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The Central Provident Fund Board (CPF Board) has admitted to an error that saw $1.7 million in tax payers money being channeled to the Medisave accounts of 885 babies who were not citizens at birth. All Singapore citizens receive $4,000 Medisave Grant for Newborns (MGN) in their CPF Medisave account as part of the Marriage and Parenthood Package.

According to a New Delhi newspaper, working IT professional visas in Singapore for Indian nations have been "dropped to a trickle" by the Singapore government. This has prompted the Indian government to halt their review of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) pact with Singapore citing violation of the pact by the Singapore government.

A scuffle between 2 Vietnamese youth at Hotel Boss @ Jalan Sultan this morning turned into a gruesome tragedy after one of the men fell 15 floors down the newly built hotel to a gory death.

A chiobu GrabCar driver found herself in a spot when her passengers forced her to pick up 3 adults and 2 children, which is 1 person above the legal limit for a passenger car and a contravention of traffic law in Singapore. According to the lady driver, she responded to a booking by an Indian FT family. When she arrived, discovered that they had more passengers than she could legally carry. To make things worse, they had 2 young children with them.

Activists supporting the welfare of foreign domestic workers say they will pursue legal action on behalf of a maid who had her belongings thrown away and damaged by her employers. According to Jolovan Wham, an activist campaigning for the welfare of foreign workers in Singapore, the maid's employers had thrown away her belongings and broke one of her luggage. The maid discovered over 20 items missing, including bank and ATM cards. These resulted from a quarrel between the maid and the employers.

Malaysian handymen specializing in trade skills like plumbing, electrical work and general manual tasks, may cause the death of the local tradesman industry, local insiders say. Malaysian plumbers, for instance, may perform simple repairs for $50 per job, a rate that is at least 100% cheaper than regular local plumbers in Singapore.

Why didn’t the Government give more support to Joseph Schooling? Why not disclose in detail the support that was given to him? How much money have we spent in total all these years on the foreign talent sports scheme – which did not even produce a single gold for Singapore?

its been happening for many years. whether they stay here for long or short term, they contribute their taxes, pay rental etc etc. with 1 of them leaving, 2-3 more will come in to fill the gap.

I have just graduated from NTU in the second week of December (Unofficially graduated after my Final Year Project Presentation). I have heard that the economic is very bad, and it will only get worst for the entire year of 2017. Hence, I spammed my job hunting, and engaging in many job agency to help me to land into a job (I literally just spammed all sorts of jobs, as I am worried that I may end up jobless for several months, so unfortunately a year long).

Rasheed Muhammad, 45, and Ramzan Rizwan, 27, came to Singapore from Pakistan. They made a living selling tissue-papers, a job that requires a permit in Singapore, although enforcement is badly supervised by the authorities.