Daily Archives: June 13, 2020 (17 Articles Found)
Over the past decade or so, calls for a minimum wage system in Singapore has not gone away, with public debates being reignited every now and then. In recent weeks, the proposal has again been mooted by some,…
Six more places have been added to the list of public venues visited by confirmed community cases during their infectious period. On Sat, MOH listed The Poiz Centre along Upper Serangoon Road, Sheng Siong Supermarket in New World…
Singapore reported 347 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Sat, and recorded one more death, said MOH. This takes the total number of coronavirus infections in Singapore to 40,197, with the number of fatalities at 26. A…
We thank Mr Yong Jun Jie, Mr Sean Lim and Mr Darius Lee for their letters. Effective contact tracing is critical as Singapore opens up, and the TraceTogether programme is an important component of this effort. To date,…
I refer to NEA’s replies (Tray return, disposing of used tissues have to be new normal, June 10; and Hawker centres have been regularly upgraded, June 11). Campaigns to encourage tray return have been around for a long…
I appreciate the Government’s good intentions in passing a law to help pandemic-hit SMEs cope with issues of rent (Law passed to help pandemic-hit SMEs cope with rent obligations, June 6). Law Minister K. Shanmugam made it clear…
We thank Mr Bernard Chua for his feedback (Work-from-home injury compensation not practicable, June 8). WICA compensates employees with work injury, regardless of where they work. This can include locations other than a registered workplace and where no…
When the Government announced its plan to roll out a wearable contact tracing device to help curb the spread of Covid-19, public backlash against the TraceTogether Token initiative was swift. Within a short span of three days, a…
The Covid-19 situation in migrant worker dormitories is improving but will take a few more months to resolve, PM Lee said in a FB post yesterday, while thanking the inter-agency task force handling the issue for their hard…
A large wild boar was spotted in Pasir Ris Coast Industrial Park 6 on Thurs evening. These days, they are increasingly spotted all over the island. In Apr, nine people were caught feeding or watching wild boars in…
Lendlease Global Commercial REIT (LREIT) has won the tender to redevelop the 48,200 sqft site on Grange Road into a multi-functional event space. The site is currently an open carpark sitting next to Orchard Building. It will be…
Foreign domestic workers (FDWs) and other customers who want to send money overseas through agencies at Lucky Plaza, City Plaza and Peninsula Plaza must now make appointments over the phone or online with remittance agencies beforehand. The rule,…
A ministerial committee will be formed to oversee and coordinate Singapore’s digitalisation push which has been ramped up in light of challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, said MCI Minister S Iswaran. He will co-chair the new ministerial committee…
1) Valley Park – What it was: Fraser & Neave (F&N) factory. Having first started operations in 1952, its first aerated water production plant in SEA was added in 1967; 2) The Anchorage – What it was: Archipelago…
As the number of Covid-19 cases in foreign worker dormitories began to spike in early Apr, Westlite Toh Guan Dormitory was one of the first two dorms to be gazetted by MOH as isolation areas on Apr 5.…
All new home renovation works, as well as new and previously suspended renovation works for non-residential premises, may resume on Mon. On Sat, BCA said that the resumption of renovation works would depend on companies’ availability of manpower…
Some online food ordering system providers in Singapore are seeing a surge in demand as F&B operators seek alternatives to the high commission fees charged by dominant food delivery players GrabFood, foodpanda and Deliveroo. Since Apr, about 500…
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