Tag: Toa Payoh
Quarrel between Toa Payoh residents escalates to flower pot throwing
Singapore—In space-challenged areas such as Singapore, we would all do well to remember that relations with our neighbours should be kept civil, at the very least. Two women, neighbours at Block 31, Toa Payoh Lor 5, seem to have forgotten this, when an argument that...
Man, 82, charged with murder of 79-year-old female companion in Toa Payoh
Singapore—An 82-year-old man has just been charged with the murder of the 79-year-old woman he lived with at an apartment in Toa Payoh. The two, who were unmarried, were said to be flatmates and had been living together for some time, with some reports stating...
SCDF pulls down distraught and weeping 17-year-old girl off Toa Payoh carpark ledge
Singapore—A young girl was seen sitting on the ledge of a multi-story carpark at Toa Payoh shortly past 8:30 on the evening of August 31, Saturday. She was weeping and had her legs over the ledge. Shortly afterward, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)...
Vandalism and political defiance
By Trinity Chua and Tan Yong Heng Defiance and dissent is taking on a slightly violent streak. Vandals have struck by scrawling anti-PAP words on top of a Toa Payoh block of flats, painting on the war monument and attacking posters at bus stops. We spoke...
Name, shame…what a shame!
Those who are 17 years old in Singapore are not old enough to vote. They're not old enough to get married without parental consent, they're not old enough to serve National Service, they're not old enough to drive, they're barely old enough to have...
Let's have a Democracy Wall
What turns an angry anti-social into a vandal? Frustration. An inability to channel anger into something useful. Is it significant that expletives against the PAP be spray-painted 22 storeys up on an HDB block? Not really — similar sentiments have been expressed online. What...
Hri Kumar in introspective mood
Not yet a grey head, lawyer and politician Hri Kumar Nair says he has been thinking a lot about growing old. When he walks around Toa Payoh, the elderly population in the area strikes a chord in him. "My constituency of Toa Payoh has many elderly residents....
Money-lending: a blight in the heartlands
The problem with moneylending in the heartlands is that the lenders are there in such large numbers. Will "regulating" these monleylenders cut down the numbers? There are 206 licensed moneylenders in Singapore, which is 27 per cent above the ideal number of moneylenders according to...