Well, if you are, then here’s some news to keep you slightly happy for a while. There will be a 1/2 month bonus (which I thought was somewhat like a mid-year AWS) and a one-off bonus of $100 for division 1 and 2 officers and $250 and $300 for division 3 and 4 officers respectively. ...

Since 90% of the Johor petrol kiosks business comes from foreigners, petrol kiosks say they “will die” without business from Singaporeans. I doubt the petrol kiosks will risk the fine of RM250,000 just to get more businesses from Singapore motorists. Is this a good or bad implementation?JOHOR petrol station operators and businesses are up in ...

Once this ban kick in probably this Friday, will you cut down on trips to Malaysia? Probably there will be a traffic jam this Thursday at the causeway =). I think this ban will mostly affect motorists who visit Johor once or twice a week just to buy cheap petrol. With the current all time ...

Apparently, the "technology" that enables a visitor to a web site to click on an image to go to another web page or web site is patented, and unluckily, the coverage of this patent includes Singapore as well. A local firm, VueStar Technologies, has began sending invoices to local website operators demanding for payment for ...

If I was told that the Japan custom officers are hiding cannabis in passengers’ luggage so that they can be used as carriers, I probably will just bate an eyelid. However, they are now saying that they are using the passengers and their luggage as training for their dogs?! My eyelids are batting in automatic ...

I saw this comment posted today in my blog and alarm bells started ringing immediately. The blog post in question was the one about the seemingly fake evidence on Pedra Branca. Now, "nal" wrote that:I can’t imagine an island with a ‘foreign’ name got stuck somewhere in the middle of the malay’s archipelago region. It ...

Whenever a General Election (GE) looms in Singapore, a group of Singaporeans are skeptical that their choices are really anonymous because of the presence of numbers on the voting slip, which conveniently traces the identity of the voter. In fact, some have wondered if their failure to get a HDB flat has anything to do ...

The dispute is finally solved and Singapore had been awarded the main islet. Middle Rocks are also explicitly assigned to Malaysia but South Ledge is assigned to whoever owns the territorial waters it sits in. I am not sure, but is it beginning to sound like there is going to be another dispute soon? If ...

It was splashed all over the newspaper. Now, not only forummers from Hardwarezone know about it, not only forummers from SammyBoy Unmoderated know about it, but the whole of Singapore and possible the whole world know about it. That there’s a video sharing site that’s somewhat like YouTube, except that it’s not your usual blonde ...

Starhub first started by blocking port 80 (or more popularly known as the HTTP port) which effectively prevent any of their subscribers from hosting web pages on their home computers. Lately, they started blocking BitTorrent ports (one wonders how many ports that are) because they felt that "many broadband network operators in the world are ...