Facebook user Cai Xianglong recently posted on the Facebook page Complaint Singapore after he was told that it was prohibited from using his laptop at Coffee Bean.

Here is the full story.

Hi guys, good news! We will not be allowed to chill in Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Singapore anymore.

I visited the CBTL branch at railway mall and the manager immediately ask me if I am here to work upon seeing me with my laptop. I told the manager that I am here with a friend to discuss some things, she immediately tell me that I am not allowed to use laptop in their shop.

Me and my friend just want to look for a place to chill and chit chat but was shocked when the manager told us “their NEW COMPANY POLICY” and showed us the way out of their shop. (Refer to attached screenshot for their “NEW COMPANY POLICY”)

It is 3.20pm in the afternoon on friday and the shop is not full of customers. I never intend to use their power point or wifi too. I am not sure why the manager reacted in this manner but I figured out maybe “SHE” does not need my business, so i politely move out of her shop and visited the toast box beside.

I visited the CBTL branch at IMM in Jurong East area 2 days ago but the manager / staff did not react in the same way as that manager at railway mall branch!

It is time to rethink where we spend out money and give support for those businesses that require our support.

Bai Fan, 38, a Singaporean PR who arrived from China on 19 September last year, was charged on 5 March for twice leaving the hotel where he was serving his SHN.

On 19 September, he reportedly breached his SHN at Fairmont Hotel to meet his wife in a car, where they spent an hour and 40 minutes together inside the car in the vicinity.

On 20 September, he met his wife again and they spent 5 hours together inside the car, first in the vicinity and then later on, they moved to a car park nearby.

Bai Fan returned to the hotel after midnight on his second meeting with his wife, who is also a PR but wasn’t serving a SHN.

Bai is being charged with 2 counts of breaching the Infectious Diseases (Covid 19 – Stay Orders) Regulations 2020, where he is due to return to court on 26 March.

A fatal fire broke out at a HDB flat in Ang Mo Kio AVe 10 early this morning, causing one death and one injury. The mother and son were trapped in the burning flat for half an hour. When civil defense personnel saw the door and entered the house to save them, they found that their son lost consciousness and was trapped in the toilet, while the mother was unconscious in the bedroom but she stopped breathing and had no pulse when she was rescued.

The fire occurred today (March 5) at about 6:08 in the morning in a three-room flat on the 11th floor of Block 456, Ang Mo Kio Ave 10. The mother was a 48-year-old Chinese woman and the son was a 20-year-old serving his national service. They have lived here for more than 10 years.

Firefighters rescued the trapped son in the kitchen and toilet. The mother laid in the bedroom and lost consciousness. She had stopped breathing and had no pulse when she was rescued. The medical staff attempted to perform CPR on the spot for her, and they then were sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for treatment.

The police confirmed that the two injured were unconscious when they were sent to the hospital. The 48-year-old woman died of her injuries. According to preliminary investigations, the police classified the case as an unnatural death, and the possibility of homicide has been ruled out.

The fire is believed to have started in the living room and blocked the escape route for the two mothers and children. When the civil defense personnel arrived, they found that the door of the unit was closed tightly, so they saw the door and entered the house.

The civil defense pointed out that there were many flammable items stocked in the living room of the unit, and the living room was flooded by the fire at that time. It is difficult for firefighters to move after entering the unit and must extinguish the fire in the debris pile.

According to the photos uploaded by the Civil Defense on Facebook, there are various large and small sundries in the living room of the fire scene, including cartons, clothes and various bottles and cans.

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A Taiwanese girl was spotted being interviewed on the streets of Taiwan and she stated that she piak piak with her boyfriend 4-5 times in a night.

She then compares the amount of times that her fellow girlfriends piak piak as well.

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A video was recently uploaded which shows an elderly man smoking on the train. He was seen flicking his ash onto the train floor as well.

He was not even wearing his face mask throughout the whole trip.

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The Singapore Food Agency issued a statement:

“The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has directed the importer of Picard Rolled Yule Log Chocolate Tonka Bean Cake to recall all batches of the product.”

The product in question is imported from France by Redmart Limited.

Tonka beans are prohibited for food use in Singapore as they contain high levels of the chemical, coumarin, which causes liver damage.

SFA added:

“Consumers who have purchased the implicated product are advised not to consume it, those who have consumed the implicated product and have concerns about their health should seek medical advice.”

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A 37-year-old HIV-positive man reportedly donated blood during the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming he wanted to help increase blood supplies for the blood banks.

He reportedly made a declaration that he had never engaged in s*xual intercourse with another man before.

The man, who cannot be named due to a gag order protecting his identity, later told the doctor that he had oral s*x with a man in 2017 on a bus in India.

He thought that “s*x” did not include oral s*x.

His blood was subsequently tested positive for HIV and was not used.

The man was charged in court on 3 March 2021, under the Infectious Diseases Act, where he intended to plead guilty.

He visitied a bloodbank at HSA on 3 May last year to donate blood and had filled out a Donor Health Assessment Questionnaire, where he was required to sign and acknowledge the legal document.

The questionnaire had a particular question, asking: “In your entire lifetime: Male Donors: Have you had s*x with another man?”

Which he answered “no”.

However, on the first page of the document, “s*x” was defined as various acts that included oral s*x, but because signatures were not required on the first page, the man said he overlooked this bit of the document.

The doctor then confirmed his answers with which he affirmed were true.

Although the accused pleaded guilty, the judge rejected his plea of guilt because he qualified it by saying that he did not know at the time that oral s*x was considered s*x, which means that he did not knowingly supply a false statement.

The case has been directed to a pre-trial conference next week.

The prosecution is seeking at least 3 months of jail as well as a fine of S$10,000, although they noted that the accused admitted to the offence when the doctor first asked him about it.

The accused brought a luggage with him to court as he told thhe court that he was ready to go to jail.

The man told the judge that he was retrenched 8 months ago and was no longer able to work in Singapore, adding that he spent all his savings and has only $250 left for either rent or food.

He also added that he is a HIV patient but he cannot afford the treatment as he is a foreigner and s uch treatments are not subsidised for him.

He will be returning to court on 12 March for a pre-trial conference.

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A netizen took to Facebook to share how she bought an allegedly fake “Wou Wou” beauty product.

She wrote that she bought the bottle of what appears to be a bottle of shampoo, from a push cart at Bugis Plus.

Upon scanning the QR code on the bottle, she was led to a WeChat page instead of the “product contents” page.

She then checked with a local distributor who then duly told her that the item she bought was counterfeit, and that the real product has an authenticity sticker on the box.

Images source: Complaint Singapore Facebook

A patient of SGH had a surgical procedure that didn’t exactly go as expected, with SGH coming out to apologise for their part in the mistake.

Celine Wu shared that she was supposed to have a catheter inserted into the right side of her stomach for her kidney failure treatment.

The decision to have it inserted on her right was made after extensive discussions with her surgeon, a Dr Tang from SGH prior to her surgery.

They took into account her sleeping position, her left handedness, the position of the dialysis machine and etc.

Wu woke the after her surgery and realised that the surgeon wasn’t Dr Tang, and the catheter was not inserted into her right stomach, but her left.

She said that the surgeoned who operated on her didn’t consult her about the location change of the catheter and she was administered with anaesthesia before she knew who her surgeon was.

She also added that she and her husband made several requests to see the surgeon who operated on her but their requests were left unattended until the day she was discharged.

They went back to SGH between December 2020 and February 2021 for Wu’s outpatient review but no one reached out to her about this mistake despite them making multiple attempts to find the surgeon who operated on her.

The wrong location of the catheter caused a lot of inconvenience to her life as she was wake up in the middle of the night from the pain because her husband and daughter (who sleeps beside her) would accidentally kick her tube.

There were also occasions wherer her husband and daughter were at risk of tripping from the tube.

Dr Tamg. the surgeon who was originally supposed to perform the surgery, offered to re-operate on her to move the tube, but the patient rejected his offer, saying:

“I am not just any meat that can be bought from the wet market and cut as and when the doctor like.”

SGH has since apologised for this fiasco and said that they are sorry for causing distress to Wu and her family.

Image source: Fund Raising for Celine Wu Facebook