on that rental income. Now they’re facing a warning letter, a fine, or worst case — HDB repossession. Their financial safety net, gone.
I had to go down to carry out the eviction.
The corporate tenant was a PRC-owned shell company. Renting by the bed. Six to a room. They collected deposits and monthly rent from every sub-tenant, then hid behind corporate structure the moment it unravelled. Police report made. Nothing will come of it. Civil matter. And civil matters cost money — money these sub-tenants will never have.
That’s what broke me.
Most sub-tenants were Chinese nationals. Two or three were from Myanmar. Every single one of them paid $500+ a month plus deposit. Over $1,000, gone. Some had to rush back from work mid-shift just to pack their bags. They were calm. Dignified. Understanding. Even as everything fell apart around them.
The Myanmar workers destroyed me inside. Work permit holders. Maybe earning $1,000+ a month. They just lost a full month’s wages — to someone who deliberately preyed on their need for a roof over their head.
I tried to advise them. Told them eight people at $500 each is $4,000 — enough to rent a proper 4-room flat. Or split a single room between two.
They looked at me and said: a room in town is $1,200 to $1,600. That’s too much. And how do we even find someone to share with us?
I had nothing to say.
These aren’t the foreigners people complain about online. They’re the ones making your morning kopi. Making your bubble tea. Serving your table. Manning the retail counter at 10pm. They came here knowing it’s expensive — they accepted that. They just wanted a fair shot at a better life.
Instead they got robbed. Legally. Systematically. By people who knew exactly what they were doing.
And those people? They walk away. Shell company dissolved. Probably running five other units the same way right now. The sub-tenants have no recourse. The elderly landlord couple faces HDB action. The foreign workers are on the street tonight.
The ones who suffer are always the ones who can least afford to.
**Today is my birthday. I feel, I cared, I lost.**
If convicted, the man faces a fine of up to RM1 million (US$252,200), a maximum jail term of three years, or both.
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Looks like this so-called anti-imperialism event later, is held by the same stubborn group of boliao watermelons activists, trying to use a cover for their woke foreign watermelon cause. Sneakily asking people to wear keffiyehs, having SG-Palestinian activist groups involved when the event should not touch the issue of the conflict and importing foreign political conversations, when they are already warned against. They are getting their supporters (mostly students) into trouble with the law for their virtue signalling. If only these students realise that the activists are using them as a cannon fodder to fufil their selfish goals...
2 bedroom units start from $1779 psf, 1 and 4 bedroom units start from $2025 psf.
Ps, had to edit title due to the word limits
Nothing to do with the defamation case per se but at the end of the day, the issue is : some authority somewhere must know who bought and sold houses here.
And if they do, is this something they can share or make public? Under what conditions? And to who? An understanding of the process would be more useful to readers befuddled by this court case.
Hmm. Is the queen astrid park house empty? Who’s living there? Media ever go knock on door or not?
Flock of around 7 hornbills, vv lucky today but didnt see much else
just now i was riding my bicycle at zebra crossing, and i saw a sports car driving really fast approaching the zebra crossing so i stopped behind the zebra crossing waiting for him to slow down, he was driving through really fast and he didnt even stop to give way to me. and actually he couldnt even stop in time since he was driving through really fast. i saw him braked but he definitely couldnt brake in time. if i had crossed that zebra crossing, my body and bicycle would have been flinged into the air. and then during the same day 10 minutes later when i was crossing another green man at a traffic light, the traffic was also turning right and was supposed to wait for pedestrians to cross safely, but a car honked at me while i was crossing. i stopped at looked at him, since the pedestrian light was green so pedestrians have the right of way. my question is, are drivers really this impatient and entitled in singapore? i almost died today because of some impatient and speeding driver, i almost have a hatred for drivers because of how dangerous they are to pedestrians especially at zebra crossings and traffic lights.
Randomly found this video on my tiktok FYP where this guy stumbles upon a cool project where a developer,who just so happens not to be a local, made a singlish programming language which is pretty freaking cool.
The video is just the guy showcasing it which is fine and dandy until the end where he claims that (1): Singaporeans have never made a project like that and (2): We are just not creative enough. Phrased as questions like how Cartman would've done it of course.
I'm puzzled how and why he would come to that conclusion when a simple google search would show that it has been done in the past by locals. Damn gao wei to suddenly hear that. Is it possible for Singaporeans to praise something without punching down others? The last part was also completely unnecessary btw and doesn't really add any meaningful discussion to his video.
Looking at the profile of the lawyer representing Bloomberg LinkedIn page.