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Vivian asks NEA to remove ‘dumbass rule’

Netizen Daniel Goh spotted an archaic rule in the National Environment Agency's (NEA) "CONDITIONS OF LICENCE" for hawkers and highlighted it on 10 January 2014 in a Facebook post [Link]. The rule stipulates that cooked-food stalls are not allowed to sell "restaurant type of dishes" unless authorised to do so in writing by the...

Rampant use of fake CVs & certs in Indian job market

News agency AFP reported [Link] on 12 January 2014 that fake curricula vitae (CVs) are flooding the Indian job market. In fact, the scam is so sophisticated that when recruiting companies call the companies where the errant job applicant claims to have worked before, there will be people answering calls and giving an illustrious...

2 PRCs specifically come to S’pore to commit crime

Two PRCs were sentenced to jail by the district court today (13 Jan). The court heard that they specifically came to Singapore with the intention of committing housebreaking. Liu Qiangde, 32, was jailed 7.5 years while his friend, Chen Yuncai, 33, was jailed 5.5 years. They were jailed for a spate of housebreaking offences that...