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SINGAPORE – A scaled-back version of the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) will continue to help workers, and $8 billion more will be spent to save jobs, create new ones and seize new growth opportunities, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat.

In a ministerial statement on Monday (Aug 17) carried via live broadcast, Mr Heng said that as the global economy remains very weak and measures such as the JSS are ending soon, it is timely to look at three areas: Continue to support jobs and create new ones; provide further support for sectors that are hit the hardest; and position Singapore to seize growth opportunities in a post-Covid-19 world.

He added that some measures will be extended, such as the JSS to help firms retain local workers, and the Covid-19 Support Grant (CSG) for Singaporeans who are unemployed or have suffered significant income loss.

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One couple’s grilled fish dinner ended up in smoke after their takeaway pan burst into flames.

The incident happened last night (Aug 16) within the couple’s apartment, located along 1 Woodlands Road, reported Lianhe Wanbao.

According to the 31-year-old man, a technician, his wife had bought the grilled fish dish from a shop in Serangoon. It had come along with a portable warming kit made up of three components — an aluminium foil tray to contain the fish, a cardboard stand and chafing fuel — specifically meant to keep the fish hot as they dined.

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For better or worse, there are a heckload of billionaires in Singapore.

According to research from wealth information and business insight firm Wealth-X’s Billionaire Census 2020:
PHOTO: Wealth-XSingapore is seventh in the world for the city with the most billionaires. There are a total of 45 billionaires in Singapore, with the number growing 15 per cent from 2019.

How many billionaires are there in Singapore?

Out of these 45 billionaires, there is an elite tier of billionaires in Singapore who hold immense wealth, significant influence and have enough money to spend on ridiculous things for several lifetimes.

Collectively, they are worth about $93.2 billion ! To put this into context the Unity Budgets , Resilience Budgets , Solidarity Budgets and Fortitude Budgets rolled out to support Singaporeans cost about S$93 billion in total.

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A weekend shopping mall jaunt with his dogs went awry for one pet owner when he learnt the hard way that furkids and escalators are not a good mix.

A pet dog was left bleeding after its hind paw was trapped in an escalator at Vivocity on Saturday (Aug 15) for half an hour, Lianhe Wanbao reported.

The incident occurred on the third floor of the mall, at the escalator outside library@harbourfront, an eyewitness, who was not identified, told the Chinese daily.

The owner, a man who appeared to be in his forties, had brought his two dogs onto the escalator, she recounted.

While he carried one dog in his arms, the second dog, which appeared to be a King Charles Spaniel, was left sitting on the escalator steps.

Suddenly, the dog started yelping and the escalator stopped moving, she said.

“I took a closer look and saw that the dog’s hind paw was stuck in the escalator. It could be its fur or nail that got sucked inside, or its toe that got stuck in the gap that caused the escalator to stop.”

The dog’s paw was bleeding, she added.

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An adjoined resale flat in Tiong Bahru with just over 51 years of lease left fetched more than a million dollars this month.

The unit at Block 43 Moh Guan Terrace in Tiong Bahru was sold for $1,088,000, Housing Board (HDB) data shows.

PropNex real estate agent Wong Han Yee, who closed the deal, said the flat is a rare gem because of its size and location.

The unit, which started its lease in 1973, is 131 sq m and listed as a four-room flat.

It was created by joining two two-room flats.

Ms Wong told The New Paper yesterday: “It is in a central location, being a short walk from Tiong Bahru MRT station, and will also be a short distance from the upcoming Havelock station, which will be two stops from Orchard station.”

She added that when the property was put up for sale in the third-quarter of last year, there were many interested parties, most of them with relatively young families.

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SINGAPORE – Factory operator Nurul Hidayah Norezan was among dozens of Malaysians who made their way across the Causeway to Singapore on Monday (Aug 17), as the two countries’ cross-border travel arrangements kick in.

As there is no public transport plying the 1km-long Causeway, Ms Nurul, 28, joined others in making their way on foot in the early hours of the morning. The journey took a little longer than usual at over an hour as they were with walking with luggage in tow.

She used to commute daily between Singapore and Johor for her job here, but has been away from it since March, when Kuala Lumpur decided to close Malaysia’s borders to stem the spread of the coronavirus, catching her and thousands of Malaysians off-guard.

Ms Nurul told The Straits Times at the Woodlands Train Checkpoint: “I’m excited to be back to work again but at the same time I’m sad that I’ll be separated from my one-year-old child. It was difficult parting from him but at least I know he’ll be in good hands.”

Her mother will be taking care of her only child, she added.

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Mr Andy Yap, 40, used to design graphics for an events company, but after being laid off in February, he now spends six days a week zipping around Yishun delivering food on his mountain bike.

As one of the casualties in the company’s retrenchment exercise, the former digital design director now earns up to $2,000 “in a good month”, which is about one-quarter of the salary he used to draw.

When projects dried up for the company early this year, Mr Yap, who worked at the firm for about two years, was laid off, along with at least two others.

“I didn’t really react when I was told I was being let go. I was quite calm and went to pack up. It only sunk in the next few days,” he said.

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