[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Ride-sharing company Grab will begin charging a platform fee of 30 cents for rides booked through its platform from December 18. The fare includes goods and services tax and will apply to all Grab trips, except GrabHitch and GrabResponse services. It is the first such move by …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Built-to-order (BTO) flats in prime locations may receive further subsidies as the government considers ways to ensure that the new Housing Board units remain affordable for ordinary Singaporeans. Among the ideas under study, homeowners may face restrictions on resale conditions for future public housing projects in privileged …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Large cracks in 10 pillars at an old shop in Jalan Besar have caused bystanders to worry about their safety, forcing one person to make two police reports on the building. Parts of the house at 45 Syed Alwi Road also appear to have changed in four …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Two Singaporeans were charged on Friday (December 11) with failing to comply with the stay-at-home notification requirements, with one of them testing positive for COVID-19 after going out for bubble tea and other activities. Nurul Afiqah Mohammed had arrived in Singapore from Australia on March 21 and received …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A woman was fined S $ 3,000 on Friday (December 11) for gathering with 11 other people for a social gathering on Lazarus Island when such large groups were banned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vietnamese national Luong Thi Thu Ha, 31, will have the validity of her reentry …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, co-working spaces in Singapore are seeing signs of recovery, driven by companies seeking flexible contracts and people hoping to escape working from home. While business was hit hard during the country’s “circuit breaker,” operators said occupancy rates have increased gradually since then, easing …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Fifty-three people were indicted in court on Wednesday (December 9) for violating safe distancing measures, police said Thursday. The 34 men and 19 women, ages 20 to 75, were charged under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act. The largest gathering involved 26 people accused of playing inside a …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A woman who reportedly left her Woodlands Drive residence to buy bubble tea at Causeway Point on March 23, while serving a stay-at-home notice, later tested positive for Covid-19. Nurul Afiqah Mohammed, 22, was supposed to deliver her stay-at-home notice from March 21 to April 4, but …
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[ad_1] All aboard the cruise to nowhere, one of the only ways to scratch your travel itch while traveling abroad is forbidden (sort of). Except, perhaps, if you are a first-line healthcare professional? After DJ-turned-health worker Jade Rasif was recently barred from boarding Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, the …
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[ad_1] South China morning post Meng Wanzhou Hearing: Canada Border Chief Warned Officer Not to Create More Logs, Should They Be Accessed Through Information Act His superiors told a high-ranking Canadian border officer, whose team examined Meng Wanzhou prior to his arrest at Vancouver airport two years ago, not to …
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