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A former Thai Navy diver who had volunteered to help rescue 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand has died, according to government officials. Former Sgt. Saman Kunan, an ex-SEAL, died at 2:00 a.m. Friday local time (2 p.m. Thursday ET) due to a lack of air while attempting to...

Anyone who owns private condos that formed enbloc committees will definitely be cursing and swearing.

Those HDB owners who think of buying a second properties will have less purchasing power now (shoe box units??)

Yes, China will be affected, but it is likely that regional countries will be more affected than China. eg. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan In the latest developments, a small court in China approved injunction to stop US's semi-conductor company Micron from selling in China. Sounds crazy...

Housing Curbs Expected But Heavy-Handed https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/housing-curbs-absd-ltv-expected-but-heavy-handed-analysts-10503276 Last night's cooling measures are a win-win for government:- Significantly higher tax revenues from property sector & support HDB resale...

Recently URA flagged a few enbloc cases (on hold) too. Now, enbloc for huge projects with 500-1000 units will have more issues such as minority resident objections and additional cooling measures. Eg. Mandarin Gardens, Pandan Valley, etc

developers poor thing now 1. Enbloc, they pay stamp duties and taxes. 2. Then developers face penalties if they cannot sell the units within the stipulated time frame 3. Then now the additional cooling measures, makes it harder to sell.

1. Those that develop high SES projects locally will get killed. Usually these $1800-$2500psf buyers are foreigners or rich locals who are buying additional properties. For example, stamp duty is 3% + ABSD penalties = 15 to 23% for these people. These rich locals and foreigners buy a $5million...

Honestly, I think overall, both China and US will be fine. They are the players, for every tariff, they can make it up with some form of protectionism in other industries. Both countries will continue to grow in this trade war. A friend gave me this illustration: Eg. If China blocks US pork, US...

Actually, we don't even need to sit down and negotiate. If Malaysia dares to stop the water supply, we have many ways to retaliate too.

Drinking five yakults at one ago, guarantees a thorough colon cleaning process.

So sad, this morning, a housefly dropped dead in my office. I always thought that houseflies hatch eggs but I am wrong. As the housefly was fighting for its last breath, it released the hatched larves from its body. It was kind of sad, seeing so much mini crawlies coming out from the dying...

UMNO council members should run road. Sell everything and hide their money overseas.

er.....boss sam...........far better??? .

usually how long in advance? to train these officials?

ok, just kidding :biggrin: Great singing!

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co-Chairman Wang Jian died during a business trip in France on July 3 in what local police said appeared to be an accidental fall from a wall while posing for a photograph. ............................Wang told employees earlier this year that the company’s...

HDB resale prices down 0.3% in June https://sbr.com.sg/residential-property/news/hdb-resale-prices-down-03-in-june

passion card?

Addition CEVS in July is supposed to hurt CAT B more. CAT A tanked because of Lion City Leasing dumping the uber cars.