Morning Digest, March 2
M’sian man thankful for getting S’pore citizenship, says he was robbed 3 times where he grew up and had to work 3 jobs to cover expenses
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Woman suffers $16K worth of damage to her belongings due to water leakage at storage unit
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SINGAPORE: A woman took to social media to complain of a “terrible ordeal” when $16,000 worth of personal items she stored at Lock + Store Ang Mo Kio, including luxury items and clothes, were badly damaged after a year in storage.
On the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE page on Tuesday (Feb 28), Ms YT Ong wrote that after she had sold her flat and was looking for a new home, she stored her belongings at Lock + Store Ang Mo Kio from January 2022 to December 2022, which cost her $4075.82.
Read more here...Leon Perera: We should not feel good about government ‘feel good’ advertising
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SINGAPORE: In his speech on proposed budget cuts during the Committee of Supply debates for the Ministry of Communications and Information on Tuesday (Feb 28), Workers’ Party MP Leon Perera (Aljunied GRC) argued that taxes should not be used in funding government advertising aimed to make people “feel good” or think positively of the government.
The funds allocated by the government should instead be spent on driving behaviours, for example, adopting healthier habits or using schemes, Mr Perera said.
Read more here...Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching joins “Naatu Naatu” frenzy
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SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching is the latest to give in to the worldwide obsession with the Indian song “Naatu Naatu” from the Telugu blockbuster film ‘RRR’.
“Naatu Naatu” has become a veritable phenomenon across the globe thanks to the song’s fast pace, unique composition and unusual choreography. Aside from winning the hearts of billions, it has spawned dance cover after dance cover – one even by the Ambassador of South Korea – and became the first Indian song to be dissected at length by The New York Times.
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Maid forced to clean 3-storey landed house with 7 rooms and 3 bathrooms, with only 3 hours of sleep
Domestic worker Kartika Puspitasari shows a scar on her arm from an injury inflicted by a previous employer, at Bethune House, a shelter operated by the migrant worker advocacy group (MFMW), in Hong Kong on October 7, 2022. - Kartika, an Indonesian woman who suffered daily "torture" as a domestic worker in Hong Kong, went to court on October 6 to seek compensation from her employers over treatment that left her physically scarred and mentally traumatised. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)[/caption]
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