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Latest news says that BP is facing 221 lawsuits and thousands of civil class action suits that could cost the company up to 50 billion US dollars in liability and compensation payouts. The company has already spent 2 billion dollars in trying to cap the blow out well without success. The...

We have to fine these civil serpents, scums, - hold them accountable, if the public fall sick or die from food poisoning - due to their negligence to check sanitation and hygene at makan places, becoz they are too busy trapping and fining people. Got all the manpower to hang around coffee...

The mandarins running NEA has converted it into a profit center. Deploying most of its staff to sit in coffee shops and hang around public places to catch smokers and litterbugs. Ready to pounce on the unwary with a fine imposition. What about the real job of deploying field officers to...

The French were good at it 2 centuries ago. Do it like the French Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the 63-year-old absolute monarch of this tiny, oil-rich country on Borneo island, married Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, a former Malaysian TV news journalist, in 2005. Azrinaz, 30, gave birth to the...

Shameless pigs. Even using a religious mask and God's name , they still cannot hide or contain their voracious greed and avarice. Send them to jail, they deserve punishment here on earth. Hell can wait.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment...

You and your fav FT bashing topic are getting stale and boring. How long does it take you to realise this, ?

This old man always think he has got everything right. That what he do is always right because he know what is good for HIS Singapore. That is his problem. But there is no one lackey of his willing to tell him he is wrong. Because they like collecting the fat pay checks. For that they...

Why are so many food stalls in various coffee shops closed down? People have no disposable income like before? The salary and wages taken home are on average nearly 40% below the 2008 levels. It is a tough life for many of us.

Throw smoke for what ? You cant see the forest because of the trees.Then you accuse others for not able to see the full picture. maybe you don't want to know. You like to hear and know what you like to and prefer to. All other things you just don't want to know. Good. wallow in your little...

This issue of undercutting. On the surface it is a valid point. Lets explore this further. Take this PRC . He works at the same job as the Sporn but at 40% below the latter's wages. He has no CPF, no medisave and has no privilege to easily hop jobs. Over and above that, he has to pay a...

And you think that the attitudes of locals are as long before. Har working, looking for opportunities and making initiatives ?. Apparently not. today's youngsters are into iphones, online gaming and hanging around in dile groups. They are not hungry anymore. They have a house , food on the...

You want a free ride. Just recall what LKY said many yeaars ago. " I will not allow Singaporeans to ride in the back of foreigners. As long as I am alive, I will not allow that soft option ". And he allwoed many Malaysian workers in to reduce the manpower shortage. He was referring to the very...

There is nothing you can do about it. Sporns are FTs in other countries. And other country nationals are FTs in SG. It has been like that all the time. In the past, present and in the future. That's the way it is. With globalization the situation will be more fluid. Sporns who fail...

One can see flyers in estates like Sembawang, Admiralty that shows the price of price of 5 rm flats at 370K to 400 K plus. 4 Rooms below 300K. It appears these high prices are mostly in specific locations in specific areas. Or are we missing something here ? Anyone like to enlighten...

The NEA, or National Enviornment Agency . What work is it doing ? What are its priorities ? It seems its staffs' sole work purpose is to trap, entice sporns to make some littering or smoking violations in order to whack a fine on them. Some of the food centers are in horrible state of...

They use high rent as a lame excuse. It is pure greed without any consideration or compassion.

This "high rental" thingy is an excuse. Used always to justify their greed. The greed of the coffee shop owners. Plain fat cats. Do you know, a cup of coffee costs less than 10 cents in ingredient cost ! Do you know, that all the coffee shop tables and chairs are provided free of cost...

Easy. Stop protecting these coffee shop cartels who fix prices for everything. These are fat cats who can afford to keep their businesses closed in defiance to any demands to lower prices. Look at them. They do not even have any incentive to innovate, change their business practices or even...

My cousin emigrated to Australia in the 1997. Based on points system. Very easy to score. He is only a machinist somehow. And he with his family went in rightaway as a PR. He and his family members get same hospital charges and school fees as the locals. Nothing extra, is charged on him...