Posts by Riah Marton
MND Permanent Secretary Ow Foong Pheng Announces Retirement After 38 Years in Public Service
After 38 years in public service, Ow Foong Pheng, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of National Development (MND), is all set to retire on April 1. The Public Service Division (PSD) announced in a statement on Friday, February 28, that Loh Ngai Seng, Permanent Secretary (designate) at MND, will be appointed to the position on…
Read MoreFar East Orchard H2 net profit down 29.4% on lower fair value gains, higher costs
HOSPITALITY and student housing player Far East Orchard’s net profit fell 29.4 per cent to S$40.7 million for the six months ended Dec 31, 2024, hit by lower fair value gains and higher expenses, the company said in a bourse filing on Friday (Feb 28). Revenue for the period rose 1.9 per cent to S$94.5…
Read MoreProperty Tycoon Ong Beng Seng Set to Plead Guilty Over Singapore Ex-Minister Scandal on April 2
Property magnate Ong Beng Seng is scheduled to enter a guilty plea to two counts related to the investigations of former Transport Minister S. Iswaran by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). Ong was accused on October 4, 2024, with aiding and abetting the obstruction of justice and assisting a public worker in receiving gifts.…
Read MoreWho’s still playing Pokémon Go? Ask any of the 48,000 people at this Rose Bowl event
On the golf course just outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, thousands of people stride across the grass, phones in their hands and eyes on their screens. “Who has a shiny Oshawott they can trade? What about a Blitzle? Any Pansages?” one person asks. “I’ve got a Snivy!” someone shouts back. “I’ll trade a Panpour,”…
Read MoreThe 24 Most Popular Amazon Finds This Month: Hair Saviors, Viral Skincare, Stanley Tumbler Dupes & More – E! Online
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Read MoreSingapore Charges 3, Including Chinese National After Probe into Nvidia Server Fraud Case
Singaporean police charged three men for allegedly scamming an unidentified computer server supplier, bringing attention to the role that local middlemen play in distributing Nvidia Corp. chips globally. The main question in the case is whether the three of them contributed to deceiving the server supplier by, among other things, falsifying the hardware’s real end-user…
Read MoreCrew Member Injured After ‘Unauthorised Boarding’ of Tanker in Singapore Strait: MPA
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said in a media release that a Singapore-registered chemical tanker was boarded without authorisation in the Singapore Strait on Friday morning, February 28. The vessel, Basset, was boarded at about 7 am outside Singapore’s territorial waters in the Singapore Strait, which separates the country from the Indonesian…
Read MoreMinority shareholders request UOI to distribute Haw Par shares, unlock shareholder value
Group, led by independent investor Ong Chin Woo, also asks for an independent financial adviser to be appointed SOME minority shareholders of United Overseas Insurance (UOI) have proposed two resolutions to be tabled at the insurance provider’s upcoming annual general meeting (AGM), in a bid to further unlock shareholder value. These include distributing UOI’s holding…
Read MoreCitigroup mistakenly credits customer account US$81 trillion in ‘near miss’, FT reports
CITIGROUP erroneously credited US$81 trillion, instead of US$280, to a customer’s account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a “near miss” that shows up the bank’s operational issues it has sought to fix, the Financial Times reported on Friday (Feb 28). The error, which occurred last April, was missed by a payments employee and…
Read MoreTrump’s Federal Purge Blocked! Judge Slams Plan as ‘Dangerous and Illegal
A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s directive to fire thousands of probationary federal employees. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) does not have the legal authority to mandate such mass terminations, even for employees who have been with the government for less than…
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