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A man, Daniel Goh presumably runs a stall which sells alcohol. Singapore Police Force's licensing unit sent out a mail to him dated 6 September 2018 informing him to apply for a renewal of the stall's alcohol license. The letter states that they have to pay it before 4 December 2018.

Goh received the letter only 1 February 2019. Singpost's date stamp on the evenelope showed that the mail was only cleared on 30 January 2019. This meant that Goh's stall was essentially selling alcohol illegally for about over a month without even knowing. 

Is it acceptable for our postal service to handle such letters so slowly? Are they just being irresponsible towards us? In the picture which Goh provided, a stamp saying "Please post early" can be seen clearly. Perhaps if that stamp wasn't available they would have taken more than four months. Goh should be glad.

You can read Goh's full post below:

They say Singapore is an easy place to do business. It normally is - it's easy to incorporate a company, start bank accounts and get the usual licensing approved (pretty quickly too). But all it takes is the incompetence and sheer negligence of an essential public service to destroy all that.

Yes, I'm referring to Singapore Post.

Here's a letter that I received in the mail last evening from Singapore Police Force's Licensing Unit for a renewal of our stall's alcohol licence dated 6 September 2018. But if you see Singpost's date stamp on the envelope, this was only cleared on 30 January 2019.

TWO DAYS AGO.

We needed to have paid for this before 4 December 2018 - it's 1 February 2019 today. This essentially means we have been selling alcohol illegally for the past month without even knowing. We could be shut down any time if the police come checking. Heck we may never be allowed to operate and sell beer ever again, all because Singpost took FOUR MONTHS to deliver an official letter from a government authority. I leopard crawl from Police Cantonment Complex to my home also won't take one month.

Or should just be glad I didn't find this in a random bin? In any case, readying the lawyers.

PS: Can't get through SPF's hotline to clear things up, probably because of Chinese New Year. Please don't shut us down in the meantime, can? It's 不吉利, lah.

In the latest siao lang news of Singapore, a lady (who has been CSI-ed by local netters) named Jovina Choi, was shot in a video by a GoJek driver. In the seven minute long video, the lady was seen accusing the driver of kidnapping.

Here's a run down of what happened in the video:

- Jovina Choi (JC) accused the driver of cheating her money for going to an ERP gantry and videoed the driver as well
- She insists that the road she takes every morning doesn't go through any gantries but was unable to give directions to the driver when he asked
- Driver said that he would not want to take a single cent from JC and advised her to get a refund from GoJek. He also advised her to take a bus in the future.
- Driver wants to make a report to the police and LTA and also advised JC for doing the same
- JC moved out of the view of the driver's camera and started making calls to (presumably) her mother and accused the driver of being dangerous
- Driver laughs at the accusation
- The driver told the mother on speaker phone that he was bringing JC to the police station
- The mother accuses the driver of taking her hostage
- Upon reaching Toa Payoh's NPC, JC started screaming for help and that she has been kidnapped
- The driver clarified the situation with the police officer who was stationed there
- JC tried to leave the vehicle but the doors were locked; she then started screaming "HE LOCKED THE DOOR"
- The driver and police subsequently tried to explain to her that cars have an auto lock system
- The woman starts questioning them "Is it because I'm Chinese?" 

The driver must have been scarred for life to have met such a passenger. We can only wonder what what JC thought the ransom for her would be. $1.50 worth of ERP charges? And what was with the race card at the end? It's as if she has never seen a ERP in Singapore before.

The post has since gathered over 30,000 shares on Facebook. The driver captioned his video "After few day of thinking. I guess i better to let it out. Pax accuse me of kidnapping her just bcoz of E.R.P..... i have already make police report & report to gojek. Be care to all phv driver. Blk 251 Bishan St 22 to 1 Coleman St @ 7.10am .....how to avoid ERP? She keep telling that i trying to cheat her. I ask her tell me if she know how to avoid ERP but she cant direct me to where should i go to avoid ERP."

You can watch the full video here (we promise it's worth 7 mins of your time):

A surgeon who was found guilty of professional misconduct has appealed against his five month suspension, arguing that the worker himself agreed to go back to work, and that working light duties will benefit him as it will enable him to begin early rehabilitation.

Dr Kevin Yip Man Hing, an orthopaedic surgeon, had certified a 47 year old Chinese national construction worker fit for work a day after his two day hospital stay. This was despite the fact that he had suffered a broken collarbone, rib fractures and an injured wrist after falling from a one-story height. The worker had also visited him again for post-operation surgical reviews on two days a few days after his fall, and he was again certified fit for light duties. 

Medical experts had all agreed that the minimum sick leave after such injuries would have been two weeks. The surgeon was also blasted for his lack of remorse. 

Scoot does not seem to be able to shake off its recent spate of misfortune, of having planes turning back and some unable to even take off. In another recent problem, a Scoot flight from Bangkok bound for Singapore was forced to turn back on Wednesday.

This time around, the problem was not of the flight itself, but because of an unclaimed bag in the cabin. The plane with 131 passengers had taken off from Bangkok at 11:55pm, but safely returned and landed back at Bangko at 2:10pm. According to Scoot, their investigation team had found that the ground handling agent had seen an unattended bag in the gatehold room, and handed it to the flight's cabin crew thinking that it belonged to one of the passengers on the flight. The crew accepted the bag, which Scoot said was in breech of protocols. Subsequently, they could not locate the owner of the bag on board the flight, and the captain was informed. He made the decision to return back to Bangkok for the security breach. 

It seem slike Scoot cannot catch a break these days.  

A very stupid motorist was stopped by a Traffic Police officer while he was traveling along Jurong Town Hall for not wearing a seat belt, but this routine stop proved anything but routine. The man became very uncooperative during the check, and was subsequently established to have an outstanding warrant of arrest.

Officers decided to move in on him, although it was not established how come they were suddenly so many officers for just a routine stop for a traffic offense. The man started to become violent, and he ended up assaulting two police officers. The man was apprehended soon after, and checks on his car revealed ubstances suspected to be controlled drugs, drug-related paraphernalia and a knuckle-duster in there. 

Photos of the man lying on a patch of grass with officers surrounding him, and of a black car surrounded by at least two police cars and 5 motorbikes were posted online. From just a seat belt violation to assaulting police officers and caught for drugs possession. That escalated quickly. 

Singapore has garnered unwanted international attention again. The UN Human Rights - Asia Facebook called on the Singapore Government to safeguard freedom of expression in the country following human rights activist Jolovan Wham's conviction.

It saw the conviction as an unnecessary response to a video call which Wham had with Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong. 

"We are concerned that this is yet another conviction which targets the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Singapore, and we urge the Government to reverse its tightening of civic space...

We are alarmed that expressing an opinion about Singapore’s judiciary can be considered a criminal offence."

It suggested for Singapore to amend its Public Order Act so as to create an environment that does not deprive its citizens of basic human rights. 

Hooray for getting international spotlight again, but Singaporeans will all know that the Government will never do anything to amend its law just because someone said so. Singaporeans are eventually going back to square one and having to deal with a Big Brother who cannot stop controlling us.

Human rights? Yeah right. Fat hope.