Unpaid workers

Foriegn workers complained that they had not enough work to do, unpaid wedges and other complaints. How is the boss going to settle this? Those foriegn workers came here and estimated to earn $20k in 2 years.

I think that if he cant pay them, he should go to the bank to borrow money or declare bankrupt when he do not have money to pay?

Illegal hawkers doubled

1623 caught last year was twice that of 2006. This offenders range from selling food to everything from kitchen utensils to speakers from vans and youth husting fake DVDs. Its illegal to hawk any kind of goods in public places without a licence from NEA. It was said that these rise in number could be a side effect of downturn.

Most resort to this method when they could not obtain a licence. only 1 out of 5 got a licence.
Penalty for illegal hawking is fine up to $1k for first time offenders. second conviction can bring up to $4k or jail time to 3 mths, or both.

Thrown off Melbourne bridge

Four years old girl died in hospital four hours later after being thrown down australia bridge, by his father. Witnesses said that her father stopped on a high way bridge, and took his daughter out of the car and dropped her over the side of the birdge.

He was charged with muder but he did not appear on court because he was psychologically unfit. He faces maximum life sentence if convicted.

Cloning Dogs.

South korean cloned a pair of beagle dogs using stem cells derived from fat tissues. Experts said that if they continue to develope cloning technology, dog cloning would be getting easier. this method could reduce the cost of cloning a dog to $75,000 within 3 years.

They said that it could be used in studying treatments for genetic disorders in canine, simliar to human illness, like diabetes.

Subutex abuser change to heroin

Number of subutex abuser arrested previous year fell 58% but heroin abusers rose 24%. Last year, 350 subutex abusers and 859 heroin abusers were caught. Most had switch from subutex to heroin. Subutex were used to treat heroin addicts but classifies as a controlled drug after abuse became rampant.

6000 heroin abusers were caught during 1994, 7 times the figure last year.

Bak kwa not cheap

Most Bak kwa outlets are doing a roaring trade during festive seasons. They took this opportunity to increase prices to match demand. A man complained that why he need to pay more to stall owners he had supported throughout the years. He wanted the outlets to lower their prices as a token of appreciation for their customers' continued patronage.

I think that the owners are taking this opportunity to earn more money than normal days to use it on Chinese New Year. Its his opportunity to earn and they would not easily let it off.

Third bird flu victim die

Deadly H5N1 struck china in the last few weeks. The third victim died from bird flu, contacted a dead poultry. China health ministry expects more to come when it is chinese new year, everybody would gather together and eat renuion dinner, which would contain poultries. A 2 year old girl had also contracted the diesease and would be expected to die a few more weeks later.

I wonder where they get all this names. I remembered that there are many funny dieseases like "birds flu" and "mad cow diesease". All these names are created in a funny way. I think that it might link to the animal that had been named after.

Festive cyber crime

Cyber criminals would take this opportunites to strike, causing malwares to be downloaded. They put greeting cards that would lead to malwares on high traffic-sites, electronic gifts cards that make u click on link messages. Cyber criminals are smart and they took this chance to strike on young people that would get actracted to it.

I thought that the cyber criminals should be on their way to visit relatives to get ang pows. I do not think that they would have so much time to attack ur computers.

8 years old boy spent days with his mother.

A 8 year old boy spent days beside his dead mother. It was said that he survived by eating dry rice,butter and flour. After he finished those food, he took his mother wallet and went out to buy some snacks. He tried using his mother's credit card, not knowing that it is expired. The shopkeeper called the police and the police found out that his mother was dead a few days ago. They helped to buy some food for the kid.

When i read the news, i thought that the child would be frighten and crying non-stop. He actually went to find food himself.

Microsoft retrenchs

Microsoft expects to retrench up to 5000 jobs over the next 18 months. Their income had dropped about 11 percent over the last few years. Economic crisis struck and many people prevent themself from buying too much and save some of in for rainy days.

More people are getting into financial crisis after they had been retrenched. Singapore at last used the money saved for rainy days to help out singaporeans. I was shock when i saw the newspaper. It said that singapore took out billions of dollars. I do not know that singapore is that rich.

Plane crashed, no one died.

Hudson river, also known as New York river, saved the lifes of 155 people. The plane crashed into the river as it had hit a flock of birds, or had been hit by it. 2 of its engines were all fuming, causing him to do a emerngency landing, into the water. Passengers screamed in terror. It was a double bird hit.

it was rare for a double bird hit. Most of the crash landing were caused by birds, they attacked the engine, causing it to fume up. 11 crashes cause 8 death.

Poor needs food

Kgs of rice were given to the south east district of asia, as they needed rice. Although rice price had been increasing lately, by looking at the line graph, I realised that the prices of rice were even higher a few decades ago. Wheat, soy beans and rice were dropping last time and it had started increasing a fews years ago. Most of the people said tha the prices are too expensive.

i do not really think so. If the prices are expensive now, the prices a few decades ago will then be extremely expensive. Other people were still able to survive last time, now why not?

Food donated to needy family

Chinese new year goodies were given to needy family, to help them celebrate Chinese New Year. Its consist of rice and goodies, and NTUC vouchers for them to buy food for reunion dinner. Singaporeans are actually donating money when they caannot even support themselves.

I wonder how could those needies give their ANG POWs when they have no money.

Van bangs into 2 school boys

2 primary school boy were walking home when they were knocked down by a van on the perdestian crossing. Passer-by witnessed it and they told the police that the van driver was speeding at high speed.

The 2 boys were neighbours and the older one is still in the hospital unconscious. He suffered from serious head injuries. The younger one had moved from the high dependency ward to the childrens ward.

New Moon Abalone Broth

New Moon Abalone Broth also known as "small abalone" or clams. Out of the 120 cans of production, 2 or 3 of them were spoiled. New Moon manufacturer said that the cans were not contaminated, only expired. It gave out foul smells, and it was all taken of the shelves by New Moon for checking.

It so happen that a show supported by New Moon showed that the abalone broth in the can were also spoiled. i think that the can they showed in the show was a New Moon abalone can but they took of the brand cover, and acted out that the abalone broth was expired. It is so coincidence that they happen together.

Basement fire

CBD basement carpark broke out a blaze,100s were evacuated from the 46 stories high building. No one had severe injuries only a 44 years old woman complained she had breathing difficulty. The fire broke out at noon, but the firefighters put it out in just 5 minutes. Office workers were allowed to go back to work at 1 pm, only had faint smells in the office. No serious damage were done to the building. The causer of the fire is still under inveestigating.

Its lucky that singapore have skilled fire fighters. Or else the it would took more then 30 minutes to take down the fire.

Fake 50 dollar notes.

More then 30 cases were reported. $50 dollar notes were fake if they were made from waxy paper. i wonder who would be that smart to make fake $50 dollar notes. They would most likely exchange it for smaller amount of money. If caught paying using fake $50 notes, the person would be fined and jailed.

The notes are now circulated around Singapore.and a few had been caught using fake notes to pay. We must be careful when handling with $50 notes.

Karanguni queen

SGH housekeeper Mrs wong, recycled useless materials into valuables. She donated $16k to the needy patients from the money she made by recycling things. She can turn a useless washing powder packets into creative bags. Her colleages followed her doing and they took away the dustbin in the office, to promote the 3R. Recycling, reuse and reduce.

There would be an annual clean and green fair, and they would gather those recycled materials to sell.

The little nonya

The little nonya did not get his beloved but many thinks that she can crown mediacorps queen. This show had one of the highest rating ever, but many seems that they are not quite happy with it. They commented that most of the young supporters believed that its Jennette Aw that did the good job but older ones think that other actors and actress did a better job then her.

Many adults think that they should not praise all on Aw but other actors and actress. Some thinks that Aw did not do a better job then other characters in the story.

40 killed in pakistan blaze

A blaze took out 40 lifes, in pakistan. Pakistani investigator are still checking on how the blaze started, but it was said that the balze was sparked by the wire on the roof, and the blaze burned through hut and houses. It was also said that maybe 1 of the family had fire on to keep themselve warm but the wind had made the fire uncontrollable. Half of the corpses were childrens. They were all brought to the hospital, but the helpless paramedics could not do anything.

almost everyweek, i would see a report on fire break out in the newspaper. fire is indeed dangerous.

Pandas from china

Standing there to queue for at least 4 hours, standing under the sun., just to get a zoo ticket to watch 2 pandas. In taipei, the new giant pandas that came from china were given as a gift from china. Thousands of people were queue up to visit the giant panda. The zoo only allows 24,000 people per day to visit the pandas.

Its rare to see a panda in action but standing under the sun for 4 hours, i dont think that its worth it. Animal lovers and children would surely go for it, as it is a rare chance. Tourists would akso visit Taipei for the sake of those pandas.

British couple gave birth to white and black

Mix race British couple had given birth to a black and white twin. It is the second time. They had 4 children all together, 2 white 2 black. It is very rare for such things to happen. Other people might not recognise them as twins, as their skin colour is totally opposite from each other.

I am very amazed at this type of twins. You might not be able to find it in any other places. I wonder what would happen if they gave birth to a quadruple, 2 whites 2 black? Or maybe triplets, 1 white 1 black and half black and white? Its amazing.

Rare shark died in malaysia beach

Rare shark died through injuries after being pulled up to shore by fisherman. Its called the rhino shark. Its very rare and very difficult to find in the seas. The shark is very colourful, but it died on his way to shore as its injuries are getting serious.

I think that they should carry the shark and put it back into sea, where it belongs. its not right to take something from somewhere that you should not be taking. It is also rather sad for the rare shark species.

Human bieng bitten by dogs.

Neighbours quarreling over dog biting accident. Mr and Mrs how were being bitten by their neighbours dogs. They went for a stroll in the morning with their 2 dogs and while walking past the neighbours gates, 3 of the neighbours dog ran out of the gate and attacked them. All of them had serious injury. Mr how had stitches on his hand while his wife have bruises and bite mark on her thigh. Their husky had to shave bald because of the serious injury.

1 of the 3 dogs is a retriever, a very gentle dog. Its was not expected to bite people. The neighbour denied about this accident and said that only 1 of them bite, 2 had been sitting on the floor watching.

Drugs for longer eyelashes

Lumigan, a drug used on glaucoma patients has a special side effect. Its increases the fluid in the eye and lenghten the eyelashes. 1 of the patient eyelashes had been spotted by her friend and her friend thought that she had mascara on. Other drugs which have the same ingredient also had the ability to lenghten the eyelashes but too much of it can cause blindness to eye.

Woman that like to have long eyelashes might take this drug but they should not take too much of it. Just incase that the drug might have other side effects.

Club burned down

Bangkok's most popular club Santika was burn down on New year eve. hundreds of people were there to celebrate the countdown of 2009, including Singaporeans and other foreigners. 1 of the Singaporean died in the fire, while many others were missing or injured. Mr Low, 1 of the Singaporean were trapped in the basement, after the ceiling collapsed on his escape route. He retreated farther in the basement into the men's toilet. Many other people were trapped in it. They close the door to prevent the fumes from coming in. Many others knocked on the door, hoping that they would let them in the toilet but they shut the door to prevent fumes from coming in. When they were rescued, Mr Low remembered walking over more then 30 corpse.