AHTC chairman Pritam Singh noted that two teams of accountants, each appointed by a different town council, were working on Punggol East’s accounts, and asked the court to clarify if two big firms should be appointed to carry out similar work, “funded by the public purse”.
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'Duplication of work' on Punggol East accounts: AHTC
Director fined S$21,000 for inflating figures of foreign workers’ pay
SINGAPORE – A company director was fined S$21,000 by the State Courts on Thursday (July 7) for falsely declaring salaries in order to get work passes for 10 foreign
employees.
Tan Boon Sing, 51, and his company, KT Engineering & Construction, have also…
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Vertical farm to train people with mild intellectual disability launched
SINGAPORE – A vertical farm and realistic training rooms are among the features of the new Association for Persons with Special Needs Centre for Adults (ASPN CFA), which was officially opened on Friday (July 8).
The centre, which currently provides sheltered…
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Pasir Ris flat partially gutted by e-bike battery fire
Three children and a domestic helper who were in the unit managed to flee the fire unscathed.
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Disgruntled woman takes next-door neighbour to task over Airbnb rentals
SINGAPORE – Tensions over users of short-term rental services such as Airbnb are rising, and the latest case is a woman who went to great lengths to take her neighbour to task for housing paying guests through the popular home-sharing website.
The authorities…
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Public invited to give feedback on changes to Income Tax Act
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is conducting a public consultation on proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act from now until July 29, it announced on Friday (July 8). These mainly relate to measures proposed during the Budget earlier this year….
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Tough lift standards include rules on rope maintenance, sounds
SINGAPORE – More details of the outcomes that lift owners and contractors will be held to were spelt out by the authorities on Friday (July 8), down to the millimetre: For example, the distance between the lift car door panels must be 12mm before a lift can…
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AHTC, PRPTC tangle over access to accounts
SINGAPORE – Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) and Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC) have been told to work out between themselves on the access to documents on accounts, specifically, relating to Punggol East Single Member Constituency, whose…
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Info-sharing, data analytics among tools to tackle disease outbreaks
SINGAPORE – Better sharing of information and use of data will be among the tools that Singapore will use to improve its handling of infectious disease outbreaks.
After six months’ work, a taskforce that reviewed the national healthcare system’s ability to…
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Man jailed 2 years for arranging illegal departure of overstayer
Sabaruddin Sutarmin had arranged for the illegal departure of fellow Indonesian Sofyan Soeb in a Malaysia-registered car at the Woodlands Checkpoint.
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