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Then Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim said that flooding was a freak event that "occurs once in 50 years" after the Bukit Timah canal burst its banks after a downpour, resulting in parts of Bukit Timah being submerged. However since then, we have been seeing more flooding occurrences in Singapore.

On 10 Nov 2018, flash floods struck parts of Bukit Batok and Choa Chu Kang. Many pictures started surfacing on social media. You can see some of the photos here posted by netizen Ian Chung:

Do you still think it's a once in 50 years occurrence? 

On 11 Sept 2018, Facebook page Singapore Peasant published a video of four Vietnamese women catfighting along Sims Avenue. The video showed the four women pushing each other to the ground and pulling of each other's hair. The catfight also spilled onto the road with oncoming traffic. 

Throughout the video, men can be seen standing around looking at the catfight. Only one man tried to intervene and pull them away from each other and helped to pick up their belongings which was all over the road as well.  

You can watch the full video here:

Will alternative news site States Times Review see its end soon? On 9 Nov 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore reportedly lodged a police report against the site for falsifying information and defaming the country. 

On 5 Nov 2018, STR published the article "Lee Hsien Loong becomes 1MDB's key investigation target", which alleged that Singapore is a corrupt country which had a hand in laundering 1MDB funds. It is now facing police investigations and a warning by the Infocomm Media Development Authority. STR will experience restrictions on its website if it does not remove the article by 5pm today.

Minister K Shanmugam has also spoken up about the malicious news site and its "absurd allegations". 

Unfortunately, STR's editor does not seem to be backing down. He posted that he "fully welcomes a libel suit from the corrupted Singapore Prime Minister in an Australian court" and dared Lee Hsien Loong to sue him. 

"If the Singapore Prime Minister feels he has been wronged by the allegations, he should rightfully commence legal proceedings right away. Let's take this a step further: if Lee Hsien Loong does not sue within a week, it only further reinforce the public opinion the Prime Minister has a guilty conscience."

He concluded with more fake news: "STR believes in independent and accurate reporting, and as such, if the Prime Minister could deliver a reasonable explanation to the 'fake news' above, I am willing to take the first flight home and turn myself in to the Singapore Police." 

Don't trust fake news like this one. It is too stupid to be true.

Our elites may not think much of $2 but a small amount can make a big difference to common folks like us.

A foreign worker who became jobless after suffering from a workplace injury gave $2 to his friend despite him being poor and hungry. "His friend was also injured and jobless, he said. And even though he had so little, he still felt the urge to help someone in need."

Transient Workers Count Too, an organisation that helps foreign workers here, started a campaign on giving.sg to help low-wage workers who have been injured and abused by their employers. Donations will be used to take these migrant workers to lunch and cover their medical bills.

TWC2 will also have a fundraising event on 16 Dec 2018 at the Singapore Khalsa Association.

Why not do a good deed this festive season? Btw, who said Singaporeans only know how to complain? 

The video that was posted online that shows a man slapping a girl as she was kneeling at a carpark has gone viral, and it has got Singaporeans angry. Both the Police and Ministry of of Social and Family Development (MSF) have confirmed that members of the public have made reported the incident to them.

In the video, the girl, who was probably of primary school age, was seen kneeling next to a white car, which was parked at a carpark, most likely that of Ikea Tampines. A man, who seemed to be her father, was seen giving her a slap so hard that it could be heard on video. The force of the slap makes the girl's head snap back and she almost loses her balance. More alarmingly, the girl remained still during the incident, and child psychologist said that this points to the fact that this would not have been the first time the girl had such punishment meted to her. 

Police and MSF both said that they are investigating the incident. 

A Singaporean mother was distraught that her son got wounded from a bus stop bench. Her child sat on a bench near Buangkok MRT station without realising that it had a rusty nail protruding from it. 

"His leg was bleeding as the nail was sharp. Alarmed, we went to Buangkok MRT station to inform the staff of it and see what they could do."

She praised the station staff for trying to pry the nail out although the bench is not under SMRT. 

"He told us that he was going to check out the rusty nail to see what could be done at his end.

We led him to where the rusty nail was at and he tried using the plier to get the nail out, but could not. So he resorted to gripping the nail and pulling it inward and upward so that it would be less likely to hurt anyone before any other action is done (after reporting).

My son and I would like to express our sincere thanks to this staff who has gone beyond his call of duty. We regret not having asked for his name then, but hope that SMRT will be able to take note of this kind act of this staff from Buangkok MRT station.

He kind act truly made our day."

Nice to hear that there are still gracious Singaporeans despite the world we live in today.