On Thursday (Dec 1), UOB raised the interest rates for its flagship savings account, the UOB One, to 7.8 per cent per annum for balances between S$75,000 and S$100,000.

If customers credit their salary to the bank and meet a minimum spend of S$500 a month on an eligible credit and debit card.

More interest

For balances up to S$75,000, rates have been raised to a range of 3.85 per cent to 4.85 per cent per annum, up from 1.4 per cent to 2.5 per cent previously.

With the same salary and card spending criteria, interest earned on balances up to S$75,000 has also been raised to a range of 2.5 per cent to 4 per cent per annum, with no changes to interest rates for balances above S$75,000.

PayNow has been included as an eligible salary credit to help more customers qualify for bonus interest.

Jacquelyn Tan, Head of Group Personal Financial Services at UOB, commented: “We hope that the updated rates for our UOB One Account will help our customers in reducing some of the inflationary impact on their hard-earned savings.”

On the same day, DBS raised the interest rate on its Multiplier account to 4.1% per year from 3.5%, with the tiered interest rates applicable to savings of up to S$100,000.

Singapore Airlines SQ33 SFO-SIN with built in corgi seating area

For those asking

Yes possible with ESA documentation. We did import permit for Thailand and transshipment license for Singapore. We relocated from Bay Area to Thailand thus had to bring our dogs on a oneway ride to Thailand with us.

As for bathroom needs – we modified their feeding and water schedule about a month in advance so they’d be basically take their final poddy right before we left for the airport. Our older dog, had an accident as we got off the jetway in Singapore but it was ok since we had pee pads, poop bags, and baby wipes at the ready. PROTIP: at Changi, we went looking for the sunflower garden for them to go potty but it was under renovation. One of the passenger transport golf cart drivers pointed us to the outdoor smokers garden right under the SilverKris lounge and it worked like a charm (except had lots of smokers so probably shaved a few days off our lives).

Both dogs mostly slept on the plane as we gave them gabapentin at various intervals. We timed it perfectly so they’d fall sleep right as we were about to take off and land.

For those opposed to dogs, I get it but I purposely chose the row nearest to the exits. Also our dogs are well behaved so it’s not like they were barking or running around. Mostly just slept and cuddled.

Other stuff we did to prep:

We had them sleep at home listening to an airplane sounds video on YouTube for several nights before our flight so they wouldn’t be as surprised by the noises. We had a surround sound system so it sounded quite realistic. Didn’t seem to bother them and they slept soundly every night.

We also took them to the airport on a Tuesday night a few weeks before to meet the ground crew, Clear checkpoint people, and TSA agents who would be working around the time we would be checking in the upcoming Tuesday night of our flight. Totally worked! The dogs got the celebrity treatment (as usual) with the ground crew taking selfies with them and giving them lots of cuddle and pets. We also got time to ask questions and verify the document list we had was correct. We also talked to some folks over at TSA on the process of bringing the dogs through security which was very helpful.

Also shoutout to Little Chonk – we put Peanut (our two year old boy seen here on the right) fin their backpack on my back while checking in and before going through security. Helped out a ton as he’s a very curious little guy and loves to sniff new places. He was quite happy in the backpack and just chilled on my back while we checked in and getting to the security check point. After that he walked with Mindy (out girl on the left) to the United Polaris lounge to await the flight. They were both super well behaving in the SFO United Polaris and SIN SilverKris lounges

EDIT: wow! This blew up. If you wanna know more about our dogs, follow on IG @mindyandpeanutcorgifam

Or here on Facebook Mindy the Corgi – they’ve lead quite good live as mascots for our art school and are now retired with us in Phuket, Thailand.

52-year-old Lee Hui Yin, was previously charged on 11 November under the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act and the Protection from Harassment Act for her actions during a court hearing on 18 August 2021.

She is now facing an additional 3 more charges, given to her on 28 November, with 2 of them being for her failure to attend to orders served to her by a public servant.

She is facing a total of 7 charges.

She had reportedly failed to show up at the Central Police Division HQ for police investigations on 2 occasions, on 10 August 2021 and 31 August 2021.

Her third (additional) charge is for her failure to appear at the state courts on 15 September earlier this year.

Police’s previous statement on 11 November

The Police will be charging a 52-year-old woman on 11 November 2022 for offences under the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act and the Protection from Harassment Act for her actions during a court hearing on 18 August 2021.

On 18 August 2021, the woman was seated in the public gallery at the State Courts during a trial involving Mr Benjamin Glynn. She was asked to step out of a courtroom to adjust her mask, which was askew. She then used insulting words towards a District Judge of the State Courts by shouting “This is [a] ridiculous kangaroo court”, “if the kangaroo court requires me to wear a mask” and “I do not respect the judge”.

The woman will be charged with an offence of using insulting words towards a public servant, which is punishable under Section 6(3) of the Protection from Harassment Act. If found guilty, the woman is liable for enhanced punishment under Section 8(1)(d) of the Protection from Harassment Act as she was previously convicted and sentenced in April 2014 to a mandatory treatment order for committing a similar offence. In addition, the woman had behaved in a disorderly manner in the courtroom on 18 August 2021. Hence, she will also be charged with an offence of disorderly behaviour in the immediate vicinity of a court under Section 20 of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act.

The offence of using insulting words towards a public servant, punishable under Section 8(1)(d) of the Protection from Harassment Act, may be punished with imprisonment of up to two years, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. The offence of disorderly behaviour under Section 20 of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act is punishable with imprisonment of up to six months, a fine of up to $2,000, or both.

In addition, the woman is being investigated for offences of failing to attend in obedience to order from public servants under section 174 of the Penal Code, as well as offences involving the use of criminal force against Police officers under section 353 of the Penal Code.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
11 November 2022 @ 8:53 AM

Recap

Benjamin Glynn, the Briton charged with not wearing his mask on a train and again outside the state courts, was in court on 18 August 2021 to contest his four charges of not wearing a mask, public nuisance and his use of threatening words to a public servant.

One of Benjamin Glynn’s supporters, Lee Hui Yin, was not wearing her mask properly when a security guard told her to do so.

She then reacted to the guard angrily as her mask slipped down and she had her entire mask off her face.

District Judge Eddy Tham then told her to step outside if she was not wearing a mask.

The agitated woman then exclaimed: “This is a ridiculous kangaroo court!”

The security guards then approached her as she told them: “You don’t touch me, I have no contract with you!”

She then said something about this not being about a mask, but about “control”.

A man then tried to admit himself as the accused’s (Glynn) lawyer but failed because he didn’t have a practising license, then told the security guard to refrain from “provoking” the woman.

Judge Tham then ordered the woman to be taken out of the courtroom: “That is enough interruption, please bring her out of the courtroom now.”

Proceedings were halted as the woman was hauled out of court, she then exclaimed as security guards surrounded her (without touching her): “You don’t tell me what to do, I’m a living, breathing woman. Shut up. I do not respect the judge.”

As the judge was away, Glynn continued his taunting remarks at the prosecutor: “Back to law school for you, Mr Koh.”

A 32-year-old auxiliary policewoman was sentenced to 4 weeks imprisonment after pleading guilty on 30 November to providing false information to the police.

She had falsely accused her colleague of raping her in 2020, before being found out after authorities investigated her phone, according to The Straits Times.

What happened?

The woman was exchanging explicit messages in an intimate Whatsapp chat with her colleague in August 2020, planning to sleep with him.

She later lodged a police report the following month (September) against him, claiming that she was raped by the 36-year-old man.

She said in a statement to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that the man had messaged her and invited her to his home.

She claimed that the man persistently called and messaged her even though she declined his request, and she said that she eventually agreed but she later reported that the man assaulted her after she went to his home.

Her phone was then searched and her offences then came to light when her messages were found by the authorities.

The woman then made another statement in December maintaining that she was raped, but the authorities then referred to the intimate messages between the two, and she then eventually admitted that she was not raped.

Netizens shared how there was an “explosion” heard at the Tampines West MRT station on 25 November at about 12am, according to a forum post on Hardwarezone and STOMP.

SBS Transit address the explosion and said that there was a “very loud noise” from one of the train cars that had stopped at the station.

The Vice President (Special Grade), Customer Experience and Communications, SBS Transit, Grace Wu, said that the passengers were evacuated from the train as a precautionary measure, and no injuries were reported.

She added that train services remained in operation while they are investigating the incident, and that they apologise to affected passengers.

A netizen told STOMP that there was smoke coming out from the door following the explosion, and people were panicking and rushing out of the train.

She added that the police and SCDF were seen arriving at the scene, and that they were all badly traumatised.

The SCDF also confirmed that they had received a call for assistance at 651 Bedok North Road, but their assistance was not required.

Another account on Hardwarezone

MRT explosion at Tampines West

Was on the last train from DT Expo towards Chinatown direction and there was a loud explosion sound at the door beside me just when door was closing.

Some smoke and everyone quickly rush out of the train.

Didn’t stay around to see what’s wrong.

I suspect it’s a battery explosion. No fire seen. The whole train was shaking.