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At that point, I was a little shocked that the situation escalated that quickly and I was dealing with an angry Caucasian man. Thoughts were racing through my head: Is it because I'm Chinese? Am I supposed to say sorry?

If you recall, some time in January, a Caucasian man was seen skiing on the road in the CBD area. Netizens questioned if it posed a danger to motorists but there was no news of any warning given to him. Now, we are seeing an ang moh again in the CBD once again doing a "roller-skiing" workout, presumably due to emptier road conditions during the circuit breaker.

The workers were from Stargood Construction, and the workers claimed that they were owed a total of nearly $300,000 in non-payment for their work, which is a site located at the old CPF Building. The workers, hailing from Bangladesh, China and India, claimed that the salary was for the period between December 2018 to February 2019. Police vehicles were seen at the scene at Maxwell Link, and while the scene was clam, police officers were seen talking to the workers. It was understood that the protest started on Monday morning, with the workers staging the protest for a few hours each day.

With regards to the post earlier that support has been gathered to ban heavy vehicles from the CBD during peak hours, I have a strong opinion to make.

I am writing this with the intention of getting more signatures to submit a successful petition to our PM Lee Hsien Loong, so far I have about 1000 supports from motorists in Singapore to ban heavy vehicles like buses from CBD during peak hours.

Buses like 97 and 118, which offered direct access from Hougang to Jurong East and Orchard respectively were rerouted. As a result, residents were left to the mercy of the trains which got more crowded over time and is today beyond maximum capacity. So now instead of reinstating the previously withdrawn buses, the LTA has introduced premium services supposedly to offer hapless commuters an alternative?

How will this impact on taxi and bus fare structures? Won't there be an acute shortage of cabs plying within the priced zones during peak hours then, since the longer they ply to look for fares, the more they would be charged? Are they intruding into my privacy, since now they can track my whereabouts within the priced boundaries? Will there be diff road pricing along diff stretches within the priced zone? Will there be price fluctuations at different times of the day within the restricted zone?

In a tell tale sign of the growing income inequality and the burgeoning group of rich elites relocating to Singapore, FitnessFirst has announced that it will launch an exclusive elites-only gym in the Central Business District by the second half of this year. The UK-based fitness chain Fitness First calls this gym "Gravity", ironically named since the $9.5 million gym will be located on the top of a brand new office tower to be built in the CBD, the new CapitaGreen tower on Market Street.