A photo of 8 hornbills perched on a HDB corridor surfaced on Facebook group, Singapore Wildlife Sightings, on the 29th of January.
The birds were perched along the corridor situated on the 5th floor, as if providing a rehearsal for the upcoming Chinese New Year visitations where each household is permitted a maximum of 8 visitors.
Some netizens are speculating that someone nearby has been feeding the birds, thus the “visitation”.
It is worth noting that it is illegal to feed these wildlife.
In the second reading of the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) (Amendment) Bill in Parliament today, Vivian Balakrishnan says that he take full responsibility for the “consternation” and “anxiety” over the revelation that the TraceTogether data can be used for police investigations.
Dr Balakrishnan also highlighted that the TraceTogether is “fundamentally privacy-protecting by design”.
“TraceTogether only collects proximity data, which is necessary to identify close contacts. TraceTogether does not collect GPS location nor movement data. Furthermore, the app and the token only keep a temporary record, in an encrypted form, locally on the device.
The data is automatically purged after 25 days. The Government also intends to deactivate TraceTogether, along with other digital contact tracing programmes, once the pandemic is over.”
He also said that it would not be right to not use the data if it comes to a serious offence where a person’s life or safety is in jeopardy.
The data can only be used if the offences fall under the following categories:
The government cannot use the date for any purposes other than the ones mentioned above.
The Singapore Police are on the lookout for a man involved in shop theft to assist in investigations.
The incident happened at 238 Thomson Road on January 16.
Informants may call the police hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit online via www.police.gov.sg/iwitness
Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said in a written parliamentary reply that there will be no need to check-in via SafeEntry at individual shops within the same shopping mall; rather, a single check-in witht he TraceTogether app or token will be enough.
SafeEntry is currently mandatory at places with high visitorship and are at risk of high transmission.
Teo said:
“With the better TraceTogether coverage after the implementation of TraceTogether-only SafeEntry, we will also remove some existing SafeEntry check-ins to minimise public inconvenience”
“We are working on potential solutions that would make it more convenient for public-facing businesses to enable the checking-in of TraceTogether tokens and TraceTogether-only SafeEntry. Details will be announced later”
However, people are still required to check-in to gyms and F&B dine-in premises.
A video surfaced on Facebook showing a Mercedes crashing through a road divider fence in a bid to make a u-turn.
It is unclear how the car even managed to end up in that situation in the first place.
At one point, the car was stuck on the divider but eventually managed to “complete” his “u-turn”, albeit destroying the bottom chassis of his car in the process and leaving behind debris and the remains of the broken railing at the scene.
The police arrived 20 minutes after the incident and investigations are currently ongoing.
Thug life: Merc crashes and drives through railing in hit-and-run accident at East Coast Road https://bit.ly/3cujSZ1
Posted by Stomp on Monday, 1 February 2021
CEO of Razer, Tan Min-Liang, announced on LinkedIn on February 1, that the gaming hardware and fintech company is looking to fill about 1,000 positions in Singapore.
Razer’s new HQ in Southeast Asia will be officially opened at One North Technology Business Park in the second quarter of this year.
Their current office is located at Chai Chee Industrial Estate.
At the time of writing, Razer has yet to shed light on the types of positions that they are looking to fill and/or will be available.
Stay tuned.
Facebook user Bobby Milo shared how a little boy apparently got lost whilst on his way to school and asked him for help.
Milo was apparently about to end work when a little kid came to him saying he was lost.
Milo even gave the little kid a ride to school on his motorbike, and cautioned parents about making sure their kids know the way to school before letting them travel independently.
10 people were investigated by the police for suspected illegal gambling in the public. The incident happened at Hougang Street 61.
According to the Police, the raid happened on 29 Jan 2021, The Police issued a statement stating that officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division raided the gamblers and a group of people from the age of 31 and 70 were caught in the act.
The group was separated in two pavilions and gambling, The Police managed to seize $400 in cash and other gambling-related paraphernalia
According to the law, once convicted of inciting, promoting or engaging in gambling activities in public, they will be sentenced to fines ranging from $20,000 to $200,000 and imprisonment not exceeding five years.
“Police will continue to uphold law and order in our neighbourhoods and will take firm action against such illicit activities. Those found engaging in illegal gambling activities will be dealt with sternly in accordance with the law.” said Commander of Ang Mo Kio Police Division, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police Zed Teo
Chinese police conducted operations in Beijing, Shanghai and Shandong, cracking down on a fake Covid-19 vaccine ring as part of a campaign against vaccine related crimes in China.
The fake vaccines were made by injecting saline into syringes and were intended to be sent abroad.
More than 80 people were arrested and over 3000 doses of fake vaccines were confiscated.
The Singapore Customs recently posted on their Facebook page after 10 men were arrested and 296 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were seized.
[10 arrested and 295 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes seized]
Singapore Customs arrested five Bangladeshi and five Indonesian men, aged between 23 and 47, and seized 295 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes in a company on Jurong Island on 27 Jan 2021.
Singapore Customs responded to a call from the security officers of the company, who had detained three workers found with the duty-unpaid cigarettes. Our officers arrested the three workers and two other workers, and five crew members of a vessel berthed at the company’s jetty. Investigations revealed that the five crew members had purchased the duty-unpaid cigarettes from overseas and resold them to two of the workers. The three workers detained earlier were engaged to collect the cigarettes from the vessel.
All 10 men were charged in court for dealing with duty-unpaid cigarettes on 28 Jan 2021. The duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) evaded amounted to about $40,300 and $3,040 respectively.
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