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Tengah to be Singapore’s 24th – and also Singapore’s first car-free – town

Minster for National Development Lawrence Wong revealed the master plan for Tengah at the HDB Awards dinner yesterday (8 Sep). The site is a 700ha area that is bounded by Kranji and Pan-Island expressways. At present, it is mostly scrubland and forest that is used for military training but will be redeveloped into one that...

PRC ‘wife’ will not get deceased man’s CPF as marriage was a scam

The High Court has ruled that the CPF savings of a deceased man will go to his sisters instead of his China wife, as the marriage was a sham. Mr. Soon Chwee Guan – who is unemployed – had married Ms. Diao Yanmei in a marriage of convenience sometime in October 2012 for an initial sum of $4,000. Thereafter, he was paid a...

Cartoonist shares his experience about costs of living in Johor

Cartoonist Leslie Chew – the man behind the popular series of Demon-cratic strips – has shared how cheap it is for him to live in Johor. In a receipt posted, Chew spent RM30 (S$10) on groceries which he says could last him for up to 4 days if he were to cook at home with his own existing stock of rice. The items which he...