Context for Monday's drama: https://rdrama.net/h/singapore/post/188427/marseychingchongitsover-gussy-causes-singapores-speaker-of

I love how when scandals erupt in the ruling party the same thing surfaces very coincidentally at the same time in the main opposition party here

I voted for her

SINGAPORE: Workers' Party (WP) senior members Leon Perera and Nicole Seah have resigned from the opposition party after having an extramarital affair, secretary-general Pritam Singh announced on Wednesday (Jul 19).

He also said that Mr Perera has informed the acting Speaker of Parliament that he will be resigning as a Member of Parliament (MP).

"Both of them admitted that they had an affair, which started after the General Election of 2020, but that it had stopped some time ago," said Mr Singh at a press conference, adding that they had previously told the party that there was no truth to the allegations when they surfaced in 2021.

"Leon's conduct and not being truthful when asked by the party leadership about the allegations fell short of the standards expected of Workers' Party MPs. This is unacceptable," Mr Singh added.

This comes two days after a video clip apparently showing the pair surfaced on Facebook, prompting the party to say that it was looking into an "inappropriate exchange between two senior Party members".

It added then that the party "expects all its members to fully own and account for their behaviour".

The silent 15-second clip appeared to show Mr Perera -- an MP for Aljunied -- dining with 2020 General Election candidate Ms Seah while holding and stroking her hands.

It is not known when or where the video was shot. It was first posted by Facebook user "Victoria Wang" and as of Tuesday evening, the video and the account were no longer available.

AFFAIR ALLEGATIONS SURFACED IN 2021

Mr Singh said they saw the video for the first time on Monday.

Prior to this, the party leader was approached by Mr Perera's driver in early 2021. The driver said in a WhatsApp message that Mr Perera and Ms Seah were meeting "very often" at restaurants and hotels, and that they were seen hugging and holding hands.

Mr Singh said on Wednesday that there was no evidence or corroborating information at that time to support the allegation.

He asked Mr Perera about the allegations, and he refuted the claims.

"Leon also shared with me that he was in an ongoing dispute with his driver and was about to terminate his services and had sought legal advice on the allegations of his driver," Mr Singh said.

"Over the course of the next few months, Leon's driver also shared substantively the same information with other members of the party," he said. These members -- Ms Sylvia Lim, Mr Gerald Giam, Mr Dennis Tan and Mr Jamus Lim -- have been named in several media reports.

"When they received these messages from Leon's driver, all of them sought to verify these allegations with Leon. Leon told them that there was no truth to these allegations," Mr Singh added.

Several members of the central executive committee also separately approached Ms Seah about the allegations, which she also refuted.

"When the video of Nicole and Leon emerged on Monday, that was the first time all of us saw it," said Mr Singh.

Both Mr Perera and Ms Seah are married.

Mr Perera, who turns 53 this year, has two children. Ms Seah, 36, had her second child in April last year.

The pair sat on the WP's central executive committee. Mr Perera headed the media team while Ms Seah was the youth wing president.

Mr Perera first emerged onto Singapore's political scene when he ran as a candidate for East Coast during the 2015 general election. He subsequently became a Non-Constituency MP, before joining the WP's winning slate for its Aljunied stronghold at the 2020 polls.

Prior to politics, he was a civil servant and later co-founder and chief executive officer of a business research and consulting agency.

Ms Seah joined the WP in 2015, contesting in East Coast GRC at the 2020 polls, after earlier stints with the Reform Party and National Solidarity Party. She shot to online fame as the youngest female candidate at the 2011 General Election, when she was 24.

Ms Seah was last reported in 2020 to be working at a multinational marketing firm.

In 2012, the WP expelled then-Hougang MP Yaw Shin Leong following rumours of an extramarital affair. The incident resurfaced in 2021 when the party refuted claims by Mr Yaw that he was told to stay silent after the alleged affair.

On Monday, former Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin - who had been MP for Marine Parade GRC since 2011 - resigned from parliament and the ruling People's Action Party.

He had been having an affair with fellow PAP MP Cheng Li Hui, who also resigned from the party.

wtf is happening!?! A cabinet minister was arrested and under investigation for corruption last week and now this hahahaha

If you were ever in doubt of the here in Singapore, leaks of the main opposition party members behaving inappropriately dropped very coincidentally at the same time

Workers' Party looking into video of 'inappropriate exchange' between Leon Perera and Nicole Seah

The PM sounds mad lmfao

SINGAPORE: Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin and Member of Parliament Cheng Li Hui have resigned from parliament and the People's Action Party (PAP) after having an affair.

Their resignations were announced by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Monday (Jul 17), although it did not specify in its statements the reasons behind the resignations.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong later said at a press conference that Mr Tan and Ms Cheng had an "inappropriate relationship" and continued with it despite being told to stop.

Mr Lee said he was alerted to the relationship in 2020. The pair were spoken to and counselled, most recently in February, but went on with the affair.

Mr Tan, 54, is married with two children.

In his letter of resignation, Mr Tan said the recent incident involving his use of unparliamentary language in the House has added to the hurt he has caused his family.

"I have let them down. We have spoken about my personal conduct before," he wrote in his letter to the Prime Minister, dated Jul 17.

"There are areas where I have fallen short. I need to take responsibility for them and help heal my family. We need space to recover and work through the issues. I have discussed the matter with my wife and agreed I must step away from politics and devote myself to my family," he added.

Ms Cheng, 47, is not married.

The MP for Tampines GRC, said in her letter to the Prime Minister that she is "very sorry to be resigning in these circumstances".

"(I) would like to apologise to the party, as well as to my residents and volunteers."

Ms Cheng has been MP for Tampines GRC since 2015 when she made her political debut.

Replying to their resignation letters, Mr Lee wrote that the decisions were necessary to "maintain the high standards of propriety and personal conduct which the PAP has upheld all these years".

TAN CHUAN-JIN'S RESIGNATION

Mr Tan entered politics in 2011 when he was part of a five-member PAP team contesting Marine Parade GRC.

Before he became Speaker of Parliament in 2017, he was Minister for Manpower from 2014 to 2014, as well as Minister for Social and Family Development from 2015 to 2017.

Mr Tan made headlines last week when he apologised for using "unparliamentary language" during a parliament sitting in April. According to a Reddit thread, he muttered "f****** populist" after he called for MP Vikram Nair (PAP-Sembawang) to speak, following a speech by Workers' Party MP Jamus Lim.

Mr Tan said in his letter to the Prime Minister that he should have known better and held himself to higher standards.

"The issue at hand isn't just about the mistake itself. My mistake raised broader questions over my neutrality and impartiality as Speaker. The credibility of Parliament and the Chair is critical and cannot be compromised," he added.

The Prime Minister noted in his reply that Mr Tan had apologised both publicly and to Assoc Prof Lim.

"But your uttering them as Speaker in the Chair made this a more serious matter," Mr Lee said.

"I am saddened that you are not leaving politics in happier circumstances. But your resignation is necessary, to maintain the high standards of propriety and personal conduct which the PAP has upheld all these years," he added.

"I thank you for having been a member of my PAP team, and wish you and your family all the best in your next phase of life."

Mr Lee said at a press conference on Monday that he will nominate a new Speaker by the next sitting of parliament on Aug 1.

Mr Edwin Tong - who is Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Second Minister for Law and MP for Marine Parade GRC - will take charge of residents in the Kembangan‐Chai Chee ward in Marine Parade GRC where Mr Tan was MP.

In place of Ms Cheng, Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Social and Family Development, Second Minister for Health and MP for Tampines GRC will take care of the residents in Tampines East ward.

The profiles of Mr Tan and Ms Cheng have been removed from the PAP's website. Their Facebook pages were also no longer available online on Monday.

CHENG LI HUI'S RESIGNATION

According to her previous profile on the PAP website, Ms Cheng started volunteering in the community in 2003 before she was elected as an MP in 2015.

During her political career, she advocated for active ageing and better support for seniors as well as for stronger community-based support for children from lower-income families. She has also spoken in parliament about in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and egg freezing.

In her brief letter to the Prime Minister, Ms Cheng apologised to the PAP and to her residents and volunteers.

Mr Lee said: "I regret the circumstances in which you are resigning from your positions. But your resignation is necessary, to maintain the high standards of propriety and personal conduct which the PAP has upheld all these years.

"I thank you for having been a member of my PAP team, and wish you well in your future endeavours."

SINGAPORE: Singapore's Transport Minister S Iswaran was arrested on Tuesday (Jul 11) and subsequently released on bail, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said on Friday.

This is the first mention of Mr Iswaran being taken into custody, since news first broke on Wednesday that he was assisting the anti-graft agency with a case it uncovered. There remain no details on the nature of the investigation.

CPIB was responding to CNA's queries on the related arrest of billionaire businessman Ong Beng Seng, which was revealed by his company Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) earlier on Friday.

The Singapore-based Malaysian tycoon was asked by CPIB to provide information in relation to his interactions with Mr Iswaran.

CPIB said Mr Ong was arrested on Tuesday as well, and also subsequently released on bail.

"As part of bail conditions, subjects’ passports are impounded," said the agency. "Subjects on bail can however make requests to travel overseas. CPIB will assess such requests on a case-by-case basis."

CPIB said it assessed and acceded to Mr Ong’s request to travel overseas, and that his bail quantum was increased to S$100,000.

CNA has asked the bureau about Mr Iswaran's bail quantum.

"Upon his return, Ong is required to report to CPIB and surrender his passport," CPIB added.

The agency said that as investigations are ongoing, it was unable to provide further details.

Mr Iswaran had also been instructed by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to take a leave of absence until the investigation is completed.

During this period, he will remain in Singapore and have no access to any official resources and government buildings.

Reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/14zgdc0/singapore_transport_minister_s_iswaran_was/

Edmw thread:

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/singapore-transport-minister-s-iswaran-was-arrested-on-tuesday-jul-11-and-subsequently-released-on-bail.6924111/

You will note of course that many American cities — some with roughly the population of Singapore — also keep on electing the same party repeatedly. If you want to change Chicago city politics at the electoral level, working through the Democratic Party is probably your primary option. And so this problem of natural monopoly political networks extends well beyond Singapore.

^{Mr S. Iswaran (left) with Mr Ong Beng Seng (right) and Mr Stefano Domenicali, the chief executive of Formula One, in October 2022. PHOTO: S ISWARAN/FACEBOOK}

SINGAPORE -- Hotelier Ong Beng Seng has been issued a notice of arrest by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) and is cooperating with the anti-graft body to provide information in relation to his interactions with Transport Minister S. Iswaran.

Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange at 7.30am on Friday that no charges have been filed against Mr Ong, 77, who is the founder and managing director of the company.

"He will be travelling from July 14 and will be surrendering his passport to CPIB upon his return to Singapore. He has been given a notice of arrest and has posted bail of $100,000," the statement read.

Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao photographed the tycoon leaving CPIB's headquarters on Wednesday after CPIB announced that Mr Iswaran, who is also Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations, is assisting with investigations into a case it uncovered. It did not give details on the nature of the investigation.

HPL said Mr Ong is cooperating with the CPIB and has provided the information requested.

"As this is an ongoing matter, he is unable to provide further details at this point. He has undertaken to provide updates to the Board if there are subsequent material developments," the company said.

HPL added that Mr Ong will continue his duties and responsibilities as managing director in the meantime after the nominating committee determined that he is suitable to do so.

"The board and the nominating committee will continue to monitor the progress of the matter and the nominating committee will continue to re-assess the suitability of the continued appointment of Mr Ong," the company said.

Mr Ong is also known as the man who brought Formula One to Singapore. He is chairman of Singapore GP, which organises the F1 night race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit annually.

In response to queries from The Straits Times, a Singapore GP spokesman said the race promoter continues with the planning and preparations for this year's race, which will take place on Sept 17.

Mr Iswaran, 61, has been instructed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to take a leave of absence until the investigation is completed, the Prime Minister's Office said on Wednesday. He will remain in Singapore during this period and will have no access to any official resources and government buildings.

He has been involved in government engagements involving Formula One from as early as 2008.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry and Singapore Tourism Board fund 60 per cent of the cost of staging the $135 million night race. The balance is footed by Singapore GP.

The contract for Singapore to continue hosting Formula One for another seven years was signed in 2022. This is the fourth renewal and the longest extension so far.

Professor Lawrence Loh, director of the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore, said the CPIB investigation should not have a significant impact on whether the Singapore Formula One race will go on.

"The organising of the event involves institutional entities, it is not tied to individuals," he said.

Prof Loh added, however, that it is possible that Singapore's reputation as a Formula One host could take a hit.

"Mr Ong Beng Seng is the person behind Singapore GP and he is credited with bringing Formula One to Singapore. Mr Iswaran is also a key figure. To what extent the impact of this will be on Singapore's reputation, we will have to wait for the findings of the investigation," he said.

HPL owns the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Singapore, among other properties in Canada, Australia, Britain and the United States. It was also part of a consortium -- along with state-owned investment firm Temasek -- that in May 2022 bought the real estate assets of Singapore Press Holdings.

Shares of HPL tumbled 5.4 per cent to $3.65 when trading opened on the Singapore Exchange on Friday.

This story is developing.

Good morning who wants to buy taytay tickets

@X (formerly chiobu) discuss

https://www.todayonline.com/8days/singaporean-transgender-woman-1st-runner-worlds-largest-transgender-pageant-miss-international-queen-2203356

Singaporean Qatrisha Zairyah clinched the first runner-up position at Miss International Queen 2023, a pageant considered to be the world’s largest pageant for transgender women, held on June 24 in Pattaya.

Speaking to 8Days, the 32-year-old fashion advisor admits that she “didn’t expect to go this far” and had only hoped to place among the top 11 out of 22 contestants. “I wasn’t prepared to go on stage for Top 6, much less Top 3. I was so shocked when they called out ‘Singapore’. My mind was literally freaking out!” she recalls with a laugh.

“I’m married and so I told them about my personal story. I told [the judges] that one good thing about Singapore is that when we’ve done our post-op, we are able to [legally] change our gender to female,” shares Qatrisha, who subsequently got married and applied for a HDB flat with her husband, a 31-year-old non-destructive testing inspector.

She lets on that “it was not an easy journey” for her and her family. “It took time for them to actually accept me ’cos we are Muslim. But my mum now understands me. And my dad, when he visited me at my workplace and [understood that I'm] not doing anything illegal, slowly, they were able to accept me . I also give them some money every month for expenses, so to them, they know that they don’t have to worry about me,” she explains.

“I think this is the right time for me to share my story. For the next generation, this is a good stepping stone for them to actually try and be visible. Some people, when they think of transwomen, the first thing that comes to mind is that we are prostitutes,” she avers.

“I want to change this and break this barrier. It's not just about the pageant, it’s also about creating awareness and being the voice for our community.”

the future is now chudbu @X (formerly chiobu) its time for you to join the RIGHT SIDE OF she/herSTORY

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/14ogs14/singaporean_transgender_woman_is_1st_runnerup_at/

wow she’s gorgeous!!!! even more so than a biological girl like me 😆

Hey just a heads up this is kind of a backhanded compliment cuz it’s implying that trans women are typically less attractive than cis women. Ik you have no bad intentions ofc but just be mindful of the implication, its better to just compliment without adding the caveat behind it :)

edit: Expected the downmarseys but i’m not gonna reply to or argue with anyone cuz imo it’s just one of those things where you get it or you don’t and there’s no way I can convince you if you disagree. Yes I understand that some of yall feel sentiments of annoyance or resentment at what yall feel is woke culture, and I have experienced those feelings before as well. However I also have seen several (or many) actual trans people who have pointed out that comments like these feel backhanded and I see why they feel that way, so I was just pointing it out because I believe that it’s a very very easy thing to correct in order to be more respectful towards an already oppressed demographic (whether u actually agree if its backhanded or not). With regards to why I and many others think it’s backhanded, I stated in another comment that it has a similar implication to saying things like “youre beautiful for an (insert race) person”. If you agree that this statement is backhanded then I don’t see why you would disagree when it pertains to trans people. If you think the above statement is a completely fine and appropriate compliment then 🤷‍♀️

where did the cis women part even come from???

“even more so than a biological woman” implies that you would expect a biological woman to be more attractive lol. anyway i expected the downmarseys, probably gonna be a decade more before the reddit population can understand the nuance behind this lmao

edit: another way of understanding this is it’s similar to compliments like “you’re pretty for an indian girl” etc

Agree with you on both counts — about the backhanded compliment (though the poster meant no harm, and was much more accepting of the correction than the other redditors), and how far the average SG Redditor is from being a good ally (or even being willing to be more aware)

Okay I really support this. She's truly good looking too not like the ones from the west who look like Shrek

People who participate in beauty pageants tend not to look like Shrek, regardless of which country they come from.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11430725/Teen-Miss-Americas-transgender-local-title-holder-critics-blast-woke-competition.html

welllll there’s a lot to unpack there , not least how it’s sad that winning a beauty contest is some women’s only route to success. Though that pageant’s criteria was that contestants “are judged on their 'their achievements in scholastic, aptitude, talent, character, community service and poise'.” - so appearance wasn’t supposed to be a factor in the first place, and perhaps the judges also thought that a trans woman would be more in need of the opportunities that came with the award. Or they were trolling and wanted her to get drowned in the hate they must have known would be coming.

(edit: she does seem pretty accomplished.)

But I must say that there were similar complaints over Jenna Talackova, who was conventionally attractive; she also transitioned young, where her features were all her own and not the result of cosmetic surgery.

weirdly, it was Trump who overruled the ban.

SINGAPORE - Singapore's birth rate hit a record low in 2022, a year when the country also had the highest number of deaths annually since 1960.

Official figures released by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) showed a 7.9 per cent drop in the number of live births, from 38,672 in 2021 to 35,605 in 2022.

There were 26,891 deaths in 2022, a 10.7 per cent increase compared to the 24,292 recorded in 2021 in the Report on Registration of Births and Deaths.

This was the highest number of total yearly deaths since 1960, reported Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao.

The report also stated that women are progressively getting older before they start having children, with the median age of first-time mothers rising to 31.9 years in 2022, from 30.6 in 2018. There was minimal change in the median ages of mothers who gave birth to their second and subsequent children during the same period.

The number of first-time mothers who had university degrees rose to 63.6 per cent, compared to 58 per cent in 2017.

Singapore's declining birth rates and greying population are not new issues, with the Government implementing several measures to try and mitigate their impact.

In February, the Government announced plans to support those with marriage and parenthood aspirations, after Singapore's total fertility rate (TFR) hit a historic low of 1.05 last year.

This includes greater priority for first-timer families with children, as well as younger married couples, in their Build-To-Order flat applications, including an additional ballot.

Other measures include cash gifts and grants, as well as Government-paid paternity leave being extended to four weeks.

In response to queries on the declining TFR, National University of Singapore sociologist Tan Ern Ser remarked that likely factors include children increasingly not being seen as part of retirement planning, while the cost of raising them has risen in an increasingly Vuca (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world.

More and more resources are necessary to bring up a child and that is also a constraint on the number of children a couple can afford, he said.

"Other oft-cited factors are the rise of dual income households, in part to make enough to maintain a middle-class lifestyle; women's late marriages; priorities given to career; and in turn the lack of work-life harmony in jobs which emphasise deliverables," said Dr Tan.

He added that Covid-19 may have been a factor because of its impact on employment and income insecurity, as well as in reinforcing the perception of the increasingly Vuca world.

Nearly half of all deaths from cancer, heart and hypertensive diseases

The increasing number of deaths, said Dr Tan, is also consistent with Singapore's rapidly ageing population.

In 2022, the leading causes of death were malignant neoplasms -- also known as cancerous tumours -- and heart and hypertensive diseases.

These collectively accounted for 49.5 per cent of all registered deaths in 2022.

Additionally, lung and respiratory system diseases, as well as cerebrovascular diseases -- conditions that affect blood flow to the brain, like strokes and aneurysms -- were prominent factors, responsible for 22.1 per cent and 5.8 per cent of deaths, respectively.

Compared with 2021, the proportion of deaths attributed to lung and respiratory system diseases increased by 1.8 per cent, while the proportion of deaths caused by malignant neoplasms decreased by 2.5 per cent, noted the report.

Death by unnatural causes, such as accidents, suicides, and other external causes, constituted 3.3 per cent of the total cases. Numbers released on Saturday by the non-profit suicide prevention centre Samaritans of Singapore showed there were 476 suicides in 2022, the highest number since 2000.

SINGAPORE --- After meeting various women on dating applications, Johan Wijaya filmed them having s*x with him without their consent or knowledge.

During investigations, police found recordings of 76 women victims who had been filmed over a five-year period on Johan's devices. Not all resulted in charges against the Indonesian.

On Tuesday (June 27), Johan, 32, a permanent resident, was sentenced to eight months' jail after pleading guilty to five counts of voyeurism. Eleven other similar charges were taken into consideration during the sentencing.

After Johan met the women on apps such as Tinder and OkCupid, he would ask if they were open to having a casual relationship before meeting with them in person.

Before engaging in sexual activities with the women he met either at his home or a budget hotel, Johan would turn on a video camera that was hidden within a powerbank charger.

While the woman was showering or using the potty, he would position the powerbank to face the bed.

As the powerbank did not emit any light while it was recording, the women would not notice that it was recording videos for the entire duration.

Johan would save the videos on his laptop or hard drive with the name of the victim as well as the date it was taken so that he can watch them later.

The names of the victims cannot be published under a court order to protect their identities.

Johan, whose occupation was not stated in court documents, did not disseminate the videos to third parties.

WHAT HAPPENED

Court documents prepared by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Chin Jincheng stated that on Jan 6, 2021, Johan got acquainted with a 25-year-old woman after connecting with her through a dating app.

The two decided to meet a few days later to have s*x and then agreed to meet once a week.

During these meetings, Johan would use the camera in the powerbank to record their intimate acts without the woman's consent.

This resulted in a total of 16 videos that showed the woman fully nude with her face and private parts visible.

The woman was initially unaware of the recordings and had filed a police report in relation to a separate recording that Johan had made using his mobile phone.

Court documents did not elaborate on what led to her discovery.

The woman found out about the other recordings only after the police extracted them from Johan's laptop that had been seized for investigations.

A total of 391 videos were extracted, of which 336 contained voyeuristic elements.

The videos also featured a total of 76 victims, which included the 25-year-old and four other victims whose treatment was the subject of the charges brought against Johan.

Johan eventually admitted that the videos were recordings of his sexual activities with various sexual partners who did not consent to the video recording and they were unaware that they were being recorded.

He also admitted that the powerbank with the camera was bought in 2017 to secretly record such videos.

For each count of voyeurism, Johan could have been jailed for up to two years, fined or caned, or punished with any combination of the three.

/r/Singapore thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/14ch72k/they_risk_their_life_to_keep_us_safe/

/h/singapore

I am a HUGE supporter of standup comedians, especially from this region. IDC that this S’porean said FU Malaysians bcs we make fun of them on stage too.

But I draw the line at turning MH370 into a joke. Not acceptable. A good standup never turns tragedy and deaths into a joke.

https://x.com/kudsia_kahar/status/1666140800441552897?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

I must say that turning a tragedy into a source of entertainment is just in bad taste.

But I have good faith in my fellow Singaporean friends, and I'm sure all of us deeply cherish our close relations as countries.

Whatever it is, let's not allow one bad seed to tarnish our whole outlook to our neighbour,

https://x.com/syedsaddiq/status/1666381312675188736?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

Take it as a lesson to never take lightly of other people's misfortunes.

https://x.com/syedsaddiq/status/1666381312675188736?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

singaporean minister for foreign affairs vivian (male):

I am appalled by her horrendous statements. She certainly does not speak for Singaporeans. We treasure our ties with family and friends in Malaysia, and are sorry for the offence and hurt caused to all Malaysians.

https://x.com/vivianbala/status/1666487826022817792?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

oh no singapore isn’t attractive to sexpats, how will they recover?

First world country = Proceeds to go to the neighbor country to fill the cheapest petrol, buy groceries, do shopping, eat good food and having good entertainment. Then, proceeds to go back to their own first world country. 🤣🤣🤣 You cannot afford to spend in your country

https://x.com/sharvenk_29/status/1666476949953474561?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

Jocelyn Chia needs to apologize to Malaysians for her immensely disgusting, verbal diarrhoea. She doesn’t represent us Singaporeans. One actual abomination this woman is. Vile creature. Itu degenerate perempuan muka kena dilangar banyak lori. Mulut kotor je. CCB.

https://x.com/rebeltwita/status/1666462695951056897?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

Singaporean humor is as tasteless as their cuisine.

https://x.com/rohanbeg/status/1666392147447402503?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

don’t they have very similar cuisine to malaysia?

i hope malaysia government banned her like taiwan do to uncle roger. we dont play with sensitive issues especially mh370

btw saya single

https://x.com/etiennelayla/status/1666276010105647105?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

Like I said me no likey Singapore. The island down south.. they might front like a European country in the tropics but European countries actually have heart. Singapore is cold.

This is mean girls humour.

All I’m thinking about is your country’s death penalty.

https://x.com/demoiselledian/status/1666315101035429890?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

they’re coming

First world country yet some of them came to this still developing country and use heavily subsidised RON95 fuel, they even use car jack to get a full tank??shame shame 🥲 first world country with people who just couldnt afford singapore petrol aww sad F@&K YOU ASH**E

https://x.com/arissaaros/status/1666430341228425218?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

First world country howwww, come here filled with oil henjut henjut train, drive around like gangsters, peeing on the side of the road. I still cannot wrap my head around that.

https://x.com/nisa_kay/status/1666265931809718274?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

I'm singaphobic

https://x.com/tonkatsuni/status/1666265134086647808?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw

/r/malaysia post 1

https://old.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/1437qv1/singaporean_comedian_jocelyn_chias_mh370_joke/

She commented saying “tragedy + time = comedy”

Wow, she doesn’t even know how to apologise. So arrogant ! Just ban her from coming to Malaysia already.

I don’t think she apologise. And she even said this:

I’m not sure if time passing is the only thing that makes a joke acceptable. Europeans making holocaust jokes aimed at insulting jewish people is very distasteful but if you ever visit Israel and meet with local Jewish people holy shit do they have a lot of jokes about ovens or what. Seriously.

Jocelyn isn’t making a joke about a tragedy about something awful that happened to her own nation and people a long time ago in the past, she’s making a “joke” about another country’s tragedy that happened relatively recently twice and saying they suck because of it whilst punching down. Her neighbour country of all places. It’s quite vile actually. Self-deprecation is funny, gloating is not.

look at her facial expression - she has genuine hate for this country

and her jokes are unfunny. when a joke is not funny this turns straight to a direct insult and hate speech

she sucks

/r/malaysia post 2

Hmm. Reminds me of another Singaporean comedian who touched on the same Malaysia vs Singapore topic. I forgot the name, the bit was about how toll attendants in Malaysia were incompetent (“akshually arh bro” if you guys heard of it before) and it was hilarious af.

I think no topic is off limits in comedy, but it should have been funnier lol. This seems more mean spirited than funny. Frick you buttholes is not a punchline lol

So making joke about people died/gone missing in an air plane crash is a thing now?

There is limit to joke bro. That’s why there’s someone getting killed because of their dirty mouth.

Hope everyone around you die in funny ways because that’s where you draw the line for joke anyway

:marseytoughguy:

First world country. Third world mentality.

You love to see it

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/13x89pv/sub_meta_new_flairs_and_a_very_pink_june/

It is said that love transcends all obstacles.

But for Nina Monzolevska, it also transcends different timezones and nationality.

Five years ago, the Ukrainian model met her Singaporean husband on the online dating app Tinder while in her home country.

And roughly four months after their first meet-up, he popped the big question to her, and the couple are now happily married in Singapore with a six-month-old daughter.

Having come from different backgrounds, it's no surprise that Nina gets asked the same question over and over again.

Last Thursday (May 25), the 25-year-old took to TikTok to provide the full story to said question --- "How did you get to know your husband?"

It all began when Nina "felt like going home [to Ukraine]" while she was working in Japan. This was rather tricky as she had a modelling contract to fulfil.

After making a few calls to her Japanese and Ukrainian agencies, she eventually managed to head back home.

This coincided with a certain Singaporean man's arrival to the country.

He was in Ukraine on a 10-day trip, so the stars really did align for the duo.

Back home, Nina was swiping away on Tinder before coming across her future husband's profile.

"He was looking for someone local who could show him around. I can do that plus I can practise my English," Nina said.

It looked like a win-win situation so she swiped right on him.

An outing soon turned into two, but before they could continue hanging out, Nina's mother intervened.

"He's a foreigner and God knows what he was going to do with [you]," she'd say.

So before any further outings, he'd have to first meet Nina's parents.

Nina had little expectation given that the two "were not dating" at that point of time.

But somehow the meet-the-parents session happened and it was a complete success.

Everyone got along and with the parents' stamp of approval, they were allowed to start dating.

"In four months, he proposed and we got married two weeks later," Nina shared in a separate TikTok video.

AsiaOne has reached out to Nina for more information.

In the comments section, netizens likened their story to a fairytale, with many noting how sweet of a love journey it has been for the couple.

"I love this story! You guys are destined to be [with] each other," one TikTok user wrote.

Things we do for love

A man in Singapore literally went the extra mile when he headed to Johor Bahru for a Tinder date.

Breezing through customs, he arrived two hours early for the date.

After killing time at a karaoke studio, he initially thought he was being stood up by his date.

She did eventually show up, and the date continued as planned at a sky bar before they headed to a carnival.

While he was happy with how the night turned out, he indicated how there might not be a second date.

Love's a tough game, but if you'll never know the outcome until you try, right?

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/13rh8ch/good_sale_at_ntuc/

/r/singapore thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/13onrl0/basically_saying_poor_people_should_not_work_in/

/r/linkedinlunatics thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/13oiqqa/basically_saying_poor_people_should_not_work_in/

Over the last couple of years I've been creating RPG inspired by Singaporean culture called Ghostlore, where you fight monsters from local folklore (you may have seen the ads). I finally launched it on Steam

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.