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Former Malaysia PM Najib Razak made a Facebook post on April 3, 2022 to call out foreigners for pumping cheap petrol in his country. He included the above photograph of a driver pumping RON95 petrol into a Singaporean car. This made a lot of Malaysians upset because foreigners have been banned from …

The 47-year-old Indonesian was first spotted walking between the water pipelines along the Causeway towards Singapore by the Police Coast Guard, who alerted the ICA officers at Woodlands Checkpoint around 7.30pm. The man was arrested after he was found with a “cylindrical flotation device,” according to a statement released by the ICA today.

The tour company, KKKL Travel and Tours' lawyer Michael Wong confirmed that the company was in the midst of completing its internal investigations and has already suspended the bus driver. The bus passengers, who were returning home from KL, were left stranded at the Malaysian Customs with just their luggage after the bus drove off with their belongings left on the seats.

A viral photo of a ship photoshopped right next to the Singapore-Malaysia causeway is making its rounds on the internet. According to a reader, he received this image from the Woodlands Checkpoint app and immediately realized that it was a hoax as it is impossible for a ship of that size to be sailing so closely parallel to the causeway.

I have no idea on the abysmal quality of training provided to ICA officers these days, but thought an experience that borders on being comically absurd (even by ICA's terribly appalling standards) warrants highlighting if you are not already embarrassed by such utter incompetence. To be precise, this incident happened between 11.55pm, Wednesday 22 Feb to at least 12.15am, Thursday 23 Feb.

According to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysia might start to charge Singaporean motorists Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) fees of SGD35 (RM109) on a daily basis if Singapore goes ahead with its plan to increase reciprocal road charge (RRC) on foreign-registered cars entering the island.

Did not take Malaysia authorities that long to react to Singapore's government announcement of foreign vehicles having to pay to enter Singapore. Our government recently announced that vehicles entering via the two causeways will have to pay $6.50, on top of the $35 VEP charge from 17 February onwards, a move they said to match Malaysia's own introduction of VEP charges. But Malaysia had said that it is now their turn to review the charges, as Singapore are charging above what Malaysia are charging. So, in another tit-for-tat move, Malaysia will possibly increase their own VEP charges.

The money-crazy PAP Government tries to justify their latest increase on cross-border road charges by portraying it as tit-for-tat. Basically what they are telling the Singapore public is "they started it first". “This is to ensure that Malaysia takes into consideration our response whenever they raise their tolls or introduce a new levy,” Mr Khaw said. But before anyone is fooled, let's look at some events in time:

Johor State Health Chairman Ayub Rahmat announced that the Health Department will take various measures to control the spread of zika infection, one of which requires all vehicles entering from Singapore to be sprayed down with mosquito repellent. Rahmat said these measures were necessary in light of the sharp increase in zika cases in Singapore.

The ICA says that between January and October, there were 690 cases of Singaporeans trying to leave the country without the appropriate travel documents, including those travelling with passports that do not belong to them, expired or invalid travel documents, or no documents at all.