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Decide to start a thread on Yishun because there simply too happening and deserved a thread of it’s own. 🤣 Every week sure got something. Every weekend go with my wife to visit her sister family there always 提心吊胆。🤣 Let me start off with this one. 😬 3 male teens aged 13-17 arrested for alleged car theft in Yishun Ave 3 https://mothership.sg/2023/01/teens-yishun-steal-car/?fbclid=IwAR0JttYiTIaXefmaCx9hw4D_XzYxuw7ClDKoPU82QC58B3t1Sy_WV9IpffE&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

.........for illegally using SGH’s computer system to sort out personal affairs https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/plastic-surgeon-suspended-3-months-illegally-using-sghs-computer-system-sort-out-personal?fbclid=IwAR3QqrrqoTQ4jRWFbPFPL1_EyaDSTMVKnjk_vXg1EbV3RFETaaJVxXVvexo SINGAPORE — Suspecting his wife of having an affair, a plastic surgeon accessed the computer system of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) to get contact details of the wife of her alleged lover, in the hope of saving his own marriage. Dr Leo Kah Woon also installed a keylogging software on the laptop he shared with his wife to spy on her personal communications. He later used the information he got in their divorce proceedings. For his actions, a disciplinary tribunal of the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) suspended him from practising for three months from Dec 18 last year. In its grounds of decision published on Tuesday (March 5), the tribunal noted that a suspension "would well deter like-minded medical and other professionals who have access to large databases of personal information from abusing the privilege”. In particular, last year’s SingHealth data leak served as a “timely reminder” for everyone to treat cyber security with “the utmost seriousness”, the tribunal added. Read also S$50,000 fine for psychiatrist who failed to protect patient’s confidential info Dr Leo, who has since divorced his wife, now practises at his own clinic at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He was employed at SGH when he committed the offences. In 2017, he was fined S$13,000 in the court for his actions. The SMC then began disciplinary proceedings against him, as his offences implied a character defect making him unfit for the medical profession. THE SPYING BEGAN Dr Leo and his wife tied the knot in 2005. However, sometime in 2011, he started suspecting that she was cheating on him. Her alleged lover was identified in SMC’s grounds of decision merely as Mr C. Around September 2012, he installed a keylogging software in the MacBook Pro laptop he shared with his wife. The software captured her keystrokes and took periodic screenshots when she used the computer, which were sent to his email account. This meant that he could gather information about emails and instant messages that she sent. The spying continued when she left their home to live with her parents and took the laptop with her. The tribunal noted that in October 2012, she began “very acrimonious” divorce proceedings against Dr Leo after he asked her to leave their home. The pair, who have two children, finalised their divorce in May 2015. During their divorce proceedings in the Family Justice Courts, Dr Leo used the information he gathered to explain his concerns about issues relating to the custody, care and control of their children. He also wanted to find out all he could about Mr C’s wife at the time, identified as Ms A, and reach out to her. Dr Leo hoped that Ms A would be able to convince her husband to leave his family alone. On Nov 7, 2012, when Dr Leo could not find any reliable public information to contact Ms A, he used a computer at SGH to search for her contact details in the hospital computer system. He then gave the details to his sister and told her to call Ms A. Ms A came to know of her husband’s infidelity from that call. Mr C then filed a complaint with the SMC against Dr Leo and the police were called in to investigate when the illegally obtained emails and messages were used in the divorce proceedings. Dr Leo’s wife was fined S$3,500 by the courts, for abetting a private investigator to unlawfully access his Asus laptop on Dec 18, 2012. She had seen documents related to the divorce proceedings on it and wanted to make copies of them. A LACK OF INTEGRITY The SMC sought a suspension of at least six to eight months for Dr Leo, while his lawyers asked for a S$10,000 fine. While the SMC argued that Dr Leo had displayed dishonesty, which could see him being struck off the registry of medical practitioners, the disciplinary tribunal concluded that there was no clear evidence of that in his conduct. Instead, it said that he clearly displayed a lack of integrity “to a somewhat appalling extent”. Dr Leo had hired a private investigator to surveil his wife, including installing the keylogging software on the laptop to gather evidence against her in the event of divorce proceedings. To use this evidence “brings (his) integrity to the lowest of levels”, the tribunal added. As members of the public expect doctors to keep medical records confidential, a fine would not be enough to correct his breach of trust, it said. “A suspension would also convey to the public that the disciplinary tribunal does not condone such behaviour and acts, even if they are related to matters in the private family domain. It will convey the message clearly that doctors are expected to conduct themselves with integrity and ethically both in their professional and private lives,” the tribunal added. Dr Leo was also censured, as well as ordered to give a written undertaking to the SMC not to engage in similar conduct and to pay the costs of the disciplinary proceedings. i smell a rat...seems like all sorts bad news abt doctors of late.....sth brewing??? then Gan KY talks abt increases in healthcare costs...hmmm

https://mothership.sg/2019/02/singapore-taxi-driver-punched/ Read already sibei HOT... Really WTF with the current state of our SPF... Only good at aiming citizens.. Can’t they do something and clamp down HARD on these trouble maker foreigners? Should and must follow The Republic of Maharlika on how they deal with the Atbcb...

News comment by The Independent Your thought on this. January 22nd, 2014 By P N Balji I am beginning to feel despondent about Singapore, the country that gave me so many opportunities to build my home, educate my children and lead a safe and secure life. But in the last few years I am seeing a different Singapore, one that moves clumsily from one error to another with alarming regularity. The system is creaking, even cracking. The journey down the slippery slope started in 2008 when the country’s most wanted man, terrorist Mas Selamat, slipped out of a detention centre in the simplest of ways – by jumping out of a toilet window. There were many slips after that. But the most embarrassing one was a photograph that popped out of The Straits Times’ page one earlier this month reminding me of something that can only happen in a Third World country. The Changi General Hospital was experiencing a bed crunch and it had set up a tent outside the hospital to treat patients. For a country known for its 20-20 vision, that one is inexcusable, especially after the then Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan promised in 2010 that Singapore won’t be in such a fix again. Even the mild-mannered and moderate sociologist Paulin Straughan could not mask her angst when she let fly with this post in her Facebook: “I knew that we had a bed crunch issue… but I didn’t realise that this was a sustained phenomenon and it had gotten so serious,” she said. The NUS Associate Professor had rushed her husband, who was suffering from internal bleeding, to hospital only to witness the overcrowding at first hand . The reactions become different when you feel the pain yourself. Far removed from the pain, one can make incredible statements, like the one by PAP MP Chia Shi Lu blaming the December holiday season for the problem. What is worrying is that the government just digs in its heels and tries to overplay the positive elements, downplaying the negative aspects of the mistakes. Yesterday’s ministerial statement by Home Minister and DPM Teo Chee Hean on the Little India riot is one classic example. He was giving an account of that tragic night when Singapore’s tough stand on crime was in tatters for the whole world to see. Two points are worth highlighting One-hour delay: The Special Operations Command (the Riot Squad of old) arrived about 40 minutes after they were activated and one hour after the ground commander had first asked for their support. Teo’s explanation sounded more defensive than constructive. He said the Special Operations Command needed time to act, it cannot be every where all the time where incidents may occurr and that one group had to go elsewhere for deterrence patrols. They also need time to move from one location to another and to assess how serious and urgent the situation was. I worry if this is the kind of regime our men and women in blue operate in. Emergencies require split-second action; there is hardly any time to think, ponder and then act. A split-second can make the difference between life and death or, as in this case, a huge embarrassment and rampage. You can give all the reasons you can find for the delayed responset. But you can’t hide from the reality, despite all the explanations, that you were late. . The best commanders are the ones who are quick-witted, decisive and pin-point accurate with their response. Another delay: It looks like the Home Team did not learn from the PR blunder it had made during the Mas Selamat episode. The first statement was issued four hours after the prisoner jumped ship; if they had done so immediately, somebody could have spotted the man with a limp. But the team was so cock-sure that they would capture him and a victory statement could then be issued to show that yes, he escaped but we were quick enough to catch him. Now we all know how wrong they were. Fast forward to the Little India riot; the first police statement was made two hours after signs of first trouble. But by then, social media had already filled the news vacuum with videos of police and civil defence vehicles being set fire and overturned. DPM admitted: “There has been feedback that Police could have issued short alerts and updates earlier. I agree and have asked Police to review its information-dissemination processes.” Let’s see. Now, to the thrust of DPM’s statement. He wants to make Little India a mini-war zone, give police the power to ask those in the area their names and addresses and why they are there and empty thier bags and pockets. And finally, the power to strip search them. Criminal lawyer Mark Goh said: “I have no issue with giving police more powers, but on two condition: what is the extent of the powers and what is the underlying mischief that the extended power hopes to prevent. “Without a report from the Committee of Inquiry, do we know the underlying issues and problems which caused the riot. It seems that they have already decided that the mischief was alcohol. “The bigger issue is that strip-search powers seemed to be aimed at one community and it can inflame an already tender issue.” This is what this argument for new powers really mean. They couldn’t prevent the riot from happening. So they need extra powers to tighten the screws and choke the area so that its charm, colour and character will disappear over time. What a killjoy. And does the PM do? He goes on to his Facebook and congratulates the police for not firing a shot. Mas Selamat’s escape, Orchard Road floods, train breakdowns, corruption cases, immigration foul-ups …. all these point to a systemic problem that, if not tackled with the hard-nosed approach of the Lee Kuan Yew era, will blow up in our faces and make Singapore a normal country. http://theindependent.sg/what-is-happening-to-my-country/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/air-travellers-refusing-to-show-boarding-passes-at-airport-shops-after-news-that-the-information-is-used-by-stores-to-avoid-paying-vat-10449107.html How to find out?

Long time not in the car sourcing mode so not too update on the market situation now...For used car, dealers still do overtrade or not? Which new car brand offer good overtrade price for the trade in car? (>$10K+) and etc........Heard something like balloon scheme and etc.....what is it about? paiseh lah....want to start looking around to change car so need some market update from people here....

Does anyone knows what is going to happen to pasir panjang port? During the last national day rally, PM said all ports will move to Tuas by 2030. Does it include pasir panjang? It doesn't make sense, they are reclaiming the land at PP to develop into a bigger port. Then in less than 20 years, they all shift to Tuas?

suddenly major traffic accidents happened one after another, in just a week? first, the Spanish train disaster, killing 79 people then, the Italian bus crash, leaving 38 dead and today... RIP

Caught in the jam for fri , sat and this morning! 20 mins to travel from Sixth ave to Wibly road. Sibei sian!

pls stick to one thread

http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/08/...sing-in-brunei/ Whats happening?

STOMPer Boleh sent in a video which shows Malaysian fans attacking Singaporean fans at Horne Road before a football match on June 8. Another STOMPer, Kane, feels that the Malaysian fans should behave themselves when they are in Singapore. A New Paper report (June 8) had stated that a fight had occurred two hours before the match between fans from both sides. It was stated that the fight had started because a Singaporean fan had hurled vulgarities at the Malaysian fans. A Singaporean was later arrested by local police for disorderly behaviour with regards to the incident. In a follow-up New Paper report from June 10, local fan Sulastre Hamzah, who attended Friday

As a guest maybe sim tia about the ang bao and also felt sorry for the wedded couple but if you were THE couple imagine this unthinkable situation :o : From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...yatt_hotel.html Posted on 27 Apr 2012 Wedding guests told to go home after Hyatt Hotel ballroom plunged into darkness STOMPer CK was attending a wedding dinner at Hyatt Hotel yesterday when the fire alarm sounded and the whole hotel was plunged into darkness halfway through. The guests were then told to go home. Said CK: "Wedding dinner in the dark at Hyatt Hotel. "The fire alarm started to sound when the fourth dish was served. "It was around 9.30pm and we were halfway through the eight-course dinner. "The emergency lights came on, but they couldn't serve anymore food. "Only 30 minutes later, did the service staff light some candles at the tables. "We waited for about an hour until the hotel said we had to go home as they couldn't do anything. It was 10.30pm. "Some of the wedding guests were quite angry, but none left until the bridal couple left at 10.30pm. "The couple and the hotel are in talks over this matter."

Is this movement sensible? If yes, do you think many Singaporeans would give a damn? Many of these restaurants that hire foreigners are fast-food. And who dictates the family where to go for a meal? Any guesses? boy boy and girl girl what do you think? Subject: Nationwide Boycott of F & B Outlets That Hire More Than 80% of Foreigners in Month of May Thursday April 26th 2012 Boycott of F & B Outlets That Hire More Than 80% of Foreigners in Month of May Transitioning.org has recently seen a few cases of unfair dismissal from local PMETs. We have verified that some of the dismissals were generated to replace them with foreign talents. If you are affected by unfair dismissal, please email me at [email protected] or [email protected]. All correspondences will be treated with utmost confidence. Thanks alot. Gilbert. Number of View: 6218 Dear Singaporeans, Transitioning is organising a nation-wide boycott of F & B outlets that hire more than 80% foreign workers in their workforce in the month of May. A few popular local brand names come to mind

PRC woman forces marriage on Sec 3 boy Lianhe Wanbao 5 September 2011 A Chinese national woman had reportedly forced her boyfriend, a local secondary three boy to marry her. The woman is 26, holds a student pass and is in Singapore to study, while the sec three boy comes from a comfortable background and is an introvert. The two were introduced to each other at a friend's birthday party and had exchanged phone numbers. Because she sported youthful looks and a babyface, the boy did not suspect that she was in fact 11 years older than him. Soon after their first meeting, the woman courted the boy aggressively with messages and online chats. The two soon progressed to become a couple. Three to four months later, the woman initiated sex with the boy. After the two became intimate, she began to pressure him to marry her. The boy did not know what to do and in the end asked his parents for help. This case was cited by a counsellor as an example of another tactic used by Chinese national women to snag Singaporean husbands. Besides matchmaking and introductions through friends and relatives, some Chinese national women use student passes to look for husbands in Singapore. These women, sometimes girls as young as 17, may get pregnant with a Singaporean boyfriend and insist on marriage. According to the counsellor, some of these women marry to acquire Singaporean citizenship, then using this as a stepping board to go to US or Australia.

Singapore Home > Singapore > Story Jul 6, 2011 Decomposed body found near NUS A DECOMPOSED body has been found in a forested area off Clementi Road - the second such incident within a week. Police said that they were alerted around 6pm yesterday, and are investigating. About 20 police officers combed the area, which is just opposite the National University of Singapore, before emerging with the remains in a white bag close to midnight. This comes after two land survey staff discovered a set of skeletal remains in the forest next to the Tanah Merah MRT Station last Saturday. DANSON CHEONG & KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN

A 29 year old PRC worker has been charged in court yesterday with criminal trepass after he tried to hold a solo protest at a construction site in Changi. It is not known if he is a Singapore PR or new citizen. On 4th July, the man known as Yang Wei trepassed into the site and climbed to the top of a crane tower to express his unhappiness over a salary dispute he had with his former employee. He threatened not to come now unless his demands were met though it had been referred to the Manpower Ministry for resolution. He was arrested by the police on the spot after he come down from the crane two hours later. This is not the first time that foreign workers have held protests over salary disputes. In January 2010, more than 200 PRC workers gathered outside the Manpower Ministry to protest against unpaid wages. The police stood idly by and refused to arrest them for being part of an illegal gathering. With more mainland Chinese pouring into Singapore, Singaporeans should expect more of such

How sick can people get? is it because people have too much free time or because they surf too much forum site Acquittal of man accused of oral sex upheld by Ong Dai Lin 04:47 AM Jun 01, 2011SINGAPORE - The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the acquittal of a man who had been cleared of performing oral sex on a four-year-old boy in 2005. Former taxi driver Peter Lee, 45, had faced a total of five charges of sexual abuse against the boy, the boy's older sister and aunt but only the charge of performing oral sex on the boy was proceeded with after the defence objected. Delivering the court's decision yesterday, Justice Andrew Phang said the court was "unable to say the trial judge was plainly wrong in his assessment of the facts". High Court Judge Kan Ting Chiu had said when he acquitted Lee that he was "left with substantial doubts if the events alleged by the boy actually happened". But Justice Phang also said that the trial judge should not have admitted the testimonies of the boy's older sister and aunt during the trial as they were inconsistent and "irrelevant". At the prosecution's appeal last week which was presided over by Justice Phang, and which was also heard by Justice V K Rajah and Justice Philip Pillai, Justice Rajah had said that measurements should be taken of the penis lengths of boys in oral-sex cases. According to a Lianhe Zaobao report last week, he had asked the prosecution whether it was possible for Lee to perform oral sex on the boy, who was only four years old then, given that boys' sex organs do not develop until they are older. Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Lit Cheng had replied that it was possible, whatever the length. The other charges against Lee had been stood down pending the outcome of the prosecution's appeal. Speaking to reporters after the verdict, Lee, who is now an odd-job labourer, said he was very happy but was still worried about his pending charges. The boy, who was eight years old when he testified in March last year, through a video link describing, how "Uncle Peter" had committed the offence. Ong Dailin

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si bei high! better than soccer match!!

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...d_in_girls.html anyone was there to witness this?

For those parents who have young kids at home. You might want to check out Kranji Turf Club's link if you happened to be on leave this Thursday. http://www.turfclub.com.sg/Portals/0/Flash...derthestars.htm

Not to long ago, I paid my management fee and was send another for the same quarter I did not check and paid - via autopay this was not reflected in my acknowledgement from the management but i notice a little perculiar that there was an identical amount deducted from the bank account I call up, they check and told me that they accidentally deduct my bank account for another unit because we have the same surname and english name therefore from then on i become more careful like eating in a restaurant or buying things from giant or Ntuc or cold storage because there were more than one occasion when the item was on special offer but was charge full price It pays to check Deputy Editor Oo Gin Lee discovers one evening that his bank account is short by some $30k. Even though banks employ high tech systems in processing cheques, they are not foolproof, he advises Thu, Mar 19, 2009 The Straits Times, Digital Life By Oo Gin Lee I RUBBED my eyes in disbelief when I saw the numbers on the ATM slip: $5,837. It was five to midnight, Sunday, at my bank's ATM machine in Bukit Timah Plaza and, by my calculations, I was about $30,000 short in my bank balance. My sleepy eyes opened wide in shock and my groggy brains were jolted into action as I racked my grey cells to figure out what could possibly have gone wrong. Did I overspend? Nope. Maybe the ATM printer was faulty, I thought, so I did an onscreen account balance enquiry. Same result. As I do not believe in Internet banking, the only other possibility was that one of the five payees which I had issued cheques to that month must have altered the numbers on my cheque. Was it the furniture shop where I had bought my new sofa from? After all, the delivery man looked like a thug. Surely it could not be the mistake of my bank (let's call it Bank A) and credit card firm (Firm B) which I had also just issued cheques to pay for my credit card bills. When I checked the next morning with my bank, I discovered that the huge amount was paid to Firm B. The teller from Bank A told me that $31,480 was paid out on cheque number 1234 (I cannot recall the exact number). I checked my records which showed that 1234 was the cheque I had issued to Firm B but the amount should have been only $3,480. I asked the bank teller if she could confirm that the payee on the cheque was indeed Firm B and not some rogue furniture dealer. The only way it seems was to ask her colleagues at the cheque department to retrieve an image of my cheque - a process which she said could take up to three days. Surely with all its multi-million-dollar banking software systems, Bank A would be able to know immediately who it paid my money to? I was not sure if she couldn't or wouldn't but I wasn't going to wait three days. So I called up Firm B whose credit card officer on the phone readily admitted to receiving my generous cheque paying for 10 times of what had been due. An hour later, the 'cheque officer' from my bank called me to clarify that the bank had indeed erroneously paid out that sum of money to Firm B. 'How was it possible?' I asked politely even though I was seething with rage at such incompetence. The reply was something like: 'Oh, your comma was rather big so we thought it was the number one.' My comma is not big, I responded, and even if it were, did you not read the words? Should you not have called me if you had noticed that I had never issued a cheque to my credit card company for anything this much? I prodded further and found out that even though Singapore's high-tech cheque clearance system scans every single cheque issued, the actual keying-in of the figures into the computer systems by the paying and collecting banks (the bank that collects the cheque for the payee) is done manually. In my case, it was not one but two bank officers in two different banks who both made the same mistake. The lesson from this incident: Do not think that these high-tech bank systems are foolproof. Check bank statements diligently every month. Thankfully, the discrepancy was huge enough for me to notice the error. Had it been a few hundred dollars, I might have just overlooked it completely.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...One%2BNews.html http://news.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits...ts%2BTimes.html http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BBusines...ss%2BTimes.html http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BP...ew%2BPaper.html http://news.asiaone.com/News/Mailbox/Mailbox.html Couple gets steamy in Chai Chee park Mon, Jun 30, 2008 AsiaOne A couple was seen behaving intimately at a Chai Chee park, oblivious to the fact that residents from the nearby HDB flats were watching their every move, Shin Min Daily News reported. This incident happened at a park just opposite Block 38 Chai Chee Avenue in the early hours of the morning on June 28. Resident Heidi Tan (21, Tele-salesperson) told Shin Min that she spotted the Chinese couple when she was smoking at her window and observed them for about ten minutes. "The woman was sitting on her boyfriend's lap and they were constantly switching in between kissing and petting. "The man would put his hands underneath his girlfriend's shirt to caress her, while the woman would run her hands along the man's crotch. It was disgusting to watch them. "The young man would look out for passersby from time to time, but he never noticed the residents watching from the HDB flat opposite. "It was only until a cyclist passed by did the couple stop what they were doing and quickly adjusted their clothes before leaving the area." Indecent behaviour in public can land you in jail, a lawyer says. Offenders face a fine of up to $1000 and a month in jail if found guilty. Serious offenders can be fined up to $2000 and face up to two months in jail. http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...0630-73818.html

Police move in after angry crowds demand refund for cancelled Sentosa show http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/photo/getFullSizePhoto.do?id=23379http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/photo/getArticlePhoto.do?id=3880 http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/photo/getArticlePhoto.do?id=3878http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/photo/getArticlePhoto.do?id=3879 "Some foreigners began to bang tables; staff (including a manager at the counter) just nonchalantly said "Sentosa will never give cash refunds. If you're interested in swapping tickets for vouchers, step forward." ------------- according to the past rules.. the apex stops with the manager and his staff.. time to move on..