Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has officially apologised to PSP’s Leong Mun Wai after calling him “illiterate” which was caught on live microphone in a Parliamentary session on 14 September 2021.
The comments came after a heated debate in parliament which lasted 10 hours over Singapore’s Foreign Talent Policy which saw three ministers rebutting PSP’s statement on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Criticisms about Leong Mun Wai were picked up over live microphone notably a comment made about him which said “He’s illiterate, Seriously how did he get into RI? Must have been a lousy school.”
It was unclear as to who made the statements at first but Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has since came out to apologise over the comments.
PSP’s Central Executive Committee has also came out to say that it is disappointing to “hear a cabinet minister say what he said.”
PSP’s Leong Mun Wai has since accepted the Minister’s apology according to the Minister’s Facebook status.
Image source: Vivian Balakrishnan Facebook and Leong Mun Wai Facebook
A Tiktok user who previously made a parody video of Minister Ong Ye Kung and Lawrence Wong singing along to Billionaire by Bruno Mars has struck back.
He recently combined another two ministers, Gan Kim Yong and Chan Chun Sing into another parody video that he has made singing along to the song Macarena.
The parody video now consists of Boy Band Ministers, Ong Ye Kung, Lawrence Wong, Gan Kim Yong and Chan Chun Sing.
A netizen took to Instagram to commend a bus driver who take massive pride in his work and spreads joy with his affable personality.
The netizen wrote:
“This bus captain is someone who really put in a lot of effort to serve his commuter!
BC Khai is one of SMRT Bus Captain from serving bus service 187. He is always willing to go beyond his duties to serve his commuters in needs. He always greet his commuters when we board his bus and he would wait for the elderly to sit down before moving off! He is always very cheerful when serving the commuters, no matter rain or shine, he greets all his commuters politely. Before we alight, he would say thank you and have a nice day!
I first get to know him when he was driving 904 as there is not enough bus captain as most of the Bus Captain are placed in QO. After that day, as I was taking 187, I saw him and he told me that his permanent svc 187. And most of the elderly commuters enjoys riding his bus as he was very friendly!”
Yasslee Rusdi, 40-years-old, pleaded guilty to one count of rashly causing a fire, possessing drug related utensil and consumption of the drug methamphetamine.
He was sentenced to one year and 3 months of imprisonment.
What happened?
Rusdi checked into a hotel room at Hotel 81 Selegie on 5 May earlier this year, at about 5.40pm.
He was aware that it was a non smoking room but he went on to smoke half a pack of cigarettes, leaving three lit cigarettes on the top of the bed frame.
Alvin Quek, 30-years-old, was at the front office at the time when he received calls from the guests of the hotel, complaining that they are smelling smoke.
He then went to investigate the situation and saw smoke emerging from the gap at the bottom of Rusdi’s room door.
He was unable to open the door because Rusdi had propped items against it.
In yet another video of gangsters confronting each other, this time the same group of gangsters that we covered previously are back once again at a void deck.
They were seen in a huge group gathering at the void deck for settlement talks.
The situation appeared tense as some of the other matreps paced around while the other guys argued with each other.
