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Animal welfare groups in Singapore are upset over a Housing Board notice that asked some dog owners in Ang Mo Kio to consider "debarking your dog through surgery". The notice has since been taken down. Just what is debarking, which the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) described as a "solution of last resort" in an online brochure? We take a look.

The MSO will not cause further delays by adding a layer of bureaucracy or require the public to learn a new number to call for help, she added. It will be housed under the Ministry of National Development (MND), which said in a statement yesterday that the goal is to "improve the Government's overall coordination and delivery of municipal services". When asked why the MSO has not involved town councils, Ms Fu said that is an area still under consideration. "But we need town councils to cooperate, obviously."

The Monetary Authority of Singapore says home prices remain elevated in spite of the cooling measures introduced in recent years. It said that over the past 4 years, property prices rose by 60 percent. MAS Managing Director Ravi Menon said that it’s too early to ease cooling measures even as the property market appears to be stabilising. Over the last 3 quarters, prices declined by 3.3 percent.

HDB: “CJ” is wrong. All employees of HDB, regardless of their appointments, go through the same process as any other Singaporean applying for an HDB flat. They do not get any special priority in balloting for flats, nor any other perks related to purchasing an HDB flat. All applications are also put through a computer ballot to determine the queue number for flat application, and every ballot is witnessed and endorsed by auditors.

Although they are part of swish modern complexes, some of the newly built studio flats measure as little as 16 sq m and are on sale for HK$1.5 million (about S$242,000). Single entrepreneur Mike Ko is typical of the buyers that developers are targeting: aspiring home owners who are priced out of the overheated Hong Kong housing market. "I'm 33 years old and I really need my own place," said Mr Ko. "Studios are good enough. They're quite hip and cool as well."

The recovery may simply be thanks to buyers and sellers returning to the market after the end of the school holidays and the World Cup in June, said SLP International Property Consultants head of research Nicholas Mak. He said the rise in volume is not expected to continue into this month, as it is the Hungry Ghost month, considered an inauspicious time for buying a house.

As Cecilia has halted her acting career, he has reportedly increased her living expenses and bought a HK$20 million (S$3,296,240) property in Singapore for her and their two boys. However, Cecilia had publicly stated in 2013 that she has never taken a cent of alimony from her ex-husband.

Occasionally, neighbours play mahjong throughout the night, drink beers at void decks, play guitars or chit chatting through the night, the rest of us live together give and take. But these days, you burn incense papers, others call police, you illegal parking, others call police. Even Chinese wedding gate crush/Malay wedding or festive season, you make a bit of noise, others call police! What's wrong with people these days?

Recently, I started work as an Assistant Property Manager with a town council, the MD was a very nice man who told me skills-set can be learned and picked up along the way and that attitude is of utmost importance. Unfortunately, I was attached to a senior manager to learn the protocols and procedures and he told me that I was not suitable for the job only after 3 weeks with him – shockingly he asked me to resign own my own.

So if you want to promote the nucleus family, it is your prerogative. But do know that it is precisely this prerogative, together with the domino effect from your blind persecution of certain groups, that makes reality that much harder for us.