3 fellows have been sued by their "parent company" for moonlighting - although it seems like there is more than meets the eye (and no, it’s not about transformers!). This caught my eye because moonlighting is quite prevalent in the software industry. While some programmers may hold full-time day jobs, the nature of the low ...

Of course, the Singapore government apparently has no control over fuel prices (well, some argue that the government does, if they intervene - but that’s of course, may result in anti-competitiveness) and this is not about our fuel prices vs. theirs because there’s definitely no fight. However, the Malaysia government rose the prices of fuel ...

While the Singapore government embraces Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), New York - one of the world’s busiest city decides to trash it. New Yorkers unanimously decided against setting up road pricing schemes in New York because they felt that doing so will be biased against people living out of the city central. In addition, they ...

This was probably anticipated when the Malaysian government decided that they would cut subsidies, resulting in increased cost of operation for most businesses in Malaysia. Of course, the most logical thing for them to do is to pass the cost back to the consumers. In the case of Singapore, that’s quite a fair bit of ...

So, Ms Chee Siok Chin, sister of Dr Chee Soon Juan, got charged and was found guilty of contempt of court yesterday. This was because the judge felt that their behavior in the cross-examination of PM Lee Hsien Loong and MM Lee Kuan Yew was grossly disgraceful and obstructed the delivery of justice.Dr Chee will ...

At first, it was the IT industry, then came the life science industry, but in the end, there was so much supply that people had problems finding jobs after graduating. For the IT sector, many companies were bringing programmers from India and China, who usually command a lower wage than most Singaporeans for the same ...

There’s a Singapore PHP User Group gathering @ SMU on 14th November at 2000 hrs at the School of Information Systems @ Seminar 2.2, Level 2.8:00pm The session started off with Michael highlighting the events for the evening. The PHP User group was started in mid 2006, but it was not the first PHP user ...

Some transactions were not found to be satisfactorily explained and had been referred to the Commercial Affairs Department. For those who are not familiar with what the CAD does, a check on their website returned the following:The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) is the principal white-collar crime investigation agency in Singapore. It safeguards Singapore’s …

This is really funny. I am not sure if the facility actually has the means to prevent an outward Armageddon but by publicising the location, doesn’t that make it a nice target for Mas "Limping Terrorist" Selamat and the likes? Of course, unless you are saying that there are no ammunition in the facility and ...

Shortest entry ever? Anyway, here’s a quick one so that everyone will know. If you are driving through the gantry after Dairy Farm Road on the BKE towards PIE, then you’d have to start digging deeper into your pockets… because you’d have to start paying $0.50 more if you travel through the gantry from 7:30am-8:00am. ...