Tag Archives: Spring Singapore

"I didn't even know that there was a government agency looking at consumer rights in Singapore! This goes to show just how successful they were in their jobs," wrote one netizen, Joey.

According to a business article, Standards, Productivity and Innovation board (Spring) Singapore and IE enterprise have issued $380 million in loans to back marine and offshore engineering firms who have fallen on hard times.

A couple has admitted to cheating Spring Singapore of $50,000, and are facing 201 cheating forgery charges for one, and 196 charges for the other. Soh Hua Xiang, a former Spring Singapore employee, had targeted SMEs and set out to create fake business development voucher accounts under their names. He will then print out fake invoices from solutions provider companies, and submitted them via Spring Singapore's website. He colluded with his lover, I Shu Hui, who was a Spring Singapore employee at the time too. Together, they were able to approve the disbursement of funds. Soh was apparently part of the Spring team that designed the Innovation and Capability Vouchers (ICV) portal, via which the cheating scheme was carried out. He took advantage of the system that he helped design, and thus, had knowledge of how to manipulate the ICV for his own gains. I Shu Hui was a finance manager at Spring Singapore, who was able to approve the disbursements of funds to Soh via Giro.

I refer to the article “Spring Singapore funds projects that promise 21,400 jobs” (Straits Times, Jan 26). It states that “When fully realised, these projects are expected to crank out 21,400 new skilled jobs and contribute $7.8 billion in value-add to the economy.

SPRING Singapore is issuing a product safety advisory to alert consumers to stop using Electrolux’s glass gas cooker hob model numbers EGT9637CKP, EGT7637EGP, EGT7637CKP and EGT7627CKP that run on town gas.

I am a Singaporean Malay business owner and was looking through the Government website to find out more about grants that maybe can help my company. To my horrow, I see some grants which come under SPRING Singapore that maybe apply to my business that was explained in Chinese. I thought English is the business language in Singapore? Why are these grants being uploaded online in chinese? Is this even legal?