Source: Data on average sentencing outcomes for drunk driving cases over the past three years | Ministry of Home Affairs https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/data-on-average-sentencing-outcomes-for-drunk-driving-cases-over-the-past-three-years/

Desmond Lee probably: Teachers are currently too free with a half-day programme and need to be engaged with more meaningful **holistic** work!

Let’s welcome all preschool teachers to the life of having absolutely no time for their families and personal lives because now your performative admin work has to be done during evenings and weekends!

Link is to the national archives with pictures of the survivors or the victims’ families after the collapse of Hotel New World.

I recall hearing relatives talk about this building collapse and was passing by Rocher area this morning when I suddenly remembered this.

This year marks 40 years since the collapse.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Hotel_New_World

Anyone knows people involved including rescue teams etc, and their stories?

Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan stated that Singapore stands in solidarity with Indonesia to combat transboundary haze, noting it is man made rather than natural. He praised President Prabowo's commitment and firefighters' efforts, assuring that Singapore will use all regulatory and legal powers against responsible companies.

This is the first time I've heard Vivian Balakrishnan speak Indonesian, how proficient is he?

TLDR: This article talks about how agentic AI works in the singapore context, eg. using it to contact Chope to make reservations or to shopee or Lazada to make purchases. Article also talks about the security concerns from early users of the service and the initial teething issues.

SINGAPORE – The Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) are investigating two incidents of gastroenteritis reported at two MOE Kindergartens (MKs), after 53 people developed symptoms.

The affected kindergartens are MOE Kindergarten @ Springdale and MOE Kindergarten @ Gongshang, SFA, CDA, and the Ministry of Education (MOE) said in a joint statement on Oct 27.MOE is also working closely with CDA, SFA and the affected kindergartens to assist in the investigations.

🇦🇺 Australia vs Singapore

📅 Saturday, 9 January 2027

⏰ 6:30 pm SGT

🇹🇯 Singapore vs Tajikistan

📅 Saturday, 16 January 2027

⏰ 12:30 am SGT (Friday night into Saturday)

🇮🇶 Iraq vs Singapore

📅 Wednesday, 20 January 2027

⏰ 6:30 pm SGT

One may say high income countries spend less on food but given that we import 90%+ is not an easy feat. We did a highly engineered, multi-layered food security architecture, managing the global supply shocks, geopolitical tensions and continuous search for import lines. Now we import > 180 countries. Just imagine that.

Even compared to hongkong, and china right next to it, they spend more than us (6.3 vs 8.5) or UAE (10.8).