Tag Archives: johor bahru

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 …

A woman was punched in the face 10 times by a tattooed couple after she refused to share a cab with the fierce looking duo in Johor Bahru.

An employee at a Malaysian food store posted his disappointment with a Singaporean couple who ruined his day after they ran away from his store without paying.

56 year old Malaysian Yam Kok Kong was pronounced dead after collapsing at Johor Bahru's immigration clearance last Thursday. He was riding a bike from Singapore and doing his routine thumbprint scan at the Bangunan Sultan Abu Bakar Customs Immigration and Quarantine Complex when he suddenly collapsed. Nothing could be done although many passers by went to his aid. He was pronounced dead at the scene and reportedly suffered from a heart attack. Yam was a project engineer in Tuas. He had been travelling safely to and from Malaysia and Singapore for the past 38 years. #LifeIsShort #RIP

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.

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:

I was stopped last Saturday on the way back to woodlands checkpoint from jb town! I was directed to a car park where jb traffic police said that I had an unpaid fine in 2014 for speeding! When I asked for the time and place of the offence they say there is no record.

An elderly woman had her life savings wiped out by a home scam in Johor, all because she was approached by a "property agent" in Malaysia and believed that investing in a property there would bring her additional wealth.

A Singapore-registered container has crashed into a Gibraltar-registered ship off Pasir Gudang Port, Johhor yesterday. About 300 tonnes of oil have spilled into the surrounding waters, said the Marine and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) today.

A 44 year-old man was left lying bleeding and dying along Jalan Sutera Road, near Johor's famous KSL mall.