A 64 year old man will be charged today, Feb 9, with voluntarily causing hurt to a public servant, criminal intimidation and suspected drug-related offences.

The incident happened at Block 124, Toa Payoh Lorong 1 on Monday, Feb 8, after a standoff with police which ended with a police officer getting stabbed.

The police received a call at around 8.50am from a man who said that his grandmother’s tenant had locked himself up in his room and threatened to commit suicide. The police arrived to see a man yelling and he refused to heed the officers’ repeated calls to open the door.

The police then informed from the Singapore Civil Defence Force for assistance and its officers broke into the man’s room. When the police entered the room, the man was seen holding a canister of butane fuel and a lighter in his hands.

The man charged towards the officers and allegedly stabbed the officer on the left thigh with a knife.

If found guilty of voluntarily causing hurt, the man can be jailed for up to seven years, fined or caned.

If found guilty for the offence of criminal investigation, the man can be jailed for up to 10 years or fined, or both. The offence of consuming either controlled or specified drugs carries a jail term of up to 10 years or a fine of up to S$20,000, or both.

A video was recently uploaded on the Instagram page yoursgkaren which shows a kid playing at the aircon ledge of a HDB residential building.

The kid most probably climbed out the window before he tried to climb over the ledge. One could wonder how his parents could leave the kid without any supervision to do something that dangerous.

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Pictures of a complaint were recently uploaded on the Facebook page Complaint Singapore after a Foodpanda rider spilled a customer’s order at his door making a big mess. Instead of informing the customer, he ran away and dumped the order at the staircase.

Here is the full story.

I don’t usually share this kind of post but my experience with Foodpanda today was so horrible that I had to voice my opinion.

Today, I ordered drinks amounting to $34.19 via Foodpanda for me and my guests. When I saw on the app that the order was delivered, I went to my door and saw the horrendous mess at my doorstep (see the two photos attached). Obviously, the delivery man somehow spilled the drinks outside my doorstep and left with them. He did not even bother to inform me about this or apologise and just left. To my greater horror, when I trailed the stains at the corridor, it led me to my order which was left at the staircase two flights down. So this delivery man was so irresponsible that he left a big mess at the corridor and left the half spilled drinks at the staircase without a word. (FYI this is considered littering)

Naturally, I contacted Foodpanda Help Center to report the matter (see screenshots of the chat). They promised to return a call within 15min to confirm the redelivery and it delivered within 45min. Obviously I was not going to keep checking on my clock to ensure that they do their recovery since it should be their responsibility to follow up on this promptly. Furthermore, I had to clean the entire corridor and staircase for the mess that that delivery man left behind on top of getting reprimanded by my unhappy neighbour. By the time I was done, one hour passed. No call received and no redelivery done.

I had to recontact Foodpanda Help Center again and repeat my unhappiness. I only wanted my drinks delivered for me and my guests who have waited for two hours by then. And Foodpanda can’t do it. In addition, they can’t do a full refund of my $34.19 because I used a Foodpanda $30 voucher bought on Shopback. After reasoning for super long, the end result was they will offer me a $30 code with a minimum spending of $35(supposedly a refund but still requires minimum spending??) and a $4 voucher to my foodpanda wallet.

For a $34.19 order I made, I wasted more than two hours without receiving my drinks, endured and apologised to my angry neighbour, cleaned the entire corridor and staircase and received $34 back in voucher (means I have to patronise Foodpanda again). This is absurd. After this episode, I will delete Foodpanda from my phone and use Grabfood instead.

P.S. This is not the first issue I face with Foodpanda although previous times they were minor so I let them slide. Their customer service and recovery is really poorly done.

Please help to share around especially if you had similar encounters like me. Consider Grabfood instead.

(FYI for many that are highlighting on no hook or box, there is a hook on the door which the photos did not capture full image of my door because I was more pissed than the rider)

(FYI again, this is just me sharing my bad experience with FP and the rider. Of course there are good service provided by riders from FP and bad service provided by Grab riders. It is consumer’s own preference whether they want to patronise FP or Grab. And honestly, people will still order from FP or Grab despite any bad reviews still.)

A video was recently uploaded on the Facebook page Complaint Singapore which shows a video where SMRT personnel was working at night. It is believed that a HDB resident complained on the noise as it affected his sleep due to them working at 2am.

Here is the full story.

Anyone know if such drilling is allowed past midnight (2-4am) on a regular basis? Been farking disruptive to my rest. I know SMRTonly has past operating hours to work on but can you wake up ur idea and put some sound barrier in place, its 2am at night and the whole neighbourhood can hear it loud and clear.

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Ms Ho Ching will be retiring from her position as CEO of Temasek Holdings and she will step down from its board from October 1 2021.

Mr Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara will be taking over her place and he will succeed her as CEO and executive director.

This is the news release from Temasek Holdings.

The Board of Temasek Holdings has announced that Mr Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara will succeed Ms Ho Ching as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings with effect from 1 October 2021. He will concurrently hold his current appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Temasek International (TI).

Announcing the change today, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Chairman of Temasek Holdings, noted: “Leadership succession is a strategic responsibility of the Board. We have had in place an annual review since the early 2000s. This is to enable the Board to be prepared for all eventualities, with various succession options over different time horizons.