Just 3 weeks after 46-year-old Singaporean Thangaraju Suppiah was hanged for the crime of conspiracy to traffick marijuana, anti-death penalty activists in Singapore have confirmed that the government is set to execute another man tomorrow, May 17, for the same crime.

In a post shared by the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) last night, the activist group said that the family of a 37-year-old Malay Singaporean man had received an execution notice last Wednesday.

The family has asked for privacy so no personal details like his name or photo were revealed in the post.

According to the TJC, the man has been in prison for seven years after being convicted of trafficking 1.5kg of cannabis.

Trafficking 500g of cannabis or more carries the mandatory death penalty under Singapore's harsh drug laws.

However, TJC said that an application to reopen his case has been filed on the basis that DNA and fingerprint evidence only tied him to possession of a much smaller amount of cannabis.

Billionaire and outspoken death penalty abolitionist Richard Branson last month wrote about the many issues surrounding Thangaraju's "shocking" case, arguing that 'In the coming days, Singapore may kill an innocent man". The Ministry of Home Affairs replied by defending the execution and calling Branson "disrespectful". Singapore continues to vehemently defend its death penalty regime even as other countries in the region move away from the use of capital punishment.

If the man's appeal is unsuccessful, the state will proceed with the execution at dawn tomorrow.

[Straits Times] Football Association of Singapore eyeing place at 2034 World Cup; Edwin Tong says goal is 'realistic'

$94.1 million in taxpayers funds have flowed into FAS over the last 5 financial cycles.

Drug use deaths per 100K (WHO 2020)
🇺🇸21.28 (worst in the world)
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SINGAPORE: There are no plans to remove the Roald Dahl titles currently available in libraries, the National Library Board (NLB) said on Friday (Mar 3) amid controversy over rewritten editions of the children's books.

NLB added that it would assess the suitability of acquiring the new editions of the titles "in accordance with its collection policy" if and when they become available.

The collection policy takes reference from the Infocomm Media Development Authority's Content Guidelines for Imported Publications, said NLB. The guidelines include those related to public security, race, religion, s*x and one stating that "teens and young persons should be protected from content likely to harm or disturb them".

In February, the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that Dahl's books were being rewritten to remove or alter passages pertaining to gender, race and physical appearance.

For example, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Augustus Gloop would no longer be "enormously fat" but "enormous". In The Twits, Mrs Twits is no longer described as "ugly and beastly" but just "beastly".

The rewritten rendition of The Witches, famous for Dahl's vivid and grotesque descriptions of them, now has an added line in a paragraph explaining the witches are bald beneath their wigs: "There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly thing wrong with that."

The changes were brought about after Puffin Books, which is part of United States-based publisher Penguin Random House, hired "sensitivity readers" to rewrite the text to ensure the books would be continued "to be enjoyed by all today".

But public criticism and outcry over the changes have prompted a rethink. Puffin said on Feb 24, that in addition to publishing the rewritten versions, it said it would also release 17 of Roald's Dahl's titles with the original text unchanged.

In response to CNA queries, Singapore bookstore Books Kinokuniya, said: "Roald Dahl books are being updated and reprinted every few years; because they sell really fast, we no longer have stock of the old editions."

"READ SOMETHING ELSE" IF OFFENDED

Mr David Seow, a Singaporean children's book author, thinks the changes were unnecessary to begin with.

"Dahl's books were written to entertain young readers and open their minds to whole new worlds. It was written at a time when things were not as woke as they are now."

While characters like Miss Trunchbull from Matilda were "vile", no one could have written her like Dahl, said Mr Seow.

"If we sugarcoat everything a character says in a book that may be offensive, what are we going to do when young readers meet people who may have the same traits in real life?"

Mr Seow also believes that rewriting Dahl's books for those offended "ruins things for everyone else".

"They won't get the full wit, humour, and genius of his work. And is that fair? If they find his language offensive, don't buy the books and read something else," he said.

In the wake of the incident, Mr Seow added that he would not be changing what he writes about even if he is told his books are "too gender-specific".

"Children's books are lights in an increasingly dark world. Does this make me want to change what I write just because someone may find it offensive? No."

Summary: Due to increasing costs, tenants in Singapore have sought more affordable housing options, resulting in a higher demand for HDB flats. Rental transactions for HDB flats rose for two consecutive quarters, with rents increasing by 17.6% in Q1 2023. Many expats and employment pass holders have chosen to live in HDB neighborhoods for their affordability, with three- and four-room flats in mature estates being particularly popular. HDB rental prices reached an all-time high in February 2023, with some flats being leased for over $6,000. The proportion of flats leased below $3,000 decreased significantly from 89.3% in Q1 2022 to 48.3% in Q1 2023, while affordable units under $2,500 dropped from 66.2% to 26.8% in the same period.

Singapore executes man for trafficking two pounds of cannabis, sparking outrage over harsh stance toward drugs. https://t.co/cDac9bbAtS

— CNN (@CNN) April 26, 2023

I’m putting this here so the SE Asian users of this site can laugh at me for being r-slurred. Anyways I went to a Catholic school which meant that like 70% of the kids who attended were Filipino which was my only way of experiencing Asian cuisine bc my parents are mayo and my dad can’t tolerate food much more flavorful than a chicken nugget.

Anyways sometimes they’d bring in a slice of green cake that was packaged like a slice of meat and I’d trade them whatever normie thing I had for lunch for it. Life moved on but I still occasionally thought of the green cakes but were unsure of what exactly they were. Until yesterday when I went to an Asian market on my own time and found a bunch of individually packaged green cakes or Pandan Cakes. I always wondered why they were green apparently it’s because it’s flavored using leaves. The prepackaged cakes are not as good as the slabs from my childhood but they’re still pretty good, and low in calories!

This makes the second SE Asian food I’ve had consciously and it’s definitely my favorite. The second was Tom Yum Soup which I think is actually my least favorite food of all time. The bizarre mix of sour and spicy is not for me.

The car I was travelling to get home in got absolutely BTFO-ed in a needless chain collision

One of the worst feelings in the world must be to exit Changi airport to feel that hot and putrid tropical weather after you come back from somewhere where the climate is not a human rights violation

And I had the luck of feeling that full blast of heat on the expressway while waiting for the tow truck

Explain this singaporeans. Are you descendants of aliens ?

The Certificate of Entitlement (COE) is the quota licence for owning a vehicle in the city-state of Singapore. The licence is obtained from a successful winning bid in an open bid uniform price auction which grants the legal right of the holder to register, own and use a vehicle in Singapore for a period of 10 years. When demand is high, the cost of a COE can exceed the value of the car itself.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Entitlement

COE premiums for cars continue to break records, with Category A prices topping S$100,000

SINGAPORE: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums closed mostly higher in the latest bidding exercise on Wednesday (Apr 19), with prices for cars in Category A and B breaking records for the third consecutive tender.

Premiums for Category A, which is for smaller cars, closed at S$103,721 (US$77,693), up by S$7,220 from the previous high of S$96,501 on Apr 5. This is a 7.5 per cent jump - the largest increase among the categories on Wednesday.

Premiums for larger and more powerful cars in Category B rose to S$120,889 from S$118,501 - a 2 per cent increase.

Open category COEs, which can be used for any vehicle type but end up being used mainly for large cars, rose to S$124,501, exceeding its previous all-time high of S$118,990 by about 4.6 per cent.

COEs for commercial vehicles, which include goods vehicles and buses, fell to S$75,334 from S$76,801 in the previous bidding exercise.

Motorcycle premiums closed at S$12,179, up from S$12,001 in the last exercise.

A total of 2,181 bids were received, with a quota of 1,590 COEs available.

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Followup to @water’s excellent post on this tiktokker

https://rdrama.net/h/singapore/post/155456/followup-of-my-last-post-about

The Singapore Sling was purportedly invented by a bartender named Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffels Hotel in 1915. The inspiration for the cocktail came to him when he observed that while the men at his bar chose to drink Gin or Whiskey, the ladies were confined to drinking fruit drinks and teas. The Singapore Sling was his bid to create a drink especially for the ladies. Soon word spread far and wide making the drink more and more popular. Ngiam wanted to keep the recipe a secret so he locked it up in a safe and when he passed away, the bartenders were lucky enough to be able to retrieve the recipe with the help of his relatives. The safe and the recipe were then put on display in a glass case at Raffels as an ode to this most famous drink.

@cyberdick your favourite foid is up to no good again

>YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK

>YOU WILL SOCIALLY DISTANCE

>YOU WILL FOLLOW THE ARROWS

>YOU WILL CLAP FOR OUR HEALTH HEROES

>YOU WILL OBEY THE CURFEW

>YOU WILL STOP SEEING YOUR LOVED ONES

>YOU WILL REPORT DISSENTERS

>YOU WILL GIVE UP YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM

>YOU WILL USE NEWSPEAK SUCH AS "COVIDIOT" AND "KAREN"

>YOU WILL EMBRACE MASS SURVEILLANCE ADVERTISED AS "TEST AND TRACE"

>YOU WILL TAKE THE TEST

>YOU WILL BE SODOMIZED, TO TEST FOR COVID-19

>YOU WILL SELF ISOLATE

>YOU WILL TAKE THE GENE MODIFYING "VACCINE"

>YOU WILL BE MARKED WITH THE DIGITAL "SMART TATTOO" MICROCHIP

>YOU WILL BE PLACED IN DEATH CAMPS IF YOU RESIST

>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE GREAT RESET, THE FORTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

>YOU WILL REJECT GOD

>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE SMART CITY

>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE POD

>YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS

>YOU WILL EAT THE SHIT CAPSULES

>YOU WILL DRINK THE COCKROACH "MILK"

>YOU WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING YOU OWN

>YOU WILL RENT EVERYTHING, INCLUDING YOUR CLOTHES

>YOU WILL ONLY USE THE APPROVED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY STRAGMAN

>YOU WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED SELF DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS

>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE CASHLESS SYSTEM

>YOU WILL TRADE IN CARBON CREDITS

>YOU WILL CONNECT WITH NEURALINK

>YOU WILL HAVE PROPAGANDA BEAMED INTO YOUR MIND, INCLUDING SISSY HYPNO

>YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LEAVE YOUR ASSIGNED QUARANTINE REGION

>YOU WILL EMBRACE OUR NEW WORLD ORDER

>YOU WILL ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF HISTORY

>YOU WILL ACCEPT THE NEW NORMAL

>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING

>AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.

No post complaining about r/sg members again, I'm legit tired of looking in threads and ppl circlejerking about the same thing over and over again

SBS Transit bus doesn't stop for man, 73, so he takes taxi to chase after it & say 'f*** you' to bus driver

When a public bus failed to stop for 73-year-old retiree Tay Bok Leng, he hopped into a taxi and chased after the bus to give the bus driver a piece of his mind.

After a 5km chase, Tay boarded the bus to shout “f*** you”, “good for nothing”, and other vulgarities at the 67-year-old bus driver.

Tay was eventually arrested and charged with using abusive words at a public service worker and not wearing his mask properly.

He pleaded guilty to both offences and was fined S$6,000 on Apr. 4.

On Jan. 14, 2022, around 10:50pm, the victim was driving his bus along Lavender Street but did not stop at a bus stop as he failed to see anyone. However, after he drove past the bus stop, he noticed that Tay and his 68-year-old friend were flagging for his bus. The victim continued driving as he could not stop the bus safely.

Tay then hopped into a taxi with his friend and asked the taxi driver to drive along the route of bus service number 13. When they finally caught up to the bus along Still Road in the Joo Chiat area, Tay asked the taxi driver to let them alight two bus stops ahead of the bus.

Upon boarding the bus at around 11pm, Tay confronted the victim about why he failed to stop the bus. While the victim continued to drive the bus, Tay shouted “f*** you” multiple times at him. He also shouted “b* st*rd”, “good for nothing”, and “rubbish”, amongst other profanities, at the victim.

Tay’s mask was also not over his nose when he lambasted the bus driver.

His friend tried to persuade him to let the matter rest but to no avail. The verbal abuse caused alarm to multiple bus passengers, which prompted at least three of them to call the police for help. The victim subsequently stopped at a bus stop near Marine Crescent, and the police arrived shortly after.

The prosecutor submitted that Tay’s case was on the borderline of the custodial threshold and that any further aggravation would likely have landed him in jail. She also pointed out that Tay was “vindictive” in chasing down the bus driver just so that he could confront him. Tay, however, was adamant that the bus driver should apologise to him too.

Shin Min Daily News reported that Tay claimed his “legs were no good“ and could not stand or sit for too long. He claimed that he had been waiting at the bus stop for 20 minutes just to see the bus leave without stopping. He also claimed that at least four people were at the bus stop.

However, Tay admitted his wrongdoing when the judge asked him to clarify if he was pleading guilty, and he asked the judge to give him a lighter fine considering he is retired and has no income.

Chinese singaporean dont know how to ask in Chinese, somehow service worker at fault

News article:

https://theindependent.sg/woman-berates-ntuc-fairprices-staff-at-the-fish-counter-for-not-being-able-to-speak-english/

Reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/120b89k/woman_berates_ntuc_fairprices_staff_at_the_fish/

I unironically hate /r/singapore users so much it's unreal when looking at their responses

Are Singaporeans that terrible at speaking mother tongue?

Why can't they just admit they suck at it.

Another similar incident:

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/i-dont-know-how-read-chinese-rider-explains-delivery-delays-happen-because-some-cant-read?fbclid=IwAR2ifrSbW_zlr_FgL6bIhPwuTqNkjnosGtkUPijVMH-7qqV1ODD15iaeHTo#Echobox=1680236845

Reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/127hlld/i_dont_know_how_to_read_chinese_rider_explains/ (Comments locked btw)

Maybe I should practice more on my mother tongue, no its the stall owners who should learn a new language entirely

I would've ranted about how much I hate these redditors but I need yall opinions on these. Are these ppl actually Singaporeans or foreigners larping as one after living here for like a year. Hardwarezone unironically feels more singaporean that whatever the ang mohs are doing on the singapore sub

Edit: Actual Singaporeans in /r/askSingapore btw

https://old.reddit.com/r/askSingapore/comments/121m4uw/any_chinese_singaporeans_here_that_cant_or_can/

I love croissants, so I thought I'd share this even though I can't benefit myself.

All you have to do is:

1. Go to any Tiong Bahru Bakery outlet in Singapore on April 1, 2023
2. Whisper “I heard a rumour that I can get free croissants for a week” to staff at the counter
3. Order any drink from the beverage menu (except juices or bottled drinks)

@kongbu @Woajak if you subscribe to ST can archive and link it?

Reasons why she is one of the good ones:

• She passes better than many of the AGPs featured on rdrama

• Post-op

• Served full-time NS before transitioning

Quite a few chuddy comments on EDMW though

Did you know that Asian cuisine regularly uses cornstarch, an invention created by an American in America? The Asians appropriate it and use it to thicken their sauces. Asia, my culture is NOT your cuisine.