Force you to buy flats by fining you if you sleep in public
Heartless bastards..what can the poor do like that? Sleep on bench also offence!!!!
DEMAND has been red hot for two recent launches from the Housing Board, with over 10 times more applicants than flats available.
An offering of 150 smaller flats - studios to three-roomers - was swamped with 2,426 applications in the space of just a week.
And, last Friday, the half-yearly sale of three-room premium, four-room and bigger flats achieved an extraordinary response: 7,036 applications have been submitted for 683 units, yet the offer runs until Thursday.
The launch of the smaller units featured three-roomers, two-roomers and studios in estates across the island, including Bukit Merah, Geylang, Jurong East, Sengkang, Ang Mo Kio and Marine Parade.
There were 582 applications for studios and 1,844 for two- and three-roomers combined in the offer from Oct 2 to 8.
Source : Straits Times - 14 Oct 2008
Oct 14, 2008
Costly park bench nap
Nappers can be fined $200 for misue of park facility.
The National Parks Board (NParks) fined the private bus driver for having misused the park facility by sleeping on the bench. -- PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER
WHAT was supposed to be a free 15-minute nap on a park bench turned into a costly snooze for one Singaporean.
The New Paper on Tuesday reported that a 62-year-old, who only wanted to be known as Mr Kassim, was fined $200 when he dozed off on a Sun Plaza Park bench while taking shelter from the rain.
The National Parks Board (NParks) fined the private bus driver for having misused the park facility by sleeping on the bench.
The incident happened on Sept 1 at a park in Tampines.
Heartless bastards..what can the poor do like that? Sleep on bench also offence!!!!
DEMAND has been red hot for two recent launches from the Housing Board, with over 10 times more applicants than flats available.
An offering of 150 smaller flats - studios to three-roomers - was swamped with 2,426 applications in the space of just a week.
And, last Friday, the half-yearly sale of three-room premium, four-room and bigger flats achieved an extraordinary response: 7,036 applications have been submitted for 683 units, yet the offer runs until Thursday.
The launch of the smaller units featured three-roomers, two-roomers and studios in estates across the island, including Bukit Merah, Geylang, Jurong East, Sengkang, Ang Mo Kio and Marine Parade.
There were 582 applications for studios and 1,844 for two- and three-roomers combined in the offer from Oct 2 to 8.
Source : Straits Times - 14 Oct 2008
Oct 14, 2008
Costly park bench nap
Nappers can be fined $200 for misue of park facility.
The National Parks Board (NParks) fined the private bus driver for having misused the park facility by sleeping on the bench. -- PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER
WHAT was supposed to be a free 15-minute nap on a park bench turned into a costly snooze for one Singaporean.
The New Paper on Tuesday reported that a 62-year-old, who only wanted to be known as Mr Kassim, was fined $200 when he dozed off on a Sun Plaza Park bench while taking shelter from the rain.
The National Parks Board (NParks) fined the private bus driver for having misused the park facility by sleeping on the bench.
The incident happened on Sept 1 at a park in Tampines.
