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Govt to dole out $45m worth of benefits to 800K households

DPM and Finance Minister TharmanOver 800,000 Singaporean HDB households will receive $45 million worth of GST Voucher – Utilities-Save (U-Save) rebate this month. "The GST Voucher – U-Save forms one component of the permanent GST Voucher scheme, designed to help lower- and middle-income Singaporean households with their...

Foreign PMET number up 77% over last 5 years

According to the Ministry of Manpower [Link], the size of the foreign workforce continues to increase. At the end of last year, the total number of foreign workers stood at 1.36 million: The total number of work permit holders is approaching 1 million, of which one-third are construction workers: This untramelled increase...

Police bring 3 charges against Amos after just 4 days of investigation

Amos Yee Teenager Amos Yee was charged today (31 Mar) in the state courts with multiple charges. He was arrested on Sunday (29 Mar) for a video he had uploaded to YouTube that celebrated the death of Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The 8-minute-long video included remarks about Christianity that some people...