The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) is warning consumers not to buy or consume three kinds of products. These items included strong medical substances that might cause significant side effects, said HSA.
Product name
Potent medicinal ingredients
‘Miracle Gold Candy’
c – an erectile dysfunction medicine
‘C4 Candy’
‘Coco Hotz Cocoa Drink’
Dexamethasone – a potent steroid
The items were previously listed on various online shopping and social platforms such as Shopee, Carousell, Lazada, Instagram, Facebook and Qoo10.
HSA has notified them to remove the listings of this product.
Miracle Gold Candy & C4 Candy
After identifying imports of ‘Miracle Gold Candy,’ officers from the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) notified the HSA. The HSA was notified about ‘C4 Candy’ by a member of the public.
Both the products were marketed as men health enhancers and HSA tested the products and found out that the product contains Tadalafil.
Coco Hotz Cocoa Drink
The product was marketed as a weight lost product and HSA found that it actually contains dexamethasone, a potent steroid
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ President, said on 11 October that he will be leading efforts to vaccinate those who refuse to be vaccinated by jabbing them in their sleep, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The president said that he wanted the vaccination driver to hit the target of 50% o the population being vaccinated by the end of 2021.
Philippines’ current vaccination rate stands at 22%.
“The problem is those who don’t want to get vaccinated. Look for them in your village, let’s go there while they’re asleep and inject them while asleep so we can get it done. I’ll do it, I’ll lead the journey.”
Following the death of her son Justin Lee, who died on 16 September after jumping down from the 12th storey of his HDB block; his mother Cecilia Ow, took to social media to share her thoughts on the matter.
She penned it in the form of a letter that was directed to Minister Shanmugam:
The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) then issued a statement on their Facebook, saying that they will be investigating the allegations and review the circumstances of the arrest of the boy.
CNB revealed that senior official have been in contact with Ms Ow on the sameday the letter was sent, assuring her of a thorough review of the arrest of her son.
Ms Ow was also given Mr Shanmugam’s contact details as well as the contact of Faishal Ibrahim, the Minister of State for Home Affairs.
They told her that she could contact them any time, as well as arranging for psychological support for her.
CNB added that they will continue to render assistance to her, understanding her grief.
Background
Justin was arrested on 3 February by CNB officers and charged in court with drug trafficking on 24 June.
He later died after jumping down from the 12th storey of his block.
Images source: Cecilia Ow Facebook and CNB Drug Free SG Facebook
How to live with a dysfunctional family? My mother always sings praises of my brother in front of everyone because he earns a lot and is dating this rich girl. But the thing is, he doesn’t give her any allowance because he “needs to save money to buy a house”. And by house he’s looking at private apartments because his gf and her family doesn’t want her to live in a hdb.
My mother even told me that she is planning to give my brother some of her savings so that he can afford a condo. I am honestly so frustrated when she told me this. My parents don’t even have enough savings for their own retirements and healthcare needs, and she wants to give her savings to my brother when he can just settle for hdb if he can’t afford a private apartment. And I’m so sick of his demanding gf too who can’t even understand my family’s financial situation.
I cannot deal with my mother being so obsessed with my brother and his relationship. There was once when the gf was unhappy with the way my mother interacted with her (I personally don’t think there’s anything wrong because that’s just how my mother is and that’s just her character) that she ‘feedbacked’ to my brother which resulted in my bro complaining to my mother about it. She lost sleep over what my brother said and was so upset, and I ended up being the person she vented to and seeked emotional support from. And now she even forced herself to change so that she can get closer to my bro’s gf.
I’m very angry at this situation because i feel that the gf should just try to accept who we are instead of constantly “feedbacking” about us because we are so unlike her family – and now my bro is always trying to pressure us to be this “perfect” family (mentally manipulating and guilt tripping us by saying that if he falls out with his gf, it’s our fault). Thing is, we will never be perfect no matter how hard we try. At most it’ll just be on the surface. My father doesn’t even care because he just spend most of his time drinking and gambling his money away.
Living in this family for 20+ years is so stressful and I’m depressed and anxious. I see no hope in my future and no hope in this family and I don’t even have any support. I tried to tell my mother about my issues (because that’s what everyone says right-confide in your closest about your mental issues) and she straight up told me I’m crazy and told me to go away. I live on tenterhooks everyday and it is affecting me a lot at work too.
I can’t even interact properly with my colleagues because of my social and general anxiety-I can’t breathe whenever I have to talk to someone I’m not close with.
Tldr; my family is just screwed up, doesn’t understand and doesn’t seek to understand, there is no emotional support at all, I feel like dying and I’m drowning in anxiety. Once bitten twice shy, I have no courage to seek any more help and I’m just spiralling downwards everyday. The addition of my bro’s gf into the picture just adds to the problem because we are being “forced” to appear “perfect” so that my bro doesn’t lose face.
And I doubt he even cares about the family anymore because the gf is his key to escape for a better life, that’s why he’s always giving in to her at the expense of the family.
An 8-year-old girl was reportedly left inside a van for 3 hours and subsequently found unconscious after the driver failed to realise that she was still inside, according to Bernama.
She was pronounced dead after being conveyed to Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital.
The driver was supposed to send the victim to a daycare centre but he didn’t realise the girl was still in his van, so he drove home instead; according to Bernama.
The girl was locked inside the van from 2.30pm and was found at 5.30pm unconscious.
The driver has been arrested by the Malaysian police.
Images source: Facebook (image used for illustration purpose only)
The police said in a statement yesterday (13 October) that they conducted operations (in February and July) against 2 unlicensed KTVs, of which 29 people were rounded up in the operations.
6 people will be charged with operating an unlicensed KTV as well as breaching Covid-19 restrictions.
The remaining 23 will be charged with Covid-19 violations.
A 39-year-old man was found in the 25 February operation to be operating the unlicensed KTV with 2 other employees, 26-years-old and 33-years-old.
The trio will be charged with operating a KTV that is unlicensed and providing alcohol.
10 of their patrons will be charged for Covid-19 measures violations.
Another KTV that was unlicensed was discovered to be allegedly serving alcohol to customers on 18 July, with 3 men due to be charged as well with operating an unlicensed KTV and providing alcohol.
They are aged between 31 and 39.
13 of the patrons were allegedly socialising and intermingling while drinking and will be charged with Covid-19 violations as well.
Images source: Singapore Police Force (Images used strictly for illustration purposes only)
A 33-year-old Indonesian maid in Singapore was charged earlier today for allegedly being involved in a case of voyeurism and spreading the videos of an elderly man that she was showering.
The elderly man was also her employer.
She was charged with 7 counts of filming the victim and 6 counts of distributing them.
The parties cannot be identified due to a court order to protect the victim’s identity.
What happened?
The maid is being accused of filming the old man while showering him on multiple occasions from January last year to this year.
She allegedly shared the videos with others through Whatsapp at least 4 times, without the consent of the victim.
She also allegedly uploaded the video onto TikTok without his permission.
Under the Points Demerit System, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) suspended the license of B&S Food Corner, a food stall located at 304 Geylang Road, Singapore 389346. The ban will last two weeks, from October 12th to October 25th, 2021.
Over the course of a year, the licensee collected 16 demerit points and was fined a total of $1200 for the following offences:
No.
Offence
Demerit points
(1)
Failure to keep licensed premises free of cockroach infestation
Every year millions of Apple fans queue and pre-order to get their hands on the latest Apple iPhone.
Now, a new rumor suggests that Apple may be working on a new portable console. The new system will compete in the same market as the Nintendo Switch, which will soon have more options than the Steam Deck.
Work in progress
According to the source, Apple has already begun production on many games and has enlisted the help of big studios. Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey aren’t the only games in development at Nintendo, and they’re already ready to launch.
When Apple announced its Apple Arcade subscription-based service, which gives users access to both premium and exclusive iOS / iPad games, it signaled the company’s renewed focus on gaming. Games have become one of the most successful items in recent years, particularly since the outbreak last year.
Apple’s plan was thwarted by the COVID-19 outbreak, but there’s a possibility the console may see the light of day soon.
Whenever we terminate any contracts early with any service provider the consumer always have to pay a penalty.
But iSwitch said that there will be no penalties for those who are terminating their contract with iSwitch.
A netizen said:
We terminate contract got penalty. These big company can like this anyhow terminate and throw us back to SP. Hello iswitch pls compensate for early termination. #ComplaintSingapore#consumerprotection#case
